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Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
the ceremonies he performs. He believes that his hair is also what connects him to the "Red Road of Life," or the path to spirituality. Prison officials did not contest the sincerity of Hoevenaar's religious ...
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
zero, or $0/week. However the Worker's Compensation Appeals Judge, in reaching his $126/week judgment, leaned towards what Stentz's earnings would have been but for the industrial injury. The court ...
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
campaign to boost our circulation. Our goals in building our circulation are several. One is to reach more non-prisoners to let them know what is happening in American prisons and jails. Second is to let ...
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
that it is unconstitutional to use race as the determinative predicate for deciding whom to put in double cells. The high court remanded the case to the Ninth Circuit to determine what combination of selection factors might ...
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
not have gone at all and if he did go, he wouldnt have had to serve nearly a quarter of what he served, said Ramsey, who had asked for $1.4 million. Booker, now 38, says restoring his reputation was more ...
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
was $2,198,000 in past damages and $1,422,979 for future damages" or $3,621,632. Finally, the court apportioned two-thirds (66 2/3%) of fault to the State and one-third (33 1/3%) to Scruggs, finding that what ...
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
but defend sex offenders facing civil commitment. The cost: $342,000 per year. In 2005 the state spent another $541,000 for expert testimony. What's more, civil commitment trials sometimes take longer ...
that failure to follow such guidelines creates potential Bureau liability would be to cause the Bureau to adopt as procedures only what is legally required. The Bureau should not be discouraged, due to fears ...
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
-integrated operations that produced fuel to power blast furnaces and rolling mills, while simultaneously crushing the region's nascent labor movement. What accounts for the emergence of convict labor ...
Article • July 15, 1998 • from PLN July, 1998
charts that this author has reviewed in prisons in three states.... It is as if the prison mental health staff figures: `Why diagnose what we do not have the resources to treat?"' Kupers concludes ...
depriving him of what has been held to be liberty or property within the meaning of the due process clause, is securely actionable.... But when the entire sanction is confinement in disciplinary segregation ...
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
a cigarette.' Walsh, who was six feet, two inches tall and weighed over 300 pounds, walked to the front of Fowlks' cell and said, '[A]ll right Norvin, you know what you got to do, on your knees.' Fowlks, who ...
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
Filed under: Resources, Organizing
that can affect people for a lifetime. This is what PARC is about. Rather than feeling isolated and alone, prisoners should realize that through the efforts of PARC and its contacts, millions of people ...
of the private prison industry shows "they haven't been successful at what they're doing, that they haven't done well from a financial savings standpoint, and they haven't done well from prisoner safety ...
remedies. Regarding 42 U.S.C. §1997e(a) , the appeals court said, "[t]he statute means what it plainly says ... prisoners may only file [federal law conditions-of-confinement actions] after they have ...
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Filed under: Organizing, Death Penalty
. Virginia. (See page 17 of this issue for a more detailed analysis of the case.) What accounts for one result in one case, and yet another result some 13 years later? Supreme court justice John Paul ...
of their constitutional rights," added Rasch. Rasch was referring to the fact that DOC provides a "property matrix" which specifically spells out what property a prisoner is authorized to possess, and then they turn ...
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
. East Wing prisoners are not told what they need to do to achieve less restrictive housing. ...
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
it felt to hold you in my arms and kiss you again," one of the printable letters began. "You seem to be holding back this time, what's up with that?" Prison officials began investigating the improper ...
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Filed under: Excessive Force, Shootings
killed without warning, which Morgan admitted was what he "asked [guards] to do." In January of 2002, Richard Tate, a WSP guard, shot Abdul Ali to death while he was fighting with a cellmate over ...
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