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Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Legal News in Brief - 9th Cir. Amends LeMaire Opinion by The Court of Appeals for the ninth circuit recently amended an opinion concerning the constitutionality of conditions in the Oregon State Penitentiary's (OSP) Disciplinary Segregation Unit (DSU). PLN reported the decision in Vol. 5, No. 1 (January, 1994). The …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
AZ Prisoners Have Right to Court Access by Antonio Bustamonte is an Arizona state prisoner held at the Winslow prison. In April of 1992 a riot broke out at the prison resulting in Bustamonte's housing unit being locked down. One of the consequences of the lockdown, in which prisoner's were …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Brazilian Guard Gets 516 Years by On October 23, 1993, Celso Jose De Cruz, a military police investigator, was sentenced by a Brazilian judge to a record 516 years in prison for the murder of 18 prisoners. A jury had found Cruz, 46, guilty of all 18 counts of murder. …
Double Celling Pre-Trial Detainees Violates Due Process by Several animal rights protestors arrested while demonstrating against an annual pigeon shoot filed suit against Schuykill County Prison in Pennsylvania, and it's officials, alleging that the conditions of confinement during their stay at the prison violated their constitutional rights. The conditions complained …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Infestation Violates 8th Amendment by Several pretrial detainees in the Cook County jail in Chicago filed suit over rodent infestation at the jail. Several of the plaintiffs claimed they had been bitten by rats, one was attacked by a swarm of mice. Administrative grievances and complaints to jail officials failed …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
9th Circuit Affirms Gutting of WSR Consent Decree by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In 1978 prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) in Monroe, WA filed suit over inhumane prison conditions at the prison. In 1981 prisoners and the DOC entered into a consent decree whereby the prisoners dismissed …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
The Rights of Visiting and Visitors by Paul Wright By Paul Wright For every prisoner and the relative, friend or loved one of a prisoner, visiting is an issue of paramount importance. While most prison officials pay lip service to the idea that visiting is important and that they want …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
Smoking Ban Upheld by In May of 1993 officials at the Berks County Prison in Pennsylvania initiated a policy which prohibited smoking by prisoners at the facility. Four prisoners filed suit claiming that the ban on smoking constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of their eighth amendment rights. They …
What's Wrong in the Ohio DOC? by John Perotti It's been almost a year since the end of the siege at Lucasville. During this time investigations have been conducted by the State Legislature, State Highway Patrol and Scioto County Prosecutor's Office. The mass media has focused on "crimes" committed during …
Third Circuit Announces Rules for Appointment of Counsel by Harvey Tabron is a Pennsylvania state prisoner. He sued prison officials claiming they had failed to protect him from attack by another prisoner. In the course of the litigation Tabron requested that the district court appoint counsel to represent him, order …
Ninth Circuit Upholds Ban on Attorney Contact Visits by This is a class action suit filed by Arizona state prisoners. They sued on two issues. First, they contend that the Arizona DOC's policy and practice of banning all contact visits between prisoners and their attorneys at various prisons violates their …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Shackling of Con Litigants Discussed by Joe Woods is an Illinois state prisoner. He sued prison officials claiming his eighth amendment rights were violated when they did not feed him for two days during a lockdown. A jury ruled in favor of the prison official defendants. Woods appealed claiming that …
Brief • January 18, 1994
Torres v. Dubois, MA, Complaint, Control Unit Conditions, 1994 COMMON1. EALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Suffolk, ss. Superior Court Civil Action No. Victor Torres, Corey Glover, Mark MacDougall, Michael Leoney, Basil Williams, William Dinkins, William Robinson and Keith Parkinson, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Larry E. …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Making Con Drink from Toilet States Claim by Making Con Drink From Toilet States Claim Apro se prisoner at the Indiana State Prison, Craig Thomas, filed a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The complaint raised a number of issues, only one of which survived the state's motion …
Ninth Circuit Approves Oregon Control Unit Conditions by Paul Wright By Paul Wright This is a case which challenged numerous conditions of confinement at the Oregon State Penitentiary's Disciplinary Segregation Unit (DSU), which is a control unit. The ruling does not bode well for prisoners seeking to question such conditions. …
Classification Chief Liable for Attack by Classification Chief Liable For Attack Israel Nelson was convicted in an Ohio court of assaulting his common law wife and was sent to a medium security prison. His wife contacted him and informed him that her brother, a major cocaine dealer, was plotting to …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Exposure to Cold Weather States Claim by Ronald Chandler is a Missouri state prisoner. He filed suit claiming that prison officials violated his constitutional rights by providing a dining room too small to accommodate all the prisoners in his housing unit at once; poorly supervising the noisy and chaotic dining …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
WA State DOC "Work Ethic" Program: Capitalist Training Camp, or Liberal Rehabilitation Scheme? by PLG WA State DOC "Work Ethic" Program: Capitalist Training Camp, or Liberal Rehabilitation Scheme? By P. L. G. During the last session of the Washington State legislature, there was a bill passed mandating that DOC implement …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Dime Down by Bill Dunne By Bill Dunne The lockdown at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, is now a decade old. The magnitude of the decades in human experience is obvious in the marking of cultural epochs--the sixties, the fifties, the eighties. It even emerges in popular music as …
Disastrous Conditions in Vermont Prisons by Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project who have just visited four Vermont Prisons announced today that they plan to extend and deepen their investigation into unconstitutional prison conditions there. Attorney Edward Koren, team member and veteran litigator in major prison …
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