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Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Crime and Punishment in America by Paul Wright Crime And Punishment In America By Paul Wright The October 7, 1992, edition of the Seattle Times reported that in Carson, CA a homeless man had been acquitted by a jury of stealing aluminum cans from a recycling bin. The man was …
Unlawful to Knock Down Handicapped Prisoner by Unlawful To Knock Down Handicapped Prisoner Laneer Winder is a handicapped Illinois pretrial detainee in the Chicago jail. Due to a back injury Winder cannot walk more than short distances and needs leg braces to walk at all. While going from his cell …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Prison Press Reviews by Paul Wright By Paul Wright There are a number of excellent publications that deal with the American prison system. We exchange with most of them and try to inform our readers of these publications by periodically reviewing them. Because we have had a large increase in …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Filed under: Searches, Drug Testing
Prison Drug Test Survey by Drug testing of prison inmates has become a standard practice in federal and state institutions, with hundreds of thousands of urinalysis tests conducted over the course of a year; and a significant portion of the tests turn up positive, according to a major study by …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Medication
California HIV+ Prisoners on Medical Strike by California HIV+ Prisoners On Medical Strike The rate of HIV (the virus believed to cause AIDS infection) in prisons is higher than in all other institutions in the U.S. National studies have shown that prisoners with AIDS live half as long as people …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to our last issue of PLN for this year. This makes 32 consecutive issues of PLN published. This isn't bad in a business where many newsletters, not just prison ones either, count their number of issues in the single digits. …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
BOP Prisoners Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies by PLN recently reported the U.S. Supreme Court decision in McCarthy v. Madigan , 503 US ___, 112 S.Ct. 1081 (1992), which held that federal prisoners did not have to exhaust administrative remedies (the grievance system) prior to filing suit in federal court. In …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Medication Must Be Delivered in Timely Manner by Medication Must be Delivered in Timely Manner Raymond Aswegan is a 70 year old Iowa state prisoner serving a life sentence at the Iowa State Penitentiary. Aswegan has numerous health problems including coronary artery disease, arthritis, obstructive pulmonary disease and a history …
Perotti Needs Help by John Perotti John Perotti, Mansfield, OH On August 7, 1992, MANCI prisoncrats Bill Rachael (unit manager), Terry Knight (SHP Investigator), Mr. Fleming (SHP) and Capt. Jackson and Sgt. Harrell called a prisoner named Jerome Evans to their office and made a deal that if he set …
Contempt Order Appropriate for Consent Decree Violation by Contempt Order Appropriate For Consent Decree Violation In 1978 San Francisco jail prisoners filed suit over jail conditions. In 1982 the parties entered into a consent decree that included a limit on the number of prisoners that could be housed in the …
State Judges Can Be Sued for Injunctive Relief in Federal Court by State Judges Can be Sued for Injunctive Relief in Federal Court Carrol Olson is a Kansas state probationer convicted of issuing a worthless check. Olson sought to appeal his conviction in the Kansas Court of Appeals. The state …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Walla Walla News by The prison chaplain has shut down our Indian group. Stating that we are getting too political. On August 11th, 1992, he called the squad to the chapel, and they surrounded all of the Indians, and asked us to leave the area. Our "Indian" rep from Olympia …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in Their Mail by Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in their Mail David Jolivet is a Utah state prisoner who married Dorothy Pacheco, a member of a prisoner rights group named "Pepper". Prior to marrying Jolivet, Pacheco had been married to another Utah prisoner named …
Overcrowding and Violence in Washington State by Ed Mead Back in 1985 I wrote an article predicting the future impact of Washington State's then recently adopted Sentencing Reform Act (SRA). The article noted that there would be an initial drop in prison populations, followed by a rapid increase until population …
Parolees Have a Right to Bodily Privacy by Parolees Have A Right To Bodily Privacy Afemale parolee in California was ordered to provide a urine sample for drug testing by a male parole officer. While she was in a bathroom stall providing the sample, the male parole officer entered the …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Muslims Entitled to Prayer Oils by Three Michigan state prisoners at the Jackson State Prison filed suit under section 1983 claiming that a policy banning all use of prayer oils to Muslim prisoners violated their first amendment rights. The district court appointed counsel to represent the prisoners. Both parties moved …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Resistance at Lexington by Laura Whitehorn On August 12-14, the first sustained act of resistance by women prisoners in the u.s. federal prison system in 20 years took place. On Wednesday night, August 12, there was an argument between two prisoners in the central yard area ("Central Park") at about …
Transferred Con Has Right to Books of Sending State by AUtah prisoner was subjected to what he claimed was an involuntary out-of-state transfer to an Arizona prison. The transferred prisoner filed a pro se habeas corpus petition in Superior Court of Arizona seeking, inter alia , access to legal research …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Gay Prisoner Entitled to Participate in Religious Services by Paul Phelps is a gay Kentucky state prisoner who sued a volunteer prison chaplain and deputy warden claiming they had violated his first amendment right to practice his religion when they refused to allow him to participate in chapel services. The …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Committee Formed to Defend Abimael Guzman by Abimael Guzman (also known as Chairman Gonzalo), the leader of the Communist Party of Peru, was captured by Peruvian government troops on September 14, 1992, in Lima, Peru. Mr. Guzman had been sought by government troops since 1980, when the PCP initiated the …
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