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Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
$43,410 in Attorney Fees Awarded in PC Case by A federal district court in New York awarded $43,410 in attorney fees to prisoners who sued over conditions in protective custody (PC) units in the New York state prison system. The litigation involved a class action suit filed by PC prisoners …
Interlocutory Appeals Discussed by The eighth circuit court of appeals has distinguished recent supreme court decisions as to when interlocutory appeals can be heard by appeal courts. Gerry Reece, a Missouri state prisoner, was in protective custody due to being a DEA informant and a snitch in a murder trial. …
Open Prison Barracks Unsafe by In the past fifteen years of massive prison expansion many prison systems have opted to build open dormitory type prison barracks because they are substantially cheaper to build than conventional cell blocks. There are inherent shortcomings in this type of prison design. The Connecticut DOC …
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 …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Kansas Ad-Seg Plan Clarified by In 1980 prisoners and prison officials in the Kansas state prison system entered into a consent decree designed to improve the living conditions of prisoners confined to administrative segregation (ad seg). In 1988 the case was reactivated when the prisoners sought the court's intervention claiming …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Informant Sues Over Disclosure by Steve Rutledge is an informant in the Illinois state prison system. While housed at the Joliet prison he informed on members of the North Side gang who were planning an escape attempt. As a result, the would-be escapees were segregated, infracted and punished. Prison officials …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Involuntary PC Violates Due Process by Gregory Howard is a Michigan state prisoner. Howard was a prisoner at the state prison in Jackson when he requested placement into protective custody (PC) for protection from asserted enemies in the general prison population. He was transferred to a close custody prison for …
Langford v. Bullock, MT, Fifth Amended Complaint, ADA Compliance, 1993 t Langford v. Racicot PC-MT-001-001 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "lark J. Lopez idward I. Koren National Prison Project the American Civil Liberties Jnion Foundation L875 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20009 Telephone: 202/234-4830 Edmund F. Sheehy, …
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
Well Established Right to Release From Control Unit by Well Established Right To Release From Control Unit Harvey hall is a Missouri State prisoner. While in protective custody at the Missouri State penitentiary (MSP) Hall was found in possession of contraband and placed in the Special Management Facility (SMF). After …
Infracting Cop Cannot Hear Own Infraction by John Diercks is a prison informant in protective custody (PC) in Jefferson City, MO. While in PC Diercks approached a prison official and asked him to make the urine samples of two prisoners "disappear" in exchange for which Diercks would supply the names …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Book Request System Inadequate by Many jurisdictions try to meet their constitutional obligation to provide segregated prisoners with adequate access to the courts through some sort of law book request system. This means the locked-down prisoner must send a written request to the prison law library asking for specific volumes …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Florida DOC Offers Settlement by In 1988 the Florida Justice Institute filed a class action suit on behalf of PC (Protective Custody) prisoners. The suit challenges the fact that PCs aren't allowed to work, thus can't earn good time which extends their prison sentence; are locked down 23 hours a …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Them Today, Us Tommorrow by Ed Mead "In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak …
Brief • June 1, 1980
Filed under: Protective Custody
Blaney v. Commissioner of Corrections, MA, Amended Agreement for Judgment, Protective Custody Case, 1980 Blaney v. Commissioner of Corrections PC-MA-009-002 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, SS, SUPREME! JUDICIAL COURT NO, J-74-89 CR (Protective Custody Cast's) STEPHEN F. BLANUY, JR. , et ;il., Class Plaintiffs, COMMISSIONER Or CORRECTION, et al. ( Defendants(This …
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