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Guard Sues Over Discrimination Order by This case involves a black California prison guard, Ali Moyo, who sued his superiors in the California Department of Corrections (CDC) after they fired him for protesting against and refusing to cooperate with the defendants practice of allowing white prisoners, but not black prisoners, …
CDC Must Establish Hobby Program by Lassen County Superior Court Judge J. Harvey issued a writ of habeas corpus on August 16, 1994, which ordered the California Department of Corrections (CDC) to establish a hobby program and store materials at the California Correctional Center (CCC) at Susanville. Steve Yakle, a …
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Exposure to Cold Illegal, Rectal Search Upheld by Ronald Del Raine is a long time PLN supporter and an even longer term prisoner at the US Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois. In 1984 Del Raine filed suit claiming that assorted guards and officials at Marion had violated his eighth amendment rights …
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CT Phone Suit Filed by The Connecticut Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) has filed suit against the Connecticut DOC over a phone monitoring system recently implemented by the DOC. Washington v. Meachum, Case No. CV-94-0534616S was certified as a state wide class action suit on May 3, 1994, in the state …
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No Immunity for Sweat Lodge Denial by Ralph Thomas is a Nebraska state prisoner. He filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that prison officials had violated his right to religious freedom by denying him daily access to the prisons sweat lodge for prayer. He claimed this denial also …
Visitor Search Held Illegal by Lenora Daugherty frequently visited her husband at the Turney Center, a Tennessee state prison. Prior to one of Daughertys visits a prison guard told the warden that he had received information that she was smuggling drugs into the prison. The warden also received two letters …
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PA Limits Suits Against Defense Attorneys by Dale Gardner The malpractice suit against her was "a mere buzzing fly," said Patricia Dugan, a criminal defense lawyer in Philadelphia, PA. So rather than contact her insurance company and watch her rates rise she asked a friend to handle the case. Her …
No Immunity for Visitor Strip Search by Tina Spear regularly visited her boyfriend, Daniel Wade, at the Northpoint Training center, a Kentucky state prison. Upon arriving for a visit on Christmas day in 1990 prison officials told her she would not be allowed to visit Wade unless she submitted to …
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Brutality Protested by On October 10, 1994, more than 25 protesters marched on the Oak Park Heights state prison in Minnesota The demonstrators entered the prison lobby and demanded to meet with warden Erik Skon, who declined. The march was organized by the Love & Rage Anarchist Federation of Minneapolis …
AZ Passes Repressive Prison Laws by As part of the national trend towards bashing prisoners the 41st session of the Arizona legislature recently passed a number of repressive laws designed to make life harder for prisoners as well as restrict their access to the courts. The laws went into effect …
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Revolutionary Literature at Half-Price by Pathfinder Press prints and sells revolutionary literature on a variety of subjects, including the works of Lenin, Marx, Trotsky, Malcolm X, the American labor movement, Latin America, Africa, and more. As a special program for prisoners, Pathfinder offers all the materials in their catalog at …
Fear and Loathing in California by Willie Wisely As the campaign of hatred against people in prison reaches a frenzied crescendo in this era of reactionary politics, several draconian measure were passed by California legislators in the 1994 session vying with each other for the title, "Toughest On Crime." A …
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Contract With America = Contract on Prisoners by Paul Wright In late September, 1994, while running for Congress Republican congressional candidates signed Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America" which included detailed proposals in the form of draft legislation to modify federal criminal law in important respects. It is dubbed the "Taking …
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Texas DOC to Ban Tobacco Use by Texas DOC To Ban Tobacco Use On November 18, 1994, Texas prison officials voted to ban all tobacco use throughout the states criminal justice system. The ban, unanimously approved by the state Board of Criminal Justice, covers all tobacco products and all property …
Rikers Island Detainees in Struggle by Rikers Island is the largest penal colony in the world, holding more than 19,000 prisoners on a 410 acre island. Most of them are New York City pretrial detainees not convicted of any crime. The number of detainees is expected to increase to as …
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FL DOC Industries Fined by From the Editor Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. In the September issue I asked what readers thought of our News in Brief column and whether we should keep it or eliminate it. About 20 readers responded and all want to keep it, …
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Unconstitutional Jail Conditions Don't Need to be Relitigated by Chris Hall was a pretrial detainee in the Little Rock, Arkansas, city jail. He filed suit under 42 U.S.A. § 1983 claiming that jail conditions had violated his constitutional rights. Arrested for shoplifting, Hall spent 40 days in the jail, confined …
No Interlocutory Appeal From Judgement by In the July, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Littlewind v. Rayl, 839 F.Supp. 1369 (ND 1994). The case involved a North Dakota state prisoner who, after assaulting a guard, was put into four point restraints, naked, for seven hours, 23 hours in three …
MS Jail Officials Held in Contempt by In l978 prisoners at the Madison County jail in Mississippi filed a class action suit challenging conditions at the jail. Prior to going to trial the parties negotiated a consent decree incorporating a wide range of issues, everything from racial discrimination to the …
Tight Handcuffs State Claim by Ronald Davidson is a New York state prisoner. While being transported to the segregation unit of another prison he was handcuffed and shackled. The devices were so tight that they cut into Davidson s flesh and reduced circulation into his hands and feet, causing swelling. …
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