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Improved Jail Conditions Merits Attorney Fees by Two Wood County, Texas, jail prisoners filed suit under § 1983 claiming the jail had practices of denying prisoners access to the courts, improper classification, punitive isolation without due process, inadequate medical care, denial of reading material and overall unacceptable jail conditions. The …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
ACLU Challenges NJ DOC Censorship by The Newark, NJ, law firm of Crummy, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger and Vecchione, acting on behalf of the New Jersey ACLU, has filed a class action law suit challenging the censorship of political publications by New Jersey prison officials. The law suit, PSC Publications, …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Prison Rule Banning Media Mail/Visits Held Unconstitutional by Sabil Mujahid is a Hawaii state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 claiming that Hawaii prison regulations which prohibit prisoners from visiting or corresponding with members of the media, unless they knew each other on a personal basis prior to incarceration, …
Comic Book Censorship Overturned by Everett Lyon is an Iowa state prisoner. He ordered several religious comic books which prison officials censored claiming they would be "disruptive and produce violence" because they were allegedly "anti-catholic and blatantly bigoted." After exhausting his administrative remedies Lyon filed suit under § 1983 claiming …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Okay to Steal Mail by Two Missouri state prisoners wrote and telephoned US postal officials to complain that prison administrators were "stealing, holding, tampering with, censoring, delaying and destroying" their mail in violation of federal postal laws. The postal officials refused to investigate the prisoners' claims. The prisoners then filed …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in Their Mail by Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in their Mail David Jolivet is a Utah state prisoner who married Dorothy Pacheco, a member of a prisoner rights group named "Pepper". Prior to marrying Jolivet, Pacheco had been married to another Utah prisoner named …
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
Challenging Prison Censorship by Paul Wright Longtime readers of PLN will have followed our reports as PLN was censored at various prisons across the country. The role of prison, legal and political publications in prison is very important as it enables prisoners to learn, study and be in a better …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Censoring Mail From Courts Violates Due Process by John Stone-El is an Illinois state prisoner whose mail to and from the courts and government officials was opened and read outside his presence. Stone-El filed suit seeking money damages and injunctive relief for the violation of his constitutional rights. He then …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Constitutional Right for Cons to Buy Lottery Tickets? Federal Court Says Nyet by Robert Pierce By Robert Pierce To file or not to file, frivolousness is the question. Wisconsin prisoners answered the question by filing a lawsuit alleging that they were constitutionally entitled to purchase lottery tickets. The action stated …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Prisoner Can Receive Diploma in Mail by Bobby Griffin is a Missouri state prisoner who graduated from a college paralegal course. Upon graduation the college mailed him his diploma and grade transcript. This was rejected by prison officials who claimed prison regulations prohibited prisoners from having original diplomas and transcripts …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
CBCC Mail Suit Filed by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In May of 1991 CBCC mailroom staff here began a practice of rejecting without notice to the prisoner or the sender or an opportunity to appeal all mail that arrived without the prisoners DOC number on it. No notice of …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Mail Rejection Not Upheld by A Michigan prisoner sent another Michigan prisoner an educational brochure on how to study to be a paralegal. Michigan DOC officials rejected the brochure claiming prison rules prohibited "contractual agreements." The district court ruled the brochure was entitled to First Amendment protection and found no …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
PLN Banned in France by Paul Wright PLN Banned In France By Paul Wright PLN reader Jean Marc Rouillain, a political prisoner in France, has written and informed us that the April, 1991, issue of PLN (which just happened to have his article about the worsening prison conditions in France …
Brief • July 8, 1991
Enquist v. Frank, WA, Complaint, Mail Withheld, 1994 ( ( RECEIVED 8 199t JUl ATTORNE't GENERAL'S OffiCE CORRECnONS OIV UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE J.D. (Gerald) ENQUIST, Petitioner, v. ) ) ) ) . ) D. FRA.'n<.; A. CLARK; J. FITZPATRICK; NEAL BROWN; CHASE RIVELAND; …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Mail to Public Officials and Media Protected by Mail To Public Officials And Media Protected The New Jersey Department of Corrections had a regulation that prevented them from opening outgoing "legal correspondence," but allowed prison officials to open,-read; and censor mail being sent to public officials, government agencies and media …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Pro-War Hypocrisy by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In early March of this year I received a T-shirt that said "official WWI souvenir, brought to you by ITT Rockwell, General Electric, et al." With a small U.S. flag with a skull and crossbones on it. Property guard L. Marts denied …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Rejection Process by Last Thursday I got a rejection slip in the mail for PLN #7! The reasons listed were: 1) the mail contains threats of physical harm against any person or threat of criminal activity - then in quotes "chewing policeman's hand off', 5) The mail concerns plans for …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Klan Papers Get into Texas Prisons but PLN is Banned by Michael Lowe, exalted Cyclops of the Waco Ku Klux Klan, is trying to reach some 13,500 white prisoners inside the Texas prison system. And Texas prison officials are allowing the KKK publications into their prisons. Well get prisoners out …
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
Of Bannings and Unbannings: Why Do They Do It? by Ed Mead Of Bannings and Unbannings: Why do they do it? By Ed Mead As many of you know issue #2 of the PLN was banned from both the Penitentiary and the Reformatory. We immediately drafted a comprehensive civil rights …
Brief • May 10, 1974
Hook v. Arizona, AZ, Stipulation for Amendments to Consent Decree and Proposed Order, DOC Mail Regulations, 1974 LODGED 1 2 3 MAY '. 0 1974 TREON. WARNICKE & DANN. P. A. Atiornovsaf Law 100 Wesi Washington Suite 2250 Phoenix. Arizona 85003 Telephone: 602 252-4S95 OFFICE o r THE CLERK U. …
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