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Total Exhaustion Rule Should Apply Separately to Each Plaintiff by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that when multiple prisoners join in a civil rights complaint, but only one of those prisoners has exhausted administrative remedies on all of the claims asserted, it is error to dismiss the …
Article • May 15, 2007
NY Ban on Internet Materials Upheld by A serious medical need is "a condition of urgency that may result in degeneration or extreme pain." (559) (No it isn't, necessarily.) The plaintiff alleged an eight-month delay in diagnosis of his "bowel disorder" (mild distal proctitis and internal hemorrhoids) from the time …
Mentally Ill WI Prisoner Sues over Control Unit Conditions by The plaintiff raised various constitutional claims, discussed below, and moved for class certification. The court denies it because the case is pro se and absent class members are "entitled at least to the assurance of competent representation afforded by licensed …
Article • May 15, 2007
Arkansas Must Acknowledge Prisoner's Muslim Name by The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Arkansas prison officials must acknowledge a Muslim prisoner's Islamic name. An Arkansas state prisoner of the Islamic faith who had his name legally changed to Bilal Ali Salaam while imprisoned brought pro se civil …
Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
Illinois DOC Capitulates On Prison Newspaper Ban by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) settled a publisher?s civil rights complaint challenging the arbitrary ban of Stateville Speaks, a nascent newspaper containing writings by IDOC prisoners. The IDOC amended its mail regulations regarding ?unacceptable publication? …
BOP Mail Rule Banning Internet Downloads and Soft Cover Publications Not Sent by Publisher Held Unconstitutional by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On October 26, 2006, in an unpublished order, the U.S. District Court (D. Colo.) held that 28 C.F.R. § 540.71(a)(2), which restricts Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoners …
Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
PLN Sues Dallas County Jail for Censorship by On February 26, 2007, Prison Legal News filed suit against the Dallas County Jail in Dallas, Texas, challenging the jail?s total ban on magazines and newspapers. PLN claims the policy, which took effect on March 31, 2006, violates the publication?s right to …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright This editorial is being written in Wichita, Kansas on February 14, 2007. For the past two days PLN?s executive director, Don Miniken, and I have been attending the bench trial before USDC Judge Monte Belot in Prison Legal News v. Werholtz. PLN filed the …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
Summary Judgement Reversed on Illinois Outgoing Mail Ban by The Illinois Court of Appeals held that prison officials violated a prisoner?s First Amendment free speech rights by refusing to allow him to mail an investigative report out of the prison. Illinois prisoner Gene Arnett and two other prisoners attempted to …
9th Circuit Holds § 1997e(a) Applies to Private Prisons; Magazine Confiscation Is a “Prison Condition” by 9th Circuit Holds § 1997e(a) Applies to Private Prisons; Magazine Confiscation Is a "Prison Condition" The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of an Idaho prisoner's suit for non-exhaustion, concluding that the …
Article • December 15, 2006
Failure to Treat Rectal Cyst For 30 Months States Claim by The plaintiff had a cyst near his rectum. One doctor refused to examine him despite his complaints of pain. A second doctor said the cyst needed to be "lanced out" but did not do anything except provide medication for …
Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006
PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Requirement Distinguished in Two California by John Dannenberg Excessive-Force Suits by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals consolidated two interlocutory appeals from U.S. District Courts in California that distinguished under what circumstances administrative exhaustion is deemed satisfied if the grievance process has been …
Brief • December 12, 2006
Powell v. Ellis, AZ, Injunction, Unconstitutional Mailroom Policy, 2006
Brief • October 26, 2006
Jordan v. Hood, CO, Order and Judgement - Prohibiting Softbound Books, Clippings Unconstituional As Applied - Injunc, 2006 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Judge Phillip S. Figa Civil Action No. 03-cv-02320-PSF-MJW MARK JORDAN, Plaintiff, v. ROBERT A. HOOD, Warden, ADX Florence, MARY H. SOSA, …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
PLNs Publication-Ban Suit Against Kansas DOC Set For Trial On Declaratory And Injunctive Relief by John Dannenberg PLNs Publication-Ban Suit Against Kansas DOC Set For Trial On Declaratory And Injunctive Relief by John E. Dannenberg Seeking to overturn restrictive bans on prisoner receipt of publications in the Kansas Department of …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Supreme Court: Banning Publications to Punish Recalcitrant Prisoners Trumps Their First Amendment Rights by John E Dannenberg Supreme Court: Banning Publications to Punish Recalcitrant Prisoners Trumps Their First Amendment Rights by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. Supreme Court held that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) policy of banning its …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Filed under: Mail, Publications/Books
Washington DOC Settles Mail Censorship Suit with PLN for $442,500 in Fees and Damages by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg As previously reported in PLN, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. District Court ruling (Prison Legal News v. Lehman, 272 F.Supp.2d 1151 (W.D. Wash. 2003); …
Brief • August 17, 2006
Filed under: Due Process
Harris v. Terrell, KS, Order, Bivens complaint, 2006 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS SETH H. HARRIS, SR., Plaintiff, v. CASE NO. 06-3202-SAC DUKE TERRELL, et al., Defendants. O R D E R Plaintiff, a prisoner confined in the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, …
California Third-Level Administrative Appeals May Be Filed with Prison Appeals Coordinator by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Solano County Superior Court ordered that when a California Department of Corrections (CDC) prisoner files a third (Director) level administrative appeal, he need not mail it via U.S. Mail to the …
RLUIPA Bars Total Ban on Melanic Literature by A Michigan federal district court has entered an injunction that bars the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) from continuing a total ban on Melanic literature, requiring MDOC officials to screen such literature to ensure prohibited materials are prevented entry into MDOC prisons. …
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