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Texas and Florida Prisoners Used in Medical Experiments by Julia Lutsky When the AIDS epidemic struck in the mid eighties and pharmaceutical companies wished to test new and promising drugs, what better place than in the nation's prison systems? AIDS has no known cure and test subjects in the prison …
Mystery Surrounds Texas Prison Rape/Suicide by A prisoner at the French Robertson Unit near Abilene, TX, hanged himself August 16, 2000, shortly after sexually assaulting a female prison employee, prison authorities say. A few minutes after 4:00 p.m., the female recreational staff (whose name and age were not released) confronted …
Oklahoma Guard Killed by On June 6, 2000, Joe Gamble, 29, a prison guard at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, Oklahoma, died from stab wounds allegedly inflicted by prisoner Dorhee McKissick. The stabbing occurred on June 5 when Gamble saw another guard, William Callaway, being attacked by McKissick. Gamble …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Coalition for Prisoners' Rights? by Paul Wright The Coalition for Prisoners' Rights (CPR) is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and since 1981 has published a small newsletter by the same name. After PLN had recruited counsel to litigate the Oregon bulk mail case, PLN v. Cook [see accompanying article] …
No Qualified Immunity for Illinois Visitor Strip Searches by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that Illinois prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity from money damages for strip-searching prison visitors in the absence of any individualized suspicion that they were carrying contraband. Between 1995 and …
Frozen Toes State a Claim for Deliberate Indifference by A U.S. District Court in Minnesota handed down a mixed ruling on defendants' motion for summary judgment on a federal prisoner's claim of deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. On January 25, 1996, after walking for 23 hours in freezing …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
New Jersey Guard Unions Charged with Telemarketing Fraud by New Jersey Guard Unions Charged With Telemarketing Fraud The New Jersey Attorney General's Office charged four "correctionsofficer" unions and a forprofit fundraising company with diverting nearly $2 million from police charities over a threeyear period. In a 12count complaint filed in …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
The Funhouse Mirror, By Robert Ellis Gordon and Inmates of the Washington Corrections System by Allen N Huxley WSU Press (2000), $14.95 Review by Allen N. Huxley Robert Ellis Gordon is an educator and fiction writer who conducted creative writing workshops in various Washington prisons during the late 80s and …
California Legislative Committee Hearing Meets Behind Prison Walls To Hear Testimony From Female Prisoners by Silja JA Talvi by Silja J.A. Talvi It was anything but an ordinary California legislative hearing. On Wednesday, October 11,2000, behind the barbedwire grounds and multiple security checkpoints of Chowchilla's Valley State Prison for Women …
$40,000 Awarded in Tennessee Jail Failure to Protect Suit by A U.S. District Court in Tennessee ordered Shelby County to pay $40,000 to Jacob Miller for injuries suffered in an attack by fellow prisoners at Shelby County Correctional Center (SCCC). Miller arrived at SCCC in December 1995 to serve a …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Crime, Sentencing
Crime and Punishment Relation Examined by Julia Lutsky Between 1991 and 1998 the rate of incarceration in the United States increased a dramatic 47% at same time the crime rate dropped 22%. Before you conclude that imprisoning more people results in less crime you would be wise to read a …
$57,000 Awarded in Illinois Prison Beating by Lonnie Burton In 1999 an Illinois state prisoner was awarded nearly $57,000 in damages and fees following trial on his charges that fellow prisoners beat him while a guard stood and watched. Ronnie W. Carroll filed suit in the United States District Court …
TRO Allows Father to Attend Birth; Court Awards Full Attorney Fees by A U.S. District Court in Ohio awarded attorneys' fees and court costs to a state prisoner and her husband who sought and were granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) allowing the husband to attend the birth of their …
Brief • April 13, 2001
Lifton v. City of Fairfield, CA, Deposition of Don Cameron, 2001 DEPOSITION OF DON CAMERON UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA -000- REBECCA LlfTO~, individually and as successor In Interest to DORON LIFTON Deceased JONATHAN LIFTON~ RON LIFT6N, and DAPHNA WAKEFlt:LD, Plaintiffs, ,." BE IT REMEMBERED that, pursuant …
Brief • April 11, 2001
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Halloran v. Armstrong, CT, Complaint for Damages, Wrongful Death, 2001 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT R. BARTLEY HALLORAN, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF TIMOTHY PERRY, ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ) vs. ) ) JOHN J. ARMSTRONG; ) CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF ) CORRECTION; UNIVERSITY OF ) …
Maynor v. Morgan County, AL, Complaint, Inmate Funds Misappropriation, 2001 Case 5:01-cv-00851-AKK Document 1 Filed 04/05/01 Page 1 of 17 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA C. / "~i - 3 i.. ; ~·: NORTHERN DMSION JOHNNY MAYNOR, Anthony Murphree, Christopher Nichols, Yvette Barbee, …
Brief • March 28, 2001
Zamani v. LAPD, CA, Appellant Brief, Racial Profiling, 2001 1. STATEMENT OF JURISDICTION This is an action brought originally in the United States District Court, Central District of California, brought by plaintiff under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to vindicate his rights under the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment to the …
Deadly Nostalgia: The Politics of Boot Camps by Christian Parenti The short, stout eighth grader Gina Score, was never much of an athlete. But that didn't matter to the staff at South Dakota's Plankinton boot camp for girls, where militarystyle discipline and calisthenics were the modus operandi and, as staff …
FTCA, Bivens Claims in Beating Suit Proceed in Bifurcated Trial by Orlando Ortiz, a pretrial detainee, brought action for use of excessive force during a pat search under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §26722680 (FTCA), and Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, …
Riot at CCA Prison Hospitalizes 15 Guards by Gary Hunter A minor riot on July 15 2000, left fifteen guards and one prisoner injured at the North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre, Oklahoma. Six guards were sent to area hospitals where they were treated for minor cuts and bruises. One …
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