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Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
State Murder Machine Picks Up by State Murder Machine Picks Up Speed Fifty-six people were executed by sixteen states in 1995. That was the highest national figure since 1957. As usual, Texas led the nation with 19 executions in 1995. Since the supreme court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
VitaPro Fraud Scheme Unveiled in Texas by Texas state prison officials have asked a judge to nullify an agreement to purchase $33.6 million worth of VitaPro, a soy-based food product, saying the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) had no authority to sign such a contract. Under the deal between …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Prison Rape Opponents Sue to Protect Award-Winning Web Site from Internet Censors by Stop Prisoner Rape, Inc., a nationally organized group dedicated to fighting against the rape of incarcerated persons of all genders and ages, joined the American Civil Liberties Union and 19 other plaintiffs today (Feb. 7, 1996) in …
Jail Guards' Convictions Affirmed by On November 29, 1995, the US court of appeals for the sixth circuit issued a ruling affirming the federal conviction of three jail guards for violating prisoners' civil rights. Ulysses Tines, Glynn Bridgeforth and Belinda Marshall were guards employed at the Shelby County jail in …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Witnesses
Criminal Conviction Inadmissible Evidence by A federal district court in Pennsylvania ruled in favor of a prisoner's motion in limine to prevent prison officials from introducing evidence about his criminal history to impeach his testimony. This ruling will prove useful to any prisoner litigating a civil rights claim as all …
Arizona Death Row Chain Gang Problems by In December, 1995, Arizona's governor Fife Symington launched a program placing death row prisoners on a chain gang working in the prison's vegetable garden [Reported in the March '96 issue of PLN]. According to an Arizona newspaper report there have been two violent …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Texas Prison Developer Arrested in Escape Plot by A private prison developer with business ties to a former Texas state prison director was arrested in January and charged with plotting to help a convicted murderer escape from prison for a $750,000 fee. Patrick Harold Graham - using the alias Harold …
Sexual Assault During Search Illegal by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that a guard who sexually harasses and assaults a prisoner during a strip search violates the fourth amendment. The court rejected the guard's defense that he was not a "state actor" for § 1983 purposes …
Attorney Fee Award Upheld in Jail Suit by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit has upheld an award of attorney fees to the plaintiffs in a jail religious discrimination suit who did not win in court but who caused jail policies to be changed. The court also held …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Citizen Anti-Crime Initiatives? How the Gun Lobby Bankrolls the War on Crime by Paul Wright Recent years have seen a plethora of so called anti-crime initiatives placed on various state ballots, the most famous being the "Three Strikes You're Out" type laws. These initiatives purport to be efforts by state …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Pennsylvania Prison Stormed by S T Last October, in the dead of night, Graterford Correctional Institution (GCI) prisoners were subjected without notice to an unprovoked assault by storm troops dressed in black, booted, many helmeted and all carrying clubs. [See: PLN, Dec '95] All GCI prisoners, suddenly awakened, were strip-searched, …
Retaliation Claims Survive Sandin, but PI Reversed by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit has held that prisoner retaliation claims have survived the supreme court ruling in Sandin but that prisoners bear a heavy burden when seeking a preliminary injunction (PI) on a retaliation claim. In the December, …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Stunned in Pennsylvania by Michael Crooker I am getting ready to file a tort claim lawsuit against the government for personal injury due to the reckless use of explosive bombs, AKA "Stun-Grenades" [against prisoners at FCI-McKean]. Does anyone know anything about these [stun-grenades] or can direct me to a case …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
More Trouble in Texas Rent-A-Jails by Bryon W, Ferguson by Bryon W. Ferguson Hawaii prisoner Larry Earl Pagan decided he'd had enough of Texas hospitality. Pagan, shanghaied from a Hawaii state prison [See: "Kidnapping and Extortion Texas Style" in the Feb '96 PLN], escaped in February from the Newton County …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Spain and Belgium Abolish the Death Penalty by As the U.S. increases the number of people it murders each year the trend in favor of state-sanctioned murder is ebbing elsewhere. Fifty-five countries around the world have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, fifteen others have abolished it for social …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Greece: After a 12 day uprising at a 150-man maximum security prison in Corfu, 44 prisoners escaped by digging out of the prison on March 9, 1996. Sixteen were recaptured within a few hours of the escape. The uprising was part of a protest by Greek …
Texas Grooming Code May Violate RFRA by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a district court erred in dismissing a Texas prisoner's claim that prison grooming regulations, requiring that prisoners be clean shaven and have short hair, violated his rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue marks PLN's sixth year of publishing and 72 consecutive issues. For anyone familiar with alternative publications in general and prison publications in particular this is a significant milestone. Ed Mead and I started PLN on a trial basis in 1990, we decided …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
A Doctor in Prison by D.C. I was dismayed by the article on page six of the November '95 PLN about the WA Doctor Scandal. I am a board certified family physician who is doing two five-year hits for third degree sexual assault of two female patients. I hope when …
Brief • May 7, 1996
Martin v. Pataki, NY, Order, Green Haven Correctional Facility Photographs PO, 1996 09/04/03 THU 17:19 FAX 212 450 5588 DPW 28-60 141010 ···: .·· .:( GEORGE E. PATAKI, GOVERNOR NEW YORK STATE, PHILIP COOMBE, JR., ACTING COMMISSIONER OF NEW YORK STATES DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICE, RONALD F. NELSON, DEPUTY SUPERIN­ …
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