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Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Bid to Regain Family Visits Fails in California by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On December 29, 2000, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district judge's order dismissing a lawsuit challenging prison regulations, which eliminated family visits for the majority of California prisoners. U.S. District Judge William Shubb …
Publication • 2001
DOC Policy Document - Extended Family Visiting, WA DOC, 2001 NUMBER STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS DOC 590.100 PRISON SIGNATURE POLICY DIRECTIVE DATE EFFECTIVE DATE 3/15/01 PAGENUMBER ^ Offender Manual ^ Spanish 1 Of 13 JOSEPH D. LEHMAN. SECRETARY TITLE EXTENDED FAMILY VISITING (EFV) SUPERSESSION: DOC 700.010 effective 10/1/85; …
CT Prisoners Pinched for Cost of Imprisonment by A1995 "get tough" state law mandated that the Connecticut Department of Correction write a regulation for assessing prisoners for the cost of their incarceration In 1997, that mandate was codified into sections 18-85a-1 to 18-85a-4 of the "Regulations of State Agencies: cost …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Trailers for Tana by Art Longworth I have received new insight into the warden [Tana Wood's] motivations for arbitrarily taking away as many EFV [Extended Family Visit, aka trailer visit] privileges as she can. In the early 90's at MSC [the Medium Security Annex of the Washignton state penitentiary at …
New York AA Program Violates Establishment Clause by The court of appeals of New York (the highest state court) held that the establishment clause of the U.S. constitution is violated when an atheist prisoner was deprived of family visits for refusing to participate in a religious oriented Alcohol and Substance …
Trial Required on ADA EFV Claim by A federal district court in California held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12132 and the Rehabilitation Act (RA) of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794, apply to state prisons and were violated when an HIV+ prisoner and his HIV+ …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Washington EFV Ban Upheld by In an unpublished opinion the ninth circuit court of appeals affirmed dismissal of a Washington prisoner's challenge to a prison policy restricting participation in the Extended Family Visiting (EFV) program. Jerry Harrison was a Washington state prisoner with a prior domestic violence conviction. He filed …
California EFV Injunction Reversed by In the September, 1995, issue of PLN we reported that a Marin county superior court judge had issued a preliminary injunction enjoining Title 15, section 3174(e)(1) of the California Code of Regulations (CCR). The regulation in question eliminated family visits for a wide category of …
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
California Slashes Family Visits by Willie Wisely The young Hispanic woman, juggling a squirming infant under each arm, began to cry as she read the notice posted on the wall of the visitor processing building at Lancaster prison. For months prisoner rights advocates had been warning visitors, trying to organize …
California EFV Ban Enjoined by Past issues of PLN have reported on legislative efforts to eliminate or restrict prisoners access to Extended Family Visits in California. A series of state court rulings have been issued [See PLN, Feb., Apr., Sep, 1995, for more details] on this topic. Unable to completely …
Washington Prisoners Protest Money Seizure Law by In the May, 1995, issue of PLN we ran the article Harsher Prison Measures Opposed: "Family Values'' Stop Here which reported the solidarity demonstration held by some 20 people in front of the King County (Seattle), WA jail on March 20, 1995. That …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
Unrest in NY Prisons by EO E [Editor's Note: New York state's Republican majority legislature passed laws that mandate double bunking of the NYDOC prison system. Most cells in NY state prisons are tiny, a mere 9' x 6'. There is a high incidence of both AIDS and the deadly …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
CBCC EFV Stabbing Trial by In the March, 1995, issue of PLN we reported that Todd Hiivala, a prisoner at the Clallam Bay Correction Center (CBCC) in Washington, stabbed his wife Heather several times during an Extended Family Visit (EFV) on January 7, 1995. Hiivala was shot by tower guard …
Injunction Saves CA Family Visits by Gail Harrington Wisely In a victory in the long simmering war over family visits Michael Satris, an attorney with the San Quentin based Prison Law Office, won an injunction from Marin County Superior Court Judge Peter Smith Wednesday May 24 1995, barring the California …
WA Passes Record Anti-Prisoner/Defendant Legislation by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the March, 1995, issue of PLN I gave a rundown on most of the anti-prisoner and defendant legislation then pending in the legislature. After we had gone to press for that issue Ida Ballasiotes, the rabid chair of …
CA Families Fight to Maintain Bonds by Willie Wisely Hundreds of family members, loved ones, friends, and advocates converged on the California Department of Corrections headquarters April 27, 1995, to express their support for family ties and opposition to a proposed administrative regulation which would eliminate family visits for a …
Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
Trailer Visits Curtailed at CBCC by Reader Mail Editor's Note; In the March, 95 issue of PLN we wrote about the Clallam Bay, WA (CBCC) prisoner who stabbed his wife during a trailer visit We got this update from a CBCC reader. Now that the trailers have been reinstated with …
WA Prisoners Protest HB 2010 by The May, 1995, issue of PLN detailed the March 20, 1995, protest by prisoner's family members and prisoner rights supporters in front of the King County jail in Seattle. It also mentioned that women prisoners at Purdy had staged a one day strike in …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
WY Trailer Visits Taken by Wyoming penitentiary warden, Duane Shillinger, issued a memorandum to "All Inmates" notifying them that the "Family Visiting Center" would be closed effective April 1, 1995. The warden said he regrets making this difficult decision. The reasons stated in the memo for terminating the trailer visit …
Harsher Prison Measures Opposed: "Family Values" Stop Here by Davis Oldham By Dan Tennenbaum and Davis Oldham Seattle WA -- On March 20th, about 30 people braved a heavy downpour and strong winds to demonstrate against state Republican efforts to curtail prisoner rights. Friends and family members of prisoners, as …
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