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Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Magistrates May Hear Prison Cases by A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that 28 U.S.C. § 636 (b) (1) (B) authorizes the nonconsensual referral to Magistrates for hearing and recommended findings of all prisoner petitions challenging conditions of confinement This ruling allows federal judges to refer to magistrates all prisoners' petitions …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN . As I write this, I just saw on the news that Thurgood Marshall, the first and only black person to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, is resigning due to age and health reasons. …
Prisoners Entitled to Exculpatory Evidence In Disciplinary Hearings by Prisoners Entitled To Exculpatory Evidence In Disciplinary Hearings Four prisoners at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, IL., were accused of murdering another prisoner. They were infracted and found "guilty" of the murder at a prison disciplinary hearing. Prior to the hearing …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Prisoners Must Be Fed by Alvin Cooper was a pre-trial detainee in Texas and filed a § 1983 suit claiming that jail guards were refusing to feed him. The officials did not deny the allegation but claimed Cooper wasn't fed because he refused to appear fully dressed at all meals. …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Texas Prison Officials Indicted by The manager and bookkeeper at a Texas prison textile mill were indicted April 25 in Huntsville on charges of theft, official misconduct and engaging in organized crime. Authorities said the indictments stemmed from a two-yearlong scheme involving bid rigging and kickbacks on installation and service …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Clallam Bay Double Celling by On June 12, 1991, Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) superintendent Neal Brown announced that the 21 million dollar expansion of CBCC was on schedule (but there is no money for teachers and schools in Washington). The expansion plans include renovation of food service and dining …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Pig Park Update by Recently a PLN reader reported that a park for employees of the Washington State penitentiary (WSP) was being built only for employees. The park opened on March 18, 1991, as an "employee park" as a 4-acre area adjacent to the highway and east of the penitentiary, …
Pro Se Litigants Entitled to Litigation Costs by Pro Se Litigants Entitled To Litigation Costs Benton Burt was a pretrial detainee in San Francisco who filed suit under 42 USC, §1983 in federal court claiming he was confined under illegal and unconstitutional conditions. At a bench trial Burt won his …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Filed under: Overcrowding, Sentencing, Parole
Overcrowded and Unfair by Gary Parker Overcrowded And Unfair By Gary Parker Human nature and society were not transformed when the SRA was implemented in 1984. The transformation was meant to occur in the basic philosophy of this state's justice system. The old system did not work. Some offenders were …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth June 10, 1991 the Legislature went back into session and by the time this is read the session should be over. This is a time when there is a lot of speculation and rumors going around. One rumor is that Senator …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Bad Water, Backed Up Toilet States Claim by A prisoner filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging that the conditions in the housing unit in which he was confined violated his eighth and fourteenth amendment rights. The trial court refused to dismiss the claim that living conditions in the housing unit …
Prisoners Allowed to See Evidence Against Them by Prisoners Allowed To See Evidence Against Them A federal prisoner in Pennsylvania was infracted and charged with making threats of bodily harm to another prisoner and refusing a cell assignment. The threats were supposedly made in a letter Young, the prisoner, gave …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Violent Crime Up 10% in 1990 by Violent Crime Up 10% In 1990 Last issue we published an article titled "Which Shell Is The Pea Under?" in which we argued against the U.S. government's claim that there exists a "definite and positive" link between locking people up and violent crime …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
No Warrantless Search of Departing Visitor by No Warrantless Search Of Departing Visitor Prison officials strip-searched a prisoner's sister at the conclusion of a visit because of a suspicion that she was smuggling marijuana to him. Nothing was found. She brought suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983. The defendant prison …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Reality of Sexual Victimization Obscured by "Predator" Label by Patricia Novotny (Reprint of letter to the Seattle Times) Thomas Shapley in his column on sexual predators (Focus, April 7) does a disservice to the sexually abused and sexually assaulted. He reminds me of the man in the Mae West movie. …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
U.S. Prison Population Grew 8.2% in 1990 by Washington State Has Second Highest (15.4%) Increase The number of state and federal prisoners grew 8.2 percent last year, the U.S. Justice Departments Bureau of justice Statistics (BJS) announced on May 15. According to the Bureau, the 1990 growth rate was more …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Racism: The Clouded Lens by Dan Pens By Dan Pens The other day I flipped on the Donahue Show to kill a few minutes before chow. The featured guests were families who raise their children to be racists. Instead of teaching them familiar Mother Goose rhymes, the children are taught …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Police Brutality or Brutal Police? by Paul Wright Police Brutality Or Brutal Police? By Paul Wright By now most people have seen the gruesome home video of Rodney King being beaten senseless by Los Angeles police. The only thing unusual about this episode is that it was captured on film, …
Prisoners and the Grievance System by Prisoners And The Grievance System By Paul Wright The Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and many others have grievance systems to resolve complaints within the prison system rather than going to court to settle them. Many prisoners are skeptical of the grievance system as …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Disagrees With Attorney's Article by H D I would like to make some observations about the article titled ".100 hearings; Opinions of an Attorney" by Barbetta Ralphs, Attorney. I believe I am qualified [to discuss her article] because I have served a total of over eleven years on parole. It …
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