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Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Prisoners as Workers: Court Defines Applicability of FLSA by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Court Defines Applicability of Fair Labor Standards Act Many years have passed since the era of liberal court rulings in the field of prisoners' rights. These ground-breaking decisions were handed down in the wake of a …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
CEML Update by [CEML is the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown, an anti-control unit group. PLN recently received the following letter from CEML concerning their activities. ] This has been the busiest of times for CEML. First, work continues to prevent the opening of the new control unit at …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Prisoners as Workers in Washington State: New Law Will Increase Exploitation by Ed Mead By Ed Mead The 1993 session of the Washington State Legislature has passed a new law that will dramatically increase the number of prisoners working in this state's institutional industries. Governor Lowry should have signed Senate …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Freedom for Puerto Rican POWs by Today the United States government holds in its custody many Puerto Rican women and men, criminalizing them for having fought for the independence of their country. Like George Washington in his day, they are anti-colonial combatants. Washington's contemporary, Thomas Paine, defended in Common Sense …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Women Prisoners Hold AIDS Walkathon by The April 24, 1993," Fight AIDS" Walkathon, held at the women's maximum security Shawnee Unit of the federal prison in Marianna, FL, was a great success. Eighty women participated, walking 1636 laps, over 300 miles. Over 90% of the prisoners joined in the effort, …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
The Collapse of the Brazilian Penal System by Jayme Brenner By Jayme Brenner [Editors Note: This article was translated by Paul Wright from El Dia Latinoamericano , a regional bi-weekly published in Mexico. While most American readers of PLN are familiar with the prison crisis facing the US, the fact …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Grievance Appeals Necessary by Leck II, Jack Being incarcerated now for over nine years between the federal BOP and the state of Alaska, I have found that many prisoners who file grievances do not follow up on them. Many get "pissed off" and go with that attitude when initially filing …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
News from Florida by M L News From Florida It seems that the governor of this state [Florida] is trying to pass a 25¢ tax on every pack of cigarettes to raise money for the construction 21,000 additional prison beds to keep the violent offenders behind bars longer and, if …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
MI Phone Rip Off by B K I have read the article which appeared in PLN (Vol. 4, number 4) by Paul Wright about the prison telephone system. I was amazed to learn that the Washington DOC telephone contract states that the commission checks are sent to each institution and …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Editorial by Ed Mead RESIST GRANT: In my last editorial comments I waxed eloquent on the increased cost of our current publishing format and the need for us to obtain new readers in order to sustain the cost of these increased pages. More paying subscribers, I pointed out, would ensure …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Solidarity with Revolutionary Prisoners by Solidarity With Revolutionary Prisoners We are a committee formed by two Italian political groups (Il Bollettino and Solidarieta Proletaria), which have been focusing on revolutionary political prisoners for a number of years, since the early eighties. Our activity of support for political prisoners not disassociated …
Brief • August 23, 1993
Filed under: Interpreters
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Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Ad-Seg WACs Do Not Create Liberty Interest by PLN recently reported Farr v. Blodgett, [PLN, Vol. 4, No. 6] in which the district court for the Eastern District of Washington held that the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) created a due process liberty interest for Washington state prisoners to remain out …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Default Appropriate for Obstructing Discovery by This is not a prison case but a personal injury suit concerning the faulty design of Suzuki Samurais. We are reporting it in PLN because obstruction of the discovery process by litigants is quite common and this is a good case explaining the sanctions …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
No Cause of Action for Defamation by Two Ohio prisoners approached a unit supervisor to discuss a cell change; one of them sought to be moved into a cell occupied solely by another prisoner. The supervisor then either directly told them or implied that the cell's occupant was a homosexual. …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Federal Tort Claims Act Requires Exhaustion by William McNeil was a federal prisoner who was without counsel when he filed his suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). The complaint sought money damages arising from his alleged injury by the U.S. Public Health Service. McNeil submitted a claim for …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Dismissal Error for Failing to Obey Local Rules by Ronald Kilgo is a Georgia state prisoner. When he was in the Fulton County Jail he filed suit under § 1983 because jail officials had repeatedly refused his requests for medical treatment of a back injury and had subjected him to …
Law Librarian Liable for Access Violations by A Lorton prisoner at the Occoguan Facility brought suit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988 and the first, fifth, sixth and fourteenth amendments to the constitution. The complaint alleged a pattern of exclusion and harassment in connection with his use of the …
Section 1988 Attorney Fee Awards Explained by In two cases involving attorney fee awards for class action prison civil rights suits the ninth circuit court of appeals clarified and explained the standards district courts should follow when they award attorney fees to the prevailing party. In Gates prisoners at Vacaville, …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Service Complete When Delivered to Prison Officials by Brian Faile is a Nevada state prisoner. He sued the Upjohn company claiming that their product Xanax, a prescription drug, caused him depression and violent outbursts which resulted in his being severely wounded by police and imprisoned. The district court dismissed Faile's …
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