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Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Iowa Visiting Rules Create Liberty Interest by Iowa prison officials doubled the population in a minimum-security facility from 65 to 120 prisoners. To house the additional prisoners the visiting room was converted into a dormitory and visiting was cut in half, from every weekend to every other weekend. William Patachette …
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Claims Regarding Conditions in State Prison Were Sufficient to Survive Summary Judgment by On December 30th the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit provided some illumination as to what sort of allegations by an inmate regarding allegedly unconstitutional prison conditions are adequate to withstand a motion by prison …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
New York Installs 3,000 Prison Beds by New York installs 3,000 Prison Beds In December the New York state DOC began installing 3,000 new bunks in 10 prisons as part of a $40 million emergency program designed to help with overcrowding. The state also hired 760 new guards, many of …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Status of Monroe's Litigation Against Double Bunking by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Bob Stalker, the Washington state attorney for Monroe prisoners on their suit against double bunking, recently visited that prison to discuss the current status of the Litigation with inmate club heads and the Resident advisory Council (RAG). …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
The Capacity of Prison Overcrowding by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft The Capacity Of Prison Overcrowding By Wm. Daniel M. Ravenscroft, Attorney At Law A major difficulty in describing the extent of prison overcrowding is that there is no general agreement as to the definition of the "capacity' of overcrowded institutions. To …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Justice Dept. to Take Back Higher Inmate Limits by Ronald J Ostrow Justice Dept. To Take Back Higher Inmate Limits By Ronald J. Ostrow, Los Angeles Times From: Seattle Times, January 15, 1992 Agency taking hard-line position on crowded prisons WASHINGTON - Outlining a major policy shift, Attorney General William …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
IMU's and Controlled Feeding at CBCC by IMU'S and Controlled Feeding At CBCC As part of the continuing trend across the U.S. to open control units the Clallam Bay Corrections Center in Washington state has opened an Intensive Management Unit (IMU). Currently prisons at Shelton, Wa. and Walla Walla, Wa., …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Incarceration Rate Grows in First Half of 1991 by Incarceration Rate Grows In First Half Of 1991 The nation's state and federal prison population grew by 30,149 inmates, just under four percent, during the first half of1991 to reach a record 804,524 men and women as of June 30, the …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Monroe's Struggle Against Double Celling by Ed Mead Monroe's Struggle Against Double Celling: A Status Report By Ed Mead A flood of new rumors have been flying hot and heavy on the double celling status here at the Reformatory in Monroe. Some of these reports say there has been a …
Supreme Court Slams Conditions Case by Just before finishing its last session, the United States Supreme Court handed down a ruling making it more difficult for prisoners to challenge the constitutionality of prison conditions. The five to four decision held that prisoners must prove that prison officials not merely maintained …
Brief • August 23, 1991
T.I. V. Delia, WA, Stipulation of Settlement, Conditions of Confinement - Juvenile Detention, 1991 T.I. V. Delia 11111 I IIII II II 1111111111111111 JI-WA-001-018 1 CIVIL TRACK I Judge Dixon 2 3 ·, 4 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR KING COUNTY 6 7 8 T. I., a minor, et …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
California Prison Construction by Ruth Cashmere Ruth Cashmere Recently studies have shown that the United States has the world's highest incarceration rate. The United States has 426 prisoners per 100,000 population. Over the past 10 years, the state of California has experienced the greatest increase in state prison population surpassing …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Clallam Bay Double Celling by On June 12, 1991, Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) superintendent Neal Brown announced that the 21 million dollar expansion of CBCC was on schedule (but there is no money for teachers and schools in Washington). The expansion plans include renovation of food service and dining …
Pro Se Litigants Entitled to Litigation Costs by Pro Se Litigants Entitled To Litigation Costs Benton Burt was a pretrial detainee in San Francisco who filed suit under 42 USC, §1983 in federal court claiming he was confined under illegal and unconstitutional conditions. At a bench trial Burt won his …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Filed under: Overcrowding, Sentencing, Parole
Overcrowded and Unfair by Gary Parker Overcrowded And Unfair By Gary Parker Human nature and society were not transformed when the SRA was implemented in 1984. The transformation was meant to occur in the basic philosophy of this state's justice system. The old system did not work. Some offenders were …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
Penitentiary Overcrowded by The Seattle Times reports that the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla now has 1,970 prisoners and is expected to house about 2,600 by this summer. This is a record of overcrowding at a prison long characterized for its overcrowding. Remodeling is now taking place for …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Organizing, Overcrowding
Demonstration Against Double Bunking at Twin Rivers Prison by About a dozen members of the outside community held a demonstration in front of the Twin Rivers Correctional Center on October 21st. The protest was sponsored by the Ethnic Minority and Prison Task Force (PO Box 667, Edmonds, WA 98020), and …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Magistrate Recommends Continued Single Celling at Reformatory by Ed Mead There has been a long and bitterly fought struggle by prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory to enforce a consent decree mandating single celling. The consent decree is a product of a 1978 civil rights complaint filed by Evergreen Legal …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Warehouses of Misery by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft By Wm. Daniel Ravenscroft, esq. What has our prison system really come to? Nothing more than a giant machine gobbling up human beings then spitting them out without the slightest concern for the collateral consequences. The California prison system has over 90,000 inmates …
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
HR-4079: A National Crime Emergency? by Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it does. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr., resigned his seat, leaving President Bush to name an even more reactionary successor. Not only will the pro-choice Roe v. Wade ruling fall by the wayside, making …
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