Ohio Targets Activists as "Gang Members" by John Perotti Ohio Targets Activists As "Gang Members" By John Perotti The Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (DORC) instituted a regulation prohibiting "gang related activity." This was implemented to fall in line with their overall intention to follow in the footsteps of California, …
OH Prisoners Seek Court Access by Ohio prisoners have filed a class action suit alleging that the Ohio DOC has promulgated conditions which prevent the exercise of prisoners right of access to the courts. The claims include depriving prisoners in segregation and protective custody of law library access and access …
Consent Decree Modified to Permit Racial Segregation by In 1988 a prisoner at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF)at Lucasville, OH, filed suit challenging the prison's practice of assigning prisoners to cells based on their race. This practice led to the racial segregation of prisoners. The court appointed counsel in …
Ohio to Build Super-Max Prison by In the wake of the April, 1993. rebellion at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) which left 10 dead Ohio prisoners and prison activists had hoped the state would examine it's policies which result in Ohio have the highest level of overcrowding in the …
What's Wrong in the Ohio DOC? by John Perotti It's been almost a year since the end of the siege at Lucasville. During this time investigations have been conducted by the State Legislature, State Highway Patrol and Scioto County Prosecutor's Office. The mass media has focused on "crimes" committed during …
Classification Chief Liable for Attack by Classification Chief Liable For Attack Israel Nelson was convicted in an Ohio court of assaulting his common law wife and was sent to a medium security prison. His wife contacted him and informed him that her brother, a major cocaine dealer, was plotting to …
Prisoner's Assault Claim Must Go to Trial by Prisoner's Assault Claim Must Go To Trial William Moore is a prisoner at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville. He filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that his eighth amendment rights were violated when prison guards came to …
Lucasville: A Brief History by John Perotti By John Perotti The pinnacle of the prisoners' rights movement had about reached its peak when I arrived at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, Ohio, in 1977. I had been transferred from the Ohio State Reformatory (OSR) in Mansfield, Ohio, …
Family Visiting Info Wanted by John Perotti Policies, analytical charts and studies and any documentary evidence on family visiting programs (also known as trailer visits, extended family visiting, etc.) and their beneficial qualities are needed in an effort to implement such a program in Ohio. Any documentation, articles, etc., that …
Bullet Smuggling Guard Sentenced by Former Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) guard Robbie Stringer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a $5,000.00 fine for smuggling seven bullets into the prison in a bag of corn chips. The sentence imposed by Judge Everett Burton was the maximum allowed by …
Standard for Modifying Consent Decrees Explained by Standard For Modifying Consent Decrees Explained In 1976 prisoners in the Hamilton County, OH, jail filed suit challenging their conditions of confinement. The parties entered into a consent decree which settled all claims. Within five weeks of the decree's entry, in 1985, the …
No Cause of Action for Defamation by Two Ohio prisoners approached a unit supervisor to discuss a cell change; one of them sought to be moved into a cell occupied solely by another prisoner. The supervisor then either directly told them or implied that the cell's occupant was a homosexual. …
Reduction In Damages Improper by Harry Weeks was a parapeligic Ohio state prisoner. For a two year period Weeks was housed in a control unit at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) at Lucasville, OH. The control unit did not permit Weeks to have a wheelchair. L.R. Chaboudy was the …
SOCF Chronology by Chryztof Knecht [Editor's Note: (May 1, 1993) What follows is a chronology of events as they unfolded at Lucasville, Ohio, during the April uprising at that facility. It was written by a Lucasville segregation prisoner who wasn't an actual part of the riot, but who was close …
MANCI: The Aftermath by John Perotti By John Perotti In June, 1992, MANCI guard Thomas Davis was stabbed in the back shoulder. Prisoner Roy Slider was accused of the stabbing. Davis died at a Mansfield hospital the next day. This began a series of retaliatory transfers and total lockdown of …
Prisoners Win Suit Over Circulating Petition by Dennis Wolfel and three other Ohio state prisoners, including longtime PLN supporter John Perotti, were infracted and disciplined for circulating a petition complaining of brutal prison conditions. The petition was going to be sent to Amnesty International, the international human rights group, to …
Court Cannot Dismiss Suit if Partial Filing Fee Paid by Autry Clark is an Ohio state prisoner. He filed suit against Ocean Brand Tuna claiming he bought cans of cat food from the prison commissary that had been re-labelled as tuna fit for human consumption. Clark became ill after eating …
Perotti Needs Help by John Perotti John Perotti, Mansfield, OH On August 7, 1992, MANCI prisoncrats Bill Rachael (unit manager), Terry Knight (SHP Investigator), Mr. Fleming (SHP) and Capt. Jackson and Sgt. Harrell called a prisoner named Jerome Evans to their office and made a deal that if he set …
Outside Strip Search Constitutes Excessive Force by Michael Cornwell is an Ohio state prisoner. In February, 1987, while in prison in Mansfield, he participated in a sit down strike with 76 other prisoners protesting a cutback in recreation time. Dahlberg, the prison warden, ordered guards to use force to terminate …
Guard Killed - MANCI Madness by John Perotti By John Perotti MANSFIELD, OHIO - On June 27, 1992, a black guard named Davis was beaten and stabbed. A white prisoner named Roy Slieber was picked up for the assault, beaten and shipped to the J1 SuperMax control unit in Lucasville, …
