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Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Sentence Runs During Wrongful Release by The Arizona supreme court held that when a prisoner is incorrectly released before his sentence expires the sentence continues to run and the offender is entitled to any good time credits he would have accrued had he remained in custody. The court also held …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Racism in the Ranks by Willie Wisely By W. Wisely Agroup of prison guards at the California Institute for Men, in Chino, call themselves SPONGE, an acronym for the "Society for the Prevention of Niggers Getting Everything." In Wasco prison, a guard wears a sheet over his head while working …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
TDCJ PLRA Forms Okay by TDCJ PLRA Forms Okay: The court of appeals for the fifth circuit denied a prisoner's motion to proceed on appeal with IFP status because he refused to fill out a Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) form authorizing withdrawals from his prison trust account to …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
The Real War on Crime: The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission (Book Review) by Daniel Burton-Rose by Steven R. Donziger, Editor Harper Perennial, 1996, $15.00 by Daniel Burton-Rose The Tough-On-Crime Myth: Real Solutions to Cut Crime, by Peter T. Elikann Insight Books, 1996, $24.95 The Rich Get Richer …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Consent Decree Termination Upheld by Consent Decree Termination Upheld: In the April, 1997, issue of PLN we reported Hadix v. Johnson , 947 F. Supp. 1100 (ED MI 1997) where a district court struck down 18 U.S.C. § 3626 as unconstitutional. Section 3626 allows for the immediate termination of consent …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Convict Mine Labor in the Information Age by Dan Pens One hundred years ago the U.S. economy was in the heyday of its Industrial Age. Steel was king. Railroads, machine tools, heavy manu- facturing. All fueled by coal. Some of that coal was hacked out of the earth by companies …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
A Zoo Within a Prison by On April 18, 1998, a fleet of buses, trucks, and police cruisers rolled up to the SCC's subterranean asylum. It was moving day. Washington sex offenders have continually been snared by the civil commitment process since 1990. Because only one has been deemed "cured" …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
CA Tort Claim Not Required for Administrative Exhaustion by CA Tort Claim Not Required for Administrative Exhaustion: A federal district court in California held that it is not necessary for CDC prisoners to submit a California Tort Claims Act (CTCA) complaint to the state Board of Control before filing suit …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
CBCC Warden Fired in Telemarketing Hoopla by As part of the CBCC shake up that occurred over publicity of prisoner Parker Stanphil sending holiday cards to women whose addresses he obtained while employed at his Correctional Industries telemar-keting job, Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) superintendent Robert Wright was fired. In …
CCA Sells Self; Wackenhut Creates REIT by In July 1997 the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) spun off a related company, the Prison Reality Trust, which was formed to purchase CCA's prisons under a lease-back arrangement [ PLN Dec. 97]. Prison Realty is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Cheaper to Exile Prisoners? by Dan Pens The state of Connecticut closed its Northeast Correctional Institution (NCI) in July 1997 in a budget-cutting move. Just seven months later, state legislators called for the governor to reopen NCI because of overcrowding in the state's other prisons. But the administration of Gov. …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Bureau of Prisons Estopped from Denying Sentence Reduction by A federal district court in Colorado granted a habeas corpus petition reducing a federal prisoner's sentence by one year for successfully completing a drug treatment program. The court held the BOP was estopped from denying the sentence reduction having initially granted …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
$22,500 to Seattle WA Jail Brutality Suit by The King County (Seattle) jail in Washington settled a brutality suit on January 26, 1998, by paying a former jail prisoner $22,500. Lonnie Burton was a prisoner in the King County jail when he alleged he was attacked without provocation by jail …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Filed under: Visiting
WA DOC Investigators Can't Detain Visitors: Drugs Suppressed by Astate appeals court in Washington held that prison investigators lack the authority to detain and question visitors, therefore any drugs found after a search had to be suppressed. William Dane, a Washington state prisoner at the Clallam Bay Correction Center (CBCC) …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
WA Prison Telemarketing Elicits Controversy - Again by Paul Wright In December 1997 and January 1998, statewide media attention spotlighted a "shocking" prison tele- marketing partnership between the Washington state Parks and Recreation Department and the Department of Corrections (DOC) Correctional Industries (CI). For two years prisoners at Clallam Bay …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies § 1983 Claims by David C Fathi John Midgley and David C. Fathi Recently, the United States Supreme Court has made it difficult for prisoners to successfully file claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that "necessarily imply" the invalidity of a conviction or a decision that …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
WI Predator-Law Poster Boy Gets Released by On Halloween, 1973, nine-year-old Lisa French disappeared while trick-or-treating in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Gerald Turner, a neighbor and friend of the French family, was ultimately convicted of abducting, raping and murdering the girl. Dubbed the Halloween Killer, Turner languished in the maxi- …
Through the Civil Commitment Looking Glass by Tamara Menteer If the object or purpose of the Kansas [civil commitment] law had been to provide treatment but treatment were adopted as a sham or mere pretext, there would have been an indication of the forbidden purpose to punish . -- Justice …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
WI Guard Settles Discrimination Suit for $105,000 by Ablack prison guard who filed a discrimination suit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections agreed to a $105,000 settlement in December, 1997, shortly after a U.S. district court judge ruled the case would go to trial. An unusual term of the settlement …
Union County, NJ, Jail Guards Convicted by In June, 1995, twenty-five political asylum seekers were hauled in chains from a federal INS Detention Center in Elizabeth, NJ, to the nearby Union County Jail. The 25 immigrant detainees many of whom are refugees who escaped religious and political persecution in their …
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