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Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
New Plantation by Bill Dunne In the new world order, the ideological concerns that previously persuaded the capitalist ruling class to purchase social and labor peace with a comparatively generous social contract and high living standards no longer hold sway. The US ruling class will need to take drastic measures …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
NY Jail Consent Decrees Vacated under PLRA by A federal district court in New York upheld the constitutionality of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and terminated a series of consent decrees in seven cases that governed conditions at Rikers Island and several other New York City jails. Readers should …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Prison Population Growth in 1995 by According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin, Prison and Jail Inmates, 1995, an estimated 1,585,400 persons were incarcerated in the U.S. at year end 1995. The state and federal prison population topped a million (1,078,357) with an additional 507,044 in local jails. The …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Kansas Prisoners Lose Welfare Fund Suit by A federal district court in Kansas held that state prisoners were not entitled to injunctive relief regarding how money from the Inmate Benefit Fund (IBF) was spent by the DOC. Kansas state prisoners filed a class action suit challenging how the Kansas DOC …
County Liable for Trustee's Work; No Remedy for Illegal Detention by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a county was properly liable where it did not reimburse a jail detainee for work he performed on public property. The court also held that a pretrial detainee's work …
Beating Damages Affirmed; PLRA Not Retroactive on Vacated Attorney Fees by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit affirmed a jury verdict awarding damages to two prisoners who were beaten by prison guards and then denied medical care for their injuries for nearly two days. The court held that …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Inadequate Public Defender Funding Unconstitutional by A federal district court in Illinois held that a lack of adequate funding for public defenders assigned to represent indigent defendants in state court appeals violates the federal constitution when it causes delays in excess of two years. Over the past ten years the …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
Habeas Corpus Study by Review by Jon Marc Taylor A recent discussion paper published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports the results of the National Center for State Courts analysis into the processing of federal habeas corpus petitions. The study encompassed 18 Federal district courts located in 9 selected …
No Administrative Exhaustion Requirement in 7th Circuit by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that prisoners seeking money damages need not exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing suit. The court also held a district court erred when it dismissed a complaint filed in forma pauperis solely because …
South Carolina Consent Decree Terminated under PLRA by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit upheld the termination of a consent decree pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and rejected challenges to the constitutionality of the PLRA. In 1982 South Carolina prisoners filed suit challenging conditions of …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
Virginia Hawks Parolees' Names by Beginning in July 1996, the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) began publishing what has so far proven to be a hot seller: lists of parolees' names, address, offenses, sex and race. The parolee lists costs $5 per zip code. Bargain hunters, however, can purchase a …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
Call Recipient's Rights Not Violated in Phone Taping by The court of appeals for the second circuit held that the rights of the free person accepting a collect call from a prisoner are not violated when the calls are taped and monitored by law enforcement officials. It also held prisoners …
Private Prison Liable for Wrongful Imprisonment by A federal district court in Florida held that a private corporation which ran a county jail under contract was liable for a detainee's wrongful imprisonment. Thomas Blumel was arrested without a warrant after being accused of violating a restraining order. Blumel was then …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Prison Health Report Issued by The National Institute of Justice, a branch of the Department of Justice, has published a 125 page booklet titled "Managing Prison Health Care and Costs." The book provides an overview of rising prison health care costs with national examples of various cost containment strategies. The …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
Law Against Love by Mumia Abu-Jamal For several years now, MOVE political prisoner Chuck Africa, has had to do battle with Pennsylvania prison officials to obtain the most fundamental of human rights -- the right to visit with his wife, May 13th, 1985 bombing survivor and ex-political prisoner, Ramona Africa. …
ADA Requires Phones for Deaf by A federal district court in Michigan held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 12131 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794, requires state prison officials to provide prisoners and the people they call with Telecommunications Device for the …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
From the Inside Looking Out by Jon Marc Taylor The late Malcom Forbes once said it was "more fun to arrive at a conclusion than to justify it." Brookings Institute senior fellow Dr. John J. DiIulio has certainly arrived at a conclusion, but his justifications range from questionable to outright …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Stunning Revelations by Adrian Lomax Recently Governor Thompson signed into law a bill permitting prisoner chain gangs in Wisconsin. In a high-tech twist on the old Southern chain gangs, Thompson's program includes requiring prisoners to wear electrical stun belts in addition to being chained at the ankle. When activated, the …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
PLRA Fees Don't Apply to Released Prisoners by The court of appeals for the second circuit held that the provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requiring payment of filing fees do not apply if the prisoner is released after filing suit. Clarence McGann, a New York state prisoner, …
Lawsuits Target Georgia Prison Abuse by Robert Bensing by Robert Bensing, Esq. Prisoners in Georgia have recently filed two lawsuits, challenging the Georgia Department of Corrections' (GDC) shakedowns of Georgia prisons. A shakedown entails a search of an entire prison's prisoner population and prisoner living areas. While the shakedowns are …
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