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Georgia Prisoner Wins $60,000 Retaliation Verdict by On September 30, 1999, U.S. district court judge Orinda Evans awarded Georgia state prisoner Ray Yelverton $60,000 in compensatory and punitive damages in a retaliation suit against prison officials. Yelverton was convicted of child molestation charges in 1990. He was imprisoned at the …
Arizona Incarceration Cost Setoff Law Upheld by The Arizona Court of Appeals held that, as applied, the state's incarceration cost setoff law does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment or the anti-abrogation provisions of the Arizona Constitution. A jury awarded $15,000 to Felix Duarte and $1,500 …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
State Police Investigate Illinois Prison Industry by According to a highly critical report by the Illinois Auditor General's office released April 21, 1999, a tire recycling industry at the Downstate Lincoln Corr. Center provided up to $325,000 in free recycling services to private businesses over a 2-year period. It is …
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, by Christian Parenti (Review) by Paul Wright Verso, 290 pages Review by Paul Wright The government is by no means a neutral agent dedicated to the welfare of all its citizens. Instead, it stands first and foremost to protect the …
Arizona Can't Seize All Prison Labor Back Wages by The Arizona court of appeals held that the state of Arizona can only seize thirty percent of a successful prisoner litigants back wages award. In 1983 and 1984 Richard Ford, an Arizona state prisoner, worked for Cutter Industries, a private company …
Illinois Prison Home to Illegal Tire Dump by What do you do with 17,000 tons of scrap truck tire casings? The administration of Illinois's Logan Correctional Center has to figure that one out, says the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Lincoln Fire Department. The veritable mountain of tire casings, …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Ex-Welfare Workers in Georgia Replaced with Prison Slaves by To save money, a South Georgia recycling plant fired 50 trash sorters, including 35 who had taken jobs to get off welfare, and replaced them with prison slave labor. The former welfare clients had been earning $5.20/ hour before they were …
Media Interview Protected Free Speech by A federal district court in Pennsylvania held that the transfer of a prisoner for his participation in a pre-authorized media interview and his subsequent correspondence with the newspaper reporter violated the prisoner's constitutional rights. Prison officials were denied qualified immunity and the prisoner was …
A Foul Trend Emerges by Tara Herivel An 1996, the Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) fined McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) over $13,000 for health and safety violations. L & I investigator Jeff Spann unearthed a pattern of inadequate training for health care staff, use of faulty medical equipment, …
Frivolous Qualified Immunity Appeals Warrant Sanctions by The court of appeals for the Sixth Circuit that it lacked jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from an order denying qualified immunity because the prison medical personnel defendants would not concede to view the facts in a light most favorable to the prisoner. …
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
Retaliation Suit States Claim by Afederal district court in Illinois held that a jail prisoner had stated a claim upon which relief could be granted in his lawsuit alleging retaliation. David Lewis was a prisoner in the Cook county (Chicago) jail in Illinois where he worked as a law library …
VitaPro President Arrested by In the latest development in the on-going VitaPro scandal involving the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice, Yank Barry was arrested Feb. 11, 1999. Barry, president of Montreal-based VitaPro Foods Inc., was indicted in January 1998 with former state prison chief James A. "Andy" Collins [ PLN …
Tainted Plasma Traced to Arkansas Prison: Bill Clinton's Blood Trails by St Clair, Jeffrey by Jeffrey St. Clair The year Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas, the Arkansas state prison board awarded a hefty contract to a Little Rock company called Health Management Associates (HMA). The company got $3 million …
Trouble in Mind: ADX – The Fourth Year by Ray Luc Levasseur for Skip Martin "I will hold the candle, til it burns down my arm, I'll keep taking punches until their will grows tired, I will watch the sundown until my eyes go blind, oh I will make my …
Indiana May Not Deny Pay and Educational Programs to Protective Custody Prisoners by The Court of Appeals of Indiana has held that the Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) violated state law, Title 11, Section 11-10-5-1 when it denied all education programs to prisoners in protective custody. The court held that …
$1,500 in Disabled Prisoner Work Suit by The Eighth Circuit court of appeals has upheld the award of $1,500 against prison officials who forced a prisoner to perform manual labor which violated his medical work restrictions and resulted in injury. German Williams, an Arkansas state prisoner, was assigned a medical …
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
Work-Release Prisoners Eligible to Vote on Union Representation by Apanel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), upon reconsideration of its original determination, has held that four work-release employees share a sufficient "community of interest" with the regular "free-world" unit employees, so they are eligible to vote in union representation …
Temporary Injunction Issued to Prevent Sex Offender Notification to Employer by A federal court in New Jersey has issued a temporary injunction to prevent state parole officials from notifying a paroled sex offender's employer of his parole status and criminal history. John Doe is a paroled New Jersey state sex …
Cancellation of TDCJ/VitaPro Contract Reversed by ATexas appellate court held that a material fact issue of whether dehydrated textured vegetable protein (TVP) is an agricultural commodity precludes the trial court from granting the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) summary judgment declaring its contract with VitaPro invalid. In mid-1994, TDCJ …
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
Campaign to End Slavery in American Prisons by Campaign to End Slavery In American Prisons The purposes of the Campaign to End Slavery in American Prisons (CTES) are To identify a socially responsible prison labor standard. To assess working conditions in various prisons and identify those that meet or exceed …
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