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Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by WA: Dean Wilkins, a Kitsap county jail guard, resigned on January 20, 1995, after county detectives investigated a complaint that he had had consensual sex with a female prisoner at the jail. The complaint was made by another prisoner who witnessed the incident. FL: In the …
Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. Recently the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Prison Law Project (PLP) held elections in order to elect five prisoners to its steering committee board. I was nominated for one of the slots and …
Brief • April 15, 1995
Horton v. Williams, WA, Cohen Declaration 1, Pepper Spray Youth, 1995 1 2 3 THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN 4 5 6 A?R 1 9 7 PF?()JECf 8 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 10 11 12 13 JAMES HORTON, et al., on behalf of …
Brief • April 6, 1995
Filed under: Medical, Failure to Treat
Francis v. US, VA, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 1995
Brief • March 30, 1995
Filed under: Workplace Injury
Combess v. Pride, FL, Attorney Letter, Work Injury, 1995 303 State Road 26 Melrose, Florida 32666 904-475-1357 904-475-5968 (Fax) MIDDLETON, PRUGH & EDMONDS, P.A. ATTORNEYS AT LAW JOHN D. MIDDLETON R. MITCHELL PRUGH WENDY M. EDMONDS March 30, 1995 Mr. Floyd Glisson P.R.I.D.E., Inc. 611 Druid Road East, Suite 175 …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
BOP Good Time Ploy Exposed by Over the years has repeatedly gotten inquiries from readers in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inquiring about rumors that the amount of statutory good time they were eligible to earn under the new sentencing guidelines would be increased from 56 days a year …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
No Liberty Interest in GA Parole Rules by In the April, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Sultenfuss v. Snow, 7 F.3d 1543 (l1th Cir 1993). Stephen Sultenfuss is a Georgia state prisoner serving sentences for two drug convictions. Under the rules of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole …
New Trial for Improper Voir Dire by California state prisoner Floyd Scott claimed that prison officials used excessive force in physically restraining him after he attacked a guard. The case went to trial and the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant prison officials. Scott appealed claiming that …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
BOP Guard Killed by A report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution states that the US penitentiary in Atlanta is the most dangerous federal prison in the country with five prisoners killed in a year. During a May, 1994, tour by BOP director Kathleen Hawk, one prisoner stabbed and killed another. …
Attorney General Subject to Suit by Attorney General Wendy Ritz ordered the court reporter not to prepare the transcript, despite the court order to the contrary, because she thought the petition would be dismissed on procedural grounds. The state court called the AGs conduct "outrageous" and ordered the attorney generals …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
WA Special Commitment Center Failing by In 1989 Washington State passed a controversial "civil commitment" law to allow for the indefinite incarceration of "dangerous sexual predators." Opponents of this law point out that although those who are determined to be sexual predators are confined to a "treatment center" until they …
6th Cir. Rules on BOP Phone Suit PI by The March and November, 1994, issues of PLN both contained extensive articles about Washington v. Reno, the nationwide class action suit that challenges numerous aspects of the Inmate Telephone System (ITS) in the process of being installed at federal Bureau of …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
WI Guard Indicted for Mail Obstruction by In the October, 1994, issue of PLN we reported that U.S. Postal investigators were investigating the discovery of large quantities of prisoner mail found in the garbage at the Waupun Correctional Institution in Wisconsin. On December 8, 1994, the US Attorney for the …
AG Mail Must be Treated as Legal Mail by Rakim Muhammad is a Michigan state prisoner. He challenged a Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) policy of treating mail to prisoners from the state Attorney generals office as ordinary mail, i.e. opened outside the addressees presence, rather than as legal mail …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
FBI Investigates CDC Shootings by In the January, 1995, issue of we ran an article about the shooting death of a San Quentin prisoner by California Department of Corrections (CDC) guards. In the past ten years CDC guards have shot and killed 36 prisoners, including three since September, 1994. That …
Police Report Inadmissible in Rape Case by William Miller is a Michigan state prisoner. He filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment when a prison supervisor and two guards were informed he was in danger, did nothing to protect him …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Ohio Offshore Industries Project by Dan Cahill In the state governments effort to market prisoners as cheap labor it has unveiled the Ohio Offshore Industries Project. This marketing campaign offers companies a vast pool of cheap prison labor as an attractive alternative to foreign based production. Companies have been moving …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Filed under: Family, Marriage
MI DOC Visitor Ban Overturned by Randy Kelley is a Michigan state prisoner who was infracted and found guilty by a prison disciplinary board of sexual misconduct, namely, cupping his hands over his wifes breasts during a visit. As a result, both he and his wife were given a permanent …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
CA Prison Guards - A Potent Political Interest Group by Dan Pens By Dan Pens There is a well fed political interest group feasting at the California public trough, and most taxpayers are unaware of the huge growth in this creatures appetite and political clout. It has grown from a …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Prison Weight Lifting is a Nonsense Issue by Paul Wright Across the country Republicans have seized on prison weigh-lifting as a no risk political "issue" to make big hoopla over. The corporate media has abetted this by running sensationalist stories of prisoners bulking up by pumping iron. So far Mississippi …
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