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Publication • 2006
Department of Justice - The Attorney General's Guidelines Regarding the Use of FBI Confidential Human Sources, 2006 T H E A T T O R N E Y G E N E R A L ' S G U I D E L I N E S REGARDING T H …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Mass Parole Re-Hearings in Tennessee Following AG Opinion by Alex Friedmann With some level of irony, on June 7, 2005 the Tennessee Attorney General's office sent a letter to the state's Board of Probation and Parole, recommending that the Board limit the amount of time between parole hearings and suggesting …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Michigan: Money Bilked From Prisoners by Michigan: Money Bilked From Prisoners Used For Bonuses While Michigan was trying to boost its cash-starved budget through spending cuts and tax increases, those in the Attorney General's Office were feasting on money squeezed from state prisoners. In October 2004, Attorney General Mike Cox …
Texas Attorney General Clarifies Confiscation Law Governing Prisoner Art Sales by Michael Rigby Texas prisoners can sell artwork over the internet and retain the proceeds as long as the value is not increased because of their notoriety, an opinion by Attorney General Greg Abbott has confirmed. The Attorney General's January …
Ninth Circuit: Kicking Shackled Prisoner In Genitals Is Cruel And Unusual Punishment by When California Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) prisoner Christopher Watts filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against guards J. McKinney and S.J. Steinberg for kicking Watts in the genitals after an unsuccessful interrogation regarding PBSP guards …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
Ninth Circuit Judge Investigated for Writing Condemned Prisoner by by Marvin Mentor California Attorney General Bill Lockyer called into question the impartiality of Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski as to death penalty cases after Kozinski and two other Ninth Circuit judges visited San Quentin State Prison in California, speaking with …
Ninth Circuit Upholds Sanctions Against Idaho DOC Lawyer; DOC Retaliated for Litigation by by Matthew T. Clarke The Ninth Circuit court of appeals upheld the injunctive relief granted against Idaho Department of Corrections (DOC) officials for retaliating against prisoners who filed grievances or litigation. Sanctions awarded against the defendants' attorney …
New York AG Turns on Client by A Court of Claims judge denounced a highranking lawyer in the Attorney General's office after she threatened and attempted to intimidate a claimant's expert witness_who happened to be the former New York State Commissioner of Correctional Services. Former Commissioner Thomas A. Coughlin III …
Death as a Salesman: Benneton Ad Campaign Comes to Death Row by Dan Pens By Dan Pens In January, 2000, Italian fashion conglomerate Benetton Group kicked off a worldwide "issue advocacy" ad campaign titled "Looking Death in the Face." The ads, featuring images of death row prisoners, sparked outrage among …
CCPOA Pimping in the California State Assembly by Dan Pens A self-proclaimed "whore" for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) in July 1999 helped kill Attorney General Bill Lockyer's proposed legislation for forming a state-level prosecutorial unit to investigate alleged crimes by state prison guards. As it stands now, …
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
Texas May Not Retroactively Stop Mandatory Release by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has held that Texas cannot reinterpret a law to retroactively deny a state prisoner mandatory release. Randy Sullivan Schroeter, a Texas state prisoner, was convicted of indecency with a child (IWC) in 1994 and sentenced to …
Frivolous State Litigation by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that a prisoner's demotion from administrative to punitive segregation did not implicate any federal due process liberty interest. We would not normally report this case because it involves no new or novel …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Alabama AG Moves to Dissolve 17 Consent Decrees by Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor and state Prison Commissioner Joe Hopper went into federal courts across the state July 2, 1997, moving (under provisions of the PLRA) to dissolve consent decrees governing conditions at three state prisons and 14 county jails. …
Article • August 15, 1997 • from PLN August, 1997
Florida Supreme Court Strikes Down Gain Time Loss by The Florida supreme court held that a DOC Policy denying gain time to prisoners eligible to receive it at the time of their conviction violated the ex post facto clauses of the Florida and United States constitutions. In 1996 the Florida …
$176,000 Awarded in Attorney Fees by A federal district court in Illinois entered an award of $163,276 in attorney fees and $12,398 in costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 to prisoner plaintiffs who won $130,000 in damages at a jury trial after being beaten by prison guards. The court …
Damn Lies and Statistics by Most PLN readers are well aware of the conservative PR campaign designed to convince legislators and the voting public that the courts are threatened with drowning in a deluge of prisoner-initiated litigation. The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) has developed model legislation designed to …
Texas Anti-Litigation Law by Dan Pens In its 1995 session, the Texas legislature passed a bill that amends and modifies Subchapter B, Chapter 15 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code, purportedly to combat "frivolous or malicious litigation filed by inmates." By now PLN readers should be familiar with this …
Article • December 15, 1995 • from PLN December, 1995
Florida Repeal of Earned Time Law Upheld by In 1988 the Florida state legislature enacted Fla.Stat. § 944.277 (1988) which extended the amount of gain-time awarded to prisoners. This was one of several statutes enacted by the Florida legislature in order to maintain the Florida prison population within the limits …
AG Mail Must be Treated as Legal Mail by Rakim Muhammad is a Michigan state prisoner. He challenged a Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) policy of treating mail to prisoners from the state Attorney generals office as ordinary mail, i.e. opened outside the addressees presence, rather than as legal mail …
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