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Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
VA Builds More Prisons by A projected 38 percent increase in the states prison population within the next five years has prompted Governor Douglas Wilder to propose a $111.7 million prison construction project. The proposal includes construction of a 1,046 bed women's prison, a 697 bed men's prison, a 100 …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
New Video Tape Available by Last October over a thousand people attended the International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations in the USA. The event, sponsored and organized by a coalition of 30 organizations, was part of the counter-Columbus quincentennial activities throughout the country. The Tribunal put the U.S. …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Right to Religious Diet Clearly Established by Warren Bass is a Jewish New York state prisoner. Despite the recommendation of the prison rabbi that Bass was sincere in his religious beliefs and should receive a kosher diet, prison officials refused to provide Bass with a kosher diet. Bass filed suit …
Infraction Suits Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies by L. Markham is an Indiana state prisoner. He lost 243 days of earned good time in a series of disciplinary proceedings. Under Indiana DOC regulations prisoners can appeal the loss of good time credits to prison officials within 10 days of the hearing, …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Three Strikes and You're Out, Again by Ed Mead Their baaack! And this time with both barrels. Ida (now Republican state representative from Mercer Island) Ballasiotes and her fellow victims' rights cronies have reintroduced the so-called "three strikes and you're out" initiative. In addition to Citizens' Initiative 593, this group …
Punishment of Pretrial Detainees Unlawful by Spencer Parker is a pretrial detainee in Texas. While awaiting trial in the jail's minimum security section he was moved to the violent offenders section in retaliation for arguing with a guard. As a result of the transfer he was assaulted and lost his …
Damages Awarded to HIV+ Jail Prisoner by Louise Nolley is an HIV+ prisoner held in the Erie County Jail in New York. She filed suit under § 1983 contending that various jail practices violated her rights. The objectionable practices included: automatically segregating HIV+ prisoners; denying HIV+ prisoners law library and …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
NY Corrections Commissioner Pleads Guilty by William Jenkins, a former assistant corrections commissioner pleaded guilty in January to charges that he extorted money from a janitorial supplies company which served the city's jails. Jenkins, who was responsible for the Corrections Department's assets management, is scheduled to be sentenced March 19, …
Blind Pretrial Detainees Entitled to Treatment by Anthony Harris was a pretrial detainee in the Cook county jail (Chicago). He is legally blind. While at the jail he repeatedly requested medical treatment for his blindness and frequent eye infections. He also requested special handicapped housing to prevent dangerous situations. Jail …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor Welcome to another issue of PLN. We are still working on our 1994 prison calendar and we still need graphics and drawings. Any prison artists interested in participating should send us a copy of their work for us to check out, …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Prison Riot Crushed in Venezuela by On January 12, 1993, Venezuelan police used tear gas to quell a riot in Fort Tiuna of about a hundred soldiers and civilians, who were tried for rebellion for their participation in a November 27, 1992, coup attempt. The riot was crushed with tear …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
DOC Phone Rip Off by Paul Wright On March 16, 1992, the Washington DOC signed a contract with AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) for the latter to provide telephone services to all the prisons in the Washington prison system. AT&T in turn has subcontracted with three Local Exchange Companies (LEC's) …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Prison Escapes and Killings Down by Incarceration rates in the United States and Canada are on the rise. Overcrowded conditions are being felt by more and more prisons. Despite all this, the number of prison escapes and homicides has decreased. Fifty state systems, the District of Columbia, and the federal …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Clinton for Prisoners: More Bad News by Paul Wright With Clinton's election many prisoners are optimistic that there will be some changes for the better after 12 years of jackboot politics by the Republicans. In past issues of PLN I've mentioned Clinton's despicable record on the death penalty. That record …
Jury Must Be Asked If Prisoner Testimony Credible by Jeffrey Rainey was a North Carolina pretrial detainee. He claimed that in the course of a dispute with a jail guard the guard used excessive force against him by slamming him into a wall three times, injuring his back. He filed …
Death Threats and "Snitch Jacketing" by Guards Unlawful by Craig Northington is a Colorado state prisoner assigned to community placement. While going to his work site plainclothes prison officials surprised him, put guns to his head without identifying themselves as prison guards, threatened to kill him and verbally and physically …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Filed under: Crime, Sentencing
What's Wrong With This Picture? by Paul Wright By Paul Wright A judge in Maryland recently sentenced a university student to six months in jail after the student was discovered to have cheated on his Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is the test used for college admissions. The student cheated …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Prisoners File Record Number of Suits by Paul Wright By Paul Wright We often hear prison officials, the various attorney generals, and the courts complain about what they call a "flood" of prisoner litigation. I, for one, became curious as to how many lawsuits constitute a "flood." I have been …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
1990 U.S. Prison Population Stats by Ed Mead By Ed Mead The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has just come out with two more books containing figures on the nation's prison population. The first is a 32-page pamphlet entitled Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities-1990, and the second one …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Battered Women in Prison by Every fifteen seconds a woman in the U.S. is beaten. One California state prison study found that 93 percent of women who had killed their mates had been battered by them. There are approximately 650 women in California state prisons for killing their abusers. The …
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