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Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments My, how time's fun when you're having flies. Here we are opening the new year with the start of our fourth volume of the PLN. It doesn't seem that long. Publishing the newsletter has been a good experience for Paul and me. We've already …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Generalized Written Statement of Hearing Committee Accepted, Where Evidence Clear by A disciplinary hearing committee's written decision saying it based its finding of guilt on "written reports and testimonies presented at the hearing" was constitutionally acceptable where that information could be interpreted only as either showing the charges (of verbal …
Brief • December 18, 1992
Shaw v. Department of Corrections, WA, Complaint, Staff Race Discrimination, 1992 -. '-. STATE OFFiCE. Vi' .. RISK MAH,AGEMEt~ 2 3 ~ DEC 4 7 RODNEY SHAW. and PATRICK STEVENS. Plaintiffs. 8 9 10 11 14 ) ) STATE OF WASHINGTON. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, McNeil Island Facility. ) . r>efendant, …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
From the Hole to the Street by Laurie Bembenek Whatever happened to the practice of gradual reintegration of prisoners back into society? Corrections rhetoric for years has included the concept that gradual reintegration is conducive to better psychological adjustment to freedom, thereby reducing recidivism. Theoretically, inmates were to be carefully …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
BOP Prisoners Don't Need to Exhaust Administrative Remedies by BOP Prisoners Don't Need To Exhaust Administrative Remedies Donald Cooney is a federal prisoner who was infracted for insolence to a staff member, found guilty and removed from his job position as a sanction. Cooney began an administrative review of the …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Death Penalty Foes Boo Pennsylvania Governor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Robert Casey is the governor of Pennsylvania. He claims to be "pro-life" because he opposes a woman's right to choose abortion and has signed into law one of the more restrictive abortion laws in the U.S. (which was …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Prisoner Entitled to Appointment of Substitute Counsel by Richard Rayes is a Nebraska state prisoner. Rayes filed suit under § 1983 claiming prison guards had slammed a steel door on his hand breaking a finger, that medical staff refused to treat him, and guards confiscated his finger splints on three …
Jail Inmates Entitled to Safe Cells by Jail Inmates Entitled To Safe Cells Two prisoners at the Birmingham, Alabama, jail committed suicide and their estates filed suit claiming violations of the detainees' eighth and fourteenth amendment rights. Both men hanged themselves with bed sheets hung from an iron bar across …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Filed under: Organizing, Crime
Officials Seek to End Politicization of Crime Debate by Hundreds of public officials have signed a statement urging political candidates to refrain from "appeals to base human instincts and demagoguery" when discussing crime this election year. Furthermore, the statement criticizes past approaches to crime control, which it says have relied …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Article Clarification by J.D., Lompoc, CA Received your August issue and as good as ever, but one story had me a little uncomfortable. The article about the Lompoc Prison Strike...the source Out of Time (3543 18th St. San Francisco, CA) [ PLN , vol. 3, #8 August] The United States …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Prison Slave Labor in the U.S. by Joe Mowish Prison Slave Labor In The U.S. By Joe Mowish [The following is a letter to Business Week concerning an article they published on prison slave labor in China. ] Ihave read your article of December 30, 1991 and I agree the …
Hearing Officer Must Base Guilt Finding on Evidence by Hearing Officer Must Base Guilt Finding On Evidence Frank Zavaro is a New York state prisoner who was infracted for participating in a riot and assault on guards. A riot had broken out in a mess hall with several guards being …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Texas Death Row Prisoners on Hunger Strike by Texas Death Row Prisoners On Hunger Strike Since July 19, 1992, more that 50 condemned prisoners on Texas's death row commenced a chain hunger strike. They are fasting in pairs for three days at a time, consuming only liquids, when the strike …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Resources for Incarcerated Parents by The Child Custody Advocacy Services (CHICAS) Project is a part of the Family Reunification component of the Pacific Oaks Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents. The project offers child custody and placement advocacy to jailed or imprisoned parents and their families. Up to 38% of …
Beaten Jail Prisoner Entitled to Counsel by James Swofford is a pre-trial detainee in the Franklin County (IL) jail charged with aggravated sexual assault. Upon being booked into the jail Swofford was placed in a cell with ten other prisoners. During the night they beat, kicked and stomped Swofford, urinated …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Physical Evidence Need Not be Preserved For Hearing by Physical Evidence Need Not Be Preserved For Hearing Eddie Griffin is a Pennsylvania state prisoner. During a cell search prison guards found about 15 gallons of fermented beverages in his cell. The guards ordered Griffin to flush the liquids down the …
Medical Treatment Cannot Be Delayed to Coerce Confession by Medical Treatment Cannot Be Delayed To Coerce Confession Wesley Taylor is a Missouri state prisoner who suffered a ruptured appendix. Upon arriving at the prison hospital, vomiting blood and in extreme pain, the prison doctor asked him if he had swallowed …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
U.S. Slammed on Death Penalty by While a growing number of countries are abolishing the death penalty as a form of justice for convicted criminals, the United States is executing convicts at a faster rate than ever before, the head of Amnesty International recently said. America's insistence on upholding the …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Government Entitled to Only One Qualified Immunity Appeal by Government Entitled To Only One Qualified Immunity Appeal In Mitchell v. Forsyth , 472 US 511, 105 S. Ct. 2806 (1982), the US Supreme Court clarified its prior rulings on qualified immunity. Government officials performing discretionary functions (such as prison officials, …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Magistrates Cannot Dismiss Civil Rights Suits by Johnnie Reynaga is a California state prisoner who filed a § 1983 suit against a public defender, district attorney, deputy district attorney and state trial judge seeking damages and injunctive relief on the ground they had denied him his right to a fair …
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