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WA DOC Sanctioned in Grievance Mail Case by In the September, 1994, issue of PLN we reported OKeefe v. Murphy, the unpublished case by US District Judge Alan McDonald which held that prisoners mail to and from different government agencies was entitled to confidential treatment, i.e. being opened only in …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
CT Phone Suit Filed by The Connecticut Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) has filed suit against the Connecticut DOC over a phone monitoring system recently implemented by the DOC. Washington v. Meachum, Case No. CV-94-0534616S was certified as a state wide class action suit on May 3, 1994, in the state …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Legal Papers Filed When Mailed by Prisoner litigants representing themselves face greater problems when litigating than do most ordinary litigants. Not only are they usually untrained in the law but they lack control over basic things such as the mail. Courts operate on deadlines which often result in penalties for …
Ban on Japanese Publications Struck Down by Yu Kikumura is a member of the Japanese Red Army held at the US Penitentiary in Marion, IL. A Japanese national, he can read, speak or write very little English and Japanese remains his primary language. On more than 20 occasions Marion prison …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Prisoner Mail Trashed at Waupun by In the editorial in the September, 1994, issue of PLN, we noted that subscribers at the Waupun Correctional Institution at Waupun, WI. had complained of not receiving their issues of PLN. Shortly thereafter we learned why. The August 4, 1994, edition of the Wisconsin …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
WA Mail Policy Illegal by Timothy O'Keefe is a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla. In October, 1993, O'Keefe tried to mail six pieces of outgoing mail as legal mail. The letters were addressed to the prison warden; US Postal Inspector; State Higher Education Coordinating Board; …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Oppression on the Rise in Arizona by O'Neil Stough By O'Neil Stough Arizona has joined the ranks of many other prisons nationwide where oppressive and tried-and-failed barbaric methods of the distant past are being re-instituted. Governor Fife Symington, up for reelection this year, and Director of Corrections, Sam Lewis whose …
WA Punishment for Use of Religious Name Illegal by Dawud Halisi Malik By Dawud Halisi Malik On January 5, 1978, the superior court of the county of Walla Walla accepted my petition for name change as I had adopted Al-Islam as my religion. On May 8, 1990, I arrived at …
Brief • July 25, 1994
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
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RFRA Has Retroactive Application by Adherents of the Hebrew Israelite faith challenged Florida prison regulations which forbade their receipt of Hebrew Israelite literature. A class action suit challenging the censorship culminated with a victory for the prisoners at 641 F. Supp 312 in 1986. The court of appeals for the …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Non-English Mail Okay by Khannfeuang Thongvanh is an Iowa state prisoner. Thongvahn is a native Laotian whose primary language is Lao, though he speaks some English. Prison rules mandate that all incoming and outgoing prisoner correspondence be in English to allow for censorship. Prison officials at the Iowa State Reformatory …
Prisoners Retain Right Against Self-Incrimination by Coy Phelps is a patient involuntarily committed in a Federal Medical Center (FMC) after having been acquitted of criminal charges by reason of insanity. He filed suit challenging both the statutes allowing his commitment and the conditions of confinement he was subjected to. He …
Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
Consent Decree Creates Right to Uninspected Legal Mail by In 1976 prisoners at the Indiana State Reformatory in Pendleton, IN filed suit challenging the conditions at the prison. In 1977 the parties entered into a consent decree settling the suit. With respect to legal mail the decree provided that it …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
5th Cir. Guts Legal Mail Standard by Van Lee Brewer and Claude Harris are Texas state prisoners. They filed suit under § 1983 claiming that prison officials had opened and read their incoming legal mail from the courts, attorneys and government officials outside their presence. They also claimed their outgoing …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
Needs Mail Stamping of Prisoner Mail Information by Reader Mail On November 1, 1993, Wisconsin Prisons started to stamp prisoner mail as originating in a prison. We filed for a temporary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. On October 28, 1993, the court came …
Outgoing Mail May Contain Slander by Aprisoner at the Iowa Men's Reformatory received a major disciplinary infraction for "verbal abuse" as a result of comments included in a letter he had written to his brother. The prisoner, Rick Bressman, wrote: "yeah, their (sic) real assholes, my counselor is a dick …
Discipline For Rude Letter Struck Down by Lobester Loggins is a Missouri State prisoner. In 1989 he sent his brother a letter. Pursuant to prison policy a prison mail clerk opened and read the letter, which stated in part that "there's a beetle eyed bitch back here who enjoys reading …
Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
No Right to Unmonitored Mail to Media, Clergy by Astate prison regulation that requires inspection of outgoing mail directed to members of the media and the clergy does not violate inmates' first amendment rights, a majority of the U.S. court of appeals for the eighth circuit recently held. The majority …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Censoring Legal Mail States Claim by Henry Lavado was a federal prisoner whose legal mail from attorneys, the ACLU and various state and federal law enforcement agencies was opened and read outside of his presence. Some of his legal mail was opened and read in his presence. Lavado filed suit …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
BOP Liable for Overcrowding and Opening Detainees Mail by Richard Young is a federal pretrial detainee. While awaiting trial he was housed at the US Penitentiary in Lewisburg, PA. He filed suit claiming that the conditions of confinement violated his right to be free from punishment. The conditions included being …
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