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of powers purposes. The court admitted the PLRA amends the applicable law but did not violate the separation of powers doctrine by dictating a rule of decision because what was at stake was the district ...
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
inspection. Three weeks later, Proctor, Altizer, and another safety inspector visited M Building. "This is a sensitive issue," Altizer told the AP, "and because of what was written [in the original ...
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
.3d 1178 (9th Cir. 1998), a panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court. [PLN  Dec. 1998] The Ninth Circuit granted rehearing en banc and vacated the previous opinion. In what the dissent ...
interests in possessing any property whatsoever while in prison beyond what the corrections commissioner is gracious enough to allow them to have. The court held that the ten year policy of allowing prisoners ...
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
the probable futility of any effort to collect a meaningful amount of child support from Garcia while he is incarcerated, and the impossibility of predicting what his earning capacity will be when he is paroled ...
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
with the surging inmate population," the task force said. The state currently houses more than 30,000 inmates in a system designed to hold about 20,000. The inmate population is nearly five times what ...
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
, throwing out law books is something akin to what destroying bibles would be to a preacher. They don't like it. We have citations in this regard and, should the matter arise, will litigate that issue, too ...
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
killing ways. "I am not about to alter my rigid views on capital justice, and if the public doesn't like it, they know what they can do about it." As of September, 1994, there have been a total of 251 ...
to the death of an IMU inmate last week. From what I hear he was an epileptic and died form a seizure induced by a lack of medication. He had been on the Third Floor of the prison's hospital [the mental health ...
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
." Reaching the merits of the claim, the court affirmed dismissal. Readers should research what the relevant case law on this issue is in their circuit. A lot of litigation on this issue can be avoided simply ...
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
on prisoners violates the eighth amendment only if it is deliberate or reckless in the criminal law sense. Liability turns on the defendants subjective mental state, not on what the defendant should have known ...
Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997
and vetoed the change. That was a case of active commission, not "non-action." The court did not state what penalty the defendants in this case received. See: U.S. v. Overstreet, 106 F.3d 1354 (7th Cir. 1997). ...
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
(W.D.Okla. 1981). Because the court's decision was "based primarily on comments of counsel," it remanded the case to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing with instructions to determine what Garner's ...
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
in yelling for medical staff. At 7:00 Tetzlaff sent a guard up on the tier to see what the problem was. Grif told the guard that he was experiencing extreme pain in his head. He said he was having dizzy ...
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
the Overton Commission that was the starting point of this inquiry as to what could be done to improve things and lower costs, etc., informing him that I have a viable counter proposal to make that does ...
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
for 20 prisoners. By early December there were 140 prisoners working on what the DOC calls "restricted work crews" at seven prisons across Florida. DOC officials say that 200 prisoners will soon be working ...
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
that the studies "offer little generalizable guidance about what to expect regarding ... costs and quality of service [from] privatizing correctional facilities." To obtain copies of these reports write to: U.S ...
indifference' to the prisoner's health or safety. "There is no concise definition of what types of prison conditions pose a 'substantial risk of serious harm' under the Eighth Amendment. Instead, we examine ...
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
up sexual predators will make children and women safe distracts our attention from the work that actually needs to be done. We have rather suddenly declared criminal what has been deemed customary ...
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
effective than mere punishment. What they will not do, however, is examine the social causes or roots of drug addiction. That would of course require an examination of the nature of capitalism, and perhaps ...
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