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Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Legal News in Brief - NCIC Info Rule by The Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, has issued a final rule amending it's rule on production or disclosure of FBI/National Crime Information Center (NCIC) information to conform to NCIC's requirement that any request by a prisoner for his or her …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
9th Circuit Affirms Gutting of WSR Consent Decree by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In 1978 prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) in Monroe, WA filed suit over inhumane prison conditions at the prison. In 1981 prisoners and the DOC entered into a consent decree whereby the prisoners dismissed …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
Chicago Police Torture Suspects by [Generally PLN only reports on cases involving prison civil rights issues or the occasional procedural matter affecting pro se litigants. This is a police brutality case which we present more for it's informational value than it's relevance to prison litigation. All too often we hear …
Court Enjoins BOP Phone System by On October 13, 1993, Judge Henry Wilhoit of the U.S. District Court in Kentucky entered a preliminary injunction barring the federal Bureau of Prisons from implementing its Inmate Telephone System (ITS). The case is Washington v. Reno, case number 93-217 and 93-290. Readers should …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
Consent Decree Modified to Permit Racial Segregation by In 1988 a prisoner at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF)at Lucasville, OH, filed suit challenging the prison's practice of assigning prisoners to cells based on their race. This practice led to the racial segregation of prisoners. The court appointed counsel in …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
Court Rules Suit Waiver is Not Enforceable by This case involves release-dismissal agreements where a party will agree not to sue a government agency or official and the agency in turn agrees to either drop or reduce charges against the person. In many cases prison officials will have prisoners agree …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Estate Proper Party When Defendant Dies by Jerry Young is a New York state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 claiming that Terry Patrice, a prison guard, had beaten him. During the pendency of the suit it appears that Patrice died. The attorney general filed a motion to dismiss …
Third Circuit Announces Rules for Appointment of Counsel by Harvey Tabron is a Pennsylvania state prisoner. He sued prison officials claiming they had failed to protect him from attack by another prisoner. In the course of the litigation Tabron requested that the district court appoint counsel to represent him, order …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
No Right to TV Interviews by Walter Johnson is a Kansas state prisoner. The television news program Hard Copy sought to conduct a face-to-face interview with Johnson. Johnson had communicated with the program by phone and mail. After initially being denied access to the prison, Hard Copy reiterated its request …
Delay of Medical Care States Claim by Willie Harris was a pretrial detainee in the Coweta County, Georgia, jail. When he was arrested his hand was injured by tight handcuffs. Upon arrival at the jail, on September 6, 1990, he requested treatment for the injury. He was seen by the …
Ninth Circuit Upholds Ban on Attorney Contact Visits by This is a class action suit filed by Arizona state prisoners. They sued on two issues. First, they contend that the Arizona DOC's policy and practice of banning all contact visits between prisoners and their attorneys at various prisons violates their …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Qualified Immunity Law Clarified by Joseph Rankin was a pretrial detainee in the Harris County, Texas, jail. While awaiting a court appearance in a large holding cell a disturbance broke out after female prisoners passed in front of the cell. A deputy sheriff removed Rankin from the cell and, according …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
How to Secure the Attendance of Witnesses at Trial by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Most prisoner civil rights claims are filed by prisoner litigants who are representing themselves because they either cannot afford or cannot obtain counsel to do so. They can rarely afford to pay the relevant filing …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Shackling of Con Litigants Discussed by Joe Woods is an Illinois state prisoner. He sued prison officials claiming his eighth amendment rights were violated when they did not feed him for two days during a lockdown. A jury ruled in favor of the prison official defendants. Woods appealed claiming that …
Court Upholds Silencing of Dan Quayle's Drug Supplier by Brett Kimberlin is a federal prisoner serving a 51 year sentence on drug and weapons charges. He briefly gained a bit of notoriety during the 1988 presidential campaign when he claimed that he had supplied drugs to George Bush's vice-presidential running …
Ninth Circuit Approves Oregon Control Unit Conditions by Paul Wright By Paul Wright This is a case which challenged numerous conditions of confinement at the Oregon State Penitentiary's Disciplinary Segregation Unit (DSU), which is a control unit. The ruling does not bode well for prisoners seeking to question such conditions. …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Conditions Habeas Requires Administrative Exhaustion by Raleigh Irby is a prisoner at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago. He petitioned the district court for release under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (the habeas corpus statute) because he was not receiving adequate medical treatment for severe congenital disk disease. The …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Common Law Right to Inspect Court Records by This is not a prison case but it involves a net maker's suing a competitor for theft of trade secrets. In the course of the litigation various documents were submitted under seal and protective order to the court. That litigation was settled. …
BOP Must Disclose Program Statement by George Cowsen-El is a federal prisoner at Marion, Illinois. He filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) seeking disclosure of BOP program statement 5511.2, which deals with stand up counts. He also sought disclosure, under the Privacy …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Bankruptcy Appeal Filed When Mailed by Three Pennsylvania state prisoners appealed the dismissal of their appeals from bankruptcy court after the district court held the appeal was untimely. Bankruptcy appeals must be filed within ten days, and in this case the prisoners gave their appeals to prison officials within the …
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