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Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Filed under: Organizing
Bay Area Students Protest Prison Spending by About 2,500 high school students from throughout the San Francisco Bay Area left class on Thursday, October 1, 1998 to attend a rally. They converged on a Bayfair train station in San Leandro. From there, protesters marched to an Alameda County Sheriff's Department …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Consent Decree Termination Requires Fact Finding by Consent Decree Termination Requires Fact Finding The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a district court failed to articulate its reasons for terminating its jurisdiction over a consent decree and remanded the case for an evidentiary hearing and an articulation …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Bureau of Prisons Transsexual Policy Challenged by Bureau Of Prisons Transsexual Policy Challenged Afederal district court in the District of Columbia held that trans-sexualism is a "serious medical condition" for which prisoners have a constitutional right to treatment. Dee Farmer is a federal prisoner who sued the Bureau of Prisons …
Utah Prison Guard Faces Sodomy Charges by In a bizarre case involving the use of DNA fingerprinting, a 34-year-old Utah prison guard was charged with sexually assaulting two prisoners at the Utah State Prison in Draper. After months of allegedly being forced to perform oral sex on the guard, a …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Filed under: Organizing
Notes From Other Conference Participants by Notes from Other Conference Participants The conference was many things to many people. Perhaps, its biggest fault was that it tried to be all things to all people. The opening plenary, attended by more than 800 participants, had some inspiring moments. Unfortunately, it trailed …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Them Today, Us Tomorrow by The state of Idaho has overhauled its sex offender registration program. Offenders must now register upon release or when they move, and annually thereafter. There is a $10 administrative fee (read: tax) charged for the privilege. More significantly, for a nominal fee of $5, any …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Untimely Jury Demand Must be Fairly Considered by Untimely Jury Demand Must Be Fairly Considered According to the Seventh Circuit, a district court must fairly consider a pro se prisoner's untimely request for jury trial. The court also held that the prisoner's failure to answer defendants' motion for summary judgment …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Updated AIDS Bibliography Published by The ACLU National Prison Project has announced the publication of its 1998 AIDS in Prison Bibliography. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics report HIV in Prisons and Jails, 1995 , the overall rate of AIDS cases among prisoners was more than six times the …
Filing • December 11, 1998
Catalyst, PLN, Piper v. Box Elder Co., et al., UT, Settlement, censorship, 1998
Brief • December 11, 1998
Catalyst, PLN, Piper v. Box Elder Co., et al., UT, Settlement, censorship, 1998
Brief • December 7, 1998
Filed under: Accidents
Vilsack v. WA DOC, WA, Order of Dismissal, Walla Walla Scaffolding Accident, 1998 . . .' . I<ECEIV[:: FltED NOV 18 S9 DEC - 7 1999 2 SUPERIOR COURT BETTY J. GOULD THURSTON COUNTY CLERK 3 4 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASmNGTON IN AND FOR THE …
Brief • December 1, 1998
Berton v. DC, Complaint, Inmate Assault, 1998 .... '",,; SUPERI~R)COURTOF THE DISTRICT OF\36~UMBIA " BERNARD E. BERTON, JR. DCDC Number 146-447 Post Office Box 85 Occoquan Facility Lorton, Virginia 22199 .", CIVIL DIVISION // , P';?~'P/.V:\/;'''T'~"·T'T' n-.. ..;...F' (';n~:;TS ;:.. .;\. !,JJ!.:J}. s...c.. .:, Il'_.,.. .'. ",.. ~_;... _L _.J …
Brief • November 24, 1998
Lucas v. White, CA, Plaintiff Memo in Support of Amended Motion for Attorney Fees, Sexual Assault, 1998 1 2 3 ROSEN, BIEN & ASARO, LLP MICHAEL W. BIEN Bar No.: 096891 SHANA MARGOLIS Bar No.: 189958 155 Montgomery Street, 8th Floor San Francisco, California 94104 Telephone (415) 433-6830 4 5 …
Brief • November 20, 1998
Filed under: Strip Searches
Raffaldt v. Moore, SC, Order, Visitation Strip Search Without Cause, 1998 4:96-cv-01536-PMD Date Filed 11/20/1998 Entry Number 52 Page 39 of 39 FILED t:OV 2. e 1996 ~ IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRCT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA FLORENCE DIVISION LARKY W. Pkllr't:>. GLI::HK CHARLESTON, SC Kathy Raffaldt …
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Laura Whitehorn Arecent issue of PLN called for articles and information from women prisoners. I hope women throughout the state and federal prison systems will respond to this request. If we are ever to change the hideous situations we face at the hands of the …
NY Seg Case Dismissed on Remand by In the March, 1998, issue of PLN we reported Sealey v. Giltner , 116 F.3d 47 (2nd Cir. 1997) in which the second circuit reversed and remanded Sealey v. Coughlin , 857 F. Supp. 214 (ND NY 1994). The case involves Emmeth Sealey, …
Medical Restraint Requires Doctor's Supervision by The Eighth Circuit has held that the law was clearly established in 1988 requiring specific approval from a doctor when a prisoner is placed in segregation and restraints for psychiatric treatment purposes. Eddie Buckley, an Iowa state prisoner, sued alleging that he was routinely …
MT Prisoners Win Damages and Fees in Riot Suit by On April 2, 1998, a federal jury in Montana ruled that state prison officials had violated the Eighth amendment rights of 13 prisoners. In September, 1991, a riot occurred at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. Five prisoners in …
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
NC AG Opinions Reversed in Consecutive Sentence Servitude by Roger Grubb By Roger Grubb The North Carolina Court of Appeals handed North Carolina prisoners a long sought victory in how consecutive sentences are computed by the Department of Correction for purposes of determining parole eligibility. On August 5, 1997, the …
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
No Immunity in Failure to Protect Informant Suit by In the April, 1998, issue of PLN we reported Dowling v. Hannigan , 968 F. Supp. 610 (D KS 1997). The case involved Kansas state prisoner and informant Mark Dowling, who claimed prison officials were deliberately indifferent to his safety when …
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