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Brief • October 21, 2005
Chaney v. Lehman, Wa, Order Adopting Recommendation, Order, 2005 Case 3:04-cv-05881-FDB Document 38 Filed 10/21/2005 Page 1 of 3 1 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 3 4 5 SAMANTHA G. CHANEY, et al., 6 7 8 Plaintiffs, v. JOSEPH LEHMAN, 9 10 11 12 …
Brief • October 20, 2005
Mandich v. Montgomery County Sheriffs, Oh, Guard Brutality, 2005, Complaint Case 3:05-cv-00350-TMR Document 1 Filed 10/20/2005 Page 1 of 19 Case 3:05-cv-00350-TMR Document 1 Filed 10/20/2005 Page 2 of 19 Case 3:05-cv-00350-TMR Document 1 Filed 10/20/2005 Page 3 of 19 Case 3:05-cv-00350-TMR Document 1 Filed 10/20/2005 Page 4 of 19 …
Brief • October 20, 2005
Filed under: Discrimination
Mason v. Granholm, MI, Complaint, Anti-Civil Rights Amendment Unconstitutional, 2005 5:05-cv-73943-JCO-DAS Doc # 2 Filed 10/20/05 Pg 1 of 50 Pg ID 64 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION NATHEAULEEN MASON, RENEE WILLIAMS, YOLANDA LIMMITT, HELISHA BAILEY, Case No. 05-73943 TAMMY LaCROSS, VELVET FARLEYtons ocT 20 …
Brief • October 17, 2005
Fussell v. Wilkinson, Settlement, Medical Class Action, Oh 2005 Case 1:03-cv-00704-SSB Document 75 Filed 10/07/2005 Page 1 of 38 Case 1:03-cv-00704-SSB Document 75 Filed 10/07/2005 Page 2 of 38 Case 1:03-cv-00704-SSB Document 75 Filed 10/07/2005 Page 3 of 38 Case 1:03-cv-00704-SSB Document 75 Filed 10/07/2005 Page 4 of 38 Case …
Brief • October 17, 2005
Griffith v. Weisner et al, NC, Petition to Sue, public records denial indigent leashing prisoners, 2005
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Modern Slavery In North Carolina: Another Peculiar Institution by by Michael Rigby Jean Valjean went to prison for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's seven hungry children. It was only the first of many injustices the protagonist in Victor Hugo's biting social commentary, Les Miserables, would endure. …
Problems Mount In Maryland Prisons by by Michael Rigby Even as the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) reels amid mounting criticism over pervasive violence, inadequate medical care, overcrowding, understaffing, and other systemic deficiencies, new tremors continue to rattle the division. Eight guards accused of beating a …
Bringing Down The Brotherhood by by Alan Prendergast Inside the feds' war on the deadliest prison gang: 16 murders. 21 death-penalty cases. Snitches galore. A wide red line runs across the floor of the visiting room like a clown's grin, separating the guard post and the civilian exit from the …
California County Jail Quietly Settles by Substandard Healthcare Suit For $1.75 Million Santa Clara County, California has quietly paid a settlement of $1.75 million to settle a federal claim by county jail healthcare workers about being retaliated against and demoted for having complained about substandard healthcare practices they observed in …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue of PLN sees the addition of Andrea Cavanaugh as a quarterly columnist for the magazine. Andrea is the media coordinator of Stop Prisoner Rape, a non profit advocacy organization in Los Angeles which seeks to eliminate the sexual assault of prisoners. I …
Guards Rape, Sexually Harass and Smuggle at Colorado Prisons by by Matthew T. Clarke There are new troubles at several prisons in Colorado. At a 250-bed GRW-run private prison in Brush, a tiny town 91 miles northwest of Denver, the newly-resigned ex-warden and two guards have been indicted in relation …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Oklahoma Civil Action Timely by Under Mailbox Rule The Oklahoma Court of Appeals held that the prison mailbox rule applies to prisoner filings of civil actions. It also held that the trial court violated District Court rule 13(f) when it ruled on a summary judgment motion without giving the prisoner …
Rape Behind Bars: Bureau of Justice Statistics Issues First Report by by Andrea Cavanaugh The numbers only begin to tell the story. In July, 2005, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics released its first-ever report on the prevalence of prisoner rape. A survey of U.S. prisons, jails, and youth facilities …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Massachusetts DOC Denies Two, Approves One, Same-Sex Marriages by Massachusetts DOC Denies Two, Approves One, Same-Sex Marriages by Matthew T. Clarke The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) has denied the request of two civilly-committed sex offenders to marry. It also denied a similar request by two other male prisoners, but …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
U.S. Finally Outlaws Execution of Children by by Marjorie Cohn Today, the Court repudiated the misguided idea that the United States can pledge to leave no child behind while simultaneously exiling children to the death chamber. Dr. William F. Schulz, Executive Director, Amnesty International Until March 1, 2005, the United …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Denial of New Jersey Work Credits Violates Equal Protection by A New Jersey appellate court held that denying work credits to prisoners serving concurrent New Jersey sentences in other states violates the equal protection clause of the New Jersey Constitution. On February 11, 1978, Charles VanWinkle began serving a seventeen …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Filed under: PLRA, Injunctions (PLRA)
PLRA Attorney Fee-Award Criteria "Directly Incurred" and "Degree Of Success" Explained by PLRA Attorney Fee-Award Criteria "Directly Incurred" and "Degree Of Success" Explained by John E. Dannenberg After a successful jailhouse lawyer retaliation suit (see: PLN, March 2003, p.20, $90,169 Plus Injunction In California Retaliation Suit), California prison official defendants …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Tennessee Pretrial Jail Credit Mandatory, Not Waivable by The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals reversed a defendant's convictions, holding that the trial court should not have accepted [his] plea agreement waiving pretrial Jail credit and that the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty pleas. …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Damages Denied To Bilingual Iowa Prisoner Prohibited From Writing Family In Spanish by by John E. Dannenberg The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that an Iowa prisoner was not entitled to damages when he challenged a policy requiring prisoners to correspond only in English because he had not …
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