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Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. As the holiday season approaches readers might want to consider purchasing gift subscriptions of PLN for friends and relatives. PLN continues to be reader supported and increasing our circulation is the only way we can significantly reduce our …
Brief • November 1, 1996
Carmichael, v. DC, Complaint, Prisoner Assault, 1996 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA i civil Divisio.n . ~~i> PAYMEi'IT OF COSTS W.JIoA" l RE #207-331 ) \ DAVID CARMICHAEL Maximum Security F a c i l i t y ) P.o. Box 5200 ) ) Lorton, VA 22199 v. …
Publication • November 1, 1996
Filed under: Prison Life Magazine
Prison Life magazine, November 1996 NOVEMBER 1996 22-.ANIMAI..:: FACTDR}V by Edward Bunker In the third andJ inal installment of Edward .Bunker's classic San Quentin novel, t he animal wants' out of his cage-but not as a domesticated house pet. 26- KEVS by Jorge Antonio Renaud Our 1995 Art Behind Bars …
Brief • October 16, 1996
Diaz v. US, FL, Complaint, Wrongful Death by Suicide, 1996
Publication • October 16, 1996
Washinton Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers-Presonal Computer Usage by DOC Prisoners-Oct. 1996 WACDL Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Lenell Nussbaum President Teresa Mathis Executive Director October 16, 1996 Mr. Chase Riveland, Secretary Department of Corrections P. 0 . Box 41101 Olympia, WA 98504-1101 RE: Personal Computer Usage by Department …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Extending Release Date Violates Eighth Amendment by A federal district court in Illinois held that the eighth amendment is violated when a prisoner is held almost two years past his release date. Don Campbell, an Illinois state prisoner, was released from prison in 1986 to serve a two-year term of …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Court Responsible for Jury Demand by The court of appeals for the second circuit held that checking a box on a civil cover sheet constituted a timely demand for a jury trial. Tyrone Wright, a New York state prisoner, filed suit claiming he was beaten by prison guards. When Wright …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
UNICOR Hogs Body Armor Market by Dan Pens In the July '96 issue of PLN we published "Furniture Manufacturers Threatened by UNICOR," an article about how Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI, which uses the trade name UNICOR), dramatically expanded its "market share" of furniture sold to the military and government …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
The "Honorable Men" Defense by Mumia Abu-Jamal [Editor's Note: With this issue PLN welcomes its third quarterly columnist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, a political prisoner on death row in Pennsylvania.] "The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault; And grievously hath Caesar …
Pepper Spray Madness by Lynn Wilson [The author is an attorney in private practice in Seattle, Washington, and a frequent writer on police accountability issues. She is also on the Steering Committee of the National Coalition on Police Accountability. This article first appeared in the Spring 1996 Issue of COVERT …
Less than Lethal Force Liability by The April, 1995, issue of the Creighton Law Review contains and extremely informative article titled Less Than Lethal Force Weaponry: Law Enforcement and Correctional Agency Civil Law Liability for the Use of Excessive Force, by Neal Miller. While much of the article's focus is …
PI Granted in Haircut Claim by A federal district court in Kentucky granted a motion for a Preliminary Injunction (PI) to a Hasidic Jew whose claimed his religious beliefs were violated when prison officials forced him to cut his hair. Several Kentucky state prisoners in Protective Custody (PC) filed suit …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Texas Parole Rules on Litigants and Victim Statements Enjoined by A federal district court in Texas issued an extensive injunction prohibiting the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (TBPP) from taking into account either a prisoner's litigation history or unverified protest statements which oppose a prisoner's parole in making parole …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Pepper Spray Unsafe? by COPWATCH, a citizens' group in Berkeley, CA, has noted an increase of in-custody deaths, and has pointed to pepper spray as possibly causing or contributing to those deaths. According to Berkeley Police Department Captain Doran, however, police officials consider pepper spray a safe alternative to firearms …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Indigents Entitled to Full Credit for Pretrial Detention by The court of appeals for the tenth circuit held that a defendant who is incarcerated prior to trial due to indigency (unable to afford bail) must be given full credit towards the minimum and maximum sentences he is convicted of. James …
Right to Witnesses and Court Access Well Established by A federal district court in Kansas held prisoners had a well established rights in 1984 to call witnesses at disciplinary hearings and to be free from retaliation for exercising their right of access to the courts. Jerry Smith, a Kansas state …
Jail Guards File Suit by Five jail guards, disciplined for throwing a blanket over the head of a mentally ill detainee and choking him into a coma, have sued the Santa Clara (Calf.) County Department of Correction and its two highest officials, claiming that they were unjustly scapegoated. The lawsuit, …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Smoke and Mirrors by Review by George Everett Smoke & Mirrors has less to do with drugs than it does with the true casualties of the long-fought War on Drugs -- the many civil liberties that all of us have lost, especially in the last decade, as federal policy has …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
De Novo Review Required of Magistrate's Report by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that a district court's erroneous statement that no objections had been filed to a magistrate's report and recommendation constituted prima facie evidence that the district court did not perform the requisite de novo …
Court Okays Disclosure of AIDS Status by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that prison officials may casually disclose a prisoner's AIDS status to other prisoners and staff but that denying barber services is unconstitutional. Dennis Anderson was an Illinois state prisoner with AIDS. The prison warden …
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