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Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Massachusetts Prisoners' Political Action Committee Floundering by Massachusetts prisoners were set back in their electoral efforts when the formation of a political action committee (PAC) inside the walls of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution was banned by executive order of Republican Governor Paul Cellucci. Guards confiscated the prisoners' political materials and …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
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News in Brief by AL: Citing "loyalty problems," on June 19, 2000, prison commissioner Mike Haley removed deputy commissioner John Shaver from his $71,000 a year job as head of the DOC's treatment programs. Shaver was transferred to a post as administrative services officer at a state prison, with a …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
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News in Brief by CT: On June 1, 2000, a mattress fire at the Northern Correctional Tnstitution, a control unit in Somers that includes the state's death row, left three prisoners and four guards injured. The guards were treated for smoke inhalation, one prisoner suffered burns and two others were …
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
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News in Brief by CO: On April 26, 2000, Bobby Fowler, 24, a captain at the Kit Carson Correctional Center in Burlington, was arrested and charged with felony criminal mischief for punching walls and knocking over a metal detector at the prison. The prison, operated by for profit Corrections Corporation …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
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News in Brief by Brazil: On March 11, 2000, 17 prisoners armed with knives overpowered four guards at the Mata Grande Penitentiary in Rondonopolis and forced them to open the cellblock of a rival gang. The armed prisoners then proceeded to kill 13 and wound 3 of their rivals. Three …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
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News in Brief by CA: Dept. of Corrections sergeant Richard Selio murdered his estranged wife on Sept. 26, 1999, then shot and killed himself after a SWAT team stormed his house following an eight hour standoff. Selio was a transport officer at the California Institute for Men. His wife, Teresa, …
2003 Washington Legislative Round-up by Lonnie Burton In its 2003 session the Washington leg-islature enacted numerous laws affecting prisoners. Highlights of the most relevant laws are as follows: Regional Jails Substitute House Bill 1609 instructs the Sentencing Guidelines Commission to present a plan by Dec. 31, 2003, for creating "pilot …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Wrongfully Convicted in California and New York Awarded Damages by Michael Rigby California On April 29, 2003, then California Governor Gray Davis signed legislation awarding two wrongfully convicted prisoners $100 per day for every day they were in prison. Ricky Daye, who spent 10 years in Folsom Prison, and Leonard …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
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News in Brief by Afghanistan: On October 10, 2003, 41 prisoners tunneled out of the Khandahar jail through a 30 foot tunnel. Some, but not all, the prisoners were members of the Taliban. Taliban commander Mullah Sabir told media that the group, which is fighting the American occupation of the …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
BOP Electric Musical Instrument Ban Upheld by DC Circuit by John E Dannenberg BOP Electric Musical Instrument Ban Upheld by DC Circuit by John E. Dannenberg The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld the BOP ban on electric musical instruments in federal prisons, rejecting prisoner arguments that …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
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News in Brief by AR: On January 17, 2000, the state prison system banned all tobacco products on prison property. The ban affects 12,000 prisoners and 3,000 employees. Brazil: On January 1, 2000, riot police stormed the Presidente Bernardes Penitentiary to end a 60 hour uprising by hundreds of prisoners …
Michigan Legislature Kills Class Action Suit by Female Prisoners by Maia Justine Storm In March, 1996, seven women pris- oners filed suit in the Washtenaw County Circuit Court against the Michigan Department of Corrections, Director Kenneth McGinnis, and ten individual wardens and officers. (96-6986 CZ) The complaint alleged that the …
Article • March 15, 2000 • from PLN March, 2000
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News in Brief by Bermuda: On December 22, 1999, the British territory abolished the death penalty and corporal punishment. CA: In December, 1999, Charles Scott was arrested by Kern county sheriff's deputies after they found 34 rifles and pistols, tear gas, stingball and flash bang grenades in his home. Police …
Michigan DOC Settles DOJ Sexual Abuse Lawsuit by Maia Justine Storm This past May, the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) which alleged a pattern and practice of sexual misconduct and invasions of privacy at the women's prisons …
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
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News in Brief by Brazil: More than 40 prisoners escaped from a jail in Sao Paulo on August 15, 1999 after twenty men overpowered, beat and tied up the guards and unlocked the cell doors. A shoot-out with police left one of the jailhouse liberators dead. CA: A July 10, …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
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News in Brief by CT: In October, 1999, the state DOC announced it would send 900 prisoners to the Wallens Ridge State Prison in Virginia to relieve overcrowding. Wallens Ridge is a "super-max" prison that has been repeatedly cited for human and civil rights abuses by various human rights organizations. …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
California Governor Vetoes Media Access Bill by In September, 1999 California Governor Gray Davis vetoed legislation that would have rescinded his predecessor's policy of barring reporters from interviewing state prisoners. The measure was supported by the California Correctional Peace Officers' Association (CCPOA) which said that barring reporters from prison makes …
Wackenhut's Woes: Guard Killed in New Mexico Riot; Prisoners Exiled to Virginia Supermax by Alex Friedmann Previously, PLN has reported problems at the Lea County Corr. Facility in Hobbs, New Mexico, one of two prisons in the state operated by Wackenhut Corrections Corp. Violent incidents at the Hobbs facility have …
1999 Washington State Legislative Roundup by The 1999 Washington legislature created or amended far too many statutes of interest to our readers to adequately summarize, but here are some highlights: Custodial Misconduct makes it a class C felony for an employee or contract personnel of a correctional agency [or] law …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
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News in Brief by AR: On August 11, 1999, a Lafayette Co. jail guard received a 5 year suspended sentence for having forcible sex with the wife of a prisoner as "payment" for letting her have a private visit with her husband. Michael A. Null, 38, pleaded guilty to felony …
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