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Brief • 1999
Washington v. Reno, KY, DOJ Report, Telephone Access in Prisons, 1999 Criminal Calls: Review of BOPs Management of Inmate Telephone Privileges Page 1 of 4 USDOJ/OIG Special Report CRIMINAL CALLS: A REVIEW OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS’ MANAGEMENT OF INMATE TELEPHONE PRIVILEGES (August, 1999) ***** TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY …
Brief • May 30, 1999
Filed under: Marijuana Laws/Issues
Wilson v. WA DOC, WA, Appeal Dismissal, Possession of Marijuana, 1999 1 BEFORE THE PERSONNEL APPEALS BOARD 2 STATE OF WASHINGTON 3 4 Appellant, 5 v. 6 ) ) Case No. DISM-99-0026 ) ) FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF ) ) LAW AND ORDER OF THE BOARD ) ) ) …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
The Sounding Tree: Voices Along the Razor Wire, by Lee Dickenson (Book Review) by Daniel Burton-Rose Reviewed by Daniel Burton-Rose Lee Dickenson writes in the voice of an embittered veteran. For more than a decade and a half he manned a war zone, where the monotonous routine was sharply punctuated …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Private Prisons, Reviews
Private Prisons in the United States: An Assessment of Current Practice (Review of Report) by Alex Friedmann Reviewed by Alex Friedmann In 1997 Congress instructed the Attorney General's office to undertake a study of prison privatization, to include a review of legal issues and existing research regarding cost effectiveness. The …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
California Habeas Handbook: A Practical Guide to Habeas Law for California Prisoners (Review) by This 37 page booklet by attorney Kent Russell is designed for pro se California prisoners to understand the time limits and filing requirements of the federal Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AFDPA). Russell uses easy …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Behind the Razor Wire: Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison System (Review) by Paul Wright by Michael Jacobson Hardy. 136 pp, 50 BW photos. New York University Press Reviewed by Paul Wright "Prisons do their dirtiest work in the dark. The evil they perpetrate depends on a kind of willed …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Public Access to Documents Resources by Paul Wright The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is a trade organization of journalists. The Committee publishes a number of very reasonably priced, authoritative and comprehensive publication that are invaluable to journalists, muckrakers, those seeking access to government information and those litigating …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Publication Reviews by Voices Behind the Walls is a bi-monthly newsletter published by Pennsylvania prisoners. Each issue covers news and events in the PA prison system as well as commentaries on the criminal justice system. Subscriptions are $10 for prisoners and $20 for everyone else. Contact: VBTW, P.O. Box 474, …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Individual Legislators May Intervene to Terminate Prison Suits by Individual Legislators May Intervene To Terminate Prison Suits by Matthew Clarke The court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that, under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), individual state legislators could intervene in prison release litigation. In 1972, David Ruiz, …
Prisoner Must Show Imminent Danger at Time of IFP Request to Avoid PLRA Three-Strikes Dismissal by The court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that a prisoner who is subject to the three-strikes provision in the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) must show that he is under imminent …
Suicides Plague Florida Women's Prison by Alex Friedmann Florence Krell, a 40-year-old mother of two serving an 18-month sentence for grand theft after she failed to return her boyfriend's rental car, hanged herself from her cell door at the Jefferson Corr. Institution on October 11, 1998. She had been at …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
White Guard, Black Guard: Racism in Washington Continues by Jennifer Vogel Charles Jackson and Collins Bailey, two of only a handful of African-American prison guards working at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center about 40 miles west of Port Angeles, were lost. They'd been on the way to an outdoor barbecue …
Tainted Plasma Traced to Arkansas Prison: Bill Clinton's Blood Trails by St Clair, Jeffrey by Jeffrey St. Clair The year Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas, the Arkansas state prison board awarded a hefty contract to a Little Rock company called Health Management Associates (HMA). The company got $3 million …
Jury Awards $2.3 Million for Slain San Quentin Prisoner, State Settles for $2.5 Milliion by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On Monday, November 30, 1999, a federal jury awarded more than $2.3 million in damages to the family of a prisoner shot to death by a San Quentin guard. The …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
No Liberty Interest in Ohio Ad-Seg Rules by The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit held that Ohio prisoners have no state created liberty interest in remaining free of administrative segregation (ad-seg). Alvin Jones, an Ohio state prisoner, filed suit claiming that a 2k year placement in ad seg …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Media, Access to Media
Pennsylvania Ban on Writing by Mumia Abu-Jamal Enjoined by The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that a district court erred when it refused to grant a Preliminary Injunction (PI) to PLN columnist Mumia Abu-Jamal to enjoin a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) rule prohibiting him from writing. …
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, …
Utah Jail Censorship Suit Settled for $68,682 by On October 28, 1998, a class action suit challenging various censorship rules at the Davis County Jail in Utah was settled for $11,682 in damages and $57,000 In attorney's fees. In 1995 the Davis County Jail enacted policies banning books, newspaper clippings …
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, …
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