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Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Censorship challenged in CO DOC by Censorship Challenged in CO DOC Eight publishers, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, and seven Colorado prisoners have filed suit in Federal District Court challenging the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) Administrative Regulation (AR) 300-26 governing prisoner reading material. Over the past three years the …
Brief • August 28, 2000
Vincent v. Martin, MI, Judgment, Right to Counsel, 2000 2:99-cv-71416-AC Doc # 82 Filed 08/28/00 Pg 1 of 1 ~' AO 450 (Rev. 5/85) Judgment In 1 Clvll C.. Pg ID 296 • ~nii£h ~ta:i£s c!§l istrirt Qlourt ~~~~~~-E=A:..:.:.ST-=-=E~RN:..;_~~~~~DISTRJCTOF~~~M-I_C_H_I_G_A_N~~~~~~~~~ JOHN VINCENT, SR., and JOHN VINCENT, JR.,. Plaintiffs, JUDGMENT IN A …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by CT: On June 1, 2000, a mattress fire at the Northern Correctional Tnstitution, a control unit in Somers that includes the state's death row, left three prisoners and four guards injured. The guards were treated for smoke inhalation, one prisoner suffered burns and two others were …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Guard's Intentional Destruction of Typewriter States §1983 and Texas Tort Claims by A Texas state court of appeals has held that a guard's intentional destruction of a prisoner's typewriter states a claim under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and Texas tort law. Robert Gordon, a Texas state prisoner, filed suit under 42 …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
America Behind Bars, video series from Deep Dish TV by Janet Stanton AMERICA BEHIND BARS, video series from Deep Dish TV Review By Janet Stanton No society since Nazi Germany has built so many prisons in such a short time. Each of those prisons is a school or a hospital …
WA Guard Discrimination Suit Settled for $250,000 by In the May, 1999, issue of PLN we reported the widespread racism among white prison employees in the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and the resulting hostile work environment it created for minority employees as well as prisoners. In July, 1998, black …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Notes From the Unrepenitentiary: Transcending Hell by Marilyn Buck Notes From The Unrepenitentiary: Transcending Hell By Marilyn Buck Nuh Albert Washington was a friend, brother and comrade to me and many others. He died this Spring. He was a Black Panther, a Muslim and a soldier of the revolutionary Black …
SC Prisoners Settle Rape Suits by On October 16, 1999, an unidentified former woman prisoner settled a lawsuit for $115,000. The woman claimed that in 1995 while she was imprisoned at the Women's Correctional Center in Broad River, South Carolina, prison guard Anthony Green raped her and South Carolina prison …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
$2 Million Awarded in IL Medical Neglect Suit by On February 2, 2000, a federal jury in Illinois awarded $2 million in damages to a prisoner blinded through medical neglect by prison officials. The damage award is believed to be the highest in a prisoner civil rights case in Illinois. …
$1.75 Million in Oregon Excessive Force Jail Settlement by On March 29, 2000, the Klamath County Jail in Medford, Oregon, paid $1.75 million to settle an excessive force lawsuit filed by a former jail detainee. In 1997 Dana Lecomte was in the Klamath county jail on charges of driving with …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Attorney Fee Award Against Prisoner Reduced by A federal court in Virginia reduced an attorney fees award against a prisoner who filed a factually frivolous suit from $28,719 to $900. John McGlothin, a Virginia state prisoner, filed a civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the warden and …
Political Prisoners in Spain by Julia Lutsky Political Prisoners In Spain By Julia Lutsky Political prisoners exist in every country and every country denies their existence. Spain is no exception. It has seen three distinct waves of modern political prisoners: those who defended the popularly elected Spanish Republican Government against …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
California Statute of Limitations Tolled by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held that; (1) amended California tolling statute could be retroactively applied to former prisoner's claim; and (2) former prisoner was not entitled to equitable tolling. David Fink, a former California prisoner, filed a civil …
Sweeping ADA/RA Jail Settlement Benefits Hearing Impaired Prisoners by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in California has approved a sweeping settlement of hearing impaired prisoners' claims in a civil rights, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Rehabilitation Act (RA) class-action suit against the Santa Clara County (California) …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
BOP Settles Medical Death Suit for $700,000 by In February, 1999, the federal Bu reau of Prisons settled a medical neglect suit for $700,000. David Deen, a BOP prisoner, was 30 years old and confined at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for five months. He was prescribed nitroglycerin for …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
$14,950 Awarded in NY Window Frame Suit by On September 17, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded the estate of Carmine Tarantino $14,950 for injuries Tarantino suffered at the Attica Correctional Facility when a window frame came loose and struck him on the head. Tarantino died of unrelated …
DOJ Sues Wackenhut Juvenile Prison by Gary Hunter In March, 2000, six teenage boys, brutalized by guards in a Wackenhut prison in Jena, Louisiana, were removed by the judge who sentenced them. State Judge Mark Doherty of Orleans Parish Louisiana was so appalled by their treatment that he made a …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
VA Warden Fired in Foodbank Theft by On October 13, 1999, Vanessa Crawford was fired as warden of the Pocahontas Correctional Unit. Two other unidentified Virginia DOC employees were also fired. The firings stemmed From the theft of food at the Central Virginia Foodbank (CVF). CVF was started in 1995 …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Sixth Circuit Terminates Glover v. Johnson by In 1977, two groups of female prisoners of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) brought two separate §1983 civil complaints against the MDOC and various staff alleging Equal Protection and First Amendment violations with regard to educational and vocational programming (female prisoners sought …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
WA Class B Felonies Entitled to 1/3 Good Time Credits by The Washington State Supreme Court has held: (1) a former statute placing cap on early release good time credits at 15% rather than 33% of total sentence for those "convicted of a serious violent offense or a sex offense …
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