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'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 …
Access and Indigency Expanded by Access And Indigency Expanded A law library rule merely saying prisoners "shall be provided physical access to law library during assigned law library hours," when considered against the backdrop of uncontested allegations of inadequate access, was held not "to provide detailed guidelines to thwart arbitrariness." …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Prisoners Get Squeezed by G D The massive New York state budget crisis is starting to hit the prisons. Governor Cuomo, like other politicians, plans to squeeze pennies from those who have nothing, while leaving the fat cats sacrosanct. The main cuts are slated for Medicaid and schools. Also they …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
State May Retain Private Attorneys to Defend DOC by State May Retain Private Attorneys To Defend DOC A Missouri state prisoner filed suit claiming he was denied medical care by prison officials. The state attorney general then contracted a private law firm to represent the defendants prison officials. O'Connor, the …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Prisoner Can Receive Diploma in Mail by Bobby Griffin is a Missouri state prisoner who graduated from a college paralegal course. Upon graduation the college mailed him his diploma and grade transcript. This was rejected by prison officials who claimed prison regulations prohibited prisoners from having original diplomas and transcripts …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Bush Campaign Silences Prisoner by Brett Kimberlin is a federal prisoner serving time for drug and weapons charges. In November, 1988, a few days before the presidential elections, he was going to have a press conference where he was going to relate his account of having sold marijuana to now …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Caring Captors? by By Robert Pierce A recent issue of the Cincinnati Enquirer contained an article in which Mid-Western law enforcement officials were complaining about the increasing cost of providing health care to prisoners in county jails. One sheriff, Tim Bivins of Lee County, Illinois, had what he thought was …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Reply to: Guards, Victims or Villains? by I've sent for a copy of the September 1991 issue of "Blueprint for Social Justice" and read both articles in it as you suggested. While the authors of these articles divulged some good points concerning the behavior of prison guards, their superiors and …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Reply from Germany by Families of Political Prisoners Reply From Germany We are referring to the readers letter from Germany in your issue from November 1991.The writer, D.D., is giving the misleading impression that all RAF prisoners were betraying each other for personal gain. This is applying only to those …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth The Prisoner/Community Alliance received a phone call from former Rep. Doug Sayan on Jan. 21, 1992. He said that the draft bill is now at the Code Revisors Office. The bill is an Omnibus bill which will include several aspects of …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Ex-Mayor Barry Having Sex in Visiting Room? by Ex-Mayor Barry Having Sex In Visiting Room? From: Seattle Times, January 6, 1992 Washington - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry denied an allegation published in The Washington Post that a woman performed oral sex on him in a prison visiting room in …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
CBCC IMU Hungerstrike by Did you happened to hear about the 2-1/2 day hungerstrike? They brought 10 of us here from WSP (Walla Walla) IMU to supply bodies to justify opening an IMU at CBCC. We got here and F unit isn't even prepared to accept IMU prisoners. 8 out …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Occupation Justice: The Israeli Treatment of Palestinians by In February 1985 the Ramallah Military Court inflicted five years' imprisonment upon a 13-year old boy from Dheishe Refugee Camp, in the course of an "instant trial" lasting not more than one afternoon. Following that trial, Jerusalem peace activists Gideon Spiro wrote …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Letter from China by Cao Qui Li Letter From China Thank you for the Prisoners Legal News. It is not only a source of some news from the prisons in the U.S.A., but also a window through which I can see the prisoners' live in other countries. I enjoyed it …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
The Capacity of Prison Overcrowding by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft The Capacity Of Prison Overcrowding By Wm. Daniel M. Ravenscroft, Attorney At Law A major difficulty in describing the extent of prison overcrowding is that there is no general agreement as to the definition of the "capacity' of overcrowded institutions. To …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Bibliography of Selected Prison Cases by Bibliography Of Selected Prison Cases This is the second edition of this useful 32 page booklet by South Dakota prisoner Roger Flittie. It provides a very good reference point for prison case law. With sections covering everything from class action conditions of confinement suits …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Typewriters for Prisoners by Typewriters For Prisoners The Typewriters for Prisoners Project (funded by a grant from Resist) has a few more typewriters to donate to prisoners. Preferences are: 1. inside groups that are involved with education or organizing; 2. prisoners who are using typewriters to help a number of …
Maximum Security Unit Prisoners Win Access Suit by The U.S. District Court for Delaware ruled in favor of the inmates at the Delaware Correctional center's Maximum Security Unit (MSU). The prisoners claimed in a 1983 action that the law library services provided at the MSU facility were wholly inadequate. The …
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