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Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Alabama Restores Voting Rights to Some Ex-Prisoners by On June 24, 2003, Republican Alabama governor Bob Riley announced he was vetoing the felons' voting bill passed by the state legislature. The bill would have made it easier for certain felons to have their voting rights reinstated. Alabama law imposes a …
Another Death in a Wisconsin Prison by Gary Hunter "Unremarkable." That's what prison nurse Jolinda Waterman called Donnie Powe's condition when she relegated him to an observation cell. Guards perfunctorily recorded his declining health right up until he died, face down on the floor of his 6 by 8 foot …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
PLRA Fee Payments Cease Upon Release from Prison by PLRA Fee Payments Cease Upon Release from Prison The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held a prisoner who was granted in forma pauperis (IFP) status is not required to continue filing fee payments upon release from prison. Prisoner Keith William DeBlasio …
Thirty-Two Years of Resistance: Free the Angola Three! by Shana Griffin by Shana Griffin and Brice White Thirty two years in solitary confinement would be enough to drive many of us to despair. Yet as of April 17, 2004, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 have each …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Thirty Years in Segregation May State Claim by Michael Rigby The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the denial of prison authorities' motion to dismiss based on qualified immunity because no proper determination was made as to whether prisoners' over 30 years of confinement in extended …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Washington DOC/King County Settles Negligent Supervision Case for $3.1 Million by Washington DOC/King County Settles Negligent Supervision Case for $3.1 Million On March 9, 2003, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and King County agreed to pay $3.1 million to the family of a woman who was brutally raped and …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Supplemental Parole Violation Warrant Filed After Sentence Expiration Illegal by Supplemental Parole Violation Warrant Filed After Sentence Expiration Illegal A federal district court for the District of Columbia has held that a parolee cannot be violated for activity alleged in a supplemental warrant filed after expiration of the original sentence. …
Fighting for Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M Golden Fighting For Fair Phone Rates by Deborah M. Golden In 2000, a group of prisoners, loved ones of prisoners, and attorneys filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the high cost of collect calls …
California Initial Cell Assignments By Race Upheld, U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review by John E Dannenberg California Initial Cell Assignments By Race Upheld, U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the policy of the California Department of Corrections (CDC) …
County May Be Liable for Private Prison's Customs and Policies by Bob Williams County May Be Liable For Private Prison's Customs And Policies by Bob Williams The New Mexico federal district court has held that a county could potentially be liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for the customs and …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Wisconsin Pro Se Co-Plaintiffs Must Maintain Separate § 1983 Actions by Wisconsin Pro Se Co-Plaintiffs Must Maintain Separate § 1983 Actions Federal district court Chief Judge Bar-bara B. Crabb, of the Northern District of Wisconsin, has decided that all pro se prisoner plaintiffs filing in this district must file and …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Bolivia: Protesting bad conditions and long sentences, two prisoners at the Palmasola prison in the capital of La Paz were crucified on February 11, 2004. Prisoners Fredy Acosta and Walter Ortiz were nailed to crosses in the prison. The protest was filmed by local television crews …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
Prior To Reversal And Reconviction, California Prison Credits, Not Jail Credits, Apply by Prior To Reversal And Reconviction, California Prison Credits, Not Jail Credits, Apply The California Supreme Court held that when a prisoner's conviction is overturned on appeal, and a new conviction is obtained upon retrial, the time that …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Prison Mailbox Rule Applies to Civil Rights Complaint by Jon Michael Withrow Prison Mailbox Rule Applies To Civil Rights Complaint by Jon Michael Withrow The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th circuit reversed and remanded a district court's dismissal of a prisoner's § 1983 complaint as untimely filed, holding …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Asset Forfeiture Defense Manual by John E Dannenberg by Brenda Grantland, Judy Osburn and Susan Raffanti; Liberty Press, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2001; 500 pp. (soft-back) Vol. 1: Substantive Law and Administrative Procedure; Review by John E. Dannenberg You may have thought your troubles were over when you were prosecuted …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
California Parole Violators' Due Process Rights Upheld in Settlement by California Parole Violators' Due Process Rights Upheld in Settlement In a November 17, 2003 Stipulated Or-der for Permanent Injunctive Relief (PI), defendant California prison officials settled a nine-year old federal class action suit brought by parolees whose due process rights …
Former Warden and Two Jailers Sentenced for Philadelphia Jail Beating by Former Warden and Two Jailers Sentenced for Philadelphia Jail Beating A former warden and two former guards were sentenced in federal court for their roles in connection with the severe beating of a federal prisoner who was being held …
Mississippi Death Row Conditions Unconstitutional; Sweeping Reforms Ordered by Bob Williams Mississippi Death Row Conditions Unconstitutional; Sweeping Reforms Ordered by Bob Williams Hailed as the broadest ruling ever is-sued by a federal judge in a death row conditions of confinement case, and a precedent setting breakthrough in prisoners' rights, conditions …
Canadian Prisoner Dies After Drinking Drug-Laced Vomit, Others Charged by Michael Rigby Canadian Prisoner Dies After Drinking Drug-Laced Vomit, Others Charged by Michael Rigby Prisoners at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (Canada) have been drinking each other's drug-laced vomit in order to get high. One woman …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Constitutional Amendment Effort Launched to Bar Florida's Prison Privatization by David Reutter Constitutional Amendment Effort Launched to Bar Florida's Prison Privatization by David M. Reutter The Florida Police Benevolence As-sociation (PBA) has launched a petition drive to enact an amendment to Florida's constitution that would bar privatization of prisons, jails, …
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