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WA Guard Discrimination Suit Settled for $250,000 by In the May, 1999, issue of PLN we reported the widespread racism among white prison employees in the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and the resulting hostile work environment it created for minority employees as well as prisoners. In July, 1998, black …
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 …
Black Prison and Jail Employees Win Discrimination Lawsuits by Kentucky In October 2002, a federal jury awarded a former Fayette County Jail guard $196,000. James Young Sr., an African American, was fired from the jail in 1993 after complaining for over a year that black workers at the jail were …
Washington DOC Personnel In-Fighting Results in $230,000 Settlement by An acrimonious inter-employee dis-pute among staff of Washington's Department of Corrections was settled in January, 2002 by the state paying three Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) employees $230,000 and gaining both their resignations as well as promises never again to work for …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Race Discrimination Claim Not Barred by PLRA Physical Injury Rule by A federal district court in Missouri held that the physical injury rule of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) applied only to Eighth amendment claims and did not apply to a prisoner's equal protection claim of racial discrimination. The …
PLN Sues Washington DOC over Censorship of Nazi Guard Exposé by PLN Sues Washington DOC over Censorship of Nazi Guard Exposé On August 27, 1999, Prison Legal News filed suit in federal court in Spokane, Washington, seeking a court injunction to ensure the delivery of the May, 1999, issue of …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
Racial Segregation in Double Celling Unconstitutional by A federal district court in Pennsylvania held that the creation of racial segregation for double-cell assignment may be unconstitutional even if the classification policy specifically forbids such segregation in cell assignments. Seifuddin M. A. Simpson, a Pennsylvania state prisoner, brought suit under 42 …
A Foul Trend Emerges by Tara Herivel An 1996, the Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) fined McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) over $13,000 for health and safety violations. L & I investigator Jeff Spann unearthed a pattern of inadequate training for health care staff, use of faulty medical equipment, …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, by David Cole (Review) by Alex Friedmann by David Cole, The New Press 218 pages, $25.00 hardcover. Review by A. Friedmann Those people who have long believed that this nation's criminal justice system is steeped in systemic racism …
Franklin Reversed; DC Prisoners Have No Right to Qualified Interpreters by The court of appeals for the D. C. Circuit held that Spanish-speaking prisoners have no right to qualified interpreters at parole hearings, disciplinary hearings, or for medical and mental health treatment. Spanish-speaking prisoners in the District of Columbia (District) …
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 • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
A Nation's Gratitude by Mumia Abu-Jamal Many governments have been founded on principles of subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race... [Such] were, and are, in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature's laws. With us, all the white race, …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Illinois KKK Guard Loses Lawsuits, Goes to Prison by Paul Wright On December 4, 1998, former Illinois prison sergeant Wallace Scott Weicherding (64) was sentenced to 5 years, 10 months in federal prison after being convicted on conspiracy and weapons charges. Weicherding was arrested with five other men who called …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
5th Circuit Upholds Mississippi Disenfranchisement Law by The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a Mississippi state prisoner's claim that he is improperly being denied the right to vote. The Mississippi Constitution denies the right to vote to any person "convicted of murder, …
New Jersey Guard's Killer Gets Life by Steven Beverly was convicted for the 1997 killing of a Bayside State Prison (New Jersey) guard. But two days later, November 11, 1998, the jury of seven men and five women said they were deadlocked on whether he should be executed. Under state …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
Losing the Vote: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States (Book Review) by Alex Friedmann Review by Alex Friedmann "The expansion of suffrage toall sectors of the population is one of the United States' most important political triumphs .... Today, all mentally competent adults have the right …
Brief • April 12, 1999
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Woodley v. WA DOC, WA, Settlement, Race Discrimination Case, 1999 .- .", . ....... ... STATE OFFICE OF RISK MANAGEMENT SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT 1999 APR 12 AN 10: 58 IN THE MATTER OF BILLY G. WOODLEYv. STATE OF WASHINGTON, ET AL. PIERCE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT CAUSE No. 96-2-08565-6 The parties, BILLY …
Sellers v. Texas Division of Criminal Justice, TX, First Amended Complaint, Race and Sex Discrimination, 1999 , Unlted Stott' Dlstrlct Court Southern District of Tlltas fILED IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI DIVISION LATRICE M. SELLERS * VS. * APR 0 1 …
Amnesty International Seeks Human Rights Abuse Info by Amnesty International Seeks Human Rights Abuse Info Amnesty International (A.I.) is working on a comprehensive report on human rights in the United States, inclusive of prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers. The primary purpose of this report is to document where there …
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