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In-the-News Article • January 1, 2003
PLN-authored book, "Prison Nation," wins Gustavus Myers Award Jan. 1, 2003 Articles about PLN Myers Center PLN-authored book, "Prison Nation," wins Gustavus Myers Award 2003 Gustavus Myers Award - 2003 Tara Herivel and Paul Wright, Editors, Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor (Routledge 2003) This Myers Award recognizes the …
Brief • December 31, 2002
Carvalho-caruso vs. Ct, Complaint, Sexual Assault by Prisoners, Ct, 2002 SI:PeR12„12 COURT ' SUMMONS - CIVIL (Except Family Actions) "X" ONE OF legal interest or property in demand, exclusive of interest and costs is: Amount, JD-CV-1 Rev. 6-97 C.G.S. 51-346, 51-347, 51-349, 51-350, 52-45a 52-48, 52-259, P.B. Sec. 49, 63, …
Brief • December 31, 2002
Grieveson v Cottey in Amended Complaint Snitch Assault 2002 Case 1:02-cv-01862-LJM-TAB Document 6 Filed 12/31/02 Page 1 of 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION Joseph Robert Grieveson, Plaintiff, vs. Jack Cottey, Patrick Commiskey, Officer Chris Boomershine, Officer Smith, Officer Highbaugh, Officer Cornell, Officer Duncan, and …
Brief • December 30, 2002
United States of America v Warner Il Sec Superseding Indictment 2003.pdf UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. LAWRENCE E. WARNER and GEORGE H. RYAN, SR. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. 02 CR 506 …
Pratt v. DC, DC,Memo Order of Judgment, Jail Tour Youth Strip Search, 2002 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA VERNELL PRATT, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Civil Action No. 01-1525 (JGP) ECF MEMORANDUM …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Son of Sam II Law Enacted in California by Son Of Sam II Law Enacted in California In a legislative move designed to circumvent a recent California Supreme Court ruling holding that California's "Son of Sam" law (which prohibited prisoners from profiting from their crime stories) was unconstitutional, Senate Bill …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Washington Sex Offender Community Placement Dilemma by Roger Smith When "high-risk" sex offenders are released from Washington State prisons their pictures, names, addresses, and offenses are broadcast on the local news. Armed with that information, angry neighbors often drive them from the communities they're released to. With no one willing …
Florida Prisoner Sues for Contracting HIV by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida prisoner Richard James Randles filed simultaneous state and federal lawsuits alleging guard B.D. Hester ordered him, on three separate occasions, to clean up blood from other prisoners who had accidentally wounded themselves or attempted suicide at …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Summary Judgment Denied on New York Medical Isolation Conditions by A New York Federal District Court has denied summary judgment on claims that a prisoner's First Amendment right to free exercise of religion was violated by heightened restrictions in medical isolation and a denial of a vegetarian diet. As a …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Texas Cannot Use Enhancement to Deny Mandatory Supervision by The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas has held that the fact that a felony has been enhanced to a higher degree felony cannot be used to deny a prisoner mandatory supervision release (MSR). Nathaniel Elbert Coleman, a Texas state prisoner, …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Failure to Treat Ruptured Tendon; Qualified Immunity Denied by A federal district court in New York has denied prison officials' motion to dismiss a prisoner's complaint alleging denial of medical treatment of his ruptured Achilles tendon. While playing basketball on May 3, 1997 at Sing-Sing Correctional Facility, prisoner Saufuddin Abdul-Samad …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by California: On April 1, 2002, 30 prisoners at the Pelican Bay State Prison were involved in a riot. Eight Asian and Native American prisoners attacked 20 white prisoners. One prisoner suffered a superficial stab wound and other participants received minor injuries. The riot was halted by …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Georgia Supreme Court Bans Use of the Electric Chair by In a 4-to-3 decision, the Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a trial court and ruled that death by electrocution violated the state's constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The high court ordered that all future executions in Georgia will …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Fatal Overdoses: Drugs and Death in Prison by On April 27, 1997, at Ohio's Trumbull Correctional Institution, Daniel Ray Williams died by lethal injection. Williams, then 37, was not on death row; the lethal injection was a self-administered dose of heroin. Robert Baksi, a Trumbull prisoner who reportedly had a …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Ex-Georgia Sheriff Convicted in Ambush Killing of Successor by Lonnie Burton Former Georgia Sheriff Sidney Dorsey was convicted on July 10 for ordering the assassination of his political rival, a man who defeated him for sheriff in the 2000 elections. Dorsey was convicted of first-degree murder for the slaying of …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
The Unmourned Death of Felony Murder by Assault in Washington by David Zuckerman by Suzanne Lee Elliott and David B. Zuckerman For at least 36 years, Washington has permitted defendants to be convicted of felony murder in the second degree when the underlying felony is assault. Prisoners rightly complained that …
Prisoner's Medical Information Privacy Right Established in Third Circuit by by Matthew T. Clarke The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has established that prisoners have a right to privacy in their medical information albeit not to the same extent as a free citizen. However, the Third Circuit dismissed …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Alaska Prison Design Case Settles for $1 Million by In August, 2001, the state of Alaska settled a lawsuit involving faulty prison design which resulted in serious injury to a prisoner for $1,000,000. In February, 1994, Carry Johnson was returning to his cell at the Ketchikan Correctional Center in Alaska. …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Dismissal of Legal Mail and Retaliation Claims Reversed by by Matthew T. Clarke The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has reversed the district court's dismissal of claims that prison officials violated a prisoner's right of access to courts and retaliated against him for litigating against them. William R. …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Washington DOC Pays $2,306.22 in Prisoner PDA Suit by On October 17, 2001, the Washington Department of Corrections ("DOC") agreed to settle a suit filed against it pursuant to Washington's Public Disclosure Act ("PDA") for $2,306.22. The PDA, like its federal counterpart the Freedom of Information Act, requires all state …
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