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Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
BOP Liable for Overcrowding and Opening Detainees Mail by Richard Young is a federal pretrial detainee. While awaiting trial he was housed at the US Penitentiary in Lewisburg, PA. He filed suit claiming that the conditions of confinement violated his right to be free from punishment. The conditions included being …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Prison Litigation Report Issued by The winter, 1993, issue of the ACLU's National Prison Project contains a status report of nationwide prison litigation for 1992. Forty states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are under court order or consent decree to limit population and/or improve …
Publication • 1993
Filed under: Overcrowding
1993 Supplement -National Directory of Corrections Construction NIJ, July 1993 :-~ - U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice.Programs National Institute of Justice · National Directory of Corrections Construction i 1993 Supplement ----M-----~--------- --- . .: -: __________ ......,, l About the National Institute of Justice The National Institute of …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Monroe Double Celling Suit Lost by Ed Mead By Ed Mead In 1981 prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe entered into a judicially enforceable consent decree with their captors that would have permanently eliminated double celling at the prison. The original complaint, filed in 1978, challenged a number …
Court Bans Double Celling of New Prisoners by Prisoners at the Nebraska State Penitentiary filed a class action suit challenging numerous conditions of confinement at the penitentiary. Most of the claims relate to overcrowding and the overall poor living conditions which include: excessive noise, lack of ventilation, inadequate staff, assaults …
State Liable for County Jail Overcrowding by Jail prisoners in the Harris County Jail, Texas, filed suit against county and state officials claiming that overcrowding at the jail violated the eighth amendment. The district court found that it did and that both state and county officials had acted with deliberate …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
VA Builds More Prisons by A projected 38 percent increase in the states prison population within the next five years has prompted Governor Douglas Wilder to propose a $111.7 million prison construction project. The proposal includes construction of a 1,046 bed women's prison, a 697 bed men's prison, a 100 …
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
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 …
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 • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Illinois Facing Prison Crisis by The Illinois prison system is rapidly becoming one of the nations most severely overcrowded, and the states prisons are becoming increasingly dangerous places for both inmates and staff, according to a task force established by Gov. Jim Edgar. The crowding could reach a crisis level …
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Wash. DOC Given $15 Million by The Washington state DOC has been given an additional $15 million in emergency funding to ease overcrowding in state prisons. Even after the money is spent to open new prisons and add beds in existing prisons, the system is likely to be operating well …
Brief • October 9, 1992
Letezeio v. Manson, CT, Stipulation, Prison Overcrowding and AIDS Cases, 1992 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT n 10 • ri '< r. t'.'\ ; JOSEPH L. LETEZ EIO , JR. : V• JOHN R . MANSON, et al. CIVIL NO. H82-252 CIVIL NO. H80-506' CIVIL NO. H81-512 CIVIL …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Court Bans Double Celling by Since 1986 Utah state prison officials have planned to double cell the Wasatch unit of the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah. In the 1970's Utah prison officials entered into a consent decree with prisoners obligating them to avoid double celling. The prisoners had sought, …
DOC Must Provide Involuntarily Committed With Treatment by Robert Cameron was convicted of rape in Massachusetts and because of prior sex offenses was found to be a "sexually dangerous" person and involuntarily committed to a treatment center operated by the Massachusetts DOC and Dept. of Mental Health. Cameron filed suit …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Washington's Prisons to Reach 10,000 by Washington's Prisons To Reach 10,000 Washington State's jammed prisons soon will hold a record 10,000 inmates, and the state is stepping up construction of more cells to head off the unrest that often comes with overcrowding. "We've been pretty lucky that we haven't had …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Deportation Delays Criticized by Editorial Comments By Ed Mead Paul and I are now in our third year of publishing the Prisoners Legal News. It has been a good experience for both of us, and hopefully for you, too. I know that we have learned a lot in the process …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Prison Overcrowding Crisis Continues, Says New Report by Forty 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 a new Status Report released Feb. 27 by the National Prison Project of the …
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