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Loved One in Prison?
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Resources
Loved One in Prison? by As a writer and spouse of an incarcerated man, I am putting together a book to help people deal with the problems involved in having a loved one in prison. Through the initial detainment, trial, jail time and resulting imprisonment, the family on the outside …
Shackling of Con Litigants Discussed
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Filed under: Food, Clothing, Lockdowns, Restraints, Court Access, Court Appearances, Juries, Witnesses
Shackling of Con Litigants Discussed by Joe Woods is an Illinois state prisoner. He sued prison officials claiming his eighth amendment rights were violated when they did not feed him for two days during a lockdown. A jury ruled in favor of the prison official defendants. Woods appealed claiming that …
Court Upholds Silencing of Dan Quayle's Drug Supplier
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Filed under: Retaliation, Retaliation for Media Contact, Retaliatory Segregation, Complaints, Appeals, Qualified Immunity, Access to Media
Court Upholds Silencing of Dan Quayle's Drug Supplier by Brett Kimberlin is a federal prisoner serving a 51 year sentence on drug and weapons charges. He briefly gained a bit of notoriety during the 1988 presidential campaign when he claimed that he had supplied drugs to George Bush's vice-presidential running …
Reviews
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Reviews by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Jail Suicide Update is a quarterly newsletter published by the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives. While focusing primarily on suicide prevention in jails its information is useful for prison administrators seeking to prevent suicides in prison as well as attorneys litigating custodial …
Attorneys File Briefs for Peruvian POW's
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, International Law, Prisoners-International
Attorneys File Briefs for Peruvian POW's by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On October 5, 1993, National Lawyers Guild (NLG) president Peter Erlinder and attorney Leonard Weinglass filed petitions with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Abimael Guzman, the imprisoned chairman of the Communist Party of Peru …
Murder Incorporated
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Row
Murder Incorporated by Bill Dunne By Bill Dunne The U.S. Bureau of Prisons recently designated the U.S. penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana, as the facility at which prisoners sentenced to death by the federal courts will be housed until they are executed by lethal injection. The federal government has never …
From The Editor
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Editorials
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. You will notice that we are still experimenting with different formats. Our goal is to improve our appearance and at the same time make it more readable, just like the "real" magazines. …
Torres v. Dubois, MA, Complaint, Control Unit Conditions, 1994
Brief • January 18, 1994
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement
Torres v. Dubois, MA, Complaint, Control Unit Conditions, 1994 COMMON1. EALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Suffolk, ss. Superior Court Civil Action No. Victor Torres, Corey Glover, Mark MacDougall, Michael Leoney, Basil Williams, William Dinkins, William Robinson and Keith Parkinson, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Larry E. …
Making Con Drink from Toilet States Claim
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Plumbing, Water
Making Con Drink from Toilet States Claim by Making Con Drink From Toilet States Claim Apro se prisoner at the Indiana State Prison, Craig Thomas, filed a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The complaint raised a number of issues, only one of which survived the state's motion …
No Cause of Action in Reversed Disciplinary Sanction
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Disciplinary Hearings, Disciplinary Litigation, Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings), Staff Assistance, Disciplinary Appeals
No Cause of Action in Reversed Disciplinary Sanction by Victor Sowell is a New York state prisoner. He was infracted for inciting a riot, assault and disobeying a direct order. He was transferred to a different prison and placed in segregation prior to his disciplinary hearing. At the hearing Sowell …
Ninth Circuit Approves Oregon Control Unit Conditions
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Food, Exercise, Clothing, Showers, Strip Cells, Bedding, Lighting, Attorney Fee Awards, Restraints, Injunctions
Ninth Circuit Approves Oregon Control Unit Conditions by Paul Wright By Paul Wright This is a case which challenged numerous conditions of confinement at the Oregon State Penitentiary's Disciplinary Segregation Unit (DSU), which is a control unit. The ruling does not bode well for prisoners seeking to question such conditions. …
Classification Chief Liable for Attack
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Protect (General), Qualified Immunity, Supervisory Liability
Classification Chief Liable for Attack by Classification Chief Liable For Attack Israel Nelson was convicted in an Ohio court of assaulting his common law wife and was sent to a medium security prison. His wife contacted him and informed him that her brother, a major cocaine dealer, was plotting to …
Conditions Habeas Requires Administrative Exhaustion
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Medical, Skeletal Disorder, Administrative Exhaustion, Habeas Corpus
Conditions Habeas Requires Administrative Exhaustion by Raleigh Irby is a prisoner at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago. He petitioned the district court for release under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (the habeas corpus statute) because he was not receiving adequate medical treatment for severe congenital disk disease. The …
Common Law Right to Inspect Court Records
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Disclosure of Records
Common Law Right to Inspect Court Records by This is not a prison case but it involves a net maker's suing a competitor for theft of trade secrets. In the course of the litigation various documents were submitted under seal and protective order to the court. That litigation was settled. …
Visitor Cannot Withdraw Consent to Search Once Search Has Begun
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Visitor Searches, Pat Searches, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution
Visitor Cannot Withdraw Consent to Search Once Search Has Begun by Visitor Cannot Withdraw Consent To Search Once Search Has Begun This prison case comes to us via a suppression of evidence hearing in a federal drug prosecution. Arthur Spriggs went to visit a prisoner at the Lorton Reformatory, a …
WI Prisoners Not Entitled to Minimum Wage
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Prison Industries, Federal Statutory Law, Fair Labor Standards Act, Ashurst Summers Act
WI Prisoners Not Entitled to Minimum Wage by In part of the continuing struggle to obtain minimum wages for their labor, five Wisconsin prisoners filed suit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. The Wisconsin prison industries program, under the name of Badger State …
BOP Must Disclose Program Statement
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Medical Records, Disclosure of Records, Federal Statutory Law, Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act
BOP Must Disclose Program Statement by George Cowsen-El is a federal prisoner at Marion, Illinois. He filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) seeking disclosure of BOP program statement 5511.2, which deals with stand up counts. He also sought disclosure, under the Privacy …
MI Hearing Officers Have Absolute Immunity
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Hearing Officers, Drug Testing, Immunity/Liability, Judicial Immunity
MI Hearing Officers Have Absolute Immunity by James Sullivan is a Michigan state prisoner. He was infracted for having a urinalysis test that indicated marijuana use. At his disciplinary hearing he stated he had been using the legal pain killer and anti-inflammatory Ibuprofen, which was sold in the inmate store. …
Bankruptcy Appeal Filed When Mailed
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Appeals, Money/Property, Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy Appeal Filed When Mailed by Three Pennsylvania state prisoners appealed the dismissal of their appeals from bankruptcy court after the district court held the appeal was untimely. Bankruptcy appeals must be filed within ten days, and in this case the prisoners gave their appeals to prison officials within the …
Exposure to Cold Weather States Claim
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Food, Overcrowding, Exposure to Cold
Exposure to Cold Weather States Claim by Ronald Chandler is a Missouri state prisoner. He filed suit claiming that prison officials violated his constitutional rights by providing a dining room too small to accommodate all the prisoners in his housing unit at once; poorly supervising the noisy and chaotic dining …
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