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Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Unicor Steals Glove Business From Private Firms by The Genco Corporation of Tennessee is among 10 private firms that have contracts with the Defense Department to manufacture gloves for the U.S. military. Suppliers of military gloves are not a happy lot these days, though. Complaining loudly of unfair competition, the …
Union Reverses Position on Private Prisons by Last May, when a bill was introduced in the Tennessee legislature to privatize the state's entire corrections system, the private prison industry achieved a major coup by winning the support of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a 1.3 million-member …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Slaves-R-Us Corporate Partners Wanted by [The following "Marketing Focus" fax from the Oregon Department of Corrections found its way to PLN , the full text of which is reproduced here.] Prime land, buildings, and labor available to nursery industry. Nursery products-related individuals and business interested in expanding operations through public-private …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Organizing
CURE-Ohio and the Aftermath by [Editor's Note: The following information reaches PLN by mail from an Ohio reader whose name and initials we are withholding at our discretion.] The situation with CURE-Ohio is getting worse! CURE has formed a "coalition" of outside support groups, and is dictating policy to them. …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the eighth anniversary issue of PLN . This issue marks eight continuous years of monthly publishing, and in August we'll publish our 100th issue. This is an enormous accomplishment when one considers that the bulk of prison and alternative publications measure their …
Brief • May 5, 1998
Belen v. WA DOC, WA, Appeal Disciplinary Sanction, Salary Reduction, 1998 1 BEFORE THE PERSONNEL APPEALS BOARD 2 STATE OF WASHINGTON 3 4 5 Appellant, 6 v. 7 ) ) Case No. RED-96-0016 ) ) FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF ) ) LAW AND ORDER OF THE BOARD ) ) …
Brief • April 22, 1998
McGrier v. District of Columbia, Complaint, Prisoner Stabbing, 1998 III .8.· PR.EPAY1MENT OF COSTS WAIVED {\ SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF Civil Division COL~~l1j .~ • . J' . Plaintiff v. THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA A Municipal Corporation 441 Fourth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Defendant COMPLAINT (Negligence) I. …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
No Immunity for Smoke Exposure by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity for exposing a prisoner to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS, AKA second hand smoke). Raymond Rochon, a Louisiana state prisoner, filed suit claiming various prison, state and …
No Immunity in Jail Suicide for Medical Contractor by Afederal district court in Florida held that genuine issues of fact existed as to whether a jail psychologist and the private corporation that employed him had acted with deliberate indifference to a pretrial detainee's health needs, obviating summary judgment on the …
No Immunity for Hearing Officer's Failure to Examine CI Credibility by Afederal district court in New York held that prison officials violated a prisoner's due process rights by failing to independently examine the credibility of confidential informants. The court held these rights were well established, therefore the defendants were not …
PA DOC Not 'Victim' for Restitution Purposes by A Pennsylvania court of appeals held that the DOC was not a "victim" for restitution purposes and that prison expenditures on health care for a murdered prisoner were not compensation reimbursable to the DOC under a restitution statute. Three Pennsylvania state prisoners …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
MA and WA Parole Suits Not Cognizable Under § 1983 by The first and ninth circuit courts of appeal have applied Edwards v. Balisok , 117 S.Ct. 1584 (1997)[ PLN , July, 1997] to bar section 1983 actions challenging decisions by state parole boards, holding the § 1983 claims are …
Damage Award and Attorney Fees in Censorship Suit Affirmed by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit affirmed a district court ruling awarding a prisoner $1 in damages and $500 in punitive damages against prison officials who censored racist religious publications pursuant to a "blanket ban" on such materials. …
Heck Applied to Segregation Claims by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that a prisoner's claim that his due process rights were violated at a prison disciplinary hearing was not cognizable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and had to be brought as a habeas corpus challenge, even …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
Florida Prisoners Have Property Interest Under DOC Rules by A Florida appellate court held that Title 33 of the Florida Administrative Code, the rules of the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC), affords Florida state prisoners a vested right to possess property insofar as the property was authorized and the prisoner …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
Folsom New Year's Riot Over Haircut Policy by by W. Wisely Over 1,000 prisoners at California's medium security Folsom prison threw flaming toilet paper and sheets over the tiers, banged cell doors, and refused to eat on New Year's Day in protest over new grooming restrictions the Department of Corrections …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
French Robertson Prisoner Wins Suit by On October 20, 1997, federal court jurors ruled that Texas prison guards assaulted French Robertson prisoner Andre Dunkins in 1996, but awarded no monetary damages. Dunkins, who represented himself, convinced jurors that prison guards Ted Vinita and Robert Steele slapped him repeatedly July 17, …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
Even Nominal Damages May Justify Attorney Fee Award by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that a verdict of only $500 did not, by itself, justify a denial of an attorney fee award, even though the suit broke no new ground in law regarding police abuses. Although …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
Failure to Protect Informant Claim Set for Trial by A federal district court in Kansas held that disputed facts required a trial to resolve whether prison officials were deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's safety. Mark Dowling is a prisoner informant in Lansing, Kansas. On August 11, 1994, Lt. Gordon Brown …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Brazil: On January 10, 1998, eight prisoners at the Linhares prison in Espirito Santo state were killed in a brawl. Francisco Assis Rangel, the prison operations chief, said "They killed one another with metal bars and pieces of wood." No details were given as to the …
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