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New Times files a prelude to a lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio by Stephen Lemons County Attorney Andy Thomas and a discredited ex-special prosecutor on behalf of its readers and the Constitution Phoenix New Times By Stephen Lemons Published: February 21, 2008 New Times submitted a formal Notice of Claim …
PLN Obtains Injunction Against Fulton County Jail in Censorship Suit by Alex Friedmann On February 4, 2008 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta Division) granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News over censorship at the Fulton County Jail. PLN brought …
Brief • March 5, 2008
Hudson v. Dennehy, MA, Order, Religious Rights Violation, 2008 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS CIVIL ACTION NO. 01-CV-12145-RGS MAC HUDSON AND DERRICK TYLER v. KATHLEEN DENNEHY, in her official capacity as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Correction FINDINGS OF FACT, RULINGS OF LAW, AND ORDER AFTER A …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
PLN Sues CDCR Over Failure to Produce Public Records by On December 17, 2007, Prison Legal News filed suit against the California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) after the department failed to respond to PLN?s public records request seeking the CDCR?s payouts in prison-related settlements, claims, verdicts and judgments. …
Article • January 15, 2008
Police Documents Sought under Public Records Act Exempt for Irreparable Harm Probability by The Chronicle Publishing Company, dba Worcester Telegram and Gazette (T&G), motioned for a preliminary injunction in 1999 to obtain records regarding internal police reports from Worcester Chief of Police Edward Gardella and the City. The City refused, …
Article • January 15, 2008
Pennsylvania Settlement Agreement Ordered Disclosed for Involvement of Public Funds Disbursement by Pennsylvania's Lower Saucon Township (Township) appealed a court order requiring them to produce for inspection a settlement agreement resulting from a federal suit against its local police. The court affirmed the order for production because the agreement involved …
Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008
BOP Byline Prohibition Unconstitutional by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Colorado federal district court has held the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) regulation that provides a prisoner may not "publish under a byline" violates the First Amendment. The Court's order prohibits the BOP from punishing any prisoner for violating …
Brief • December 19, 2007
Jordan v. Pugh, CO, Settlement Agreement, First Amendment Violation, 2007 Case 1:02-cv-01239-MSK-KLM Document 402 Filed 12/19/07 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF COLORADO Case No. 02-cv-01239-MSK-KLM MARK JORDAN, Plaintiffs, v. MICHAEL PUGH, et al., Defendants. STIPULATED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANTS …
Brief • December 18, 2007
Prison Legal News v. Tilton, CA, Complaint, CDCR Public Records, 2008 ,- DEPARTMENT --+0--6_ ~ _ F'~'t-=~~j{ ~i~itJ~J.¥l~:Ht i;~t9~~~ (:itf Ca~~f1}mia~ 5 ROSEN, BIEN & GALVAN, LLP Sanford Jay Rosen, Bar No. 62566 Amy Whelan, Bar No. 215675 Lon Rifkin, BarNo. 244081 KennethM. Walczak, BarNo. 247389 315 Mont~omery Street, 10th …
WI ACLU Overview of Prisoners' First Amendment Rights by Larry Dupuis EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN BAR ASSOCIATION Pro Bono Continuing Legal Education Program Prisoner Litigation An Overview of Prisoners' First Amendment Rights March 29, 2007 Larry Dupuis, ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation IMPORTANT NOTE: This outline was prepared in March 2007. …
Article • December 15, 2007
Attica And Coxsackie Riot Tapes' Production Ordered To Media With Appropriate Redaction by The New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) appealed an Albany County Supreme Court judgment ordering the disclosure of tapes during uprisings at two correctional facilities. Disclosure was affirmed. The Buffalo Broadcasting Company, Inc., (Media) requested tapes …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
PLN Files Censorship Suit Against Fulton County Jail in Georgia by On October 22, 2007, Prison Legal News filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Fulton County and Sheriff Myron Freeman, due to a Fulton County Jail policy that prohibits prisoners from receiving …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright Long time readers of PLN may recall that from 1996 through 2004 John Midgley wrote our very popular Pro Se Tips and Tactics column with information on how prisoners could master civil procedure to vindicate their civil rights in court. John stopped writing the …
Article • December 15, 2007
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Media
California Statute Banning Police Defamation Unconstitutional by California has a statute establishing that most publications and broadcasts arising out of official government duties and proceedings are privileged, and therefore cannot be the subject of a defamation action--except that there is an exception permitting suits based on citizens' complaints about police …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Filed under: Sewage, Water, Media, PLN Litigation
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month's cover story is on what goes in and comes out of prisons in the way of water and sewage. While a lot of attention is paid to the more dramatic effects of prison overcrowding, such as violence, inadequate medical care, prisoners sleeping …
Article • November 15, 2007
An Unprecedented Crime: Mass Torture in America. And How to Stop It by Lance Tapley By: LANCE TAPLEY 11/14/2007 1:49:18 PM Editor's Note: This is an edited version of a speech given by Phoenix contributing writer Lance Tapley to a seminar at the National Lawyers Guild 70th Anniversary Convention in …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
California DOC Pays PLN’s Attorneys $320,000 In Fees/Costs Related To Mail Censorship Settlement by John Dannenberg California DOC Pays PLN's Attorneys $320,000 In Fees/Costs Related To Mail Censorship Settlement by John E. Dannenberg In June, 2007, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and Prison Legal News (PLN) stipulated …
Fortress Of Solitude: The Bureau Of Prisons Is As Good At Keeping Prisoners In As It Is At Keeping Reporters Out by Alan Prendergast A hundred miles southwest of Denver, the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum houses a killer lineup of mobsters (Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano), gang leaders (Barry "The …
Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Mississippi Retaliation For Letters to a Newspaper Claim by In an unpublished opinion the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's dismissal, for failure to state a claim, of a prisoner's retaliation suit against one prison official, but upheld the dismissal of claims …
Little State, Big Problems: Maine’s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated by Lance Tapley Little State, Big Problems: Maine?s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated by Lance Tapley Only big prison systems mistreat prisoners, right? Only prison systems where racism, right-wing tough-on-crime attitudes, or prison-industrial-complex power have full reign, like in California or Texas, …
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