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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. …
No Immunity for Ignoring Prisoner Work Restrictions by Ronald Young No Immunity For Ignoring Prisoner Work Restrictions by Ronald Young A federal district court for the Eastern district of New York held that a prisoner's allegations that he was required to perform sanitation duties despite a doctor's orders to the …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
NY Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Work Release by Ronald Young NY Prisoners Have Liberty Interest In Work Release by Ronald Young A federal district court for the Eastern District of New York held that the failure of the state to provide a prisoner with 24 hour's notice of a …
Iowa Segregation Suit Settled by James Quigley A federal district court in Iowa held that after nearly a decade of unconstitutional conditions, state prison officials have finally submitted an acceptable plan to remedy substantive due process violations relating to extraordinarily longterm lockup, and various Eighth Amendment violations in a segregation …
Louisiana Prison System Exceeds Administrative Statutory Authority by The Court of Appeals of Louisiana for the First Circuit has held the Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPSC) exceeded its statutory authority when it referred prisoners to a "Special Court" for the additional forfeiture of good time when they had …
False Evidence Meets Some Evidence Standard by The U.S. court of appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that even dubious evidence satisfies the "some evidence" standard of proof in prison disciplinary proceedings. The court also held that due process does not include a right to submit further evidence on appeal …
Article • December 15, 2000 • from PLN December, 2000
DC Circuit Revives Hewitt v. Helms by by Matthew T. Clarke D. C. Circuit court of appeals has held that, when determining whether a prisoner's segregation involves a liberty interest, the conditions of the prisoner's segregation should be compared with the conditions prison officials exercising their discretionary authority routinely impose …
$16 Million Agreement to Revamp NJ Prison Mental Health Care by A federal district court in New Jersey has approved a $16 million settlement in a class-action suit against state prison officials for constitutionally deficient prison mental health care. Patricia P. Pearlmutter, assistant professor of clinical law at the Center …
New York Prisoners Have Ad-Seg Liberty Interest by A Federal district court in New York held that prisoners have a protected liberty interest in remaining free from administrative segregation. On February 11, 1987 New York state prisoner, Santiago Ramirez, was served a Tier Three Disciplinary case for possession of a …
MI Hearing Officer Fired for Following Law by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that fact issues existed as to whether a major misconduct decision maker employed by the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) was retaliated against and fired, for failing to maintain a 90% misconduct conviction rate and …
Discipline for Correspondence Containing Legal Advice Vacated; US S.Ct. Grants Review by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that punishment imposed upon a prisoner law clerk for sending a letter containing legal advice to another prisoner was an exaggerated response, which violated the law clerk's First Amendment rights. While …
Washington Earned Early Release Credits Create Due Process Liberty Interests by Mark Cook The Washington State Court of Appeals, Division One, has held that: (1) a prisoner's right to community custody placement created limited due process liberty interests, but (2) delay did not violate prisoner's due process rights. Matthew S. …
One-Year NY SHU Atypical and Significant Hardship by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal court in New York has held that one year in SHU is an atypical and significant hardship pursuant to Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1995). The court also held that a prisoner must exhaust state …
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
Staff Representative in Medication Hearing Must Have Medical Knowledge by The court of appeals for the Fourth circuit held that federal prison officials can forcibly give a federal pretrial detainee psychotropic drugs without a court hearing. But, if the prisoner has a prison staff member acting as his representative at …
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