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Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
From the Editor by Dan Pens Welcome to another edition of PLN. Last month we intended to run Jaan Laaman's article, "Attica - Looking Back 25 Years," which appears on page of this issue. Due to a prison lockdown, Jaan was unable to get the article to us in time …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
A Matter of Fact by A 1988 study of California prisoners concluded that there is a strong positive correlation between prisoners' visiting and their successful transition to the free world. Of those who received 12 or more visits in their last year of incarceration, 68.5 percent had "satisfactory outcomes" (presumably …
Brief • October 14, 1996
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Carter v. Benjamin, WA, Complaint, Racial Discrimination, 1996 P.4 509 734 7119 ,. ., 1 ,. ., 2 -3 "(l. rr". ".;(: -'.. ... 11.... '" - 4 5 IN THE SUPERIOR COORT OF mE STATE OF WASHINGTON 8 1 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF YAKIMA B 9 VICTOR …
Brief • October 2, 1996
Finkley-McCoy, WA, Tort Claim, Statement of Facts, Child Rape Case, 1996 .,""" --"ANDARD TORT ci.AIM FORM Pumwu to RCW 4.92, this torm is provided (or your convenience when filing a ton claim against the State of Washin~on. If filing I claim involving an accidenf"With ,"Vehicle operated. by • state employee. …
Brief • October 1, 1996
Liggins v. US, KY, Complaint, Slip and Fall, 1996
Publication • October 1, 1996
Baton Training Bulletin LAPD 1996 ... . ----·- P- -· ·. ~ WILUI L. 1m11• - . c + I I . CW JIOUf Volume lXVIII, Iaaue 11 -.Pilei . . . . .1811 CMIIID aa•Bit I OD£1 OL AliY public aaa.-bly of iDcU.Yicluala, be it for lawful prot"t or …
Publication • October 1, 1996
Filed under: Prison Life Magazine
Prison Life October 1996 I i Ill , PRIZES 1st Prize-$250 and 2 subscriptions to Prison Life. 2nd Prize-$1 50 and 2 subscriptions to Prison Life. 3rd Prize-$50 and 2 subscriptions to Prison Life. CATEGORIES WRITING: Fiction-short stories or excerpts from longer works; limit 20 pages. Nonfiction-essays, memoirs or articles; …
Brief • September 24, 1996
Austin v. James, AL, Settlement, Toilet Facilities, 1996 rr - çtc 7L MICHAEL A :Ij THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR IWE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA ° NORTHERN DIVISION AUSTIN; al., \\L\ A h' Plaintiffs, Case No. 95-T-637-N VS. JOE HOPPER, Defendant. STIPULATION The plaintiffs have alleged that the toilet …
Prisoner Has Right to Hunger Strike by James Quigley A Florida appellate court has ruled that a prisoner has a right to refuse forced feeding or medical treatment based on an interpretation of the privacy clause of the Florida State constitution. In late 1994 Michael V. Costello, a Florida state …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Rhode Island Fee Violates Ex Post Facto by A federal district court in Rhode Island held that a DOC policy imposing a monthly supervision fee on probationers convicted before enactment of the statute allowing assessment of such fees violated the ex post facto provisions of the U.S. and Rhode Island …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Denial of Disciplinary Witnesses Upheld by The court of appeals for the first circuit vacated and remanded a Massachusetts district court ruling that had held that a prison policy denying witnesses from the prison's general population to segregated prisoners' disciplinary hearings was unconstitutional. Brendan McGuinness is a Massachusetts state prisoner …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Filed under: Classification, Transfers
Mass Transfer Madness by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On April 1, 1996, the California Department of Corrections began the first phase of its "180/270" transfer plan for Level IV prisoners. All prisoners housed in Level IV prisons have been classified for retention in either a "180" or "270" degree …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Supreme Court Closes Double Jeopardy Door by Jeffrey Steinborn "Counsel, are you trying to show contempt for this court?" "No, your honor, I'm doing my best to conceal it." -- Attributed to Clarence Darrow in the Scopes "Monkey Trial" He had a point. Some days it's tough to conceal it. …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
$43,410 in Attorney Fees Awarded in PC Case by A federal district court in New York awarded $43,410 in attorney fees to prisoners who sued over conditions in protective custody (PC) units in the New York state prison system. The litigation involved a class action suit filed by PC prisoners …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Warden Caught in Sex Sting by The Superintendent of Florida's Polk Correctional Institution resigned on the night of April 11, 1996, just hours after he was charged with propositioning an undercover sheriff's deputy at a local park. Evon Alexis Colchiski, 39, was one of the twenty men arrested during a …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
BOP Phone Suit Settled by Paul Wright In the March and November, 1994 and March, 1995, issues of PLN we reported developments in Washington v. Reno, a class action suit filed by federal prisoners which challenged numerous aspects of a new phone system imposed by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Texas Prisoners Build Their Own Cages by Texas increased its prison population over the past ten years from 37,000 to a soon-to-be 145,000. At one point, the lack of prison space kept a backlog of 35,000 state prisoners in county jails. All told, the state paid more than $650 million …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Asbestos Exposure Violates Eighth Amendment by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that exposing prisoners to asbestos violates the eighth amendment. Clarence Wallis is an Oregon state prisoner assigned to a cleanup crew. His work detail was ordered to remove asbestos hanging off pipes, without any type …
NSP Double Celling Order Vacated by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that a district court had to reconsider prisoners' double celling claims under the supreme court's ruling in Farmer v. Brennan, 114 S.Ct. 1970 (1994). This case arises from a class action suit filed by prisoners …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Washington Death Row Prisoners Get Habeas TRO by In the August, 1996, issue of PLN we reported the passage of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (habeas law). One of the new law's provisions is that it has an option whereby a state's death penalty cases can …
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