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Prison Madness, by Terry Kupers, MD (Book Review) by Dan Pens Jossey-Bass, 1999 Reviewed by Dan Pens Ted Kaczynski is clearly mentally ill. So said six psychiatrists who told the court that the infamous Unabomber is an acutely psychotic paranoid schizophrenic. In addition to being quite mad, Kaczynski possesses a …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
A Nation's Gratitude by Mumia Abu-Jamal Many governments have been founded on principles of subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race... [Such] were, and are, in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature's laws. With us, all the white race, …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Illinois KKK Guard Loses Lawsuits, Goes to Prison by Paul Wright On December 4, 1998, former Illinois prison sergeant Wallace Scott Weicherding (64) was sentenced to 5 years, 10 months in federal prison after being convicted on conspiracy and weapons charges. Weicherding was arrested with five other men who called …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
5th Circuit Upholds Mississippi Disenfranchisement Law by The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a Mississippi state prisoner's claim that he is improperly being denied the right to vote. The Mississippi Constitution denies the right to vote to any person "convicted of murder, …
New Jersey Guard's Killer Gets Life by Steven Beverly was convicted for the 1997 killing of a Bayside State Prison (New Jersey) guard. But two days later, November 11, 1998, the jury of seven men and five women said they were deadlocked on whether he should be executed. Under state …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
Losing the Vote: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States (Book Review) by Alex Friedmann Review by Alex Friedmann "The expansion of suffrage toall sectors of the population is one of the United States' most important political triumphs .... Today, all mentally competent adults have the right …
Brief • April 12, 1999
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Woodley v. WA DOC, WA, Settlement, Race Discrimination Case, 1999 .- .", . ....... ... STATE OFFICE OF RISK MANAGEMENT SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT 1999 APR 12 AN 10: 58 IN THE MATTER OF BILLY G. WOODLEYv. STATE OF WASHINGTON, ET AL. PIERCE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT CAUSE No. 96-2-08565-6 The parties, BILLY …
Sellers v. Texas Division of Criminal Justice, TX, First Amended Complaint, Race and Sex Discrimination, 1999 , Unlted Stott' Dlstrlct Court Southern District of Tlltas fILED IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI DIVISION LATRICE M. SELLERS * VS. * APR 0 1 …
Amnesty International Seeks Human Rights Abuse Info by Amnesty International Seeks Human Rights Abuse Info Amnesty International (A.I.) is working on a comprehensive report on human rights in the United States, inclusive of prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers. The primary purpose of this report is to document where there …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Washington Felon Voting Suit Proceeds by In the October, 1997, issue of PLN we reported Farrakhan v. Locke , a lawsuit challenging the felon disenfranchisement provisions of the Washington state constitution which prohibit convicted felons from voting. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), arguing the suit …
Whitewash in Greene County by Mumia Abu-Jamal "There's an atmosphere created by (prison officials) in which this kind of thing has been going on for years. The attitude is, 'you're in Greene County now, boy.'" -- Randy Gauger, PA Prison Society, Eayette-Greene Chapter, ( PGH Post-Gazette , 4/26/98) Ahandcuffed man …
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
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 …
Louima v. New York, NY, Complaint, Police Brutality, 1998 _....... . Case ". 1:98-cv-05083-SJ-CLP Document 1 Filed 08/06/98 Page 1 of 40 PageID #: 391 tr-- ... . lJNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK .: : n~ 1, rl C r :"' ·~ I _u '- 2 …
New York Prisoner Awarded $56,000 for Beating by U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Scanlon (Northern District, NY) ordered two guards at the Clinton Correctional Facility (CCF) in Dannemora, NY, to pay $56,000 in compensatory punitive damages to former CCF prisoner Nelson Cay to punish them for their "sadistic and savage beating" …
Discriminatory Policy Enforcement Actionable by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that the discriminatory enforcement of prison policies is actionable as an equal protection violation. William Foster is a black Missouri state prisoner. A prison policy required that all electronic equipment be bought from the prison commissary. …
Race Requirement for Religion Struck Down by Afederal district court in Louisiana held that a prison rule allowing only ethnic Native Americans to engage in Native American Religious (NAR) practices was unconstitutional. Seven Louisiana state prisoners housed in a private prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) on …
Delay in Treatment for Jail Prisoner Actionable by Afederal district court in Mississippi held that disputed issues of fact involving claims by a jail prisoner that he was beaten by his cellmates required a trial to resolve. Emmett Davis was sentenced to 54 days in the Greenville, Mississippi, jail because …
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. …
Spanish Speaking Prisoners Entitled to Interpreters by In a wide ranging and extensive ruling a federal court in the District of Columbia held that by failing to provide interpreters to non English speaking Hispanic prisoners the DOC violated the plaintiffs' eighth and fourteenth amendment rights. As the first published ruling …
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