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Supreme Court Guts Due Process for Prisoners by On June 20, 1995, the supreme court issued its five to four ruling in Sandin v. Conner. The ruling appears to be the most devastating legal setback prisoners have suffered in the Supreme Court since Turner v. Safley was decided in 1987. …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Prisoners Entitled to Meaningful Ad Seg Review by New York state law has created a liberty interest for its prisoners to remain free from administrative segregation (ad seg) and prisoners cannot be held on indefinite ad seg status without meaningful review of that status. Prisoners have no federal constitutional right …
Qualified Immunity Granted for Denial of Exercise by In the May, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Allen v. City and County of Honolulu, 39 F.3d 936 (9th Cir. 1994) which held that prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity for denying a segregated prisoner at least one hour …
Prisoners Can't be Forced to Choose Between Law Library and Recreation by John Allen is a Hawaii state prisoner held in a Special Housing Unit (SHU) after allegedly assaulting a guard. His SHU confinement was indefinite. While in SHU he could use the law library and outdoor recreation area only …
Jail Detainee Entitled to Hearing by In 1986 Vincent McCann was a pretrial detainee in the mental health unit at the Orange County Correctional Facility (jail) in New York. A detainee complained to jail guards that other prisoners had thrown urine on him and were taunting him. After a cursory …
Armed and Dangerous by Ray Luc Levasseur By Raymond Luc Levasseur When I was transferred to the U.S. penitentiary in Marion, Illinois in December, 1989, Panama was being invaded by U.S. forces. Amidst the wholesale destruction, mass graves, and lies by U.S. politicians and military leaders was an awesome display …
Did Warden Seek SOCF Riot? by In April, 1993, prisoners at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) rebelled in what became the longest 2>prison siege in US history that left 10 dead. PLN has provided extensive coverage of the rebellion, its origins and its aftermath. Some SOCF prisoners have claimed …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
MI DOC Creates Liberty Interest in Seg Release by Wendell Mackey is a Michigan state prisoner. He was found guilty of possessing contraband and assaulting another prisoner and placed in administrative segregation. After spending nearly one year in segregation, he was reclassified and scheduled to be released to general population. …
Ad-Seg Placement Without Hearing Illegal by Huey Wright is a New York state prisoner. In 1983 Wright was attacked in his cell by two other prisoners and placed in segregation on disciplinary charges. Three days later the disciplinary charges were dismissed by a hearing officer but Wright was retained in …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Amnesty Criticizes OK Control Unit by On June 14, 1994, Amnesty International (AI) released a report harshly criticizing the control unit at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP) at McAlester. An AI investigation team toured the prison's H. Unit in March, 1994, and found that some 350 prisoners are held 23 …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
The Fire Inside by Ray Luc Levasseur October, 1994, marked the eleventh year of collective punishment at the United States penitentiary, Marion. It marked a decade of lockdown, control unit regimes and government lies. No doubt the federal Bureau of Prisons will commemorate the event by rolling out its propaganda …
BOP Ad Seg Rules Create Liberty Interest by Jerome Crowder is a paraplegic federal prisoner confined to a wheelchair. He filed suit against officials of the Metropolitan Corrections Center (MCC) in Chicago claiming he was placed in administrative segregation without a hearing and as a result of this he was …
Horton v. Williams, WA, Amended Complaint, Juvenile Confinement, 1994 '• I 1 2 THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT QF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 9 10 11 12 13 14 JAMES HORTON, JAMES BARNHART, JEROME PAYTON, J.B., through his next …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
CO Ad Seg Rules Don't Create Liberty Interest by Vernon Templeman is a Colorado state prisoner. After spending seven years in administrative segregation (ad seg) he was placed in a maximum security general population. A year later he was again placed in ad seg. Despite requesting a three member panel, …
ISR Seg Conditions Suit Not Frivolous by Twelve prisoners in the segregation unit of the Indiana State Reformatory (ISR) filed suit challenging their conditions of confinement. They claimed that their right to freely practice their religious faith was violated when they were denied access to religious programs; their right of …
NV Disciplinary Seg Rules Create Liberty Interest by Andrew Walker was a federal prisoner housed in the Nevada state prison system. During a cell search guards found a knife in Walker's cell. After the knife was found, Walker was placed in segregation. Prison officials claimed it was administrative segregation (ad …
Law Students Entitled to Attorney Fees by Ten prisoners at the District of Columbia's prison in Lorton, VA, filed suit claiming they had been shackled, handcuffed and severely beaten by prison guards. They were then infracted, found guilty and placed in segregation without due process. Unable to afford counsel the …
Habeas Doesn't Bar Section 1983 by Ronald Rhodes is a Kansas state prisoner. He was placed in segregation by prison officials claiming he was planning an outbreak of racially motivated violence in the prison mess hall. He was never given written notice of the grounds for placing him in segregation. …
UT Property Regs Create Liberty Interest by Jeffrey Abbot is a Utah state prisoner. He filed suit claiming his rights to due process were violated when he was transferred to administrative segregation (ad seg) and his personal property (books, bible, magazines, hygiene items, etc.) were confiscated. He also claimed that …
Prison Officials Can't Prevent Jailhouse Lawyers From Assisting Other Prisoners by Paul Gibbs is a Michigan state prisoner and jailhouse lawyer. He was placed in segregation in late 1990 for possessing contraband. On April 2, 1991, he was reclassified back to the general population. Due to a lack of bed …
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