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Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Prison Legal News Files Censorship Suit Against Florida DOC by On November 17, 2011 the ACLU of Florida and the Florida Justice Institute filed a lawsuit on behalf of Prison Legal News in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Named as defendants in the suit are …
Brief • December 1, 2011
Hamilton v. Hall, FL, Motion Approve Class Settlement, Post Card Policy Outgoing Mail, 2011 Case 3:10-cv-00355-MCR-EMT Document 133 Filed 12/01/11 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA PENSACOLA DIVISION MARCIE HAMILTON et al., Plaintiffs, v. No. 3:10-cv-355 MCR/EMT WENDELL HALL, Defendant. / JOINT MOTION FOR …
Brief • December 1, 2011
Hamilton v. Hall, FL, Settlement, Post Card Policy Outgoing Mail, 2011 Case 3:10-cv-00355-MCR-EMT Document 133-1 Filed 12/01/11 Page 1 of 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA PENSACOLA DIVISION MARCIE HAMILTON et al., Plaintiffs, v. No. 3:10-cv-355 MCR/EMT WENDELL HALL, Defendant. / SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND CONSENT DECREE Plaintiff, …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
PLN Files Censorship Suit Against NYDOCS by On October 11, 2011, Prison Legal News filed suit against New York State Department of Correctional Services officials, including NYDOCS Commissioner Brian Fischer. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges First and Fourteenth Amendment …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
PLN Sues Jails in Louisiana, Washington State Over No-Publication Policies by On September 9, 2011, Prison Legal News filed separate lawsuits against the Orleans Parish jail in New Orleans, Louisiana and the Chelan County jail in Washington State over mail policy-related issues. PLN’s suit against Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman, …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Settlement Reverses Virginia DOC’s Ban on Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook by David Reutter A settlement agreement between the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and two civil rights organizations that publish the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook (JLH) overturned the VDOC’s ban on JLH and requires that five copies of that publication be placed …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
Boulder, Colorado Jail’s Postcard-Only Correspondence Policy Ends with Settlement by The ACLU has settled a lawsuit on behalf of detainees at Colorado’s Boulder County Jail, ending a policy that limited prisoners’ personal correspondence to postcards. The policy went into effect in March 2010 and the ACLU filed suit five months …
Article • November 15, 2011
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
Sheriff’s Motion to Dismiss Denied in Florida Jail’s “Postcard Only” Mail Policy Suit by A Florida federal district court has denied a sheriff’s motion to dismiss a pretrial detainee’s civil rights action that challenged a “postcard” only correspondence form. Marcie Hamilton, a prisoner in the Santa Rosa County Jail, filed …
Article • November 15, 2011
Federal Magistrate Rules on Case Filed by State Prisoner Denied Delivery of Prison Legal News by Derek Gilna A United States Magistrate in the State of Oklahoma has issued a Report and Recommendation regarding Oklahoma prison officials' motion for summary judgment seeking to dismiss an Oklahoma prisoner's civil rights and …
Article • November 15, 2011
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
US District Court in South Carolina Rules against Prisoner Challenging Withholding of Mail to Prisoner that Violated Jail Policies by By Derek Gilna In a decision published September 14, 2010, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, in the matter of Michael R. Ray v. Sheriff …
Article • November 15, 2011
South Carolina District Court Affirms Magistrate’s Dismissal of Prisoner’s § 1983 Action Alleging Denial of Legal Access by South Carolina District Court Affirms Magistrate’s Dismissal of Prisoner’s § 1983 Action Alleging Denial of Legal Access By Derek Gilna In an action brought by prisoner Korell Robert Floyd Battle against Sheriff …
Brief • November 10, 2011
Filed under: Mail Regulations
Barrett v. Williams et al, OR, Complaint, ODOC NM prisoner to prisoner mail policy, 2011 Case 6:11-cv-06358-HZ • !tJ " Document 2 -rl-t(.. L\,N~-rE[) FDR. THE Filed 11/10/11 S'"iA'l£~ Page 1 of 23 Page ID#: 6 I)fs,lZU.r C5I..l1l.f OrS'fJtr.::.-r Of: Op-£&o/V .JA CDB DAIt~E. if I PIA'I"f'l ~~ fro> Se. …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
FDOC Pen Pal Advertising Ban Passes Constitutional Scrutiny by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In January 2011, a federal district court granted summary judgment to the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) in a lawsuit challenging FDOC rule 33-210.101(9), Florida Administrative Code, which prohibits prisoners from advertising for pen pals …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Human Rights Defense Center Litigation Update by Lance Weber This month marks the beginning of my second year practicing law with the Litigation Project of the Human Rights Defense Center. The Litigation Project was envisioned by PLN founder Paul Wright as a complement to HRDC’s principal project, Prison Legal News, …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Postcard-Only Mail Policy Enjoined at Colorado Jail by On December 20, 2010, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel issued a preliminary injunction against a postcard-only mail policy instituted at the El Paso County Jail in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The injunction resulted from a class-action lawsuit filed by a …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Prison Legal News Sues Arizona Jail Over Restrictive Mail Policy by On September 7, 2011, Prison Legal News, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona (ACLU) and the law firm of Rosen, Bien & Galvan, LLP, filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Pinal County, Arizona …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
PLN Sues Kansas Jail Over No-Publication Policy by On August 31, 2011, Prison Legal News filed a federal lawsuit against the Board of Commissioners for Shawnee County, Kansas and Richard Kline, Director of the Shawnee County Department of Corrections. PLN’s suit alleges First Amendment violations due to a policy at …
Article • September 15, 2011
Filed under: Mail, Photos, Mail Regulations
Seventh Circuit: Wisconsin DOC Mail Ban On Commercially Published Photos Of Celebrities Upheld by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDOC) policy that bans prisoners from receiving in the mail commercially published photographs of “celebrity figures, movie …
No New Trial on Religious Separatist Claims by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of new trial on a Missouri prisoner’s religious freedom claims. Missouri prisoner Michael Murphy “is a practicing member of the Christian Separatist Church Society (CSC)” which “allows only Caucasians to be members and …
Article • September 15, 2011
South Carolina MSU Publication Ban Challenge is Moot by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed a South Carolina prisoner’s challenge to a prison publication ban, concluding that the action was moot because the ban no longer applied to him. In 1995, South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) prisoner …
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