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Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Prisoners File Record Number of Suits by Paul Wright By Paul Wright We often hear prison officials, the various attorney generals, and the courts complain about what they call a "flood ...
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
, parties and actions involved and giving rise to the suit. Regardless of what the proof at trial may show, the complaint Acould not properly be dismissed for failure to state a claim upon which reef could ...
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
prisoners were serving more time for the same crimes as committed by Whites. What this meant is that Blacks were the first to come to prison but the last to leave. That we were denied probation in instances ...
: "What distinguishes our society from most others is the continued right of access to the judicial process afforded even to those who have been charged, tried and convicted of a crime. In order to make ...
, only for injunctive relief). The district court held that when a complaint doesn't specify what capacity the defendants are sued in it will assume they are sued only in their official capacity ...
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Prison Journalist Punished by Adrian Lomax Letters from Readers [One of the objectives of the PLN is to become a forum through which readers can express opinions on what they've read ...
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Mitchell, president of National Law. "Anyone can speculate what it is. Whether it's a friendship or a bribe, I have no idea." The High Desert State Prison (New Susanville) houses general population Level IV ...
disciplinary hearings should take note of this case, a key issue being litigated in light of Sandin is what length of segregation constitutes a deprivation sufficient to create a liberty interest that can ...
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
in the employment relationship, not what ultimate control is exerted by prison authorities. Winsett-Simmonds , 164 NLRB 611 (1967). The court concluded that the NLRB's determination ignored this longstanding ...
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
and remanded. The appeals court held that the plaintiffs had failed to state a claim. At the outset, the court resolves the question of what standard is applied to pretrial detainees as opposed to convicted ...
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Communications to exclusively handle collect calls by prisoners. Sprint promptly increased the rate to three to five times higher than what local phone companies had been charging. Rick Hackman, of the PSC's ...
Article • December 15, 1995 • from PLN December, 1995
that the constitutional right of access requires a state to provide a law library or legal assistance only during the pleading stage of a habeas or civil rights action." The court held that what was at issue is the right ...
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
Filed under: Organizing, Parole
to the Initiative and other issues, will be reported in the PLN on a regular basis. We urge you to keep reading and supporting the PLN, and to continue spreading the word to as many others as possible. Remember, what ...
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
: What's Wrong With the Ohio DOC, by John Perotti, in the Feb. 94 issue of PLN , and Lusasville: A Brief History, by Perotti, in the Dec 93 issue] In September of this year a federal jury awarded a large ...
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Filed under: Classification, Furloughs
a survey during the fall of 1989 to find out what happened to furloughs in the aftermath of the presidential campaign. The upshot of it was that there were around 170,000 furloughs granted nationally in 1988 ...
Article • August 15, 1996 • from PLN August, 1996
will involve video training presentation and a handbook on state ethics laws, a new ethics advisory council and tighter rules. "In light of what has occurred, it's very important that we restore the public's ...
legal research before filing suit in order to know what facts are relevant and need to be included in the complaint. The appeals court also reversed dismissal of Penrod's claim that the denial of hygiene ...
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
that a trial was required to determine the length of time Watts spent in segregation; how often he was allowed out of his cell and what threat, if any, he posed to prison security as a result of his infractions ...
an ADA claim can view this case as an example of what not to do. At trial Love showed that he could, with minimal accommodation, participate in prison programs. The defendants knew of his disability ...
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
in the next .100 hearing Board members adding still more time, to the "maxed out" point. There is also one other strong factor which mitigates against release, and this in the nature of what one inmate does ...
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