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Injunction Saves CA Family Visits by Gail Harrington Wisely In a victory in the long simmering war over family visits Michael Satris, an attorney with the San Quentin based Prison Law Office, won an injunction from Marin County Superior Court Judge Peter Smith Wednesday May 24 1995, barring the California …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
CA Prisoners Assault Prison Office by Dan Pens On May 5, 1995, at 9:45 am, five prisoners at the Calipatria maximum security prison walked into an "A Facility" program office and stabbed a sergeant. Three other guards rushed to her aid and they too were stabbed in a brawl that …
BOP Prisoners Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies by PLN recently reported the U.S. Supreme Court decision in McCarthy v. Madigan , 503 US ___, 112 S.Ct. 1081 (1992), which held that federal prisoners did not have to exhaust administrative remedies (the grievance system) prior to filing suit in federal court. In …
Article • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
Translators Required for Medical Interviews by Pretrial detainees and convicted prisoners held in the Kern County, CA jail filed a class action suit challenging the jail's use of padded safety cells for violent and suicidal prisoners and other jail conditions. The district court held that the safety cells, consisting of …
Article • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
Filed under: International, Immigration
INS Deportation Hearings Required Prior to Release by Boyd F Campbell The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a lower court decision that denied relief to an alien inmate convicted of an aggravated felony who claimed the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was not taking steps to …
Pelican Bay Ruling Issued by One prisoner publication hailed it as "A Moral Victory for Prisoners." The headline in a correctional trade magazine proclaimed "State Wins Pelican Bay Suit." Interpreting the 345-page Madrid v. Gomez opinion is difficult at best, and as shown by the contrasting headlines above, a reader's …
Publication • August 1, 1995
Use of Force Handbook LAPD 1995 j I I ' LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT August 1995 DNC 06884 , TABLE OF CONTENTS Department Policy ............... ......... ... .......... ... 1 Use of Force-Policy 1 Use of Force Options ......... ... ..... .................. . 2 Verbalization 2 Compliance Techniques 5 OC …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Reviews, Organizing
The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement (Book Review) by Mark Cummins This is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on San Quentin state prison and highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical prisoner ideology …
CA Families Fight to Maintain Bonds by Willie Wisely Hundreds of family members, loved ones, friends, and advocates converged on the California Department of Corrections headquarters April 27, 1995, to express their support for family ties and opposition to a proposed administrative regulation which would eliminate family visits for a …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Supreme Court Turns Back Parole Challenge by In the July, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Morales v. California DOC, 16 F.3d 1001 (9th Cir. 1994). The appeals court held that a California statute that was modified to allow for parole hearings every three years instead of every year violated …
Turner Applied to Rehabilitation Act Claims by Prisoners at the California Medical Facility (CMF) in Vacaville filed a class action suit challenging the adequacy of medical care and the overall treatment afforded to prisoners at the facility, especially those who were HIV positive or had AIDS. Before trial the parties …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Prisoners as NAFTA Export? by Worried about the cost of California's new Three Strikes And You're In Law--recently made a constitutional amendment by the success of Prop 184? Some say it will bankrupt California as we convert the State into a 21st Century Gulag. The voters pamphlet conservatively predicted that …
Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
Forfeiture Violates Double Jeopardy by In the November 1994 issue of PLN (Vol. 5, No. 11) we reported on the abuse of asset forfeiture laws by law enforcement agencies more interested in monetary gain than in any legitimate measure of justice. Shortly after that article went to press (PLN articles …
Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
CDC Issues New Shooting Policy by In the March, 1995, issue of PLN we reported that the FBI was investigating the California Department of Corrections' (CDC) policy of shooting prisoners. That policy had lead to CDC guards shooting and killing at least 27 prisoners between 1989 and 1994, compared to …
CA Legislative Horror Show by Dan Pens Due to our very long lead time (I write this on March 7th) it's difficult to report on fast moving stories like the goings on in the state house. As you read this, who knows what may have happened since this story was …
New Trial for Improper Voir Dire by California state prisoner Floyd Scott claimed that prison officials used excessive force in physically restraining him after he attacked a guard. The case went to trial and the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant prison officials. Scott appealed claiming that …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
FBI Investigates CDC Shootings by In the January, 1995, issue of we ran an article about the shooting death of a San Quentin prisoner by California Department of Corrections (CDC) guards. In the past ten years CDC guards have shot and killed 36 prisoners, including three since September, 1994. That …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
CA Prison Guards - A Potent Political Interest Group by Dan Pens By Dan Pens There is a well fed political interest group feasting at the California public trough, and most taxpayers are unaware of the huge growth in this creatures appetite and political clout. It has grown from a …
Guard Sues Over Discrimination Order by This case involves a black California prison guard, Ali Moyo, who sued his superiors in the California Department of Corrections (CDC) after they fired him for protesting against and refusing to cooperate with the defendants practice of allowing white prisoners, but not black prisoners, …
CDC Must Establish Hobby Program by Lassen County Superior Court Judge J. Harvey issued a writ of habeas corpus on August 16, 1994, which ordered the California Department of Corrections (CDC) to establish a hobby program and store materials at the California Correctional Center (CCC) at Susanville. Steve Yakle, a …
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