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Brief • November 19, 2004
Rackley v Comphel Ca Dismissal Order Release and Check False Arrest 2004 ATTORNEY OR PAATY WlTHOllT ATTORNEY (N8rT18 and .........: TElEPHONE NO,: Richard R. Johnson (SBN 713815 916-921-6925 THE LAW OFFICES OF RICHARD R. JOHNSON 555 University Avenue, Suite 225 Sacramento, California 95825 - FOR COURT USE ONLY r·· • …
Brief • November 17, 2004
Bailey v. MN DOC, MN, Plf Post Trial Memo, Inadequate Asl Interpreter, 2004 STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY DISTRICT COURT SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT Scott A. Bailey, Plaintiff, Case type: Other Civil File Number: C6-03-6996 v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants. PLAINTIFF'S POST-TRIAL MEMORANDUM Respectfully submitted Minnesota Disability …
Bailey v. MN DOC, MN, Def Post-Trial Memo, ASL interpreter sex offender treatment disabled prisoner, 2004
Bailey v. MN DOC, MN, Plf Post-Trial Memo, ASL interpreter sex offender treatment disabled prisoner, 2004
A Death in Custody: Massachusetts DOC Wracked by Scandal by Peter Costanza On August 23, 2003, the 26 men in Unit J-1 at SBCC, a "supermax" prison in Shirley, Massachusetts, were finishing lunch. It was just before noon. There was one guard in the unit, a prison guard named David …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
From the Editor by Paul Wright As this issue of PLN goes to press the 2004 presidential election is over. Regardless of who won, the need for PLN and the news and work we do will remain and undoubtedly increase given that both major party presidential candidates promise more repression …
$15 Million Class Settlement In Sacramento Jail Strip-Search Suits by The Sacramento California Sheriff's Department agreed to a record $15 million settlement on June 4, 2004 to resolve federal and state lawsuits for damages and injunctive relief regarding illegal strip-search practices at the Sacramento County Jail. The suits stemmed from …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Habeas Hints by Kent Russell This column is intended to provide "habeas hints" to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys ("in pro per"). The focus of the column is habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA, the 1996 habeas corpus law which now governs …
Prisons, Profits and Prophets by Bill Berkowitz The nation's largest private prison corporation is joining forces with conservative faith-based ministries by Bill Berkowitz In an era where the Bush Administration touts faith-based organizations as engines of individual and social transformation, and is actively recruiting and funding religious organizations to deliver …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Michigan Prison Art Project by Buzz Alexander 176 original plays created by prisoners in 18 Michigan prisons, another 107 in 4 juvenile facilities. 39 readings of original work in the prisons, 16 in the juvenile facilities, 40 anthologies. 9 Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners: in the most recent, …
Indiana Jail Held in Contempt, Sanctions Imposed by An Indiana federal district court held that the sheriff of Marion County was in contempt of court for failing to comply with the court's previous orders relating to conditions at the County's jail. While the court held that punitive sanctions would not …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Filed under: Money/Property, Interest
California Prisoner Trust Account Interest Recoverable Only Upon Proof Of Individual Loss by The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that prisoners have nothing to recover in a claim for interest on their common trust account when the state's costs to administer the account exceed the interest generated, but …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Last Chance For Washington Prisoners To Request Postconviction DNA Testing is December 31, 2004 by Washington state prisoners who believe DNA evidence may prove their innocence must file a request for postconviction DNA testing by December 31, 2004. Starting January 1, 2005, a defendant must raise DNA issues at trial …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Washington Police Kill Unarmed Escapee in Botched Raid; Prisoner Also Killed by Michael Rigby Washington Police Kill Unarmed Escapee In Botched Raid; Prisoner also Killed By Michael Rigby One day after he used a fake gun to escape from a courthouse in Tacoma, Washington, a "three-strikes" prisoner was killed by …
Cowboy Justice: BOP Guards Convicted by Alan Pendergast by Alan Prendergast The seven men sat around the defense table Tuesday afternoon, June 24, 2003, murmuring quietly to each other and exchanging hearty good-luck handshakes with their attorneys. The tension was thick, anticipation high. Shortly after 4 p.m., the jurors filed …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
PLRA Fee Cap Upheld, Applied to Parole Case; Allows Fees-on-Fee Award by David Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court held the attorney fee cap of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) applies to parole cases and is constitutional and allows a fees-on-fees award. Georgia prisoner Coleman Jackson filed a joint motion …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Fifth Circuit Affirms Termination of Guajardo (Texas Prison Mail) Suit by By Matthew T. Clarke On March 16, 2004, the Fifth Circuit issued a per curiam opinion affirming the district court's termination of the 20-year-old consent decree which had regulated prisoner mail in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Challenge To Washington Felon Disenfranchisement Scheme Remanded For Racial Bias Test by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that the broader "totality of the circumstances" standard must be used rather than just a narrower statistical burden when testing for racial bias …
Class Action Challenges Treatment of Florida's "Sexual Predator" Civil Detainees by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal class action has been filed in the Federal District Court in Ft. Myers by eight residents of the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC), seeking to enforce their rights to mental health …
No Restraint, No Consequences: Privatizing Overseas Intelligence Extraction by by Matthew T. Clarke The Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based nonprofit legal center, helped Iraqi prisoners file a class-action lawsuit against private "interrogation services" contractors Titan Corporation and CACI International Incorporated alleging that Iraqi citizens being held without charges …
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