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Indiana Lifelong Violent Offender Registration Preliminary Injunction Upheld in Part by On December 29, 2008, an Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a superior court’s preliminary injunction against lifelong registration for violent offenders. A July 1, 2007 Indiana statute added people who had been convicted of certain violent crimes to the …
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio Loses Three Public Records Cases by by Matt Clarke The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) and Sheriff Joe Arpaio have lost three public records cases in the Arizona Court of Appeals, including one where they were ordered to pay over $25,000 in attorney fees. The first …
Oregon Jail Guards Lose Access to Porn Sites by Mark Wilson Guards at the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) couldn’t be trusted to stay off Internet porn sites during work hours, so Sheriff Bob Skipper pulled the plug effective December 1, 2008. Rampant, improper use of the Internet at the …
FBI Arrests Former Prisoner Indicted for Hacking Massachusetts Jail Computer by On November 5, 2008, the FBI arrested Francis G. Janosko, 42, for hacking into a computer at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility (PCCF) while he was incarcerated at the Massachusetts jail. A previously-sealed indictment was handed down a week …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
PLN Files Suit Against Los Angeles County for Failure to Comply with Public Records Act by As part of ongoing research, PLN submitted a public records request to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on January 29, 2008, seeking records related to settlements and verdicts resulting from tort, overdetention and …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
Massachusetts DOC Settles PLN Censorship Suit by Effective May 12, 2009, the Massachusetts Dept. of Correction (MDOC) agreed to settle a First Amendment censorship lawsuit filed by PLN. PLN brought suit in U.S. District Court on April 23, 2008 following repeated efforts over a 5-year period to be added to …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
PLN Awarded Summary Judgment In FOIA Case Again by Brandon Sample On March 26, 2009, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton entered summary judgment for PLN in an ongoing battle between Prison Legal News and the BOP over the release of certain records. In 2003, PLN submitted a Freedom of Information …
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 …
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