Infracting Cop Cannot Hear Own Infraction by John Diercks is a prison informant in protective custody (PC) in Jefferson City, MO. While in PC Diercks approached a prison official and asked him to make the urine samples of two prisoners "disappear" in exchange for which Diercks would supply the names …

Informant Testimony Must be Independently Weighed by Informant Testimony Must Be Independently Weighed Spellmon Bey is a Texas prisoner who was infracted for threatening other prisoners in order to extort commissary and sexual favors from them. The infraction was written by the unit captain, based on informant testimony, and listed …

Credibility of Informants Must be Weighed by Credibility Of Informants Must Be Weighed Jerome Russell, a New York state prisoner at Greenhaven prison, was infracted for assaulting another prisoner. Three confidential informants submitted statements to prison officials identifying Russell and four others as the assailants. At his hearing Russell requested …

Geronimo Pratt Wins Injunction Against Future Harassment; Loses Drug Trafficking And Possession Appeal by Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt is a political prisoner convicted after an FBI COINTELPRO frame job of murdering a school teacher during an alleged robbery attempt of the victim and her husband on a Santa Monica tennis court. …

Informants Must Be Reliable by Albert Taylor is an Oklahoma state prisoner who filed a §1983 suit claiming his right to due process was violated when a prison disciplinary committee found him guilty of participating in a riot based on a statement from a confidential informant. The district court dismissed …

Puppets on Strings of Oppression by Christofer Kneech Puppets On Strings Of Oppression By Christofer Kneech All of you came to prison because society did not enjoy your behavior and actions, whether they condemned such actions to be criminal when they may or may have been, but you all have …

Convict Entitled To Have Officer Called As Witness At Hearing, And To Have Independent Evaluation Of Informant's Allegations by Convict Entitled To Have Officer Called As Witness At Hearing, And To Have Independent Evaluation Of Informant's Allegations A prisoner at Sing Sing filed a federal civil rights suit challenging the …