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Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Prison Rule Banning Media Mail/Visits Held Unconstitutional by Sabil Mujahid is a Hawaii state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 claiming that Hawaii prison regulations which prohibit prisoners from visiting or corresponding with members of the media, unless they knew each other on a personal basis prior to incarceration, …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Unlawful to Read Legal Mail in Prisoner's Cell by Robert Proudfoot is a Pennsylvania state prisoner. After anonymous informants stated Proudfoot was selling drugs from his cell, prison guards searched his cell three times in eight days. No drugs were found. During one of three cell searches guards opened sealed …
Comic Book Censorship Overturned by Everett Lyon is an Iowa state prisoner. He ordered several religious comic books which prison officials censored claiming they would be "disruptive and produce violence" because they were allegedly "anti-catholic and blatantly bigoted." After exhausting his administrative remedies Lyon filed suit under § 1983 claiming …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Okay to Steal Mail by Two Missouri state prisoners wrote and telephoned US postal officials to complain that prison administrators were "stealing, holding, tampering with, censoring, delaying and destroying" their mail in violation of federal postal laws. The postal officials refused to investigate the prisoners' claims. The prisoners then filed …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Legal Mail May Not Be Read by Prison Guards by John Reneer is a Kentucky state prisoner. He filed suit claiming violation of his first amendment rights when prison officials read his incoming legal mail in front of him. The prison warden claims he ordered a search of Reneer's incoming …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in Their Mail by Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in their Mail David Jolivet is a Utah state prisoner who married Dorothy Pacheco, a member of a prisoner rights group named "Pepper". Prior to marrying Jolivet, Pacheco had been married to another Utah prisoner named …
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
Challenging Prison Censorship by Paul Wright Longtime readers of PLN will have followed our reports as PLN was censored at various prisons across the country. The role of prison, legal and political publications in prison is very important as it enables prisoners to learn, study and be in a better …
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Killer Cops Whine About "Cop Killer" by Paul Wright Killer Cops Whine About "Cop Killer" Rap Singer Ice-T has recently been in the news because one his latest albums, "Body Count" has a song on it called "Cop Killer". Nationally the swine have mounted a campaign to get the record's …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Censoring Mail From Courts Violates Due Process by John Stone-El is an Illinois state prisoner whose mail to and from the courts and government officials was opened and read outside his presence. Stone-El filed suit seeking money damages and injunctive relief for the violation of his constitutional rights. He then …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Mail, Publications/Books
NJ Prisoner Wins Censorship Suit by In April, 1991, New Jersey DOC officials at the Trenton prison banned MIM Notes (journal of the Maoist International Movement) because it contained articles on oppression at Trenton. The DOC said all future issues would also be banned. One of the prisoners, Kevin Thomas, …
New Ruling May Impact Prison Law Library Policies by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Arecent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit could have broad implications on policies governing the operation of inmate law libraries. The case addressed the common problems of proper training for …
CBCC Publisher Only Rule Upheld on Qualified Immunity Grounds by Martin Johnson was a federal prisoner sent to the Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) in Washington state as a boarder. He filed suit challenging numerous aspects of prison conditions under the due process clause of the federal constitution. The district …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Constitutional Right for Cons to Buy Lottery Tickets? Federal Court Says Nyet by Robert Pierce By Robert Pierce To file or not to file, frivolousness is the question. Wisconsin prisoners answered the question by filing a lawsuit alleging that they were constitutionally entitled to purchase lottery tickets. The action stated …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Prisoner Can Receive Diploma in Mail by Bobby Griffin is a Missouri state prisoner who graduated from a college paralegal course. Upon graduation the college mailed him his diploma and grade transcript. This was rejected by prison officials who claimed prison regulations prohibited prisoners from having original diplomas and transcripts …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Denial of Personal Hygiene Items States Claims by Denial Of Personal Hygiene Items States Claims A Kentucky state prisoner claimed that while he was held in a county jail he was denied personal hygiene items for two weeks which violated his Eighth amendment rights. He also claimed that jail officials …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
CBCC Mail Suit Filed by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In May of 1991 CBCC mailroom staff here began a practice of rejecting without notice to the prisoner or the sender or an opportunity to appeal all mail that arrived without the prisoners DOC number on it. No notice of …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Mail Rejection Not Upheld by A Michigan prisoner sent another Michigan prisoner an educational brochure on how to study to be a paralegal. Michigan DOC officials rejected the brochure claiming prison rules prohibited "contractual agreements." The district court ruled the brochure was entitled to First Amendment protection and found no …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
PLN Banned in France by Paul Wright PLN Banned In France By Paul Wright PLN reader Jean Marc Rouillain, a political prisoner in France, has written and informed us that the April, 1991, issue of PLN (which just happened to have his article about the worsening prison conditions in France …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Legal Mail May Not be Read by Legal Mail May Not Be Read A Florida prisoner filed suit under § 1983 after a letter from his attorney, addressed to him and marked "legal mail," was opened and read in his presence by a prison guard. The guard confiscated the letter …
Brief • July 8, 1991
Enquist v. Frank, WA, Complaint, Mail Withheld, 1994 ( ( RECEIVED 8 199t JUl ATTORNE't GENERAL'S OffiCE CORRECnONS OIV UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE J.D. (Gerald) ENQUIST, Petitioner, v. ) ) ) ) . ) D. FRA.'n<.; A. CLARK; J. FITZPATRICK; NEAL BROWN; CHASE RIVELAND; …
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