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Brief • August 19, 2013
Plata v. Brown, CA, Jt. Motion for Order Authorizing Refeeding, Control Unit Hunger Strike, 2013 Case3:01-cv-01351-TEH Document2699 Filed08/19/13 Page1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 FUTTERMAN DUPREE DODD CROLEY MAIER LLP MARTIN H. DODD (104363) 180 Sansome Street, 17th Floor San Francisco, California 94104 Telephone: (415) 399-3840 Facsimile: (415) …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay by Maya Schenwar Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay by Maya Schenwar "I took my first photograph last November. That's one picture in 17 years," Pelican Bay prisoner Jimmy Flores writes to me. He lives in the California prison's Secure Housing Units (SHUs) – solitary confinement …
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
Connecticut Supreme Court Holds for DOC to End Hunger Strike by The Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut affirmed in March 2012 the judgment of trial court granting permanent injunction to the Commissioner of Correction authorizing her to cause to be force-fed a prisoner who initiated a hunger strike …
Article • July 15, 2012
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes, Food
Washington Force-Feeding Interests Outweigh Prisoner's Privacy Rights by The En Banc Washington State Supreme Court held that the State's interests in force feeding a prisoner outweighed his constitutional right to refuse artificial means of nutrition and hydration. In July 2004, Charles R. McNabb was transferred from the Spokane County Jail …
California Prisoners Seek End to Long-Term Segregation, Oppressive SHU Conditions by There are many forms of political and social protest. They can be purely for the sake of being disruptive or they can aim for resolution of a particular issue. Of course, even when they seek the latter they invariably …
The Sun Never Sets On Torture in American Military Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke PLN has reported extensively on some of the issues surrounding the treatment of prisoners in the American military prisons which were set up to hold people suspected of committing or supporting terrorism. This …
Remembering Attica Forty Years Later by Dennis Cunningham by Dennis Cunningham, Michael Deutsch & Elizabeth Fink This year, September 9 will mark the 40th anniversary of the rebellion at Attica State Prison in upstate New York. As one of the prisoner leaders, L.D. Barkley, announced to the world, the rebellion …
Article • July 15, 2009
Prison Officials Entitled to Make Medical Decisions for Delusional Prisoner by California’s Fifth Appellate District has held that a court’s decision to grant prison administrators authorization to consent to medical treatment on a prisoner’s behalf was proper. The decision to grant a prison doctor’s petition under Probate Code section 3201 …
Article • February 15, 2009
$11,000 Settlement For Failure To Treat Federal Prisoner's Hepatitis "C" Virus by Illinois federal prisoner Louis Sheptin brought a combined federal tort and Bivens action against the United States in 2000 for the failure to treat and disclose to him that he was infected with Hepatitis "C." The $10 million …
Summer of Discontent by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Underlying the purported societal goal of prisoner rehabilitation lurks the reality of what impedes it: systemic violence that defines the adversarial relationship between all men and women behind bars, prisoners and guards alike. Driven by racial animus, drugs, anger, gang …
Little State, Big Problems: Maine’s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated by Lance Tapley Little State, Big Problems: Maine?s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated by Lance Tapley Only big prison systems mistreat prisoners, right? Only prison systems where racism, right-wing tough-on-crime attitudes, or prison-industrial-complex power have full reign, like in California or Texas, …
Diabetic ND Prisoner's Forced Medical Treatment Upheld by North Dakota State Penitentiary prisoner August T. Vogel, who is serving a 90-year sentence for first degree murder, refused medical monitoring and treatment for his diabetes after he was removed from work release, lost his job and was denied a parole board …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
Hunger Striking GA Prisoner Has Right to Privacy to Refuse Forced Feeding. by Anthony Prevatte, a prisoner at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Butts, Georgia, began a hunger strike on October 29, 1981 and on November 21 refused to allows doctors to examine him. Prevatte's hunger strike was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
Hunger Striking NY Prisoner May Be Force Fed to Prevent Suicide by Attica Correctional Facility prisoner Mark David Chapman, who is serving 20 years to life for murdering John Lennon, appealed an order allowing prison officials to take all steps necessary to force-feed Chapman in order to sustain his life. …
Unidentified Prisoner Informant's Testimony Not Substantial Evidence by The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department, ordered a prisoner's disciplinary record expunged because the hearing officer's finding of guilt was not supported by substantial evidence. Kenneth Gaston, a New York state prisoner, was charged with organizing a food strike …
Article • May 15, 2007
W.VA Prisoner Forced to Receive Medical Treatment to Prevent Death, But Have Right to Refuse Treatment When Death is Inevitable by W.VA Prisoner Forced to Receive Medical Treatment to Prevent Death, But Have Right to Refuse Treatment When Death is Inevitable The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals held that …
No Qualified Immunity for Force Feeding Prisoner Who Agrees to Eat by The Muslim plaintiff fasted periodically for three to 15 days. On the fourth day of a fast, the defendant doctor declared him to be on a "hunger strike" and said he was lethargic, slow walking and talked with …
Article • May 15, 2007
Hunger Striking NH Prisoner Can Be Force Fed by The New Hampshire Supreme Court held a prisoner may be forced to receive medical treatment to prevent him from starving to death. The prisoner was simply tired of what life held for him and wanted to live freely or allow himself …
Article • May 15, 2007
OK to Feed Hunger striking Illinois Prisoner by The Illinois Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed a trial Court's injunction allowing prison officials at the Pontiac Correctional Center: to force feed a prisoner on hunger strike, which was began (1) Protesting his transfer to Pontiac, (2) objecting to having his …
Article • May 15, 2007
Force Feeding of Washington Prisoner Upheld by The Washington Court of Appeals upheld a Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) policy allowing the force-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners. Charles McNabb set fire to his estranged wife's home, seriously burning his 16-year-old step-daughter, who was inside. Guilt and grief stricken for hurting her, …
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