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Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
VA Jails Sue State Prisons by On 30 January 1995, the sheriffs of Arlington, Alexandria and Richmond filed a lawsuit to force the state to remove its prisoners from their jails. The suit was filed in circuit court in Richmond. It says the Virginia DOC is violating a state law …
DOJ Sues MT DOC by On December 1, 1994, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the Montana Department of Corrections about overcrowding, safety and health problems in the Montana DOC. This lawsuit comes after an earlier suit against the Montana DOC filed by the ACLU was settled by the …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
FL Ends Early Release by On December 9, 1994, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles announced that the state was ending its gain time program. The program was instituted in 1987 by then Governor Bob Martinez (R) to comply with a federal court order designed to limit Floridas extreme prison overcrowding. Under …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
WY Trailer Visits Taken by Wyoming penitentiary warden, Duane Shillinger, issued a memorandum to "All Inmates" notifying them that the "Family Visiting Center" would be closed effective April 1, 1995. The warden said he regrets making this difficult decision. The reasons stated in the memo for terminating the trailer visit …
Pierce County Jail Sued by On January 19, 1995, a class action suit was filed against Pierce County (Tacoma, Washington) concerning massive overcrowding at its jail. The jail was built in 1984 and designed to hold 470 prisoners, it was later remodeled to hold 628. On January 17, 1995, the …
Population PI Vacated by Prisoners at the North Carolina DOC Morrison Youth Institution (MYI) filed a class action suit claiming that overcrowding and under staffing at the prison exposed them to constitutionally unacceptable risks of physical violence. They sought a preliminary injunction (PI) which was granted. The district court ordered …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Confronting the Helms Amendment by In the December, 1994, issue of PLN we reported on and analyzed the federal crime bill and discussed one of its components, section 20409, which seeks to limit prisoners ability to challenge prison overcrowding via class action suits. Elizabeth Alexander, Associate Director for Litigation of …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
NC Consent Decree Modified by In 1985 North Carolina state prisoners filed a class action suit seeking relief from unconstitutional conditions at 49 of the states 97 prison facilities. During trial the parties settled and entered into a consent decree which limited overcrowding to 140% of capacity in medium security …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
Unconstitutional Jail Conditions Don't Need to be Relitigated by Chris Hall was a pretrial detainee in the Little Rock, Arkansas, city jail. He filed suit under 42 U.S.A. § 1983 claiming that jail conditions had violated his constitutional rights. Arrested for shoplifting, Hall spent 40 days in the jail, confined …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Jail Population Cap Affirmed by Prisoners and detainees in the Angelina county jail in Texas filed a class action suit claiming that overcrowding at the jail violated their constitutional rights. The district court agreed and entered an injunction imposing a population cap on the jail. The defendant county jail and …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
OK Early Release Law Legal by In response to prison overcrowding, the Oklahoma state legislature has passed the Oklahoma Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act, Oklahoma Statute 57, § 570-576. The act permits the prison system to release prisoners with less than medium custody convicted of lesser crimes in order to …
Federal Crime Bill Passes by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the October and November, 1993, issues of PLN, I wrote articles about the "anti-crime" proposals that had been submitted in the US Congress by democrats and republicans, respectively. I predicted then the most repressive aspects of both proposals would …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Russian Jails in Crisis by For decades the United States government used its propaganda machine to rail about the former Soviet Union's prison system. That the American government is silent about the new Russian prison system is more an indication of the fact that Russia has formally restored capitalism and …
Langford v. Bullock, MT, Settlement Agreement I, ADA Compliance, 1994 FILED Honorable Leif B. Erickson Federal Magistrate Judge Missoula Division P o Box 7219 Missoula, MT. 59807-7219 lN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MONTANA HELENA DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF LITIGATION R.ELATING '!I'O CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMEfTT …
Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
Overcrowding Leads to Pneumonia by On September 8, 1994, the New England Journal of Medicine published the report of an investigation conducted by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into the outbreak of a deadly form of pneumonia in the Harris County (Houston) jail in Texas in …
Agreement Reached in State-Wide Pennsylvania Prison Case by On Aug. 12, 1994, lawyers representing the prisoners announced that they have reached a settlement with the State of Pennsylvania in Austin v. Lehman, the state-wide prison conditions case filed in November, 1990. The agreement has been presented to U.S. District Judge …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Court Returns Fines by In 1976, prisoners of the Allegheny County Jail in Pennsylvania filed suit against their keepers over unconstitutional jail conditions. Over the next 18 years of litigation, the court imposed $2,729,300 in fines against county officials who refused to abide by court orders to alleviate overcrowding and …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
Airway Heights Opens by The Spokane Spokesman Review reports that on July 15, 1994, the 1,024 bed Airway Heights Correctional Center (AHCC) officially opened near Spokane, Washington, by accepting its first 40 medium security prisoners. The prison cost Washington state tax payers $113 million to build and was slated to …
Suit Filed Over Conditions at Virgin Islands Criminal Justice Complex by For almost two years, prisoners at Criminal Justice Complex have been locked up for 23 hours a day in overcrowded, filthy, rat and roach infested cells. They are only allowed out for a short period each day to shower …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Prison Overcrowding Crisis Continues, Says ACLU Report by Washington, D.C. - February 14, 1994- Thirty-nine states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, are under court order to reduce prison overcrowding and/or to remedy unconstitutional conditions, according to the new Status Report released today by the …
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