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Brief • October 17, 2000
Filed under: Accidents
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Brief • October 17, 2000
Avery v. District of Columbia, Release, Inmate Assault, 2000 RELEASE. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Antonio Avery, DOB 9-1-72, DCDC # 248-092, Social Security N u m b e r _ , for consideration of the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), including attorneys' fees and costs, …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Belgium: On July 10, 2000, Bertrand Sassoye, a political prisoner of the Combatant Communist Cells (CCC), was released after serving 14 years in prison. Sassoye had been convicted of participating in dozens of bombings carried out by the CCC against NATO and capitalist targets in Belgium. …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
The Penal System and the U.S. Labor Market by Bruce Western Bruce Western, Princeton University Kathy Beckett, Indiana University The low rate of US. unemployment contrasts strikingly with very high levels of joblessness in Europe. Official statistics show that U.S. unemployment is now around 4% while European unemployment is over …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Massachusetts Prisoners' Political Action Committee Floundering by Massachusetts prisoners were set back in their electoral efforts when the formation of a political action committee (PAC) inside the walls of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution was banned by executive order of Republican Governor Paul Cellucci. Guards confiscated the prisoners' political materials and …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
NH Supreme Court Overturns Prisoner Voting Rights by Ronald Young By Ronald Young As previously reported in PLN, New Hampshire state prisoner David J. Fischer successfully litigated the right of New Hampshire prisoners to cast absentee ballots in local, state, and federal elections. Fischer alleged that legislation prohibiting felons from …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Habeas Hints: Statute of Limitations by Kent Russell By Kent Russell This column is intended to provide "habeas hints" for prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys ("in pro per"). The focus of the column is habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA - the …
Ohio Prison Food Contract Sparks Controversy by In 1998 senior officials of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) were convinced that outsourcing prison food service would be the next great leap forward for Ohio penology. So they bid out a contract for private firms to provide food service …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
First Federal Execution Postponed by Bill Dunne By Bill Dunne Federal authorities announced on July 6, 2000, a plan to delay the execution of Juan Raul Garza, previously scheduled for August 5, 2000. Garza was convicted in 1993 in Brownsville, TX, of ordering three drug-related murders, for which he denies …
Nassau Jail Guards Convicted, Sentenced for Fatal Beating by Two Nassau County (NY) jail guards who fatally beat an unarmed jail detainee were sentenced May 26, 1999, to 11 years in federal prison, and a jail supervisor who tried to cover up for them received nearly 6 years. In the …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
No Immunity in Denying Kosher Diet by The court of appeals for the Second Circuit held that fact issues requiring a trial were present in a Jewish prisoner's lawsuit over the denial of a kosher diet. The court also held prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity from money …
Ninth Circuit Reverses Madrid v. Gomez, Adopts Martin v. Hadix by Ninth Circuit Reverses Madrid V. Gomez, Adopts Martin v. Hadix By Matthew T. Clarke The Ninth Circuit has ruled that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) attorney fees caps do not apply to work performed prior to the enactment …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Nominal Damages Not Monetary Award Under PLRA Attorney's Fees Cap by A federal district court in Maine has held that the award of one dollar in nominal damages does not invoke the PLRA attorney's fees cap, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d)(2). Raymond P. Boivin, a Maine state pre-trial detainee, sued a …
$100,000 Settlement in TX Restraint Chair/Pepper Spray Death by On February 22, 2000, Tarrant County, Texas agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement to the estate of James Livingston, 30, to settle a wrongful death suit. On July 6, 1999, Livingston was arrested on a trespassing warrant. He was allegedly abusive …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
VP's Drug Dealer Still Litigating Retaliation Claim by The court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit held that law-of-the-case doctrine foreclosed a challenge to a legal decision made at an earlier stage of the litigation and that the district court must determine whether government officials were motivated by …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
California Private Prison Riot by Willie Wisely By W. Wisely Racial brawling broke out between black and Latino prisoners at Victor Valley Community Correctional Facility March 1, 2000. Six prisoners were sent to hospitals near the Adelanto, California, medium security private prison operated by Marantha Private Corrections LLC. Fighting began …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
$50,000 to Settle CA Jail Beating Suit by In April 2000, Sacramento county paid $50,000 to settle a prisoner's excessive force lawsuit that two Sacramento county jail guards, later fired for assaulting another prisoner, also beat him. Troyd Ransom was in the Sacramento county jail on a parole hold in …
Crack in the Federal Scheme: The October Rebellion of 1995 by Bill Dunne By Bill Dunne Between October 19 and October 26, 1995, the U. S. Bureau of Prisons (federal prison system) experienced a series of largely spontaneous but causally related uprisings in its then 84 prison, 100,000 prisoner gulag …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
New Jersey Parole Board Chief Resigns by The chairman of the New Jersey state Parole Board submitted his resignation July 28, 2000, as authorities neared the end of a two-year investigation into his alleged links with organized crime. A law enforcement source close to the investigation told The Record, the …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Escape Costs Oklahoma Private Prison $304,375 by Gordon Flud's April 12, 2000, escape from a Hinton, Oklahoma rent-a-jail didn't end well for him--or for his prison. Flud, 44, jumped fences, avoided razor wire and climbed down the Great Plains Correctional Facility administration building's rainspout in his bid for freedom. But …
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