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Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
Weights Banned in California by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On January 2, 1998, Gregory Harding, Chief Deputy Director of the California Department of Corrections, issued an Administrative Bulletin announcing the end of weightlifting in the free world's largest prison system. The weightlifting ban includes prisons, Community Correctional Facilities, and …
Brief • April 2, 1998
Lucas v. White, CA, Plf Memo in Support of Mot for Atty Fees, BOP Sexual Assault, 1998 1 2 3 4 5 ROSEN, BIEN & ASARO, LLP MICHAEL W. BIEN - 096891 155 Montgomery Street, 8th Floor San Francisco, California 94104 Telephone (415) 433-6830 LAW OFFICES OF GERI L. GREEN …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
Pelican Bay $600,000 Wrongful Death Settlement by California taxpayers coughed up another $600,000 to settle a use-of-force lawsuit at Pelican Bay State Prison. The biggest chunk of the award goes to the family of Jesse Castillo, who was shot and killed by guards while engaged in a fistfight on Pelican …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
Struggle at Folsom by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On August 11, 1997, almost 400 prisoners in California's New Folsom prison staged a one-day work strike to protest continuing elimination of privileges and programs. Six members of the Men's Advisory Committee were placed in administrative segregation, suspected of leading the …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
California Irradiates Prison Visitors by The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has installed nine high-tech X-ray scanners in six prisons and has plans to install them throughout the 33-prison system. The devices, based on "back-scatter" X-ray technology, are used to search visitors. The machine produces a crude image of visitors' …
Turning the Screws in California by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely Each year, the California Department of Corrections asks the Legislature for an ever-increasing piece of the state's tax pie based in part on claims that violence in the prison system is increasing. The truth is, violent incidents inside have …
Lucas v. White, CA, Settlement Agreement, Abuse of Inmates, 1998 i v. White • • • • • • • ! ! • H • H PC-CA-009-001 1 2 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 4 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 6 7 ROBIN LUCAS, ET AL., Plaintiffs, 8 …
Article • January 15, 1998 • from PLN January, 1998
Attn: Lawyers in Prison by Calfornia Lawyer , a legal trade magazine, is planning an article on incarcerated attorneys. We are looking for anyone who was a member of the California State Bar and who is serving time in a state or federal prison. The article will address issues that …
More Evidence Required in Retaliatory Infractions by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that when guards falsely accuse prisoners of misconduct in retaliation for the exercise of constitutional rights, the guard's accusation is not entitled to deference under the "some evidence" standard of review normally used in …
CCA Unveils Aggressive New Marketing Ploy by The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) plans to build a 2,000-bed prison in California's Mojave Desert -- on speculation. CCA President David L. Meyers said his private prison corporation has no guarantee the California Department of Corrections (CDC) will send prisoners the proposed …
The Abuse of U.S. Women Prisoners by Julia Lutsky It is really like this dirty little secret that everyone in corrections knows about and doesn't want to talk about. It is a huge problem." The words are those of Brenda Smith, senior counsel of the National Women's Law Center quoted …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Prisoner Calls Big Business in CA by D.R. Prisoners' loved ones are hit with a $3.00 surcharge [connect fee] whenever they accept a collect call from a California prisoner. The $3.00 surcharge is in addition to the per-minute billing. The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved this $3.00 surcharge after …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Media Allowed Access to CA Executions by A federal district court in California held that media witnesses who attend state executions must be allowed to witness the entire proceeding. When California began lethal injection executions in 1996, it did not allow witnesses to enter the observation room adjoining the execution …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Prisoner Literacy Obscure & Outdated by Laura Whitehorn A news item you might want to use in the paper: Washington Post (Feb. 18, l997) reported that the OMB [a federal budget office] compiled a "secret list" of 254 federal programs that could be cut to save money. They wouldn't release …
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
California Limits Prison Appeals by Willie Wisely Continuing the agenda of the prison guards union, the California Department of Corrections issued a notice of changes to prison administrative regulations governing appeals of conditions of confinement by prisoners. The changes include doubling the time limits prison staff have to respond to …
California Guards Set Up Prisoners by Willie Wisely After a scandal in which guards boiled a mentally ill prisoner alive, California's most notorious prison is once more the target of an investigation into abuse and excessive force. Pelican Bay prison guards are accused of setting up prisoners convicted of sex …
Court Allows Silencing of Environmental Whistle-Blower by Paul Wright If a business near your home was dumping raw sewage into rivers and improperly storing toxic materials that contaminated your drinking water supply, would you want to know about it? Would you be grateful if an employee reported this to the …
Same Sex Harassment of Prisoner Workers Okayed by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that male prisoners have no clearly established right to be free from sexual harassment by male work supervisors. Herman Blueford, a California state prisoner, filed suit claiming his eighth amendment rights were violated …
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
Filed under: International, Immigration
California, Texas, Arizona Suit Seeking Alien Incarceration Money Fails by In past issues of PLN we have reported that several states, including Arizona, California, Washington and New Jersey, had sued the federal government seeking reimbursement for the expense of incarcerating illegal aliens. To date all the suits have fallen flatly …
Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997
Prisoners Held Beyond Release Date Sue by Four civil rights attorneys filed suit against Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block and other officials for falsely imprisoning thousands of people each year by holding them beyond their scheduled release dates. "We intend to seek an injunction under the taxpayer action and …
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