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Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Washington DOC Settles Public Disclosure Suits by Roger Smith Plaintiffs Roger Smith, Donald Miniken, and Karl Twilleager, prisoners at the McNeil Island Correction Center (MICC) near Steilacoom, Washington, settled their consolidated Public Disclosure Act claims against defendants Washington Department of Corrections, MICC, and MICC Public Disclosure Officer, Rosemarie Routson on …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
South Carolina Rapes Exposed by Bill Dunne South Carolina is reaping a crop of corruption and scandal from the desolate fields of its prison system. Predatory guards wield power with few checks on their using it to seek gratification through exploitation and oppression. Prisoners, especially women, are stripped of the …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
South Carolina Prison Chief Fired as Scandal Widens by Dan Pens Governor Jim Hodges angrily fired South Carolina's prisons chief January 11, 2001 after two guards were charged with allowing four minimumsecurity prisoners (2 male, 2 female) to have sex inside the governor's mansion. The charges deepened a prison scandal …
Justice Department Report Slams Nassau County Jail by After a 14 month investigation, the U.S. Justice Department released a report September 11, 2000, that is harshly critical of the Nassau County Correctional Center (NCCC) located on Long Island, New York. The 23 page report found that NCCC prisoners have long …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Wisconsin Prisoners to Farm Worms by The Wisconsin Department of Corrections gained approval of the state Building Commission on November 22, 2000 to construct a $765,000 building at the Oshkosh Correctional Institution to house a "vermi-composting" operation as part of the DOC prison industries program. Prisoners working in the building …
PRP Proper to Challenge Some WA Disciplinary Orders by The Washington state Court of Appeals held that it was proper to utilize a personal restraint petition (PRP) to challenge prison disciplinary sanction ordering disciplinary segregation and lose of good time credits. Raymond McVay, a prisoner of the Washington State Penitentiary, …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Wackenhut to Build Prison in South Africa by The Wackenhut Corrections Corporation completed an agreement with South African government to build and operate a 3,024 bed maximum security prison in that country. The prison, expected to be opened in early 2002, is the first venture in Africa for the Floridabased …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
PLN Strikes Down Oregon Bulk Mail Ban by Paul Wright The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) ban on third class standard non-profit mail (AKA bulk mail) was unconstitutional and violated the First amendment rights of publishers and prisoners alike. The …
Welfare Retaliation Suit Reinstated by Walter Friedl, a New York state prisoner, filed a §1983 action complaining that New York City and State officials had improperly revoked his work release program and reincarcerated him because he applied for welfare benefits. The City of New York settled for $20,000 while the …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Second Circuit Discusses Qualified Immunity in Disciplinary Case by Second Circuit Discusses Qualified Immunity In Disciplinary Case The Second Circuit has with drawn its previous decision in Horne v. Coughlin, 155 F.3d 26 (2nd Cir. 1998), substituting an opinion that does not determine whether a mentally retarded prisoner has a …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Federal Religious Freedom Law Passed by Dan Pens On July 27, 2000, Congress unanimously enacted Senate Bill 2869, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), which was signed into law by president Clinton, as a public law 106-274. The bill passed congress in two weeks and …
Attica Compensation Served Up 29-Years-Cold by Two weeks short of 29 years after the Attica massacre, a federal judge divided an $8 million settlement to compensate more than 500 Attica prisoners and surviving relatives for the abuse suffered when prison guards and state troopers retook the prison after a 5 …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Ohio Parole Hearing Officer Acquitted in Bribe Case by After a three-day trial, a jury acquitted an Ohio parole-hearing officer of charges that he sold early parole releases to prisoners. On Nov. 9, 2000, as Lorain Co. Common Pleas Judge Lynett M. McGough read the verdict, parole hearing officer Harold …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
From the Editor by Paul Wright From The Editor by Paul Wright Recently PLN has not been publishing on its usual schedule. There have been a number of unforeseen developments lately that have caused this. In October 2000, the behavior of Fred Markham, PLN's office manager at the time, became …
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 …
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