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Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Alabama: On May 3, 2006, Peter Makres, 52, a prisoner was strangled and killed at the Limestone Correctional Facility inside an isolation cell. Police suspect Joseph Burns, 22, the only other person in the cell with Makres, may have committed the crime. Makres was serving a …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Federal Court Filing Fees Increased, Cost of Justice Too High for Many Prisoners by As of April 10, 2006, the fee for filing civil complaints in U.S. District Courts, or having state cases removed to federal court, increased from $250 to $350. Note that this increase applies to lawsuits and …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
California Ex-Con DNA Collection Law Ruled Not Retroactive by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court, N.D. Cal., ruled that Californias recent Proposition 69, which provides for DNA collection from all convicted persons, does not apply retroactively to exconvicts who have been discharged from custody, parole …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Alabama: On January 8, 2006, Arthur Lee Scruggs, 38, a prisoner at the Donaldson Correctional Facility, was killed by unspecified means in a fight with prisoners Michael Barnes and Gerald Henderson. Arizona: In August, 2005, a massive drug sting by the FBI led …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Arizona: In August Pima county jail officials ordered the mass drug testing of all 200 minimum security jail prisoners and 20% tested positive for the use of illegal drugs. California: On October 3, 2005, Long Beach police shot and killed a parolee who …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
BOP Sexually Explicit Materials Ban Requires Factual Development by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals Reversed a district courts dismissal of a federal prisoners challenge to the Ensign Amendment, which prohibits federal prisoners from receiving sexually explicit materials. The Ensign Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1997 and prohibits …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief: Arizona: On March 22, 2006, David Leyva, 24, a guard at the Pima county jail was arrested on charges that he conspired to possess an unidentified narcotic drug. Arkansas: On March 21, 2006, a brawl involving 12 prisoners that started over a bag …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Texas Legislature Requires HIV Testing for Prisoners by Gary Hunter Texas prisoners must now be tested for HIV before they are allowed to leave prison. Rep. Yvonne Davis, D-Dallas, authored House Bill 43 which was signed on June 19, 2005, by Gov. Pick Perry, and went into effect on September …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Florida Awards $2 Million to Wrongfully Convicted Man by At its special session in December 2005, the Florida Legislature passed a bill to pay 44-year-old Wilton Dedge $2 million as compensation for a rape he did not commit. Dedge spent 22 years in Florida prisons for the sexual assault and …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Alabama: On March 2, 2005, Ellis Hudson, 40, was arrested on trespassing charges for breaking into the Bullock County jail in Union Springs. Hudson was apparently trying to smuggle tobacco to jail prisoners, which is banned. Arizona: On March 8, 2006, an unidentified …
California Enacts Strong Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination" Act by California Enacts Strong Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination" Act by John E. Dannenberg To aid compliance with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003 (Public Law 108-79), California enacted Assembly Bill 550 (AB 550), the Sexual Abuse in …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Arizona: On July 10, 2005, Jerry Booker, 57, a guard at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Eyman in Florence was pistol whipping and threatening to shoot Nyeema Irby, 23, to collect a $50 drug debt Irby owed him when Irby pulled his own pistol …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Habeas Hints: How to Get DNA Testing by Kent Russell This column is intended to provide habeas hints" to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys (in pro per). The focus of the column is habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA, the 1996 habeas …
Arkansas Considers Prison Rape Law, Problems Evident by by Michael Rigby Nearly two years after the Prison Rape Elimination Act, (PREA) passed unopposed in the U.S. House and Senate, an attitude of indifference and skepticism surrounding prison sexual assaults still permeates the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC). Signed into law …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Oregon Criminalizes Sex with Prisoners; & Other Legislative Developments by In the wake of a huge scandal involving several high ranking, veteran prison officials engaging in sexual activity with female prisoners of the Coffee Creek Correctional Institution, Oregon has enacted legislation criminalizing custodial sexual misconduct. The law, which became effective …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Shackling of Women Prisoners During Labor and Delivery Ended In California by by John E. Dannenberg California's Governor Schwarzenegger improved health care for women prisoners by signing AB 478 into law, which makes it illegal to deny prenatal and postpartum care (to include basic dental cleaning) and bans shackling during …
Private Prison Firms Stumble; Hire Former California Officials to Lobby for For-Profit Facilities by Private prison companies, which presently house only 2,550 of California's 165,000 prisoners, have hired a former county lawmaker, former CDC employees and the former state Finance Director in an attempt to expand into the $7 billion …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Texas Enacts Life Without Parole Law by On June 17, 2005, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law legislation that allows Texas juries to sentence defendants to life without the possibility of parole in capital cases. Senate Bill 60 replaces the previous non-death-penalty option of 40 years without the possibility …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Alabama: On January 10, 2006, Ronald Hammonds, 35, a guard at the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega was arrested in a Taco Bell parking lot by FBI agents on charges of supplying prisoners with marijuana. Arizona: On December 31, 2005, Vincent Cannon, 23, …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Arkansas: In 2001 prison guards used force 12 times to remove prisoners from their cells. By 2005 they did it at least 40 times. Prison officials attribute this to more hardened prisoners and not more brutal guards. Arkansas: On December 1, 2005, an …
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