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Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Prisoner Litigant and Prison Law Library Secondary Resource List by Robert Pierce By Robert Pierce In the field of law, books that deal with an overall view of a topic, those that are used in teaching law, or that are encyclopedic in nature, are known as secondary resource materials. These …
Publication • 1992
Library Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions Am. Library Ass'n 1992 -·~ '/_:,· . ·: . ·. .PS § ;, 'r ...69 ~ .1 992 .LIBRARY STANDARDS FOR ADULT CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS 1992 / LIBRARY STANDARDS ~;. FOR ADULT CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS .. 1992 . Prepared by THE ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAUZED AND COOPERATIVE …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Delay of Legal Files States Claim by Delay Of Legal Files States Claim A Washington D.C. prisoner was transferred to various state and federal prisons. In the course of the transfers Lorton prison officials delayed and refused to send the plaintiff, Crawford El, his property containing his legal materials. Crawford …
Can't Stop Con's Legal Help Due to Transfer by Can't Stop Con's Legal Help Due To Transfer A New York prisoner incarcerated at Attica was granted authorization to provide legal assistance to two other inmates after completing a law clerk training program sponsored by the Department of Correctional Services. When …
Prison Officials Cannot Delay Access to Case Law by Prison Officials Cannot Delay Access To Case Law Washington state prisoner Mark Larue was transferred out of state to the Illinois DOC while pursuing a collateral attack on his conviction. The lawyer representing Larue withdrew from the case and the state …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Retiring Judge Calls Sentencing Guidelines "Travesty of Justice" by Retiring Judge Calls Sentencing Guidelines "Travesty of Justice" In retiring from the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals January 1, Chief Justice Donald P. Lay said that "the greater disappointment" of his experience was the law's failure to deal with fair …
CBCC Publisher Only Rule Upheld on Qualified Immunity Grounds by Martin Johnson was a federal prisoner sent to the Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) in Washington state as a boarder. He filed suit challenging numerous aspects of prison conditions under the due process clause of the federal constitution. The district …
Access and Indigency Expanded by Access And Indigency Expanded A law library rule merely saying prisoners "shall be provided physical access to law library during assigned law library hours," when considered against the backdrop of uncontested allegations of inadequate access, was held not "to provide detailed guidelines to thwart arbitrariness." …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Prisoner Can Receive Diploma in Mail by Bobby Griffin is a Missouri state prisoner who graduated from a college paralegal course. Upon graduation the college mailed him his diploma and grade transcript. This was rejected by prison officials who claimed prison regulations prohibited prisoners from having original diplomas and transcripts …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Typewriters for Prisoners by Typewriters For Prisoners The Typewriters for Prisoners Project (funded by a grant from Resist) has a few more typewriters to donate to prisoners. Preferences are: 1. inside groups that are involved with education or organizing; 2. prisoners who are using typewriters to help a number of …
Maximum Security Unit Prisoners Win Access Suit by The U.S. District Court for Delaware ruled in favor of the inmates at the Delaware Correctional center's Maximum Security Unit (MSU). The prisoners claimed in a 1983 action that the law library services provided at the MSU facility were wholly inadequate. The …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Supreme Court Informers by Paul Wright The most recent (#39) issue of Covert Action Information Bulletin contains an interesting article by Alexander Charns titled "FBI Involvement in the Supreme Court." Mr. Charns is a lawyer who has written a book concerning the FBI and the American judiciary. In this article …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
HIV-Positive Cons Win Partial Victory by In a significant victory for prisoners who have been tested positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed a lower court order in a case that had challenged the prisoners' …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Prison Law Libraries Must Keep All Books Current by One of the questions presented in this case was whether a prison law library must keep current (update) those books that they are not constitutionally required to have. The case arose when prisoners initiated litigation, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983, over …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to the December issue of PLN . When you receive this issue the whole commercialized Christmas season will be in full swing. So in the spirit of giving, if you haven't donated to PLN yet this is a great time …
Search of Legal Files Violates Consent Decree by Search Of Legal Files Violates Consent Decree A prisoner at the Iowa State Penitentiary filed a federal civil rights complaint in which he contended that the search of his legal papers by guards, outside his presence, violated a consent decree entered into …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Notary Update by I'm writing in response to the letter from Lucasville, Ohio, about notarization. I'm copying this as I have it written down in my legal file: Prison Law Monitor, 3PLM, February 1981 - Expense of notarizing statement can be avoided. Also includes ideas that are easily seen as …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Mail Rejection Not Upheld by A Michigan prisoner sent another Michigan prisoner an educational brochure on how to study to be a paralegal. Michigan DOC officials rejected the brochure claiming prison rules prohibited "contractual agreements." The district court ruled the brochure was entitled to First Amendment protection and found no …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN . As I write this, I just saw on the news that Thurgood Marshall, the first and only black person to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, is resigning due to age and health reasons. …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Loss of Legal Materials States Claim for Denial of Access To The Courts by Loss Of Legal Materials States Claim For Denial Of Access To The Courts A prisoner's allegation that prison officials had accepted and lost materials essential to his pursuit of post-conviction relief stated a claim for denial …
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