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Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Mismanaged, Money-Losing Folsom City Prison Closed by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Faced with losing $1.4 million in the following year, the City of Folsom, California, closed its 14 year-old, 380 bed minimum security prison and laid off most of the 70 city workers on June 30, 2003. …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Medical, Hearing, Damages
$300,000 Awarded for Delayed Treatment of New York Prisoner's Hearing Loss by On October 31, 2003 a New York Court of Claims awarded Fishkill Correctional Facility prisoner Darryl Dickerson $300,000 for a partial hearing loss suffered because he was not provided timely medical treatment. Dickerson claimed he heard a popping …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
New Jersey Over Detains Prisoner Two Years Due to Illegal Sentence Calculation by The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division has held that the New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) cannot depart from the terms a sentencing judge imposes. In September 1994, prisoner Larry Hill was released on parole …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Prison Labor, Organizing, Voting
Democratic Organization Gives Some Felons Second Chance by America Coming Together (ACT)--a democratic group working to ensure that George W. Bush is not reelected--is employing felons to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in Missouri, Florida, Ohio, and possibly 14 other states crucial to the November 2004 elections. ACT contends that …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Stun Belt Violates Due Process; Habeas Granted by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the use of a stun belt to restrain a California criminal defendant during his trial violated due process of law and was grounds for reversal upon a …
VP's Drug Dealer Retaliation Claim Ordered to Trial by In a case that has continued on and on like the Energizer Bunny, the District of Columbia has denied the Bureau of Prisons defendants' latest motion for summary judgment and ordered a trial. This case was filed in 1990 by Brett …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Report Blasts South Carolina Plan to Privatize Prison Health Care by Michael Rigby South Carolina's disastrous 15-year experiment with prison health care privatization should be a warning to those hardheaded state leaders who plan to do it again, according to a report sponsored by Grassroots Leadership and South Carolina Fair …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Guards Let California Prisoner Slowly Starve to Death by Guards Let California Prisoner Slowly Starve To Death Seventy-two year old Khem Singh, who spoke no English and was crippled and wheelchair-bound, died of starvation in his Corcoran State Prison Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) cell on February 16, 2004, after …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
The Citebook by Michael Rigby by Tony Darwin, Starlite, Inc., 2004, 20th ed., 308 pp., $35.95, soft cover Review by Michael Rigby For anyone not trained in the law, navigating the U.S. judicial system can be a daunting prospect. But with knowledge comes confidence, and that's exactly what Tony Darwin …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Parents of Deceased Wisconsin Boot Camp Prisoner Settle for $462,000 by The parents of a Wisconsin state prisoner who died due to exercise stress after his medical complaints were ignored settled their wrongful death suit for $462,000. The Homeslys were parents of a male 20-year-old Wisconsin state prisoner who died …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Florida DOC Ordered to Assist Felons Restore Their Voting Rights by David Reutter Florida DOC Ordered to Assist Felons Restore their Voting Rights by David M. Reutter A Florida circuit court has ordered the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) to assist ex-felons who did not receive help in the application …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
California Internet Injunction Upheld by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the statewide permanent injunction issued by the U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) enjoining the California Department of Corrections' (CDC) policy prohibiting prisoners from receiving Internet-generated mail. Prison Legal News also filed a friend of the court brief on …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
New York Court Awards Prisoner $180,000 in Slip and Fall by On June 3, 2003, a court of claims in Rochester, New York, awarded prisoner Samuel K. Tambe $180,000 for injuries he sustained when he tripped over an elevated sidewalk slab at the Groveland Correctional Facility in Sonyea, New York. …
Preliminary Injunction Granted to Religious Objector of Tuberculosis Skin Test by David Reutter by David M. Ruetter A New York federal district court has granted a preliminary injunction to a prisoner who objected on religious grounds, to taking a Purified Protein Derivative Test(PPD) to detect tuberculosis (TB). In a previous …
New Mexico Lawyers Entitled to Jail Visiting, Phone and Records Access by A New Mexico federal district court has entered a preliminary injunction that enjoins jail officials from prohibiting class counsel from having access to the jail, its prisoners and staff, its records, and from imposing time limits on telephone …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
New York Prisoner Awarded $411,000 in Failure to Protect Suit by The New York State Court of Claims in Rochester, NY has awarded a state prisoner $411,000 for injuries he received when another prisoner attacked him. Michael Schindler, a 34-year-old New York state prisoner, was playing "two-on-two" touch football at …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
BJS Releases New Recidivism Study by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the Department of Justice, has published a recidivism study of prisoners released in 1994, the first since its 1989 report on 1983 releasees. The report studied the recidivism rate of 272,111 prisoners released from 15 …
Georgia Parole Corruption Deepens by Gary Hunter A trail of corruption, greed, and cronyism has led to the indictment of a Georgia senator, the dismissal of an assistant attorney general and the resignation of six parole board members including the director and the chairman. Van Streat was suspended from his …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright I am pleased to announce that The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry, PLN's first book which was published in 1998, is now available in Spanish. El Encarcelamiento de America was published last summer in Spain by Editorial Virus, …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
Louisiana Prisoners May Access Savings Funds Exceeding $250 by by Matthew T. Clarke The Supreme Court of Louisiana has held that all state prisoners have a statutory right to transfer savings accounts funds exceeding $250 to their drawing accounts. Walter Burnette, a Louisiana state prisoner serving a 99-year sentence, filed …
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