Skip navigation

Search

71925 results
Page 3067 of 3597. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 3063 3064 3065 3066 3067 3068 3069 3070 3071 ... 3593 3594 3595 3596 3597 | Next »

AA Probation Requirement Illegal for Atheist by In the May, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Warner v. Orange County Dept. of Probation, 827 F. Supp. 261 (SD NY 1993) which refused to dismiss a probationers claim that being forced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings as a condition of …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Book Review: Civil Liability in Criminal Justice by HE Barrineau Book review by H.E. Barrineau III This 108 page book provides a minimalist and simplistic, but quite broad overview of § 1983 litigation. It is aimed at criminal justice employees who are likely to be sued. The book is liberally …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
FL Prisoner Has Right to Die by In 1972 Florida prisoner Michael Costello filed a lawsuit that eventually turned into a class action suit that resulted in improving living conditions, court access and medical care for state prisoners. Governor Lawton Chiles estimated that the costs to the state for litigating …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
TDCJ Selling Counterfeit Meat by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice(TDCJ) is getting into the fast food business. This is a new and different type of fast food, though. What makes it a fast is how fast prisoners whisk their trays to the garbage can to dump the fake soy-based …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Violence Increases in Fed Prisons by BOP records show an increase of violence at the five older U.S. Penitentiaries at Atlanta, Leavenworth, Lewisburg, Lompoc and Terre Haute. Statistics from the two newer prisons at Florence and Allenwood are not yet available. BOP records show that prisoner assaults on guards increased …
PA Class Action Settlement Published by The October, 1994, issue of PLN reported that on August 12, 1994, attorneys representing all Pennsylvania state prisoners had reached a settlement with prison officials of that state regarding almost every aspect of prison conditions in that state. The district court has published the …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Books Available: The Penitentiary in Crisis: From Accomodation to Riot in NM by Mark Calvin The author is a former New Mexico assistant attorney general who was involved in investigating the causes and effects of the Santa Fe prison riot in 1980. The book takes a fairly objective analysis of …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
SC Prisoners Protest Haircut Policy by In February, 1995, Michael Moore, a prison administrator from Texas, was appointed head of the South Carolina DOC. He promptly implemented the Aget tough on prisoners policies of recently elected Republican governor David Beasley. To date this has included cutting back on work release …
Unprovoked Assault States Claim by The sixth circuit court of appeals held that an unprovoked assault by Ohio prison guards states a claim for an eighth amendment violation. In doing so, the court rejected the prison guards' contention that unprovoked assaults do not, as a matter of law, state an …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Work, Chain Gangs
AL Brings Back Chain Gangs by Ron Jones, commissioner of the Alabama DOC, has announced that it has ordered 300 sets of leg irons to the tune of $17,000 so prisoners can be put to work for the first 90 days of their sentences. Jones is carrying out a directive …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Reviews, Organizing
The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement (Book Review) by Mark Cummins This is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on San Quentin state prison and highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical prisoner ideology …
Denial of Witnesses Violates Due Process by A federal district court in New York has held that a prisoner's due process rights were violated at a disciplinary hearing when the hearing officer refused to call a guard as a witness and failed to interview the guard to determine what his …
Retaliatory Infraction States Claim by An Illinois district court has reaffirmed that prisoners retain a first amendment right to complain about prison conditions without fear of being subjected to retaliation by prison officials. Selma Geder, an Illinois state prisoner, filed numerous administrative grievances complaining about prison conditions. In retaliation for …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
9th Cir. Upholds Attorney Fee Award by This is not a prison case per se. It involves the ninth circuit court of appeals upholding an award of attorney fees of $66,535 in a case where the plaintiff only recovered nominal damages of $1. Because prison litigation often involves small or …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Books Available: Cages of Steel by Ward Churchill Due to a shortage of space we are just giving short announcements to readers as to which books are available that may be of interest. The brevity of the review is no reflection on the quality of the book, just a matter …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
4th Cir. Clarifies IFP Dismissal Standard by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit has limited the discretion of district courts to dismiss suits filed in forma pauperis (IFP) on grounds of frivolousness where the court believes the complaint is untimely. The court also discussed when a cause of …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Book Review: Prison Violence in America by M Braswell by M. Braswell, R. Montgomery and L. Lombardy. The book opens with a letter from George Jackson, excerpted from Soledad Brothers. What follows is a rather detailed and scholarly examination of numerous aspects of prison violence. Included are chapters on the …
CA Families Fight to Maintain Bonds by Willie Wisely Hundreds of family members, loved ones, friends, and advocates converged on the California Department of Corrections headquarters April 27, 1995, to express their support for family ties and opposition to a proposed administrative regulation which would eliminate family visits for a …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Supreme Court Turns Back Parole Challenge by In the July, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Morales v. California DOC, 16 F.3d 1001 (9th Cir. 1994). The appeals court held that a California statute that was modified to allow for parole hearings every three years instead of every year violated …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by WA: Dan Hughes, the city maintenance supervisor of West Richland used a work crew from the Coyote Ridge Correctional Center to fix the irrigation system, clean a forklift and paint a fuel tank at his home in 1992 and 1993. The prisoner work crew was under …
Page 3067 of 3597. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 3063 3064 3065 3066 3067 3068 3069 3070 3071 ... 3593 3594 3595 3596 3597 | Next »