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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 ...
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
, leave their kids with strangers, etc., greater awareness in protecting themselves is what citizens need, not registration laws that open up the prospects of police state surveillance. After a lot ...
is to point out, "the writer who is endorsed by the State is the writer who says what everyone wants to hear." He tells his readers that he will keep "right on writing. You keep right on reading!" One cannot ...
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Security Unit (PSU). From reading the injunction itself, it is difficult to determine exactly what this PSU is, but it sounds like nothing more than a paint job and a name change. There are those who claim ...
a rubber stamp for unconstitutional prison rules and policies. This decision joins many others that are rolling back what had been considered well established prisoner rights. See: Casey v. Lewis , 4 F.3d ...
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
, this is the proper framework to apply." The court held that there were numerous factual issues in dispute which prevented the case from being resolved at summary judgement. A trial was necessary to determine what ...
injured by rubber bullets, according to the Post. Hundreds of prisoners were gassed when poorly-trained CSC guards saturated two cell blocks with what the Post described as a riot-control gas ...
they did not establish what the guard's response would have been had he been allowed to answer. The court rejected the defendants' claim of cumulative error in the district court's evidentiary rulings ...
on his behalf; an opportunity to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses; a summary of what occurred at the hearing; and a final revocation hearing within a reasonable amount of time. Friedland ...
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
from this case. What is clear is that there's an increasing amount of legal support for the proposition that the states have an affirmative obligation to provide prisoners with access to persons skilled ...
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
of sentence reductions to prisoners who complete drug treatment programs and that such policies are subject to judicial review. The court also gave a detailed discussion of what constitutes a "crime of violence ...
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
to prison, though, they'll find that jobs are aplenty. So what if the prison jobs don't pay? At least it comes with three hots and a cot. Source: Corrections Cost Control & Revenue Report ...
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