Skip navigation

Search

1565 results
Page 58 of 79. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 ... 75 76 77 78 79 | Next »

Brief • June 10, 2009
Filed under: PLN Litigation, PLN related
Prison Legal News v. MS DOC, Dismissal Order, GTL phone, 2010 ~~1t51 A TRUE COPy t\ FILED JUN 1 0 2009 IN TH CHANCERY COURT OF HINS COUNTY, ~~~ ;.HA~YCLE FIRST JUDICIAL DIS~l..7.";~"" BY V ("~ D.C. , ":i"" PRISON LEGAL NEWS ~\ PLAINTIFF ~~ ~ "" ..I * "- …
Article • May 15, 2009
Filed under: Media, TV/Movies
Restriction On Rated R and NC-17 Rated Movies Constitutional by On January 16, 2008, U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris upheld the Massachusetts Department of Correction’s prohibition on the showing of R and NC-17 rated movies to prisoners. Anthony Gaskins, a prisoner at MCI-cedar Junction, sued the Massachusetts DOC alleging …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
Filed under: Media, TV/Movies
Prisons and Jails Preparing for Switch to Digital TV Broadcasting ... or Not by Matthew Clarke Prisons and Jails Preparing for Switch to Digital TV Broadcasting ... or Not by Matt Clarke On February 17, 2009, over-the-air television broadcasters were scheduled to complete the switch from analog to digital signals. …
Brief • May 13, 2009
Prison Legal News v. PA DOC, PA Complaint, public records, 2009
Brief • May 12, 2009
Prison Legal News v. MADOC, MA, Settlement Agreement, censorship, 2009 05/12/2003 PAGE LEGAL 5177277403 15:14 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT is entered into by and bet.'een PRISON LEGAL NEWS ("PLN") and the MF.SSACHUSETTS DEP7IRTMENT OF CORRECTION (" DEPARTMENT"), on behalf of itself and HAROLD OLARKE, JAMES BENDER, JOHN ~lARSHALL, WHEREAS, …
Article • April 15, 2009
Filed under: Protests, Immigration, Media
VICTORY AT PASSAIC COUNTY JAIL by Flavia Alaya What Do We Do Now? Flavia Alaya Sunday night, January 8, the 2000 odd inmates of the County jail in Paterson NJ were in total lockdown. There’d apparently been a screaming melee involving a number of prisoners and guards during the day. …
Article • April 15, 2009
Court Rejects Challenge to Newspaper Ban in SHU by On May 9, 2008, U.S. District Judge William Griesbach rejected a challenge by a Wisconsin prisoner to a newspaper ban in the SHU. Jose Soto was placed in an administrative confinement (SHU) at the Portage, Wisconsin prison facility for rule infractions. …
Institutionalized Policy to Deprive Appeal of Confiscated Mail Violates Constitution by A Massachusetts federal district court denied summary judgment to prison officials who confiscated a prisoner’s mail and took actions that deprived him of his right to appeal that confiscation. The civil actions complaint was filed by MCI-Walpole prisoner Michael …
Numerous Prison Systems Sign Up for Free Christian TV Programming by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Since 2007, Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the largest religious network in the world, has been quietly spreading a faith-based rehabilitative TV program for prisoners. Following a successful pilot program in South Dakota’s prison system, …
Deconstructing Gus: A Former CCA Prisoner Takes On, and Takes Down, CCA’s Top Lawyer by Paul Wright by Paul Wright, et al. On June 13, 2007, former President Bush nominated Gustavus A. Puryear IV, 40, for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Online Postings Lead To Stiffer Sentences by Brandon Sample Prosecutors are increasingly using photos posted on Facebook and MySpace, popular social networking sites, to obtain harsher sentences. It was bad taste, to say the least, when Joshua Lipton, a 20-year-old college junior charged with seriously injuring a woman during a …
Brief • March 2, 2009
Prison Legal News v. CCA,TN, MTF Amicus Brief, public records, 2009
Article • February 15, 2009
Dancing Prisoners: Why it isn't funny anymore by Carlo Osi By Carlo Osi | 09/22/2008 10:44 AM PHILADELPHIA – The Dancing Prisoners, if you will recall, was the Internet sensation in 2007 when prisoners from Cebu danced their way to international stardom by moving to the groove of Michael Jackson's …
Nominal Damages for Atlanta Georgia Jail’s Ban on Magazines, Books and Newspapers by On April 17, 2008, a Georgia federal court granted a prisoner summary judgment and nominal damages in a lawsuit over a jail policy that barred prisoners from receiving books, newspapers and magazines. David Robertson was incarcerated in …
Utah Sex Offender Internet Registry Statute Violates First Amendment by Mark Wilson On September 25, 2008, a federal court in Utah enjoined the enforcement of an amended statute requiring the state’s 7,000 registered sex offenders to report all of their Internet identifiers, including user names, passwords and website addresses. In …
Article • January 15, 2009
A true story that Oprah won't touch by By ALLEN M. HORNBLUM Though I long ago jettisoned the notion of hearing from Oprah, Eddie Anthony continues to wait for the big call from Chicago. Unlike me, he's a dreamer and holds out hope that Ms. Winfrey will recognize the power …
Allegations of Contraband Smuggling, Sex and Corruption at Texas Prison by Matthew Clarke Allegations of Contraband Smuggling, Sex and Corruption at Texas Prison by Matt Clarke The Inspector General’s office of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has been investigating numerous cases of corruption at the 1,555-bed Terrell Unit …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Demonstrators Supporting Guantanamo Prisoners in Front of U.S. Supreme Court Found Guilty of Unlawful Assembly by Demonstrators Supporting Guantanamo Prisoners in Front of U.S. Supreme Court Found Guilty of Unlawful Assembly On May 29, 2008, thirty-four members of the civil rights group Witness Against Torture (WAT) were found guilty in …
Washington State’s Criminal Libel Statute Held Unconstitutional; Prisoner Disciplinary Conviction Vacated by John Dannenberg Washington State’s Criminal Libel Statute Held Unconstitutional; Prisoner Disciplinary Conviction Vacated by John E. Dannenberg The Washington State Court of Appeal, Division 2, ruled that the state’s criminal libel statute was unconstitutional under U.S. Supreme Court …
PLN Attorneys Awarded $137,672 for Post-Settlement Work in CDCR Censorship Case by John Dannenberg PLN Attorneys Awarded $137,672 for Post-Settlement Work in CDCR Censorship Case by John E. Dannenberg On April 10, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California awarded $137,672 in supplemental legal fees and …
Page 58 of 79. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 ... 75 76 77 78 79 | Next »