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Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Freezing Temperature Violates Eighth Amendment by Four prisoners at the Iowa State Reformatory segregation unit were sent outdoors to a recreation area while prison guards searched their living unit for weapons. The temperature was sub-freezing with a significant wind chill factor. The prisoners requested not to go outside. They were …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Right to Avoid Tobacco Smoke Exposure not Established by In part of the continuing split among the circuits on this issue, some circuits have held exposing prisoners to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) violates the eighth amendment, see: Hunt v. Reynolds, above. Other Circuits have held it does not. See: Wilson …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Exposure to Tobacco Smoke Violates Eighth Amendment by Two non-smoking Tennessee prisoners suffering from various medical problems were forcibly celled with prisoners who smoked. They claim the Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) of their cellmates aggravated their existing medical conditions. They filed suit in district court under § 1983 claiming prison …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Washington Smoking Suit Dismissed by Ronald Guilmet is a Washington state prisoner at Walla Walla. Guilmet does not smoke and a smoker was placed in his cell. Five days later Guilmet complained to the unit sergeant that cigarette smoke bothered him. About five days after this Guilmet was assigned a …
Retrial for Damages Alone Appropriate by Tommy Williams is a Missouri state prisoner who was stabbed several times by two other prisoners. Williams filed suit against a guard and several other officials claiming they were deliberately indifferent and acted with reckless disregard to his safety when they knew the prisoners …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Temp Workers Come to Prison by The warden at the John Lilly Correctional Center in Boley, Oklahoma, has initiated a program of using temporary workers (he calls them "Temp Cops") to save money. The temp cops are off-duty policemen used to supplement the guard staff. The American labor movement has …
Damages Awarded in Beating Case by Rickke Greene is an Oklahoma state prisoner. While in a segregation unit Greene was scalded by another prisoner and received second degree burns. After not being treated at the prison infirmary he was returned to his cell, knocked to the floor, kicked and beaten …
Brief • January 28, 1993
Kaiser v. Sacramento, CA, Consent Decree, Jail Conditions, 1993 .. . L. B. ~, county·counsel . J!ICHELE BACH,' Supervising Deputy ·· · State Bar No. 88948 · STEVEN.. KAISER, Deputy. County· ·Counsel · Sta't;e Bar No. 10.5150. ·COQNTY. OF SACRAMENTO 7 O·O H Stre~~ 1 · ·suite 2 650 Sacramento, …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Exposure to AIDS Contaminated Sewage Banned by Prisoners at a Missouri county jail were involved in the large scale cleanup of raw sewage at the jail hospital. The sewage was contaminated with the AIDS virus from AIDS patients in the jail hospital. Prisoners were not provided with protective clothing during …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Pendleton News by J Ford I am writing to you from inside the walls of Pendleton, the Indiana State Reformatory. Since November of 1991 we have gone through a systematic deprogramming. All programs have been abolished. Vocations, education, spiritual, and psychiatric for 80 percent of our population. Very few in …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
McNeil Island News by Robert Pierce They plan to open 1,000 new beds in January, and have added no new room to the hospital or kitchen. It already takes five months to get any dental work done, and I'm thinking of preparing a § 1983 on the whole hospital as …
Rampant Violence in Venezuelan Prisons by by María Dubayle, Venezuelan journalist The situation inside Venezuela's prisons reflects the serious deficiencies in the country's protection of human rights. According to figures from the Public Ministry's Human Rights Office, so far this year more than 160 prisoners have been killed inside Venezuelan …
Deliberate Indifference Standard in Medical Cases Explained by John McGuckin is an Arizona state prisoner. In 1986 he was injured while in a prison camp. He did not receive medical treatment for his injuries, which by now included massive herniation of his back and upper torso, until 1989, three and …
Beaten Jail Prisoner Entitled to Counsel by James Swofford is a pre-trial detainee in the Franklin County (IL) jail charged with aggravated sexual assault. Upon being booked into the jail Swofford was placed in a cell with ten other prisoners. During the night they beat, kicked and stomped Swofford, urinated …
Contempt Order Appropriate for Consent Decree Violation by Contempt Order Appropriate For Consent Decree Violation In 1978 San Francisco jail prisoners filed suit over jail conditions. In 1982 the parties entered into a consent decree that included a limit on the number of prisoners that could be housed in the …
Overcrowding and Violence in Washington State by Ed Mead Back in 1985 I wrote an article predicting the future impact of Washington State's then recently adopted Sentencing Reform Act (SRA). The article noted that there would be an initial drop in prison populations, followed by a rapid increase until population …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Status of Reformatory Crowding Litigation by Ed Mead In 1981 prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe entered into a consent decree with the state over the issue of double celling. The original complaint, filed by Evergreen Legal Services for Reformatory prisoners back in 1978, alleged a number of …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Washington Smoking Suit Dismissed by Ronald Guilmet is a Washington state prisoner at Walla Walla. Guilmet does not smoke and a smoker was placed in his cell. Five days later Guilmet complained to the unit sergeant that cigarette smoke bothered him. About five days after this Guilmet was assigned a …
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Five Boot Camp Guards Fired by Houston, Texas- Five Harris County, Texas, deputies were fired June 9 upon being indicted on felony charges for abusing inmates at the county's boot camp for first time offenders. Those charged are Darryl Coleman, Benny Galindez, Alfonso Giraldo, W.E. Jones and Joe Saenz. They …
Outside Strip Search Constitutes Excessive Force by Michael Cornwell is an Ohio state prisoner. In February, 1987, while in prison in Mansfield, he participated in a sit down strike with 76 other prisoners protesting a cutback in recreation time. Dahlberg, the prison warden, ordered guards to use force to terminate …
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