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Article • January 15, 1996 • from PLN January, 1996
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by IN: Al Parke, the new warden at the Indiana State Prison has solved his understaffing problems by cutting the number of required staff at the prison. He now has all slots filled simply by decreasing the number of slots. VA: On June 30, 1995, Virginia's only …
Iowa Crime Legislation by Michael Brant The 1995 Iowa legislature passed a new wave of bills that affect many Iowa prisoners and ex-prisoners. Among these new laws are: The refusal of the county treasurer to renew vehicle registrations if the person has unpaid delinquent restitution; the inmate hard labor law …
Article • December 15, 1995 • from PLN December, 1995
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News in Brief by Venezuela: On September 22, 1995, police entered the Catia prison in Caracas to search for weapons and drugs when prisoners shot at them. In a five hour riot four prisoners were killed and 26 people injured, including a guard and a policeman. Hundreds of soldiers stormed …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
IN Passes Excrement Law by Senate Enrolled Act #56, which went into effect on July 1, 1995, added a new section to the Indiana Criminal Code which makes it a crime to "knowingly or intentionally in a rude, insolent, or angry manner place blood or another body fluid or waste …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
WA DOC Gets $745,366,000 by Paul Wright In the August, 1995, issue of PLN we discussed the myriad anti-prisoner and -defendant legislation passed by the Washington State legislature in its 1995 session. The 1995 session was the longest in state history, running several months past its scheduled closing. Because the …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
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News in Brief by PA: On August 2, 1995, SCI Graterford prison guards Keith Robertson and Martin Williams were arrested for drug possession with intent to deliver. Both guards were seen, during an investigation, dumping drugs behind vending machines and trash bins within the prison. FL: Israel Martinez was charged …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Article Clarification by In the August, 1995, PLN our ar ticle WA Passes Record Anti-Prisoner/Defendant Legislation commented at length on House Bill 2010. We were somewhat skeptical of provisions within the bill that designated efforts to explore establishing a kosher kitchen at the Airway Heights prison near Spokane, WA for …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
AZ's War on the Federal Judiciary by In large class action suits when courts find constitutional violations they sometimes order large-scale changes. This is especially the case in institutional reform litigation that typically involves prisons. To ensure that court orders are being carried out and to measure progress, which sometimes …
AZ Court Affirms Food Packages by In an Order dated April 7, 1995, United States District Judge C.A. Muecke ruled in Hook v. Arizona, No. CIV 73-97 PHX CAM, that Arizona inmates will continue to receive three 25 pound food packages at Christmas. Arizona inmates will also be allowed once …
MN Passes Laws Against Prison Litigators by The 1995 session of the Minnesota state legislature passed laws aimed directly at jailhouse layers. MN Statute § 243.241 titled "Civil Action Money Damages" was created. It states: "Money damages recovered in a civil action by an inmate confined in a state correctional …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
FL Enacts More Anti-Prisoner Laws by On June 14, 1995, several laws affecting prisoners were passed into law without the signature of Governor Lawton Chiles. Under this legislation prisoners convicted after October 1, 1995, must serve at least 85% of their sentences in prison. Other laws will expand the prison …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Cocaine Sentencing Disparities May Change by The Sentencing Guidelines Com mission (SGC) is an independent body created by Congress in 1984 to reduce sentencing disparities in the federal court system. This has included creating sentencing guidelines which greatly restrict the discretion of judges in imposing sentences. In 1986 and 1988 …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
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News in Brief by Vietnam: During the American attack on Vietnam the South Vietnamese government took over a prison originally built by the French on Con Son island and turned it into a notorious torture and murder camp. Communists and other opponents of the puppet regimes were held for years …
Injunction Saves CA Family Visits by Gail Harrington Wisely In a victory in the long simmering war over family visits Michael Satris, an attorney with the San Quentin based Prison Law Office, won an injunction from Marin County Superior Court Judge Peter Smith Wednesday May 24 1995, barring the California …
Law on Retaliation Well Established in 9th Cir. by In the October, 1993, issue of PLN we reported Schroeder v. McDonald, 823 F. Supp. 750 (D HI 1993) in which a Hawaii prisoner filed suit over a retaliatory transfer from a minimum to a medium security prison. The district court …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
IL Change in Good Time Statute Unlawful by On December 22, 1994, the Illinois state supreme court held that an Illinois statute eliminating certain categories of prisoners from those eligible to early good conduct credit at an accelerated rate violates the state and federal constitutions when applied retroactively. The primary …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
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News in Brief by Ohio: On July 10, 1995, Lonnie Stuckey, 35, a former prison guard at the Ohio Reformatory for Women was convicted on six counts of sexual battery for having sex with female prisoners in his care. At his trial Stuckey claimed he had a consensual sexual relationship …
WA Passes Record Anti-Prisoner/Defendant Legislation by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the March, 1995, issue of PLN I gave a rundown on most of the anti-prisoner and defendant legislation then pending in the legislature. After we had gone to press for that issue Ida Ballasiotes, the rabid chair of …
Article • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
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News in Brief by Canada: On May 10, 1995, a government panel investigating why more than 11,000 Canadians, most of them hemophiliacs, contracted AIDS and hepatitis in the 1980's, announced that it had traced the illness to blood products made with blood from Arkansas state prisoners, many of whom later …
Helms Amendment Ruled On by In the December, 1994, issue of PLN we analyzed various provisions of the federal crime bill that was passed that year. One of the provisions was the Helms amendment which limited the relief that federal courts could grant in class action suits brought by prisoners …
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