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PLN Settles Oregon Censorship Suit for $55,414.31 by On January 29, 2003, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to settle a censorship lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News by paying $39,914.31 in fees and costs and $15,500 in damages and changing its policies concerning the processing and censorship of …
PI Issued in Arizona Internet Communications Ban by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On December 16, 2002, the U.S. District Court (D. Ariz.) granted plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction (PI) enjoining the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC) from enforcing laws arising from Arizona House Bill 2376 (HB …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
California Internet Injunction Upheld by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the statewide permanent injunction issued by the U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) enjoining the California Department of Corrections' (CDC) policy prohibiting prisoners from receiving Internet-generated mail. Prison Legal News also filed a friend of the court brief on …
Washington Jail Sued Over Conditions by Lonnie Burton On February 25, 2002, a county jail prisoner in Port Hadlock, Washington brought a class action lawsuit against the Jefferson County jail alleging near barbaric jail conditions that include inadequate health care, frigidly cold cells, broken plumbing, flooding, and inadequate clothing and …
California Internet Mail Ban Enjoined by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The US District Court (N.D. Cal.) issued a permanent injunction against the California Department of Corrections' (CDC) policy that prohibits prisoners from receiving mail that contains Internet-generated information. Frank Clement, a prisoner at Pelican Bay State Prison …
PLRA Does Not Apply to Juvenile Facilities; $379,000 Attorney Fees and Costs Awarded by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal district court in South Dakota has held the PLRA attorney fees provision does not apply to juvenile facilities, and awarded $379,000 in attorney fees and costs. The court …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Prisoner Allowed Discovery in Mail Destruction Case by The Second Circuit court of appeals has reversed summary judgment in a case involving the destruction of legal materials in a package mailed to a prisoner to allow the prisoner discovery to determine the name of the person who received the package …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Advocacy Groups Challenge Arizona Internet Communications Ban by On July 18, 2002, the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty(CCADP), Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty(CUADP) and Stop Prisoner Rape(SPR), filed a federal law suit against Terry L. Stewart Director of the Arizona Department Of Corrections(ADOC) pursuant to 42 …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
PLN Sues Oregon DOC Over Mail Censorship, Again by On April 2, 2002 Prison Legal News filed suit in federal court in Portland, Oregon, challenging the Oregon prison system's ongoing attempts to prevent Oregon prisoners from subscribing to PLN and receiving their subscriptions or book orders if they did subscribe. …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
PLN Sues Kansas DOC Over Censorship Policies by PLN Sues Kansas DOC over Censorship Policies On April 4, 2002, PLN sued the Kansas DOC challenging various prison-system-wide polices that prevent Kansas prisoners from being able to subscribe to PLN or to receive the books that PLN distributes. For at least …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
Oregon Bulk Mail Ban Struck Down Again by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a rule of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) prohibiting prisoners from receiving bulk rate, third and fourth-class mail, is unconstitutional, as applied to pre-paid, for-profit, subscription publications. The Court also held that a …
Brief • June 12, 2002
Prison Legal News v. Schumacher, OR, Amended Complaint, DOC Mail Censorship, 2002 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 MARC D. BLACKMAN RANSOM BLACKMAN LLP 1001 S.W. Fifth Street, Suite 1400 Portland, OR 97204 (503) 228-0487 (telephone) (503) 227-5984 (facsimile) marc@ransomblackman.com OSB No. 73033 …
Claims Dismissed in First Challenge to BOP Communications Ban by by Matthew T .Clarke The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the claims in the first published challenge to the implementation of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) dismissed without prejudice for failure to …
PLN Awarded $58,059 in Attorneys' Fees in Oregon Bulk Mail Suit; PLRA Doesn't Apply, Injunction Entered by In the April 2001, issue of PLN we reported Prison Legal News v. Cook , 238 F.3d 1145 (9th Cir. 2001), where the Court struck down as unconstitutional the Oregon Department of Corrections …
You're in the Hole: A Crackdown on Dissident Prisoners by Anne-Marie Cusac It was September 19, 2001. Elizabeth McAlister had not heard from her husband, Philip Berrigan, in more than a week. Such silence on Berrigan's part was "most unusual," she says. Convinced that something was wrong, she telephoned the …
Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
PLN Sues Washington DOC Over Mail Censorship - Again by On November 27, 2001, Prison Legal News sued Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) officials across the state for its policies and practices of censoring mail items sent by PLN to Washington state prisoners. The suit names DOC Secretary Joseph Lehman, …
PLN Wins Nevada Censorship Suit by Beginning in January 2000, the Nevada Division of Prisons (DOP) began censoring Prison Legal News in all of its prisons, affecting 21 Nevada prisoners who subscribed to PLN .Prison Legal News was never afforded any notice of the censorship nor given an opportunity to …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
Pelican Bay Policy Banning Internet-Generated Mail Upheld by The California Court of Appeal held that a policy adopted only at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) preventing prisoners from receiving through the US Mail any material that had been downloaded from the Internet was facially valid and reasonably related to legitimate …
Federal Court Partially Terminates New York Jail Consent Decree Relief by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in New York has terminated consent decree relief for New York City Jail prisoners with respect to restrictive housing due process, prisoner correspondence, and law libraries, while leaving intact the consent …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Coalition for Prisoners' Rights? by Paul Wright The Coalition for Prisoners' Rights (CPR) is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and since 1981 has published a small newsletter by the same name. After PLN had recruited counsel to litigate the Oregon bulk mail case, PLN v. Cook [see accompanying article] …
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