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Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Long-term Negligence Might State a Deliberate Indifference Claim by A state prisoner alleged that he suffered from chronic foot problems and that prison officials refused to provide him with adequate medical care, thereby inflicting cruel and unusual punishment. The trial court dismissed the complaint. The U.S. Court of Appeals reversed …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Complaints
Prisoners' 1983 by JD Enquist PRISONERS' 1983 BY J.D. Enquist Ask what the most common lawsuit filed by prisoners is and instinctively the answer will be the "Prisoners' 1983." The section 1983 is the result of the Civil Rights Act of 1871. The statute was originally enacted by Congress under …
Transsexual Wins Hormones Case by A male transsexual (born with male body by psychologically a woman) prisoner sued prison officials, claiming that denying her the opportunity to continue estrogen treatments at her own expense constituted indifference to her serious medical needs. The plaintiff had a number of surgeries ant procedures …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Warehouses of Misery by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft By Wm. Daniel Ravenscroft, esq. What has our prison system really come to? Nothing more than a giant machine gobbling up human beings then spitting them out without the slightest concern for the collateral consequences. The California prison system has over 90,000 inmates …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Severe Injury Not Required for Damage Claim Against Guards for Assault by Severe Injury not Required for Damage Claim Against Guards for Assault A prisoner filed a civil rights complaint against guards for assaulting him. A jury awarded the prisoner with compensatory and punitive damages. The state appealed. On appeal …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Florida Corruption by FLORIDA CORRUPTION In May of 1989 the Florida Department of Law Enforcement began an investigation into drug trafficking by prison guards at the Martin Correctional Institution in Indiantown, Florida. After a 15-month investigation FDLE agents arrested 10 prison guards and 6 prisoners. Over 60 prisoners and 25 …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Klan Papers Get into Texas Prisons but PLN is Banned by Michael Lowe, exalted Cyclops of the Waco Ku Klux Klan, is trying to reach some 13,500 white prisoners inside the Texas prison system. And Texas prison officials are allowing the KKK publications into their prisons. Well get prisoners out …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Full Due Process Required Before Termination of Work Release Status by A prisoner's work release status was revoked for drug use. She was returned to prison and found guilty at a disciplinary hearing. The Court of Appeals reversed and reinstated the prisoner, holding that the due process clause itself invests …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
A Mother's Story by Shirley Dicks By Shirley Dicks My son is on death row for a crime he did not commit, and time has almost run out for him. I am trying, somehow or somewhere to find help for him. My son was with his friend Donald Strouth on …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Fully Informed Jury Amendment by FULLY INFORMED JURY AMENDMENT FIJA is a national group which seeks to put laws on the books in all 50 states which will inform juries that they have the right to return not guilty verdicts if the ends of justice would not be served by …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Reviews by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Clash This is a 40-page English language publication put out by the European Autonomous movement. This first issue has a long article on the hunger-strike by GRAPO prisoners in Spain, persecution and history of the Kurdish Workers Party in West Germany and their …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Editorial Comments by Ed Mead EDITORIAL COMMENTS Welcome to issue #7 of the Prisoners' Legal News. As I write this issue, #6 has not yet been mailed out to readers, and #5 has just been banned from the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla. The warden there said "the article, …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Wetmore v. Gardner by At 735 F.Supp 974, is the ruling of Federal Judge Quakenbush on the states Motion to overturn the jury verdict in favor of Mr. Wetmore challenging the policy of rectal "probes" by officials at the Walla Walla Penitentiary. The jury found the policy unconstitutional and awarded …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Expression by V Martinez By V. Martinez When the prison gates slam behind an inmate, he does not lose his human qualities. His mind does not become closed to ideas. His intellect does not cease to feed on free and open interchange of opinions. His yearning for self-respect does not …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Free Tim Anderson by Tim Anderson is an Australian political activist. In 1978 he and two others were convicted of planting a bomb that killed a cop and two bystanders. They were convicted and spent 7 years in prison. After extensive inquiries the government decided that Tim and the others …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Filed under: Mental Health
Mission of SOC To Change by The Special Offender Center (SOC) is going to become another Intensive Management Unit (IMU). The proposed change is scheduled to take place on July 1, 1991. The SOC was designed and built to house prisoners with mental problems, and has served in that capacity …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Government Spending for Civil, Criminal Justice Reached $61 Billion in 1988 by Government Spending For Civil, Criminal Justice Reached $61 Billion In 1988 Federal, state and local governments spent $61 billion for civil and criminal justice in 1988, a 34 percent increase since 1985, the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Death Row Abolished by Mark LaRue By Mark LaRue For several months it was rumored that death row was being closed down and everyone with a death sentence was being moved to the other tiers in IMU or 5 Wing [protective custody, editor]. No one believed the rumors of course. …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Prisoners on Purpose by Prisoners On Purpose "A Peacemakers Guide to Jails and Prisons" is put out by Nukewatch. It deals with the experience of nuclear resisters (these are people who engage in civil disobedience/civil resistance to nuclear weapons and power, by blockades, hammering missiles, etc.) who have been imprisoned …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Use of Jailhouse Informants Faulted by Use Of Jailhouse Informants Faulted A grand jury has issued a stinging rebuke of the Los Angeles district attorney's office for failing to assure that "jailhouse informants" called as prosecution witnesses repeatedly over the last decade were telling the truth. "Very little effort was …
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