Skip navigation

Search

1465 results
Page 56 of 74. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 ... 70 71 72 73 74 | Next »

Failure to Notify Prisoner of Hearing Violates Procedural Rights by The Supreme Court of Wisconsin found that when prison officials ignore their own rules requiring a prisoner to be notified of the date, time, and location of disciplinary proceedings against him, the prisoner's fundamental rights are violated and the disciplinary …
Texas Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Mandatory Supervision by The court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that eligible Texas state prisoners have a liberty interest in release on mandatory supervision. Dobber Graham Malchi, a Texas state prisoner, filed a federal habeas corpus action challenging a prison disciplinary …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Texas Prisoners May Challenge Discretionary Mandatory Release Procedures by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has held that Texas prisoners have the right to use a state habeas corpus action under Article 11.07, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, to challenge the procedures used to deny them mandatory release. David Lee …
Washington DOC Hit with almost $50 Million in Verdicts and Settlements in Parole Victim Suits by A federal district court in New York has reinstated the malicious prosecution claim in Scott v. Coughlin and allowed trial to proceed on the issue of whether the denial of three requested witnesses at …
Disciplinary Hearing Reversed for Failure to View Videotape by In two separate rulings a U.S. District Court set aside an Indiana State Prison Conduct Adjustment Board's (CAB) findings of guilt and punishment after determining that the CAB violated a prisoner's due process rights when it denied his request to review …
Damages Awarded in New York Retaliation Suit by Damages Awarded In New York Retaliation Suit A Federal District Court in New York awarded a prisoner $4,221.40 for back wages and educational costs, but denied punitive damages in a successful retaliation suit. The court later denied the defendants' motion for reconsideration. …
Due Process Violation, Plain Error Reverse Marijuana Conviction by The Michigan Supreme Court reversed a state prisoner's conviction for possession of marijuana after finding that the prosecution had improperly introduced inculpatory statements made by the defendant at an earlier prison disciplinary hearing. Raymond Wyngaard was a prisoner of Michigan's Kinross …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Second Circuit Cautions District Courts To Use Proper Sandin Analysis by Acourt of appeals for the SecondDistrict has, once again, cautioned the district courts against using an improper analysis when analyzing conditions in Special Housing Units to determine whether a liberty interest is implicated under Sandin v. Canner, 515 U. …
Homemade Paper Spear Is Not a Deadly Weapon by Homemade Paper Spear is Not a Deadly Weapon The Washington state Court of Appeals held that a spear, made from paper rolled into a rigid shaft and tipped with a golf pencil, used to jab a guard through prisoner's cell door …
PRP Proper to Challenge Some WA Disciplinary Orders by The Washington state Court of Appeals held that it was proper to utilize a personal restraint petition (PRP) to challenge prison disciplinary sanction ordering disciplinary segregation and lose of good time credits. Raymond McVay, a prisoner of the Washington State Penitentiary, …
Welfare Retaliation Suit Reinstated by Walter Friedl, a New York state prisoner, filed a §1983 action complaining that New York City and State officials had improperly revoked his work release program and reincarcerated him because he applied for welfare benefits. The City of New York settled for $20,000 while the …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Second Circuit Discusses Qualified Immunity in Disciplinary Case by Second Circuit Discusses Qualified Immunity In Disciplinary Case The Second Circuit has with drawn its previous decision in Horne v. Coughlin, 155 F.3d 26 (2nd Cir. 1998), substituting an opinion that does not determine whether a mentally retarded prisoner has a …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
U.S. Isolates Political Prisoners by Ronald Young Two recent federal appeals court decisions highlight some of the repressive measures used by U.S. authorities to isolate and silence political dissenters. Though the methods used by the two political prisoners involved in these cases may be distasteful to some people, Americans must …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Ad Seg States Claim, But Loses on Merits by The court of appeals for the Second circuit held that a district court did not err in vacating a jury's finding that a New York prisoner's 101-day placement in segregation violated due process. In doing so, the court held that New …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
SHU Should Be Compared to Conditions Experienced by All Prisoners by SHU Should Be Compared To Conditions Experienced By All Prisoners The Second Circuit has held that, to determine whether a ninetyday stay in a Special Housing Unit (SHU) is atypical and significant, it should be compared with the typical …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
NJ Prisoners Entitled to Cross Examine Witnesses by Holding that a prisoner was entitled to cross examine and to confront the complaining witness at a prison disciplinary hearing, a New Jersey appellate court reversed the sanctions imposed on a prisoner accused of tampering with a locking device on a gate. …
New York Prayer Rule Struck Down by by Matthew T. Clarke The Second Circuit court of ap- peals has held that Rule 105.11 of the New York State Department of Corrections Services (DOCS) Standards of Inmate Behavior (the Rules) violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when used …
Conditions Claims Viable in WA PRP by A Washington state appeals court held that conditions of confinement claims are cognizable under the state's Personal Restraint Petition (PRP) system. In doing so, the court upheld a ban on a sex offender's correspondence with his 11-year-old niece. Robert Arseneau was convicted of …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
OH S.Ct. Strikes Down Bad Time Law by The Ohio Supreme Court found a state statute, RC 2967.11, which allowed prison officials and the Ohio Parole Board to try: convict, and add time to Ohio prisoners' sentences for criminal infractions occurring during the prisoners' stated prison terms, violated the constitutional …
DC District Court Denies Guards' Summary Judgment Retaliation Case by A federal district court in the District of Columbia has denied prison guards' motion for summary judgment and set for trial a civil rights suit alleging that guards retaliated against prisoners who complained of a guard's repeated unsolicited sexual propositions. …
Page 56 of 74. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 ... 70 71 72 73 74 | Next »