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Evidence Must Be Presented at Disciplinary Hearing by Evidence Must Be Presented At Disciplinary Hearing Eddie Griffin, a Pennsylvania state prisoners was infracted for possessing a fermented beverage. Prison guards destroyed the liquid in question prior to the disciplinary hearing. At the hearing Griffin was found "guilty" solely on the …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Prisoners May Not Be Subjected to Freezing Temperatures by In 1982 outside temperatures at the Stateville prison in Illinois plunged to 22 degrees below zero with a wind-chill factor of 80 degrees below zero. The heating system in a cell block with 300 men malfunctioned and frigid air circulated through …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
New York Prisons Profiled by A prisoners' advocacy group in New York City on September 27 released a profile of the state and city inmate population and found a pattern of minority offenders being increasingly locked up for nonviolent crimes. The Correctional Association of New York said there are more …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Oklahoma Must Provide Adequate Funds for Its Public Defenders by In a highly significant case the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that by failing to adequately fund it's appellate public defenders the Oklahoma State Legislature deprives prisoners of their right to due process and equal protection of law under …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Civil Commitment by Carrie Roth by Carrie Roth, Prison/Community Alliance The Special Commitment Center (SCC) is a block of prison cells in the Special Offenders Center (SOC) in Monroe, WA. Eleven men are now housed in the prison under the Civil Commitment law passed in 1990. Although the center is …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
No Liberty Interest in Prison Jobs by No Liberty Interest In Prison Jobs The 7th circuit in an en bane ruling held that neither the due process clause nor Illinois statutes create a protected liberty interest in a prisoner holding one prison job over another. Phillip Wallace is an Illinois …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to the December issue of PLN . When you receive this issue the whole commercialized Christmas season will be in full swing. So in the spirit of giving, if you haven't donated to PLN yet this is a great time …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Letters From Readers by More On Plight Of The Young This letter is in response to a letter to the editor printed in the September issue of the PLN, titled "Plight Of The Young. " The thing with brother Barry Massey, in particular - the U.S. judicial systems sanctioning of …
No Minimum Wages for Convicts by No Minimum Wages For Convicts Prisoners are not entitled to minimum wages or overtime pay, according to a federal appeals court. Prisoners who worked in the plasma program operated by a private company (Cutter Biological) on prison grounds sued, asserting that they were covered …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Abuses Continue at Ansar 3 by Abuses Continue At Ansar 3 Ansar 3 is a detention camp built by the Israeli government 70 kilometers south of Beersheba to hold the prisoners of the Palestinian Intifada. It is in the middle of the Negev desert and holds 6,000 prisoners at any …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Caging America: The U.S. Imprisonment Binge by Patricia Horn By Patricia Horn [The following is an edited version of an article reprinted from the September, 1991, issue of Dollars & Sense magazine. It was edited by Ed Mead.] "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Mandatory Sentencing Flops in Florida by Mandatory Sentencing Flops In Florida Florida offers a classic example of how mandatory sentencing laws and large-scale incarceration of drug offenders can produce an unbalanced correctional system and possibly reduce public safety, according a new study by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency …
Passin' Gas by Clark Stuhr Here at the Washington State Penitentiary's Intensive Management Unit (IMU) there is no end to the mental and physical torture being inflicted upon the inmates. The latest of which are the new use of force tactics being used by IMU staff since the placing of …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Due Process Distinguished by A mobile home park owner sued the city of Rocklin, California, over a rent control ordinance claiming it was taking his property without just compensation or due process. The District Court dismissed the complaint. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the case back …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Pelican Bay News by Hello from Pelican Bay State Prison - SHU. I have some legal news. The following prisoners, Bwana Millon, James X. Williamson, Thomas Fetters, and Nicholas X. Delamat have joined in a writ of mandamus petition in state superior court, county of Del Norte (case no. 91-141-X). …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: News
Pig Park Update by Readers of PLN will recall that we have previously reported the fact that the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) in Walla Walla has bought 40 plus acres from the department of Wildlife for $80,000 which will be used as an "employee park" According to an August 22, …
Search of Legal Files Violates Consent Decree by Search Of Legal Files Violates Consent Decree A prisoner at the Iowa State Penitentiary filed a federal civil rights complaint in which he contended that the search of his legal papers by guards, outside his presence, violated a consent decree entered into …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Universal Suffrage: Give Us A Voice! by Tom Sparks Universal Suffrage was originally created to provide assistance to those convicted in the American justice system in the defense of those constitutional rights that are supposed to exist, and in regaining those rights that have been unjustly lost. Our intention is …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Privacy Right Not To Be Viewed Naked by Opposite Sex Prison Guards by Privacy Right Not To Be Viewed Naked By Opposite Sex Prison Guards A Colorado state prisoner filed suit under § 1983 claiming violation of his rights to due process and equal protection when he was placed in …
Prison System Increases Cell Integration to Avoid Fines by Faced with the threat of millions of dollars in fines, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice began increasing the number of racially integrated, two-person cells July 1. Before July only about 2 percent of the system's 11,000 double cells were integrated; …
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