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Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Brazil: On June 23, 2003, a 12 hour riot among prisoners in a jail in Manaus in the Amazon left 13 prisoners dead. Forty visitors and four jail guards were taken hostage during the uprising but were released unharmed. No cause for the riot was given …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later: The Militarization of Law Enforcement by Silja JA Talvi Shoot First, Ask Questions Later: The Militarization of Law Enforcement by Silja J.A. Talvi The following is a review of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice System: The Changing Roles of the Armed Forces and the Police, …
Informal Grievance Procedure Must Be Exhausted Before Filing Suit by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a district court's denial of summary judgment for prison officials after ruling that prisoners were required to exhaust their administrative remedies before bringing a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action even …
CSC: More Misery and Misfortune by C.C. Simmons Page 1 of the August 2002 issue of Prison Legal News carried a story about Correctional Services Corporation (CSC), the scandal-ridden private prison outfit beset with self-inflicted troubles. Since that story appeared, CSC's troubles have multiplied. Consider the following: Ø In August …
BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm for Mobsters by Gary Hunter BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm For Mobsters by Gary Hunter On March 1, 2002, the U.S. District court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania denied the motion of a mobster's wife requesting the return of her incarcerated husband's sperm. Circumstances leading to …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Washington DOC Settles Kosher Diet Complaints by John E Dannenberg Washington DOC Settles Kosher Diet Complaints by John E. Dannenberg Washington state's Department of Corrections (DOC) settled two 42 USC § 1983 complaints from prisoners who "practiced" Judaism but were denied kosher diets. Both settlements accorded the diets; in the …
Arizona's Pima County Settles Prisoner Beating Death Lawsuits for $500,000 by Arizona's Pima County Settles Prisoner Beating Death Lawsuits for $500,000 by Matthew T. Clarke By paying $500,000 and issuing letters of apology from the Sheriff, Pima County has settled two lawsuits by the survivors of two prisoners beaten to …
Washington DOC Ban on Bulk Mail and Catalogs Enjoined in PLN Suit, Due Process Required by Paul Wright Washington DOC Ban on Bulk Mail and Catalogs Enjoined in PLN Suit, Due Process Required by Paul Wright On June 17, 2003, Seattle federal district court judge Robert Lasnick issued a permanent …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
New York Muslim Prison Chaplains Purged by by Matthew T. Clarke Imam Warith Deen Umar helped found the advocacy group National Association of Muslim Chaplains (NAMC) in 1976. Since then, the 58-year old cleric and NAMC have come to exercise near monopolistic influence over the selection of Muslim prison chaplains …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Filed under: Reviews, Medical, Hepatitis
CDC Report Outlines Prevention and Control of Hepatitis in Prisons by John E Dannenberg CDC Report Outlines Prevention And Control Of Hepatitis In Prisons by John E. Dannenberg The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an updated report providing guidelines and recommendations for juvenile and adult …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Washington State's Changes to Good Time Laws Benefit Few by Lonnie Burton On May 20, 2003, Washington state governor Gary Locke signed into law Senate Bill 5990, which works numerous changes to the amount of good time prisoners in the state can receive. The new law, passed by 43-4 and …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Strapped States Threaten Prisoner Releases to Extort Revenue by by Matthew Clarke In the wake of an economic downturn, states throughout the country are facing budget deficits averaging 15% of their previous general revenue. A uniform response to the revenue shortfall has been to threaten the early release of state …
Settlement Reached in Beating Death of Florida Prisoner by In October 2002, the sons of a Florida man agreed to settle their wrongful death action, in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola, against several jail guards and the Escambia County sheriff. The amount of the settlement was not disclosed. This …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Ninth Circuit Affirms Constitutionality of RLUIPA by by John E. Dannenberg In a case of first impression, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a district court ruling that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) (42 U.S.C. § 2000 cc et seq.) passes constitutional …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Habeas Hints by Kent A. Russell 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 …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright When PLN first started publishing in 1990 there were several dozen prisoner rights publications being published around the country and in Canada. California alone had a half dozen. Today most of them have folded. Historically, the United States has had a penal press since …
Military Prisoners Cannot Sue Over Conditions of Confinement by In a landmark decision, the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the United States District Court of Kansas, has held that a military prisoner cannot sue over conditions of confinement in a military prison, even if the prisoner is …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Texas Magistrate Suspended for Verbally Abusing Prisoners by Texas Magistrate Suspended For Verbally Abusing Prisoners by Matthew T. Clarke A Brazoria County, Texas, Justice of the Peace (JP) has been suspended pending the outcome of judicial misconduct proceedings, after he used profanity and racial slurs to verbally abuse prisoners in …
Georgia Jury Awards $325,000 to Prisoner's Widow in Legal Malpractice Case by Georgia Jury Awards $325,000 to Prisoner's Widow In Legal Malpractice Case On July 13, 2002, a Carroll Counrty, Georgia, jury awarded $325,000 to the widow of a prisoner who allegedly died due to medical malpractice and neglect. The …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Canadian Supreme Court Grants Prisoners Right to Vote by Lonnie Burton On November 3, 2002, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a law that barred prisoners serving sentences of two years or more from voting in federal elections. In a sharply divided 5-4 decision, the Canadian high court held …
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