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Brief • May 7, 2014
Filed under: Voting, State Legislation
Scott v. Bowen, CA, Writ of Mandamus, Right to Vote, 2014 1 2 3 4 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 6 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA 7 8 9 10 11 12 MICHAEL SCOTT, et al, Case No. RG14-712570 Plaintiffs, ORDER (1) GRANTING PETITION OF …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
Filed under: Hunger Strikes
New York Prison Officials Can Force-Feed Hunger Striking Prisoner by The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, held that a hunger striking prisoner’s rights were not violated by a judicial order allowing the state to feed him by nasogastric tube to preserve his life. The Court’s decision …
Brief • March 13, 2014
Schoeckert v. City of New York, NY, Complaint, Occupy Wall Street Excessive Force & Arrest, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------------------)( PAUL SCHOECKERT, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) -against) ) THE CITY OF NEW YORK; POLICE OFFICER) MICHAEL GISBERT, Shield No. 7705; JOHN ) DOE …
Brief • February 19, 2014
Filed under: Voting, Census
Davidson v. City of Cranston, RI, Complaint, Prisoners in Census Redistricting Scheme, 2014 Case 1:14-cv-00091-L-LDA Document 1 Filed 02/19/14 Page 1 of 9 PageID #: 1 ,.···-·Ftl E ED """'FtL 0 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLANftl~ fEB I q A 10: 25 Karen …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Reflections on the No More Jails Campaign in Champaign County, Illinois by James Kilgore When we began our campaign to stop jail construction in Champaign County, Illinois in early 2012, I thought we were doomed. The grand plan to spend $20 million on this project seemed like a done deal. …
Article • February 15, 2014
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
A Prisoner's Salute to Bobby Sands by The Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation A Prisoner's Salute to Bobby Sands by DENIS O'HEARN I attended a birthday party last week. It was in Ohio State Penitentiary, on the 60th birthday of Bobby Sands, the Irish political prisoner who died …
Hagen v. Oregon DOC, OR, Complaint, Wrongful Death White Supremacists, 2014 SJ"ATE OF OREGON Manon County Circµit Courts .STATE. OF OR~GON Matlon CY'lnty Circuit Courts JAN 3 0 2014 . 'JAN 30 Z014 FILED E!~TERED 2 3 4 5 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON 6 FOR …
Brief • December 23, 2013
John Doe v. New Hampshire, Notice of Consent to File Amicus Brief - Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform (2013) State of New Hampshire Supreme Court No. 2013 - 0496 John Doe v. State of New Hampshire Notice of Consent to file Amicus Brief Proposed amicus curiae Citizens for Criminal Justice …
Brief • December 23, 2013
Filed under: Protests, First Amendment
Russell v NYPD, NY, Complaint, organizing Occupy Movement, 2013
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Iowa Voting Rights Restoration Process Becomes Slightly Less Onerous by Iowa is one of the toughest states in the nation for disenfranchised felons who want to obtain reinstatement of their voting rights, a review by the Associated Press found. When Republican Governor Terry Branstad took office in 2011, he reversed …
Article • November 15, 2013
This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse: An Interview with Former Political Prisoner Ray Luc Levasseur by Aviva Stahl By Aviva Stahl The following is a partial transcript of an interview with Ray Luc Levasseur, a former political prisoner who spent over fifteen years in solitary confinement, primarily at USP …
From Tiger Cages to Control Units by Nancy Kurshan 1970 TRIP to VIETNAM As a 26 year old co-founder of the Yippies (the Youth International Party) I traveled to North Vietnam in 1970 as part of an all-women’s peace delegation. I believed that the Vietnamese people should have been able …
Hunger Striking Illinois Jail Prisoner Dies by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Against the backdrop of the recent hunger strike involving thousands of prisoners in California, the death last year of an Illinois jail prisoner who died after refusing to eat or drink is especially poignant. Lyvita Gomes, 52, died …
Brief • August 19, 2013
Plata v. Brown, CA, Jt. Motion for Order Authorizing Refeeding, Control Unit Hunger Strike, 2013 Case3:01-cv-01351-TEH Document2699 Filed08/19/13 Page1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 FUTTERMAN DUPREE DODD CROLEY MAIER LLP MARTIN H. DODD (104363) 180 Sansome Street, 17th Floor San Francisco, California 94104 Telephone: (415) 399-3840 Facsimile: (415) …
Article • August 15, 2013
Massachusetts Incarcerated Felon Disenfranchisement Constitutional; Voting Rights Act Claim Survives by A federal court in Massachusetts held that retroactive state constitutional and statutory amendments disenfranchising incarcerated felons do not violate the federal ex post facto or equal protection clauses. It found, however, that Plaintiffs stated a viable Voting Rights Act …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay by Maya Schenwar Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay by Maya Schenwar "I took my first photograph last November. That's one picture in 17 years," Pelican Bay prisoner Jimmy Flores writes to me. He lives in the California prison's Secure Housing Units (SHUs) – solitary confinement …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Mexican Prison Guards Implicated in Deadly Riot by Investigators in Monterrey, Mexico believe that prison guards assisted members of a drug cartel in staging a riot – which killed 44 prisoners – as part of an escape plan. The riot occurred early in the morning on February 19, 2012 at …
Article • August 15, 2013
Washington’s Criminal Justice System Racially Biased; VRA Claim Fails by Despite holding that Washington State’s criminal justice system is racially biased, a Washington federal court has held that Washington’s felon disenfranchisement law does not result in discrimination in its electoral process on account of race. This case was originally filed …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Filed under: Organizing, Telephone Rates
Prisoners Respond to Call for Prison Phone Justice; SCI-Huntingdon Delivers! by Mel Motel In June 2012 we posted the first advertisement for the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice in Prison Legal News. We asked you, our readers, to send letters to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) describing how you and …
Article • July 13, 2013
Newest Texas Criminal Justice Lobbyist is Powerful Texas Business Group by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The most powerful business group in Texas, the Texas Association of Businesses (TAB) has announced its intention to influence the future course of criminal justice reform in Texas. TAB president Bill Hammond said TAB …
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