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You're in the Hole: A Crackdown on Dissident Prisoners

Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Attorney Client, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Mail Regulations, Attorney Visits

Boyle, are "the formalization of what they've been doing for the past six weeks." "The decision to segregate inmates without explanation or access to counsel appears to be driven by certain policies ...

System Examined in Death of Washington Prisoner

Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003

Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Medical Misconduct, Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect, Medical Records, Hepatitis, Staffing, Damages, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

. Other health workers had turned him away hours earlier. But the guard could see what they missed. Montgomery, son of a Pentecostal bishop and father of two young girls, was hours from death. His ...

The Shame of Prison Health

Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003

Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Medication, Systemic Medical Neglect, Tuberculosis, Medical Expenses, STDs, Hepatitis, Contagious Disease -- Misc., Parole, Drug Treatment/Rehab

epidemic with long-term public health implications, and when several million Americans per year are being released from jail or prison. "We should be looking at what public health opportunities ...

Sanders v. State-67 P.3d 323 ( NV 2003)

Case • 2003

that the statute is "so imprecise, and vagueness so permeates its text, that persons of ordinary intelligence cannot understand what conduct is prohibited, and the enactment authorizes or encourages arbitrary ...

Treats v. Morgan-308 F.3d 868 (8th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

, sprayed him in the face with pepper spray, and then sprayed him a second time after he asked for the officer's name. Id. What happened in Foulk is similar to this case in that Treats was also sprayed ...

People v. Millard-782 N.E.2d 966, 335 Ill. APP. 3d 1066 (211. App.4

Case • 2003

issues. No evidence was presented other inmates sympathize with him or are themselves prepared to go on a hunger strike in response to [***17] his conduct. No anecdotal evidence was presented as to what ...

Silencing the Cells: Mass Incarceration and Legal Repression in U.S. Prisons

Article • December 15, 2003

institutions. This is exactly what is happening now. A Short History of Incarceration Reviewing a short history of incarceration in the United States during the twentieth century is necessary to understand ...

Lynn v. Maryland-295 F.Supp.2d 594 (D.Md. 2003)

Case • 2003

. [16] It is well established that in evaluating a law enforcement officer's conduct, a court and jury should not view an incident with 20/20 hindsight but should base their judgment upon what ...

State v. Sanders-343 Ore. 35, 163 P.3d 607 (Ore. 2007)

Case • 2007

to what commonly would be understood to be searches and seizures as an additional consequence of their convictions. If the person is sentenced to a term of imprisonment, then the Department of Corrections ...

Kay v. Bemis, 500 F.3d 1214 (10th Cir. 2007)-500 F.3d 1214

Case • 2007

or regulation; (3) what effect accommodating the exercise of the right would have on guards, other prisoners, and prison resources generally; and (4) whether ready, easy-to-implement alternatives exist that would ...

State v. Abd-Rahmaan-154 Wash.2d 280, 111 P.3d 1157 (Wash., 2005)

Case • 2005

at the Millionaires' {sic} Club. When I discovered, after he took his polygraph, he disclosed what he had been doing or had not been doing. I followed up at the Millionaires' {sic} Club. They reported to me that he had ...

Shannon v. Graves-257 F.3d 1164 (10th Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

confirms what is obvious: exposure to the human waste of others carries a significant risk of contracting infectious diseases such as Hepatitis A, shigella, and others. *fn1 There is no requirement ...

Barnard v. State of Oklahoma-119 P.3d 203 (Okla. Crim. App. 2005)

Case • 2005

charge to the custody of the Department of Corrections. What the Court is seeking to do is insert into the statute the prerequisite qualifier of "felony" into the first category of individuals when it does ...

Johnson v. Dellatifa-357 F.3d 539 (6th Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

appealed this decision in what has been docketed as case number 03-1865. [24] Thus, in case numbers 03-1506 and 03-1865, we must review the propriety of the district court's orders dated February 18 ...

Johnson v. United States-534 F.3d 958 (8th Cir. 2008)

Case • 2008

was wearing his correctional officer uniform, attempted to detain him. Johnson took off into a field and Little Light went after him, initially on foot, and subsequently in his car. [14] What transpired ...

Beverly v. State-44 Conn.App. 641, 691 A.2d 1093 (Conn.App. 1997)

Case • 1997

in damages. [22] "`The existence of conflicting evidence limits the court's authority to overturn a jury verdict. The jury is entrusted with the choice of which evidence is more credible and what ...

Searles v. Dechant-393 F.3d 1126 (10th Cir. 2004.)

Case • 2004

] JURISDICTION [19] Before turning to the merits of this appeal, we must first address a rather complex jurisdictional issue arising from what appears to be an untimely notice of appeal. On October 23, 2003 ...

Greenawalt v. Indiana Department of Corrections-397 F.3d 587 (7th Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

. [16] Nevertheless we do not think that the Fourth Amendment should be interpreted to reach the putting of questions to a person, even when the questions are skillfully designed to elicit what most ...

Hadix v. Caruso-248 Fed.Appx. 678 (6th Cir. 2007)

Case • 2007

this litigation. The original consent decree governed various aspects of prison conditions, including in-cell temperatures, medical care and mental health care, in what have become known as the Hadix Michigan ...

Teague v. Mayo-553 F.3d 1068 (7th Cir. 2009)

Case • 2009

judgment motions and conducted the trial--the conduct of which Teague does not complain about. What relief can we possibly provide for Teague? Teague points to no error in the conduct of this case which can ...