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California Internet Mail Ban Enjoined by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The US District Court (N.D. Cal.) issued a permanent injunction against the California Department of Corrections' (CDC) policy that prohibits prisoners from receiving mail that contains Internet-generated information. Frank Clement, a prisoner at Pelican Bay State Prison …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Advocacy Groups Challenge Arizona Internet Communications Ban by On July 18, 2002, the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty(CCADP), Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty(CUADP) and Stop Prisoner Rape(SPR), filed a federal law suit against Terry L. Stewart Director of the Arizona Department Of Corrections(ADOC) pursuant to 42 …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
Pelican Bay Policy Banning Internet-Generated Mail Upheld by The California Court of Appeal held that a policy adopted only at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) preventing prisoners from receiving through the US Mail any material that had been downloaded from the Internet was facially valid and reasonably related to legitimate …
Fraud Charged by Washington DOC Whistleblower by Dan Pens An employee of the Washington Department of Corrections Office of Correctional Operations contacted the state auditor's office in August 1997 pursuant to the State Whistleblower Act. The unnamed whistleblower [we'll call him/her "Doe"] told the auditor that the DOC used improper …
WA DOC Whistleblowers Speak Out: Is Anyone Listening? by Paul Wright Hollywood has glamorized whistleblowers as selfless, dedicated employees with the public interest at heart. It has also implied that when government or corporate employees expose wrongdoing there is someone there to investigate their claims. A veteran investigative journalist writing …
AZ Prisoners Can't Access Internet, But the Net Accesses Them by A state law that went into effect July 18, 2000 makes it a Class 1 Misdemeanor for Arizona prisoners to "send mail or receive mail from a communication service provider or remote computing service." The law imposes penalties for …
West Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Computer Ban by In the February, 1998, issue of PLN we reported that the West Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) had prohibited its prisoners from having personal computers in their cells. In the previous decade West Virginia, New Jersey, Wyoming, Alaska and a prison in …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
Alaska Computer Printer Ban Questioned by The supreme court of Alaska held that a state superior court wrongly granted summary judgment to prison officials in a lawsuit challenging a ban on computer printers in the prisoners' cells. Geoffrey Mathis is an Alaska state prisoner. In 1993 prison officials issued a …
Article • February 15, 1998 • from PLN February, 1998
West Virginia Prisoners Lose Computers by Following the lead of prisoncrats in Washington, New Jersey, Wyoming, and Alaska, West Virginia DOC officials ordered the removal of all prisoner-owned personal computers from state prison cells. Corrections Commissioner Bill Davis, who took office August 1, 1997, issued a memorandum to all state …
Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
Federal Parolees Kicked off Internet by The U.S. Parole Commission has said that it was so disturbed by the amount of information available on the Internet about child sex rings, recipes for explosives, and plans for hate crimes that in December, 1996, without holding any public hearings, it approved restrictions …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
California Prison Computer Project Crashes by With over 144,000 prisoners, tens of thousands of employees, some thirty prisons and a multi-billion dollar budget, the California Department of Corrections just rejected design plans for a mammoth computer project to automate its antiquated record keeping system. CDC officials suspended a $2 million …
New Triad by Pierre Duterte Some death row prisoners who have been executed attain celebrity. We have all heard about the Rosenbergs, Carryl Chessman's name comes to mind, Gary Gillmore also. But do you know Joseph Paul Jernigan? No? Come on, if I tell you CD-Rom disk ... Internet ... …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
Washington Prisoners Lose Computers, Again by Paul Wright In 1986 prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, WA were allowed to purchase computers and software and keep them in their cells. The program at its peak had some 56 prisoner computer owners in it. During this period the only …
Publication • October 16, 1996
Washinton Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers-Presonal Computer Usage by DOC Prisoners-Oct. 1996 WACDL Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Lenell Nussbaum President Teresa Mathis Executive Director October 16, 1996 Mr. Chase Riveland, Secretary Department of Corrections P. 0 . Box 41101 Olympia, WA 98504-1101 RE: Personal Computer Usage by Department …
Newell Superseded by In the April, 1996, issue of PLN we reported Newell v. Sauser, 64 F.3d 1416 (9th Cir. 1995) which held that Alaska prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity for infracting a prisoner who had another prisoner's legal papers in his cell. On March 11, 1996, …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Prison Rape Opponents Sue to Protect Award-Winning Web Site from Internet Censors by Stop Prisoner Rape, Inc., a nationally organized group dedicated to fighting against the rape of incarcerated persons of all genders and ages, joined the American Civil Liberties Union and 19 other plaintiffs today (Feb. 7, 1996) in …
Jailhouse Lawyers Retain Right to Assist Prisoners by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit has held that prison officials are not entitled to qualified immunity when they punish a jailhouse lawyer for assisting another prisoner. Terry Newell, an Alaska state prisoner, was employed as a prison law library …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Microsoft Out-Cells Competition by Dan Pens In the Seattle area, home to software giant Microsoft, it's not uncommon to hear the phrase "Microsoft Millionaire." There exists a large number of ex-Microsoft employees who made their millions, quit the company, and are now free to enjoy other pursuits. Many of them …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
New Jersey Takes Computers by Since about 1985 the New Jersey DOC has allowed prisoners to possess personally owned computers in their cells and for approved prisoner groups to have computers in their offices. On September 12, 1995, the NJ DOC announced that effective September 18, 1995, it plans to …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
WA DOC Computerizes Visitor Tracking by Since 1993 the Washington state DOC has been working on a computer based program designed to track and manage people who visit prisoners. The program is called Public Access System (PAS). The hardware used includes an IBM compatible personal computer, video camera, bar code …
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