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Palestinians Still Imprisoned Despite Peace Process by Inaki Markiegi by Iñaki Markiegi Today Palestinians remain foreigners in their own land. Faced with the apathy of the international community, the nearly two and half million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, the million in the Israeli …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Texas Death Row Hunger Strike by Scores of death row prisoners in Texas kicked off the new millennium with a planned 21-day hunger strike over intolerable conditions of confinement. As many as 100 death row prisoners as well as hundreds of other ad-seg prisoners participated in the hunger strike, according …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Transfer Moots Wiccan's Claim by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a prisoner's transfer to a different prison mooted his religious rights lawsuit. Duane Smith is an Iowa state prisoner of the Wiccan faith. He filed suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to the effect that …
International Perspectives on the Death Penalty by Julia Lutsky Review by Julia Lutsky The United States is finding itself increasingly isolated by its intransigence with respect to the death penalty. At a time when the rest of the world is moving toward eradication of this barbaric practice, the United States …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Claim For Prospective Relief Moot Upon Release by Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit held that when a prisoner's claim for perspective injunctive relief regarding conditions of confinement becomes moot, the prisoner's parole or supervised release status does not, absent some exceptional showing, bring that claim …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Grievance Procedure Not Required by PLRA in All Lawsuits by The Ninth Circuit court of appeals has held that California state prisoners who seek only monetary damages in federal civil rights suits need not file a prison grievance before filing suit. MacArthur Rumbles, a California state prisoner, filed a civil …
City Liable for Jail Sex Shows and Nude Dancing by PLN has extensively reported on the prevalence of sexual assault and sexual harassment of women prisoners in District of Columbia prisons and jails. In "Our Sisters Keepers," by Daniel Burton Rose, [PLN, Feb. 1999] we reported on women prisoners in …
Heck Does Not Bar Evidence in Shooting Case 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 result of incident. Vincent Marquez, a California …
Absent Plain Error, Objection Necessary to Preserve Issues by The appeals court for the Seventh circuit held that if a pretrial ruling is definitive, objection at trial is not necessary to preserve the issue for appellate review. The court also held that objection to a guard's counsel's references to pretrial …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
$600,000 In GA Medical Neglect Suit by On February 27, 1999, a Baldwin county superior court jury in Georgia awarded prisoner Stephanie Stitt $600,000 in damages in a medical neglect suit against Correctional Medical Systems (CMS). Stitt fell and injured her back while playing volleyball at the Baldwin State Prison. …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
$880,000 In GA Medical Neglect Suit by On February 27, 1999, a Baldwin county superior court jury in Georgia awarded prisoner Stephanie Stitt $600,000 in damages in a medical neglect suit against Correctional Medical Systems (CMS). Stitt fell and injured her back while playing volleyball at the Baldwin State Prison. …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Washington Civil Commitment Held in Contempt by Tamara Menteer by Ron Petersen and Tamara Menteer On November 15, 1999, after 6 years overseeing an injunction, a federal judge issued a ruling finding the Washington state civil commitment facility known as The Special Commitment Center (SCC) , the nation's first civil …
New Mexico Private and State Prison Phone Rates Challenged by Two separate state court class action lawsuits have challenged the excessive phone rates charged to people who accept collect calls from New Mexico state prisoners. The first lawsuit, Valdez v. Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, was filed on December 30, 1999, in …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Five Lawyers in Peru Freed by Heriberto Ocasio Lima, Peru-- There is good news in the struggle to defend the Peruvian lawyers who are under attack from the U.S.backed Fujimori regime for their courageous work in defending political prisoners. A trial for six of the defense lawyers ended in acquittal. …
$150,000 Judgment Against Prison Officials Upheld by A federal district court in New York upheld a $150,000 jury verdict against prison officials, concluding that the award was not excessive. The court also held, in a separate ruling, that the Prison Litigation Reform Act, (PLRA), cap on attorney's fees does not …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Post Conviction Update by Reaves, Jr, Walter M by Walter M. Reaves, Jr. This column will address recent decisions which have some impact on post-conviction procedure. The summary is by no means exhaustive, and contains only those decisions which may have some potential impact on defendants pursuing to post-conviction claims. …
Retaliation, Publication Ban and Lack of Dental Care States Claim by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a prisoner's complaint that he was retaliated against for using the prison grievance system, denied access to all publications and denied dental care, stated a claim. Missouri prisoner Percy …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Bad Water Causes Florida Prison Evacuation by More than 700 prisoners at Florida's maximum-security Martin Correctional Institution (MCI) had to be evacuated October 26, 1999 while state crews scrambled to make emergency repairs to a water plant plagued by breakdowns, sickening odors and contaminants. Workers set up portable toilets and …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Investigators Probe Ohio Paroles-For-Sale Scam by After receiving a tip from an unidentified informant in June of 1997, Ohio prison officials uncovered evidence of a parole-for-pay scam. While screening prisoner mail, officials read a letter from Grafton Correctional Institution prisoner Bubba Shumate addressed to Lynn Moore, a former Grafton prisoner …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Qualified Immunity Denied in BOP Transsexual Strip Search by Bob Williams The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied qualified immunity to federal prison officials for a transsexual strip search conducted in front of numerous spectators. Dee Farmer, a prisoner in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at FCI Englewood, …
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