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Prison Officials Liable for Holding Inmate Past Release Date by Gentry Slone is a Missouri state prisoner. He was sentenced to prison and once in prison his sentencing judge suspended Slone's sentence, effective December 21, 1989, and placed him on probation. The state did not appeal the judges order which …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Criminal Justice System Unfair to Radical Activist by Jon George By Jon George "Toiling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail, An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail." Bob Dylan, Chimes of Freedom In 1978, Ed Mead said, "I feel a lot of interior conflicts. …
Unsworn Declarations Admissible by This is a case that will be useful to prisoners in control units or smaller prisons where public notary services are difficult to obtain. Sam Williams is a Michigan state prisoner convicted of murder who was transferred from a max to medium security prison. After a …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments With this issue we start our fourth calendar year of printing PLN (we began our fourth publishing year back in January). Paul and I have been looking back on what we've been able to accomplish during this period and we feel pretty good about …
Comic Book Censorship Overturned by Everett Lyon is an Iowa state prisoner. He ordered several religious comic books which prison officials censored claiming they would be "disruptive and produce violence" because they were allegedly "anti-catholic and blatantly bigoted." After exhausting his administrative remedies Lyon filed suit under § 1983 claiming …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Minn. Prison Signs Contract for Puerto Rican Inmates by Minn. Prison signs Contract for Puerto Rican Inmates St. Paul, Minn. - about 500 prisoners from Puerto Rico will come to Minnesota as early as this month under a deal that finally will fill a privately operated prison in Appleton built …
State Liable for County Jail Overcrowding by Jail prisoners in the Harris County Jail, Texas, filed suit against county and state officials claiming that overcrowding at the jail violated the eighth amendment. The district court found that it did and that both state and county officials had acted with deliberate …
Nominal Damages Awarded in Prison Rape Case by Four Missouri state prisoners were repeatedly raped by other prisoners. Before and after the rapes they were unable to check into Protective Custody (PC). They filed suit against prison officials claiming the rapes violated their eighth amendment rights. After a trial, the …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Filed under: Police
24 Cops Killed in First Half of 1992 by FBI Director William S. Sessions announced that 24 law enforcement officer were killed feloniously in the line of duty during the first six months of 1992, a sharp reduction from the 44 officer slain during the first half of 1991. Another …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Death Row Prisoners Can Marry by Roger Buehl is a Pennsylvania state prisoner on death row. In 1990 Buehl requested permission for a special one time visit in order to marry his girlfriend, Deborah Ayres. Prison officials denied the request citing a 1985 incident where Ayres had been caught smuggling …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Change in IFP Status Does Not Require Fee Payment by Michael Murphy is a Missouri state prisoner who filed suit claiming his religious rights had been infringed by prison officials. At the time he filed suit he earned $30 a month at his prison job and had $53 in his …
Inquiry Stepped up in Georgia Prison Sex Case by Authorities in Georgia said they have intensified an investigation into alleged sexual abuse at a Georgia women's prison after 14 current and former state corrections employees were indicted on rape and sexual assault charges. A grand jury returned the indictments after …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Confiscation of Law Books States Claim by Tyrone Chavers is a Wisconsin state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 after prison officials confiscated his lawbooks. This case is the district court's ruling on Chavers' In Forma Pauperis (IFP) request. The defendants had not yet been served in the case. …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Denial of Winter Clothing Cruel and Unusual by In February, 1990, several Iowa prisoners were placed outdoors without hats or gloves for an hour while guards searched their living unit. The temperature was about 30 degrees F. The prisoners did not suffer any long term injury from the experience. The …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Article Clarification Revisited by RK by R.K., McNeil Island, WA In response to J.D., Lompoc CA, "Article Clarification" Vol. 3 #12, December 1992: I understand J.D. being pissed off about 80% of the population not taking part in the strike. But when I think back to all the strikes I …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Peruvian Political Prisoners Mistreated by Paul Wright In past issues of PLN we have reported on events in Peru affecting the political prisoners of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP). In May of 1992 the Peruvian government stormed the Canto Grande maximum security prison killing and wounding dozens of PCP …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
NYC Claims Prisoners Shoot Themselves to File Suit by New York City commissioners claim that for the last several years prisoners have paid jail guards to smuggle guns in to them, whereupon they shoot themselves and then sue the city for failing to protect them. A city official claims "There …
Wisconsin Lacks Adequate State Remedies for Due Process Violations by Varees Smith is a Wisconsin state prisoner. He was infracted for allegedly charging another prisoner to do legal work. He filed suit under § 1983 claiming his due process rights were violated when a disciplinary hearing was held without notice …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
AT&T Exploits Prison Labor by The phone company has found a way to dump union workers, save big money and exploit the labor of prisoners, all at once. According to reports from the Communications Workers, AT&T is contracting out telemarketing jobs to firms that provide labor practically free through the …
Release Not Appropriate Relief for Beatings by Samuel Brown is a New York state prisoner. Brown was convicted of three counts of felony murder arising from an armored car robbery in upstate New York by the Revolutionary Armed Task Force. Brown became an FBI informant and was later tried and …
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