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Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Racial Rioting Erupts in L.A. Jail by Two days of bloody fighting between black and Latino prisoners at Los Angeles County jails left 200 injured, 188 with serious wounds and 26 with minor scraps and bruises. Three deputies were also hurt in the eight incidents at the Pitchess Detention Center …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
California PIA Employees Lose Minimum Wage Suit by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit affirmed dismissal of a suit by California Prison Industrial Authority (PIA) prisoners who filed suit claiming they were entitled to the minimum wage under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Filed under: PLRA, Filing Fees (PLRA)
PLRA Fee Requirements Not Applicable to Pending Suits by PLRA Fee Requirements not Applicable To Pending Suits A federal district court in California held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) In Forma Pauperis (IFP) filing fee provisions are not retroactive to suits filed before the law's April 26, 1996, …
California EFV Injunction Reversed by In the September, 1995, issue of PLN we reported that a Marin county superior court judge had issued a preliminary injunction enjoining Title 15, section 3174(e)(1) of the California Code of Regulations (CCR). The regulation in question eliminated family visits for a wide category of …
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
California Slashes Family Visits by Willie Wisely The young Hispanic woman, juggling a squirming infant under each arm, began to cry as she read the notice posted on the wall of the visitor processing building at Lancaster prison. For months prisoner rights advocates had been warning visitors, trying to organize …
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
Racial Violence in California Lockups by Willie Wisely On Friday, September 27, 1996, rioting broke out among more than 200 black and Latino prisoners in New Folsom's B Facility. The violence lasted some 31 minutes with fighting on the yard, in the medical clinic, and in prison industries. Guards fired …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
California Prison Computer Project Crashes by With over 144,000 prisoners, tens of thousands of employees, some thirty prisons and a multi-billion dollar budget, the California Department of Corrections just rejected design plans for a mammoth computer project to automate its antiquated record keeping system. CDC officials suspended a $2 million …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Used Law Books Not Good Enough in California by The California Department of Corrections bought used law books from National Law Resources of Chicago for its High Desert State Prison last year at a savings to taxpayers of $69,000. But, the CDC claimed some of the used books contained "paper …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
CDC Trying to Polish Tarnished Image by Dan Pens The editors of PLN receive newspaper clippings from all over the U.S. We recently received articles clipped from about a dozen California newspapers. The articles appeared in the same week and all were strikingly similar. They were about how California Department …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Filed under: Excessive Force, Shootings
Strife in Pleasant Valley by N.H. In August and September of 1996, Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP, in California) had several incidents resulting in shots fired at unarmed prisoners. Three incidents on C yard with at least one serious bullet wound to a black prisoner. There are four level three …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
California Bans Media Interviews with Prisoners by Willie Wisely California Governor Pete Wilson issued an executive order banning face to face media interviews with prisoners. The ban comes at a time when most civil rights for the state's 142,000 prisoners have been taken and violence is on the rise in …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
No Immunity for Kidney Transplant Denial by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held it lacked jurisdiction to hear prison doctors' interlocutory appeal that they were entitled to qualified immunity for denying a prisoner on dialysis a kidney transplant. Raymond Jackson, a California state prisoner, filed suit claiming …
Corcoran Prison Cover-up by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On October 7, 1994, former California prison guard Richard Caruso decided he had enough. The frequent shooting of prisoners forced into fights staged, then covered up, by guards at Corcoran prison's Security Housing Unit (SHU) weighed on his conscience. So, Caruso …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
PLRA Doesn't Apply Retroactively to Special Masters by A federal district court held that provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) limiting payment to special masters and requiring that such payment be borne by the federal judiciary, were not retroactive and did not apply to masters appointed before its …
Brief • January 17, 1997
Filed under: Immigration
Flores v. Reno, Settlement, CA, Unaccompanied Minors, 1997 8/12/96 CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS & CONSTITUTIONAL LA W Carlos Holguin Peter A. Schey 256 South Occidental Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90057 (213) 388-8693 NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH LA W Alice Bussiere James Morales 114 Sansome Street, Suite 905 San Francisco, CA …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
Three Strikes in California by Willie Wisely By all accounts, the three strikes sentencing law in California is a failure according to criminal justice experts. They point out that three strikes is applied more often than not to people of color, that it hasn't reduced crime, that it's overwhelming the …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
PLRA Not Retroactively Applicable to Special Masters by A federal district court in California held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) provisions limiting the source and amount of payment to special masters appointed to monitor compliance with court orders did not apply to special masters appointed prior to the …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
Filed under: Sentencing, Three Strikes
Analysis of People v. Romero by On June 20, 1996, the California Supreme Court decided People v. Romero (1996) 13 Cal.4th 497, 917 P.2d 628, 65 USLW 2017, 96 Daily Journal DAR 7229. The question posed in the case was whether trial judges retained discretion to strike prior felony convictions …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
Hungry for Justice in L.A. Jail by More than 50 detainees at the Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles participated in a hunger strike, protesting a lack of legal reference materials and law library access, in August 1996. The hunger strike appears to have been confined to one section of …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
The Pelican Bay Factor by Abdul Olugbala Shakur [Editors' Note: The author submitted this manuscript in May of 1996. Because of our article backlog and space limitations we are only now printing it. The issues outlined in this article, however, have since received coverage in the mainstream press. We regret …
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