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Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
New York Prisoner Wins $50,000 In Failure To Treat Mental Illness Suit by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in New York has held that officials of the New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) subjected a prisoner to cruel and unusual punishment through their deficient treatment of …
San Francisco City and County Jail Conditions Held Unconstitutional by A federal district court in California ruled that numerous conditions of confinement at San Francisco county jail # 3 violated contemporary standards of decency and the eighth and fourteenth amendments. Of particular importance to West coast readers, the court found …
DC Women Prisoners' Suit Settled by In the December 1995, June 1996 and September 1997 issues of PLN we reported the saga of Womens Prisoners of the District of Columbia DOC v. District of Columbia , which is cited in 877 F.Supp. 634, 899 F.Supp. 659, and 93 F.3d 910, …
AL Jail Enjoined From Holding Prisoners Overnight by Afederal district court in Alabama held that conditions in the Pickens county jail in Carrolton, Alabama, were so abysmal it was not fit for human or animal habitation. Prisoners in the jail filed a class action suit challenging the conditions of their …
Illinois Jail Conditions Suit States Claim by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held a district court erred in dismissing a pretrial detainee's conditions of confinement suit for failure to state a claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). The court also held it was error to dismiss defendants not properly …
IMU Placement Implicates Due Process by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that an Oregon prisoner's transfer to an Intensive Management Unit (IMU) control unit may violate due process if done without procedural due process. The court also held that several control unit conditions stated a claim …
Trial Required on Clothing Claim by When prison guards apply force maliciously and sadistically, they are violating the eighth amendment and can be held liable for their actions. Courtney Wilkens is a Missouri state prisoner. Prison guards claimed Wilkens was wearing gang colors in the prison dining hall and attempted …
No Immunity for Cold Filthy Cell by Melvin Wilson is an Illinois state prisoner. He filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming he was discharged from his prison job due to his race and when placed in segregation he was placed in a filthy, roach infested, leaking cell whose …
Suit Filed Over Conditions at Virgin Islands Criminal Justice Complex by For almost two years, prisoners at Criminal Justice Complex have been locked up for 23 hours a day in overcrowded, filthy, rat and roach infested cells. They are only allowed out for a short period each day to shower …
Ninth Circuit Approves Oregon Control Unit Conditions by Paul Wright By Paul Wright This is a case which challenged numerous conditions of confinement at the Oregon State Penitentiary's Disciplinary Segregation Unit (DSU), which is a control unit. The ruling does not bode well for prisoners seeking to question such conditions. …
Improved Jail Conditions Merits Attorney Fees by Two Wood County, Texas, jail prisoners filed suit under § 1983 claiming the jail had practices of denying prisoners access to the courts, improper classification, punitive isolation without due process, inadequate medical care, denial of reading material and overall unacceptable jail conditions. The …
Inhumane Conditions Suit Requires Trial by Marshal Jackson, an Indiana state prisoner filed suit on the subhuman prison conditions he was subjected to in the Indiana penal system. He claimed he was forced to live with filth, inadequate plumbing, roaches, rodents, poor lighting, inadequate heating, rusted out toilets, drinking water …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
24-Hour Cell Lights by Tom Langbehn Prisoners confined in the oppressive and mentally debilitating environment of the Intensive Management Unit (IMU) at Walla Walla are being subjected to a highly effective form of sensory deprivation, a part of which being the lights in cells that are kept on 24 hours …
Brief • December 24, 1980
Bono v. Saxbe, IL, Order, Control Unit Strip Searches and Lighting, 1980 527 F.Supp. 1182 (1980) Victor BONO et al, Plaintiffs, v. William E. SAXBE et al, Defendants. Civ.No. 74-81-E. United States District Court, S. D. Illinois. December 24, 1980. James R. Burgess, Jr., U. S. Atty., S. D. Ill., …
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