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Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Mark Cook Freed by On April 3, 2000, PLN contributing writer Mark Cook was released from the Monroe Correctional Complex in Washington. Mark was imprisoned for more than 24 years in Washington and federal prisons after being captured and charged in 1976 with carrying out action on behalf of the …
Prison Working Conditions Protected by Eighth Amendment by A federal district court in New York held that fact issues existed as to whether a prison official was deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's health, and whether she was aware of unsafe working conditions. Since both situations fall within the purview of …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
U.S. Supreme Court to Revisit Civil Commitment by On March 20, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court granted Certiorari to the State of Washington appealing a ninth. Circuit order for the district court to hold an evidentiary hearing to determine if the state's civil commitment statute "as applied" to petitioner renders …
West Virginia Prisoners Protest Visit/Phone Restrictions by Prisoners at the Mount Olive Correctional Center in West Virginia staged a walkout on Monday morning August 30, 1999 to protest a new visitation policy and problems with the phone system. More than 200 prisoners gathered in the prison's recreation yard and sat …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Illinois Phone Suit Dismissed by In the August, 1999, issue of PLN we reported that a class action suit had been filed in federal court in Illinois challenging the extortionate phone rates charged to those who accept collect calls from prisoners. On March 23, 2000, federal district court judge William …
Former BOP Director Fingered in Sex Scandal by In 1992 Bureau of Prisons (BOP) em- ployee Steven McPeek quietly settled a sexual harassment complaint he leveled against then-BOP director J. Michael Quinlan, according to recently filed court papers. McPeek alleged in his 1992 complaint that Quinlan made sexual advances beginning …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Defiant Texas Death Row Activist Executed by On March 15, 2000, the state of Texas killed Kamau (Ponchai) Wilkerson. He proved to be a fighter to the end. Kamau was among seven Texas death row prisoners who stunned the world with a bold escape attempt on Thanksgiving Day 1998 [See: …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
My Statement in Response to the State by by Kamau "Ponchai" Wilkerson [The following is an excerpt from "My Statement in Response to the Setting of an Execution Date and the State of Texas' Plan to Murder Me," by Ponchai Kamau Wilkerson] The 13th Amendment abolished slavery "...except as punishment …
$59,177 in Damages and Fees Awarded in Georgia Braille Suit by On April 15, 1999, a federal district court in Georgia issued a directed verdict awarding a blind Georgia state prisoner $2,000 in damages. Eddy Stephens, a blind prisoner, was denied access to braile books and writing instruments. He was …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
New York Prisoner Wins $50,000 In Failure To Treat Mental Illness Suit by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in New York has held that officials of the New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) subjected a prisoner to cruel and unusual punishment through their deficient treatment of …
Contradictory Disciplinary Hearing Evidence Not Precluded From Use of Excessive Force Suit by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The U.S. district court for the East- ern District of California held that a prisoner was not precluded from introducing evidence contradicting factual findings of disciplinary proceeding instituted against prisoner as a …
Retaliation Claim Requires Trial by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a trial was required to determine if a prisoner was retaliated against for exercising his right to religious freedom. The court also held that prisoners have no right to encourage other prisoners to file grievances …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
$15,000 Awarded to Ohio Prisoner Beaten by Guards by On July 2, 1999, a federal jury in Columbus, Ohio, awarded Ohio prisoner James Morrison 115,000 in damages. Morrison filed suit claiming he was taken to a secluded area of a prison (unnamed in reports), where he was beaten and kicked …
Attica Uprising Verdict Reversed by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals added insult to brutal injury when it overturned two jury awards - totaling $4 million and $75,000 - stemming from the murder of 39 people and the torture of hundreds of prisoners immediately following the 1971 Attica riot. Holding …
Attica Suit Settled for $12 Million by On February 15, 2000, a federal judge approved a settlement in which New York State is to pay $8 million to the prisoners who were beaten and tortured after the 1971 Attica riot, closing one of the longest, ugliest chapters in criminal justice …
Illinois Jail Guards Charged with Smuggling Gun by Illinois Jail Guards Charged With Smuggling Gun Two former Kankakee (Illinois) County Jail guards and a civilian face multiple felony counts in connection with a dramatic December 22, 1999 jailbreak. Newly-hired guards Melody Burdunice and Michael Cutler allegedly smuggled cellular telephone batteries …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Colorado Prison Population Exploding by Bob Williams Last summer the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, John Suthers, announced to the Colorado Legislature that Colorado's male prison population is growing at its fastest rate ever. In fact, at an average of 1.3% per month in the second quarter …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Four Texas Guards Nabbed in Bribery Sting by Four Texas state prison guards face felony bribery charges after agreeing to launder supposed drug money for prisoners, authorities told The Associated Press. The four were arrested January 24, 2000 after walking into an undercover sting orchestrated by the Texas Department of …
New York Jail Guards Charged with Raping Prisoners by New York Jail Guards Charged With Raping Prisoners On January 26, 2000, Westchester county, New York, jail guards Carlos Aldarondo, 33, Javier Corona, 31, Michael Downey, 39 and Robert Escalera, 39, were charged in Westchester county court with assorted felony charges …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
$200,000 Awarded in Michigan Jail Wrongful Medication Suit by On June 22, 1999, a Macomb county jury in Michigan awarded $200,000 in damages to David Dempsey after he was wrongly medicated in the Macomb county jail. Dempsey suffers from bipolar disorder. While imprisoned on the psychiatric floor of the Macomb …
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