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Agreement Reached in State-Wide Pennsylvania Prison Case by On Aug. 12, 1994, lawyers representing the prisoners announced that they have reached a settlement with the State of Pennsylvania in Austin v. Lehman, the state-wide prison conditions case filed in November, 1990. The agreement has been presented to U.S. District Judge …
WA DOC Negligence Caused Prisoner Death by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the July, 1994, issue of PLN we reported on the death of Gertrude Barrow, a prisoner at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) at Purdy. On May 16, 1994. Barrow died of a perforated ulcer with …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
PR Prisoners Rebel by On July 10, 1994, more than 8,000 prisoners in 16 prisons across the US occupied island of Puerto Rico went on strike to protest overcrowding and bad living conditions. Puerto Rico's 34 prisons hold almost 11,000 prisoners. For the first ten days of the strike prisoners …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Eleventh Anniversary of Marion Lockdown by Tom Silverstein I was asked to put together an article to tell my side of the story of how the cruel and unjustifiable lockdown at Marion kicked off eleven years ago. I am supposedly one of the two reasons (excuses) BOP officials gave to …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Federal Public Defenders Govt. Employees for FTCA by Joseph Sullivan is a federal prisoner who filed suit against the two federal public defenders who represented him in a parole revocation proceeding. Sullivan initially filed suit in federal court under the court's diversity jurisdiction. In a previous decision the seventh circuit …
Retaliation Case Dismissal Reversed by Muriel Black is an Illinois state prisoner. In 1984 he filed suit under § 1983 claiming that prison officials had violated his constitutional rights by filing false disciplinary charges against him, harassing him, etc., after he complained of racial discrimination at the prison. In 1985 …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Pepper Spray Hazardous by The July 2, 1994, issue of the Seattle Times reported that troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) will no longer be sprayed with pepper spray as part of their training. The change in policy came after patrol Lt. Harold Frear filed a complaint with the …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
New York Police Falsify Evidence by Dale Gardner Like any organized criminal enterprise, the New York State Police relied on the code of silence to protect them from exposure. The silence was broken in 1991 when a former state trooper, David Harding, applied for a job with the CIA. Harding …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Florida Prisoners Have Right to Attend Forfeiture Trial by A Florida state prisoner whose property was the subject of a forfeiture proceeding while he was imprisoned had a right under the due process clause of the Florida Constitution to be present at the trial, the Florida Court of Appeals for …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
El Salvador Prison System in Crisis by On August 4, 1994, 300 prisoners at the San Miguel prison in El Salvador took a judge and his secretary hostage to protest prison conditions. The hostages were freed a few hours later after judicial officials signed an agreement to study the prisoners' …
Prisoners Have Right to Prompt Sentence Computation by David Plumb is an Oregon state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 claiming that his right to due process under the fourteenth amendment and his right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment were violated by …
$153,400 Awarded to Estate for Stabbing Death by $153,400 Awarded To Estate for Stabbing Death An Ohio state prisoner was stabbed to death in a prison kitchen by another prisoner. The victim's estate sued the Ohio DOC claiming that because of inadequate security procedures with regards to kitchen knives and …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
No Immunity for Delay of Medical Care by Willie Harris was a pretrial detainee in the Coweta County, Georgia, jail. When he was arrested his hand was injured by tight handcuffs. Upon arrival at the jail, on September 6, 1990, he requested treatment for the injury. He was seen by …
Correct Jury Instructions Needed for Beating Trial by Keith Howard is a Missouri state prisoner. Upon returning to the prison after an outside medical visit, Howard was ordered to strip for a search. He refused and was thrown to the floor by several guards, hand-cuffed, forcibly stripped and taken to …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Bias in Military Death Penalty by The Vol. 5, No. 6, issue of PLN reported on studies showing the new federal death penalty was racially biased. A recent report issued by the Death Penalty Information Center notes that of the six men (three soldiers, two marines and an airman) awaiting …
MO Court's HIV Disclosure Rule Struck Down by Judges in Cole County, Missouri enacted a local court rule requiring that jail officials inform them, in camera, whether a prisoner scheduled for a court appearance had an infectious disease or carried the HIV virus believed to cause AIDS. The purported reason …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
German Court Legalizes Soft Drugs by On April 28, 1994, the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany's highest court, ruled that possession of small quantities of hashish and marijuana should no longer be the subject of criminal penalties. The ruling came as the court affirmed the 1992 lower court ruling by Lubeck …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
$1 Million for Boiling Prisoner by Vaughn Dortch is a California prisoner held at the Pelican Bay prison control unit. After suffering mental deterioration Dortch covered himself in fecal matter. The administration ordered guards to wash it off and the guards took Dortch to the prison infirmary where they placed …
Seg Prisoner Entitled to Competent Hearing Help by Kenney Nix is a South Carolina prisoner. He was charged with violations of prison rules, placed in administrative segregation and found guilty of the charges at a disciplinary hearing. Prior to the hearing, Nix was assigned a staff member to assist him …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
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