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Brief • April 15, 1992
City of Chicago PD, IL, Complaint, Police Brutality Against Youth Plaintiff, 1992 COMMAND CHANNEL REVIEW COMPLAINT REGISTER INVESTIGAT!ON NO.: DATE INITIATED CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT Please submit this Command Channel Review fOym through channels with tile case file to o the Internal Affairs Division 'f~ Concur l:;a'the Office of Professional Standards …
Brief • March 27, 1992
Filed under: Restraints
Cotton v. DOJ. USA, Opinion and Order, Force and Restraing Policy, 1992 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MERIT SYSTEMS PROTEC1'ION BOARD PERCY C. COTTON, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Agency. _________________ ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) DOCKET NUMBER AT07529010344 DATE: Anthony L. Harrison, Esquire, Harrison …
Brief • March 22, 1992
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Uribe v. Riveland, WA, Complaint, Discrimination, 1992 ...... ~ J. 9.970 t: ~ ~'.'~' ," " J j *"'" " '2-lr ;--: ,'!!• . ' : : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF 1 THUR~~QNA I LARRY URIBE, 4 vs. 5 6 7 …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Prisoner Must Be Informed of HIV Status by Prisoner Must Be Informed Of HIV Status Tyrone McIlwain was a Virginia prisoner who overdosed on heroin and was taken to the Prince William hospital emergency room for treatment. Without his knowledge or consent, blood tests were performed which revealed he was …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
The Continuing Racism Against Black Pre-SRA Offenders by Leland Jordan By Leland Jordan As most readers know, effective in July of 1984, the State of Washington moved from an indeterminate sentencing scheme to a determinate one. It did so in part on the basis of the conclusions reached by numerous …
Credibility of Informants Must be Weighed by Credibility Of Informants Must Be Weighed Jerome Russell, a New York state prisoner at Greenhaven prison, was infracted for assaulting another prisoner. Three confidential informants submitted statements to prison officials identifying Russell and four others as the assailants. At his hearing Russell requested …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
New York Installs 3,000 Prison Beds by New York installs 3,000 Prison Beds In December the New York state DOC began installing 3,000 new bunks in 10 prisons as part of a $40 million emergency program designed to help with overcrowding. The state also hired 760 new guards, many of …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
People's War in Peru by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In 1980 the Communist Party of Peru (PCP, also known in the media as Sendero Luminoso or Shining Path) launched a popular war of liberation in Peru. The PCP is Maoist in orientation and receives no outside support from any …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Prison Visitor May Not Be Unreasonably Searched by Dawn Cochrane filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming her fourth amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches was violated when she was told to submit to a strip search or she would never be allowed to visit her father in …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Taking of Property May State Federal Claim by Colorado prison officials confiscated a state prisoner's stereo and refused to return it to him. Freeman, the prisoner, filed several administrative grievances with no success. He filed suit in small claims court and defendants did not respond, and when he sought default …
Detainee's Beating is Cruel and Unusual by Detainee's Beating Is Cruel And Unusual Marcus Miller was a detainee in the Tulsa, OK, jail when he was ordered out of the jail law library. Miller refused and jail guards knocked him to the floor, handcuffed him and put him in a …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Legislative Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth, Prison/Community Alliance As most of you already know, until last November we were planning on trying an initiative to the people which would eliminate the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board. If we had gotten 150,001 signatures within a specified period of time, we …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Probation and Parole Figures Up Again by Probation And Parole Figures Up Again It should come as no surprise to PLN readers that all statistics relating to crime and punishment are on the increase. The 1990 probation and parole figures recently released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics contains no …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Prison Radio Program Available by Women Against Imperialism and Out of Control have produced a 13-part radio program dealing with the American prison system and political prisoners within it. The program has already aired in San Francisco and they are now seeking to distribute it nationally and internationally for a …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Status of Monroe's Litigation Against Double Bunking by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Bob Stalker, the Washington state attorney for Monroe prisoners on their suit against double bunking, recently visited that prison to discuss the current status of the Litigation with inmate club heads and the Resident advisory Council (RAG). …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Constitutional Right for Cons to Buy Lottery Tickets? Federal Court Says Nyet by Robert Pierce By Robert Pierce To file or not to file, frivolousness is the question. Wisconsin prisoners answered the question by filing a lawsuit alleging that they were constitutionally entitled to purchase lottery tickets. The action stated …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
The Protection of the Law by Bill Dunne The Protection Of The Law By Bill Dunne There are lots of laws on the books that say the various agencies of the government must do (or not do) this or that for the governed, from whom the "just powers" of those …
'Partial Victory' In Attica Prisoners' Case by From: Workers World Newspaper A bitterly divided jury returned a mixed verdict Feb. 4 in the lawsuit by former inmates at Attica Prison against four former New York state officials. The suit by the Attica Defense Committee grew out of the bloody, murderous …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Unsuccessful Litigant Can Be Obligated to Pay Defendant's Cost by Unsuccessful Litigant Can Be Obligated To Pay Defendant's Costs Three Michigan state prisoners filed suit and were granted permission by the district court to proceed in forma pauperis, without the prepayment of fees or court costs. The case was dismissed …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments By Ed Mead Don't be discouraged if not much in the way of struggle is taking place at your prison, as it isn't happening here either. The political situation in your joint is probably pretty much the same as it is at institutions all …
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