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Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
AZ Guards Rob and Kill by On February 16, 1995, police ar rested a retired cop and three Arizona prison guards in the robbery of an armored car and the killing of a Wells Fargo driver. On November 28, 1994, an armored car was hijacked and robbed with between $200,000 …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
WA Doctor Fit Only for Prisoners by In the July, 1995, issue of PLN we reported the disciplinary charges filed against Dr. James McGuire, the psychologist at the McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) in WA. While practicing as a psychiatrist in Alaska McGuire entered into a sexual relationship with one …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
World's Longest Held Political Prisoner Released by On August 15, 1995, Kim Sun Myung was released from a South Korean prison after spending more than 43 years in captivity. Kim had the unhappy distinction of being the world's longest held political prisoner. Kim was captured 43 years and ten months …
Sexual Abuse in Vermont Prisons by Lawyers from the ACLU's National Prison Project filed a motion in federal court on August 25, 1995, asking the judge to issue a preliminary injunction to end physical and sexual abuse of prisoners in Vermont's sex offender behavior modification program. Affidavits filed by several …
New Mexico Blood Money by For two days in February, 1980, New Mexico prisoners seized control of the state penitentiary in Santa Fe. When it was over, 33 prisoners were dead, hundreds more were hurt, the gym was burned to a shell and the cell blocks, offices and other areas …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
SC Takes Weights by Joining Wisconsin, Mississippi and Arizona the South Carolina DOC banned weight lifting in its prisons in early July, 1995. All weight lifting equipment was removed from that state's prisons and will be made available to prison guards and students at the state Criminal Justice Academy. Prior …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
WA DOC Gets $745,366,000 by Paul Wright In the August, 1995, issue of PLN we discussed the myriad anti-prisoner and -defendant legislation passed by the Washington State legislature in its 1995 session. The 1995 session was the longest in state history, running several months past its scheduled closing. Because the …
Qualified Immunity for Hearing Officers by The second circuit court of appeals has reaffirmed that prison disciplinary hearing officers are only entitled to qualified immunity, not absolute immunity from suit. As part of a pilot project the New York Department of Corrections in 1986 instituted the Inmate Hearing Officer program …
Medical Evidence Required to Win Delay Claim by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit has held that in order to prevail on an eighth amendment deliberate indifference to serious medical needs claim, the prisoner plaintiff must submit verifying medical evidence at the summary judgment stage. Larry Beyerbach, a …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Nevada DOC Psychologist Moonlights as Pimp by In the July, 1994, issue of PLN we reported the saga of William Knapp, the chief psychologist of the Nevada DOC whose ambition was to open up a Western theme brothel. We mentioned the case, Knapp v. Miller, 843 F. Supp. 633 (DC …
WA Civil Commitment Law Ruled Unconstitutional by In a tersely worded decision, Fed eral District Court Judge John C. Coughenour drove a stake into the heart of Washington's controversial civil commitment law (Wash. Rev. Code § 71.09). He ruled the statute unconstitutional on its face, citing: "the violation of the …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
OH Visitor Search Illegal by The Franklin County Court of Appeals in Ohio has held that an anonymous letter alleging drug smuggling by a prison visitor is insufficient to constitute "reasonable suspicion" which would authorize a strip search of the visitor. Terry Morris, the warden of the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
TX Death Row Protest by On June 28, 1995, two wings of Texas death row prisoners demonstrated for an hour against a scheduled execution. The prisoners shouted, set fires and banged on the bars. The execution was stayed by a court order. One hundred prisoners have been executed in Texas …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by PA: On August 2, 1995, SCI Graterford prison guards Keith Robertson and Martin Williams were arrested for drug possession with intent to deliver. Both guards were seen, during an investigation, dumping drugs behind vending machines and trash bins within the prison. FL: Israel Martinez was charged …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
From the Editor by Dan Pens Thanksgiving can be a tough holiday to celebrate inside a prison cage. This will be my fifteenth. The first few were mostly about self-pity. As I became more politically conscious, however, Thanksgiving took on a different meaning. It traditionally commemorates starving European conquerors giving …
Brief • November 13, 1995
Filed under: Mail
Volstead v. Frost, WA, Order of Dismissal, Mail Rejection, 1995 d RECEIVED :' • .. "S5 i~CU 13 R,'j 11 01 . ~ ... _: l __ 1 2 "95 NO', 17 P1 :53 ATTORNEY GENE:L\L OF WAS:~n::;Tot~ FILED IN THE U,S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON NOVa 7 …
Brief • November 8, 1995
Filed under: Sexual Assault
Rosado v. US, KY, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 1995
Publication • November 1, 1995
Filed under: Prison Life Magazine
Prison Life magazine, November-December 1995 11 0 7 4470 8660 1 5 November-December 1995 FEATURES 23 Hollywood Goes to Prison What happens when a Hollywood film director and a prison-educated poet team up to make a movie inside San Quentin? Prison Life interviews Taylor Hackford, director of Blood In, Blood …
Brief • October 30, 1995
Filed under: Sexual Assault
West Wegner v. US, KY, Complaint, Sexual Assault BOP, 1995
Brief • October 19, 1995
Filed under: Accidents
Prater v. WA DOC, WA, Judgment, McNeil Island Ferry Boat Accident, 1995 -' -', ; 1 . .. 2 . 3 .' , 1 .' ,- , '.: \.l "" .:",.1 /. ',-,:J ' 4 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR COUNTY OF THURSTON 6 7 8 ALVIN LEE PR~TER …
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