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Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
Pelican Bay Guard Indicted in Shooting by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely For the second time in less than two years, a California prison has become the target of a U.S. Justice department investigation. In part of what is expected to be a wider civil rights prosecution, a federal grand …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Filed under: Excessive Force, Shootings
California Changes Shooting Policy by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely In the past ten years, California prison guards have shot and killed 39 prisoners, wounding over 200, with high powered rifles. Nearly all of the shootings involved attempts to break up unarmed fist fights--- a practice unique among all other …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
California Governor Vetoes Parole Reform Bill by California Governor Gray Davis vetoed a bill that would have diverted "low-risk" parole violators into community-based programs rather than send them back through a "revolving door" to an already overcrowded state prison system. Some critics call the veto quid pro quo for the …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
California Illegally Dumps Parole Records by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely California Department of Corrections prisoncrats were caught illegally dumping confidential documents about parolees in a dumpster near the new Metreon entertainment center in San Francisco, according to Michael Taylor's June 19, 1999 article in the San Francisco Chronicle. Some …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
California Visits Reinstated after Food Boycott (Letter) by D.R. D.R., Vacaville, CA. On December 17, 1998, an attempted homicide occurred in building 7 of Facility II of the Solano State Prison in Vacaville, California. The incident involved two white prisoners who were celled together. All white prisoners were immediately placed …
Heck Not Applicable to Ad Seg; Only "Available" Exhaustion Required by Heck Not Applicable to Ad Seg; Only "Available" Exhaustion Required A federal district court in California held that the principles of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), do not apply to claims that do not involve deprivation of …
CCPOA Pimping in the California State Assembly by Dan Pens A self-proclaimed "whore" for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) in July 1999 helped kill Attorney General Bill Lockyer's proposed legislation for forming a state-level prosecutorial unit to investigate alleged crimes by state prison guards. As it stands now, …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
California Prison Legal Fund Broke by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely The California Department of Corrections' $15.5 million legal settlement fund went broke in late March, 1999, three months before the end of the fiscal year, according to an article by Pam Podger in the May 27, 1999, edition of …
Corcoran Bad Apple Rehired by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely Bruce Farris, the former Corcoran State Prison associate warden fired for allowing guards to beat, kick, and stomp 36 black prisoners, was reinstated April 6, 1999, in a rare Personnel Board reversal of an earlier administrative judge's decision. Farris was …
Brief • November 15, 1999
Von Collin v. County of Ventura, CA, Order, Pro-Straint Chair, 1999 Page 1 189 F.R.D. 583, *; 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20956, ** KURT JOHN VON COLLN, JR., KEITH GEORGE STRINGER, ERIC PRATT, JEFFERY LLOYD, Consolidated Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY OF VENTURA, SHERIFF LARRY CARPENTER in his official and personal capacity, …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Feds Not Obligated to Accept State-Ordered Concurrent Sentence by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that a California state court's designation of a prisoner's sentence as concurrent with his prior federal sentence created no obligation on the U.S. Attorney General to provide …
CDC Whistleblower Gets $1.7 Million by A former California Department of Corrections (CDC) guard who reported the Corcoran State Prison "gladiator fight" shootings to the FBI, resulting in the indictment of eight other Corcoran guards, has been paid $1.7 million by the state. Richard Caruso, 35, sued the CDC in …
CDC Settles Excessive Force Suit for $1,000 by John Gann On October 26, 1998, the California Department of Corrections (CDC) paid $1,000 to settle an excessive force suit filed by pro se prisoner John Gann against nine named prison officials. On January 7, 1994, Gann, Alex Bermudez and Carlos Ramirez …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
Is Health Care Too Much to Ask For? by Silja JA Talvi By Silja J.A. Talvi In California's State Prison System, Female Prisoners and Their Advocates Say They're Continuing to Fight an Uphill Battle, While Prison Administrators Insist They're Doing Their Job Over the last several years, health care-related allegations …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
Ex-Prisoner Gets $850,000 for Broken Neck by When Steven Dodson entered a California prison in October 1996, he didn't know that his neck was broken. He only knew that his neck pain kept getting worse. He also didn't know that the next 10 months of his life would be a …
Stun Belts in Court Unconstitutional by A federal district court in California held that the use of stun belts, as a control device on criminal defendants in courtroom proceedings, raises serious questions as to the practices' constitutionality. As a result, the court issued a preliminary injunction (PI) enjoining the Los …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
Transsexual Awarded $755,000 in Jail Strip Search by In May, 1999, a federal jury in San Francisco, California, awarded Victoria Schneider $755,000 in damages for a strip search she was subjected to in the San Francisco county jail in 1996. Schneider, a post operative male to female transsexual, was arrested …
Brief • August 26, 1999
Dahl v. Conlosh, CA, Transcript Cross Examination Joe Callanan, 1999 J CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ] HONO.RABLI~ ALICEjyjAJ.ZIE E.. S'rO,]:LER ( lJlJDGE PRESIDING 6 ~TAJ:-'lgS CHRT SJ:OPHE.'R DAHl" 7 Plaintiff I SA (:V 91-475(A)--AHS Vi:>. 1.0 ) ) .! ..;.i CROSS-EXAMINATION OF: WITNESS JOE CALLANAN 17 Tllursday, Augu~t: 26, 1999 …
Brief • August 26, 1999
Dahl v. Conlosh, CA, Joe Callahan Deposition, Police Excessive Force, 1999
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
Filed under: Organizing
Prison-Industrial Complex Conferences Are Spreading the Word by Hans Sherrer Awareness of the devastatingly negative impact of the politically driven criminal justice system on American society continues to grow. On the week-end of April 10th, there were two conferences in the U. S. dedicated to exposing its normally hidden aspects …
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