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Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Filed under: Organizing
Prison Protesters Arrested in DC by In a reprise of the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests, thousands of activists gathered in Washington DC on April 9-17 to oppose annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the prison-industrial complex, and neoliberal economic policies. Estimates of the …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Washington Ends Prison Telemarketing by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On May 13, 1999, the Washington Department of Corrections ended its last remaining prison telemarketing program. As reported in the August, 1998, issue of PLN, prison telemarketing has had a controversial history in Washington prisons. In 1998 the Washington DOC …
PLN Sues to Uncover Telemarketing Closure by The accompanying story on the closure of the Washington Marketing Group (WMG) operation at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, Washington, occured in May, 1999. Shortly after it occurred PLN editor Paul Wright filed a Public Disclosure Act (PDA) request with the Department …
Wackenhut Wracked by Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ronald Young Wackenhut Wracked By Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ron Young After a decade as a leading operator of corporate-owned prisons, Wackenhut Corrections has become a prisoner of its own problems. In New Mexico, a 500-page legislative report written by five consultants calls …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
$7,500 Award in NY Window Injury by On November 8, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded $15,000 in damages to a New York state prisoner who cut his arm while opening a malfunctioning window. In 1990, Neil Henry, a prisoner at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in New York, …
Rockwall, TX Jailers Indicted in Sex-For-Contraband Case by Rockwall, TX Jailers Indicted In Sex-For-Contraband Case Three Rockwall County, Texas jailers were indicted and all plead guilty after allegations that jailers gave drugs and alcohol to female prisoners in exchange for sex. A jail captain also resigned in lieu of prosecution. …
Exhaustion Requirement Discussed, $86,250 Beating Award Upheld by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the term prison conditions, as used in the Prison Litigation Reform Act at §1997e(a), includes claims of excessive force, thereby subjecting prisoner claims to the Act's administrative exhaustion requirement. The court also held that …
$12,000 Awarded in NY Work Injury Suit by On June 28, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded Leon Bienkowski $12,000 for past general damages for injuries he suffered on a prison work detail. Bienkowski was a prisoner at the Elmira Correctional Facility in New York in 1996 when …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From the Editor by Paul Wright Remember that effective August 1, 2000, PLN's prisoner subscription rate will be $18 for 12 issues, and $9 for six issues. Prisoner subscriptions will be prorated at $1.50 per issue. Rates for non prisoners will remain the same, as those were raised two years …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
$800,000 Settlement in AZ Jail Restraint Suit by In August, 1999, the Maricopa County board of supervisors, approved an $800,000 settlement for a pretrial detainee subjected to excessive force in the Maricopa County (Phoenix) Jail in Arizona. Richard Post, a wheelchair bound paraplegic was arrested and taken to the county …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
WA Court Costs Can be Remitted by WA Court Costs Can Be Remitted Appeals, Division One, held that: (1) the State may be awarded costs under RCW 10.73.160 even if an indigent prisoner's appeal raises debatable issues; and (2) a defendant whose conviction has been affirmed may petition the sentencing …
One-Year NY SHU Atypical and Significant Hardship by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal court in New York has held that one year in SHU is an atypical and significant hardship pursuant to Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1995). The court also held that a prisoner must exhaust state …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
CA 3 Strikers Entitled to Good Time by The Supreme Court of California held that: a defendant sentenced under the three strikes law (Pen.Code § 1170.12) is entitled to presentence conduct credits under Pen.Code § 4019. Otis Michael Thomas, a California prisoner, was found guilty of first degree residential burglary …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
$8,000 Awarded in NY Chair Collapse by On November 24, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded $8,000 in damages to New York prisoner Troy Benjamin. In 1995 while Benjamin was a prisoner at the Collins Correctional Facility, the back of the chair he was sitting in fell off, …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Right to Counsel Violated by Intrusive Guards by A federal district court ruled that a criminal defendant's right to counsel was violated by the refusal of guards to allow unmonitored communication between him and his attorney. On January 26, 1990 David Lakin and four other prisoners abducted two guards while …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
AL DOC Settles PLN Gift Subscription Lawsuit by On March 29, 2000, the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News and Alabama prisoner Aven Cotton. The Alabama DOC had previously required its prisoners to purchase books, magazines and newspaper subscriptions using funds from their …
One Dead, Thirty-one Hospitalized in TX Prison Riot by One Dead, Thirty-one Hospitalized In TX Prison Riot A riot in a west Texas state prison Tuesday, April 25, 2000, has left one prisoner dead and thirty-one injured severely enough to require hospitalization according to National Public Radio. The riot, which …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Jail Discrimination Violates Equal Protection by The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that different treatment of similarly situated prisoners because of their race, states an equal protection claim. In 1998, Ricky L. Powells, a black prisoner, filed three separate lawsuits alleging that several defendants violated his rights …
Escape Costs Private Transport Company by A private prisoner transport company agreed to pay $50,000 to the state of North Dakota to defray the state's expenses for recapturing a prisoner who spent three months as a fugitive after escaping from one of its buses. Convicted child killer Kyle Bell was …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Ohio Prisons Change Birthing Policy by In January, 2000, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and corrections (DORC), announced it would change its policies for pregnant prisoners at the Franklin Pre-Release Center in Columbus, Ohio, which houses the state's pregnant prisoners. The policy change is a result of a lawsuit filed …
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