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Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Exiled From Idaho by D.M. I'm a prisoner from Idaho doing time in a private facility in Minnesota. I'm sure you all never hear much about the DOC in Idaho. It's pretty small, a little less than 4,000 prisoners. It has much of the same problems as the rest of …
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
Prison Conditions in Venezuela by Human Rights Watch has been investigating prison conditions throughout the world for the last 10 years. Punishment Before Trial: Prison Conditions in Venezuela, issued in March 1997, is the 29th resulting report to appear. HRW/Americas investigators spent three weeks in Venezuela in March 1996 during …
New York Jail Overcrowding Unconstitutional by A federal district court in New York held that overcrowding in the Erie County jail violated the eighth amendment rights of convicted prisoners and the fourteenth amendment rights of pretrial detainees housed in the jail. Bernard Zolnowski, a pretrial detainee, filed suit challenging jail …
Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997
DC Women Prisoners' Suit Reversed by In the December, 1995 and June, 1996, issues of PLN we reported Women Prisoners of the District of Columbia DOC v. District of Columbia, 877 F. Supp. 634 (DC DC 1995) and 899 F. Supp. 659 (DC DC 1995) in which a federal district …
Article • August 15, 1997 • from PLN August, 1997
North Carolina Population Limit Modification Affirmed by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit affirmed modification of a consent decree that governed conditions in North Carolina state prisons. In the February, 1995, issue of PLN we reported Small v. Hunt, 858 F. Supp. 510 (ED NC 1994) which modified …
Plight of Undertrial Prisoners in India by Sankar Sen In India there are 85 central prisons, 252 district prisons, 14 women's prisons, and about 547 sub-jails. The exact number of prisoners in the country is not known. At the end of 1993, according to one estimate, there were about 200,000 …
Double Celling States Eighth Amendment Claim by The court of appeals for the third circuit set forth the conditions under which double celling will violate the eighth amendment. The court also held that segregation prisoners are entitled to legal assistance to present their claims to the courts. Several New Jersey …
Pierce County (Tacoma) Jail Suit Settled by In the February, 1995, issue of PLN we reported the filing of Herrera v. Pierce County, a class action suit challenging overcrowding and various other unconstitutional conditions at the Pierce County jail in Tacoma, Washington. The suit was settled in mid 1996 in …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Three's Company by N.H. We [at the Washington Correction Center for Women] now have three women to a room -- in a space too small for two women. They simply moved in a top bunk on one side of the room. The number of women here has increased by 20 …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Tennessee Jail Overcrowding is State's Fault by Tennessee is now spending over $100 million a year to house state prisoners in county jails - a 14% increase from the previous year. Despite 7,350 prison inmates being double-celled, state prisoners still overcrowd jails because the state has no room for them. …
PLRA Not Retroactive on Attorney Fees by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) provisions limiting attorney fees in prison cases is not to be retroactively applied. The court also affirmed the district court ruling that the practice of randomly double …
Prison Officials Liable for Double Celling by In the September, 1996, issue of PLN we reported Jensen v. Gunter , 73 F.3d 808 (8th Cir. 1996) where the appeals court vacated a district court ruling that double celling practices at the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP) violated the eighth amendment where …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
Louisiana Prison System Back Under Court Supervision by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit affirmed a district court order which vacated a prior order terminating the court's jurisdiction over a consent decree governing the Louisiana prison system. In doing so the appeals court held that the Prison Litigation …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
Ohio "Eases" Prison Overcrowding by On June 30, 1996, Ohio had the second- or third-most overcrowded prison system in the country with prisoners packed in at 170.1 percent of capacity. At the stroke of midnight, however, like magic, that figure dropped to 138.3 percent, placing the state eighth or ninth …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Unrest in South American Prisons by Brazil On February 3, 1996, a specialized military police unit killed two prisoners and wounded another in a Sao Paulo police station after putting down a rebellion by 127 prisoners protesting a lack of water at the facility. "It's not normal" to shoot protesting …
NSP Double Celling Order Vacated by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that a district court had to reconsider prisoners' double celling claims under the supreme court's ruling in Farmer v. Brennan, 114 S.Ct. 1970 (1994). This case arises from a class action suit filed by prisoners …
Challenging Evil That Ills This Society by Ed Kinane The September 1995 New York State Prison Strike [The following is reprinted from Peace Newsletter, 3/96.] Musaa has served 13 years of a 20 year sentence in the NYS penal system. He has earned three degrees with an emphasis on political …
Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996
Prison: An Entitlement System? by According to a recent computer analysis, Alabama's prison population has tripled since 1980, but the state's crime rate has remained the same. A Birmingham News analysis of Corrections Department statistics and census records show that nearly one of every 167 Alabamans older than 14 are …
Warden Liable for Prison Rape by The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that supervisory prison officials can held liable under the eighth amendment when they ignore the risk of sexual assault to vulnerable prisoners that are later raped. Timothy Taylor is a Michigan state prisoner who is …
Prison Litigation Reform Act Passed by Paul Wright On April 27, 1996, president Clinton signed the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) into law attached as a rider to the budget for the Justice Department. The PLRA is the culmination of a lengthy campaign waged by prisoncrats and the National Association …
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