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Brief • July 1, 1999
Filed under: Eighth Amendment
Battle v. District of Columbia, DC, Complaint, Inhumane Conditions, 1999 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA KENNISON BATTLE DCDC #228-223 CCAINEOH Correctional Facility 2240 Hubbard Road Youngstown, Ohio 44505 V (303) 746-3777 SHANNON BATTLE DCDC #263-505 l/ CCAINEOH Correctional Facility 2240 Hubbard Road Youngstown, Ohio 44505 (303) …
Brief • June 16, 1999
Filed under: Medical
Bartlett v. State of Washington, WA, Judgment, Substandard Healthcare, 1999 FILED JUN 16 1999 THOMASR SPOKANE C6~NALTYLOU'ST CLERK 2 ... .J 4 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SPOKANE 5 6 7 VALERIE 1. BARTLETT, 8 9 10 Plaintiff, NO. 97-2-04659-3 …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Laura Whitehorn By Laura Whitehorn I had thought I'd be gone to a halfway house by now, since I'm only five months from my mandatory release date. But it seems the decision on releasing me has been relegated to "a higher authority." This reminds us, …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Private Prison Escape Explained by On October 12, 1998, four prisoners escaped from the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) South Central Correctional Center in Wayne County, Tennessee [See: News In Brief, Feb. '99 PLN ]All of the escapees were eventually captured. On January 15, 1992, CCA warden Kevin Myers appeared …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Corcoran Prisoner Left Hanging by During a 3 a.m. bed check, a Corcoran (Calif.) State Prison guard spotted a prisoner dangling from a noose in a darkened corner of his ad-seg cell. But rather than pop open the cell door and determine whether he was dead or alive, prison guards …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Discovery
Pro Se Tips and Tactics (Discovery) by John Midgley In this column, I will talk about the importance of doing discovery in any civil case in which you are involved. I will first describe what discovery is and what it is for, then explain why it is so important for …
Washington Prisoners Damage Colorado Private Prison by Amajor prisoner uprising rolled through a for-profit prison at Olney Springs, Colorado, for six hours, causing extensive damage. State prison SWAT teams were called in from as far as 200 miles away to regain control of the prison. The incident took place Friday, …
Washington Prisoners Brutalized in Colorado Private Prison by Waldo Waldron-Ramsey [Editor's Note: The corporate media in Colorado and Washington alike reported on the uprising by Washington prisoners at the Olney Springs prison. They uniformly parroted the line by prison officials that the prisoners had revolted because they were unhappy at …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
CCA - Prison Realty Merger Approved by Alex Friedmann A merger between Corrections Corp. of America (CCA) and Prison Realty Trust was approved by shareholders of both companies on Dec. 1, and Dec. 3, 1998, respectively. CCA had spun-off Prison Realty Trust in July 1997, then announced merger plans last …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
CMS Settles Wrongful Death Suit for $75,000 by In 1998 Correctional Medical services (CMS) and the estate of Mark Murphy settled a wrongful death suit for $75,000. CMS is the largest provider of privatized medical care to prisoners and jail detainees. Mark Murphy was imprisoned at the Delaware Correctional Center …
Court Screening Applies to Paid Suits Too by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that 28 U.S.C. § 1915A allows district courts to dismiss as frivolous even lawsuits where the filing fee has been prepaid in full. The court also held that challenges to conditions of confinement …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Failing to Provide Disabled Prisoner Showers for Two Months Cruel and Unusual by The Fifth Circuit court of appeals has held that failing to accommodate a disabled prisoner whose disability and close confinement accommodations prevented him from showering states a claim under the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Federal Judge Rules Texas Prisons Still Unconstitutional, PLRA Unconstitutional by By Matthew T. Clarke Following a nineteen-day hearing in the class-action Ruiz lawsuit on prison conditions in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division (TDCJ-ID), which has been pending in his court since 1972, William Wayne Justice, a Texas …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Washington Parole Officer Blown Up by On January 26, 1999, Tom Perrine, a Community Corrections Officer (AKA parole officer), for the Washington Department of Corrections, was blown up by a trip wire bomb planted in the carport of his Montesano home. Perrine was leaving for work when he saw a …
Prison Madness, by Terry Kupers, MD (Book Review) by Dan Pens Jossey-Bass, 1999 Reviewed by Dan Pens Ted Kaczynski is clearly mentally ill. So said six psychiatrists who told the court that the infamous Unabomber is an acutely psychotic paranoid schizophrenic. In addition to being quite mad, Kaczynski possesses a …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Indictment: The News Media and the Criminal Justice System (Book Review) by Alex Friedmann Reviewed by Alex Friedmann Indictment, a report by the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, presents a hard look at the shortcomings of crime coverage by the press. The authors, two experienced journalists, condemn …
Judge Throws Out Corcoran Sanctions by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely As state and federal investigations into brutality, corruption, and cover-ups at California's Corcoran prison expand, as the ink on multi-million dollar settlement checks is barely dried, and as the grass grown over the bodies of young men gunned down …
Juveniles Held Hostage for Profit by CSC in Florida by Alex Friedmann According to a consultant hired by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, the Pahokee Youth Development Center (Juvenile prison) operated by the Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) kept ten juvenile detainees beyond their release dates for no other reason …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Florida Porn Ban Challenged by On December 31, 1998, an amended complaint was filed in the US district court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami challenging the Florida Department of Corrections' ban on sexually explicit material. In 1998 the Florida DOC changed Florida Administrative Code (FAC) 33-3.012 to …
Mitigation Instruction and Excluding Indemnification Evidence Reversible Error by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that a district court erred when it did not allow a jail detainee plaintiff to introduce evidence of a state indemnification statute after the defendants told a jury that a damages verdict …
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