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Claims Dismissed in First Challenge to BOP Communications Ban by by Matthew T .Clarke The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the claims in the first published challenge to the implementation of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) dismissed without prejudice for failure to …
You're in the Hole: A Crackdown on Dissident Prisoners by Anne-Marie Cusac It was September 19, 2001. Elizabeth McAlister had not heard from her husband, Philip Berrigan, in more than a week. Such silence on Berrigan's part was "most unusual," she says. Convinced that something was wrong, she telephoned the …
No Qualified Immunity for Shackling Prisoner to Hospital Bed by Gregory May, a Cook County, Illinois, prisoner, filed a suit against the Sheriff and Sheriff's Department officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging their treatment of prisoners taken to Cook County Hospital is unconstitutional and violates the Americans with Disabilities …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
$522,458 Rebate Ordered in California Prisoner Phone Overcharges by John E Dannenberg The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ordered MCI Telecommunications Corp. (MCI) to offset $522,458 in overcharges it made between June 14, 1996, and July 12, 1999, on MCI California Maximum Security Calls (i.e., California prisoner collect calls) by …
California Racial Segregation Case Reversed; Phone Claim Dismissed by Holding that the action was not time-barred and otherwise stated an actionable claim, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s pro se action which claimed that California state prisons practiced racial …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
California Dials Wrong Number by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely In reaction to bad publicity, lawsuits, and legislative hearings following a record number of fatal shootings of unarmed male prisoners, staged fights, and the sexual abuse and medical neglect of women prisoners, California established the allegedly independent Office of Inspector …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
Malicious Use of Force Violates Eighth Amendment by John E Dannenberg The Third Circuit held that in claims alleging the malicious use of force by prison guards the wantonness of the attack, rather than the degree of injury suffered, is the dispositive issue for courts reviewing such claims on summary …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
Notes From the Unrepenitentiary: Whose Security? by Marilyn Buck Notes From The Unrepenitentiary: Whose Security? by Marilyn Buck Two children, both with mothers imprisoned at FCI Dublin, died within a two-week period. Both children were adolescent boys, aged 13 and 9, repectively. One of the children ran away from his …
Brief • 2001
Filed under: Telephones
c.u.r.e. Of Pennsylvania v Pa Public Utility Commission Pa Main App Brief of Petitioner Phone Rates 2001 • IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA C.U.R.E. OF PENNSYLVANIA, Petitioner v. NO. 1183 CD 2001 PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION, : Respondent MAIN BRIEF OF PETITIONER CITIZENS UNITED FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ERRANTS …
Kentucky Phone Rate Ruling by A federal district court in Kentucky held that the filed rate doctrine barred any claims for money damages against Phone Company and county jail defendants. However, injunctive relief was still available. The court questioned the legality of an exclusive service provider contract. In the August, …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Ohio 'Entrepreneur' Lands in Hot Water by An Ohio prisoner will spend an additional three years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to theft charges stemming from an elaborate credit card and telephone scam he ran from behind bars. Lonny Lee Bristow, 27, was already serving a 9year …
Work Stoppage at Idaho CCA Prison by Five weeks after it opened, the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), went on lockdown following a non-violent protest by prisoners there. Corrections Corporation of America operates the $50 million 1,250-bed prison. In early July 2000, CCA began moving Idaho prisoners from its New Mexico …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
IL Prison Phone Ruling Published by In the June 2000, issue of PLN we reported that a federal district court in Illinois had dismissed a class action lawsuit challenging the phone rates charged to consumers who accept phone calls from prisoners in Illinois prisons and jails. The court's ruling is …
Brief • February 6, 2001
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Judd v. AT&T, WA, Commissioner's Ruling Dismissing Appeal, Phone Rates, 2001 RECEIVED FEB - 6 2001 1.bVl. QI:FI(;E OF IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGIIION& YOUTZ DIVISION ONE ) ) ) ) ) Respondents, ) ) ) v. ) AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH ) COMPANY, GTE …
Article • December 15, 2000 • from PLN December, 2000
Controversy Surrounds Letourneau Tape by A Washington DOC investigator allegedly left his job at the state women's prison in Purdy with a souvenir: a tape recording of Mary K. Letourneau talking on the phone with her attorney. After starting a new job at the state Attorney General's office in 1998, …
Alabama Officials Guilty in Phone Scam by A former Alabama state auditor, County commissioner and another man pleaded guilty in July 1999 to federal charges stemming from a prison pay phone scam operated in Alabama and Louisiana by Global Tel*Link, a Mobile-based company. Former state auditor Terry Ellis pleaded guilty …
Brief • October 2, 2000
Filed under: Telephones
Judd v. AT&T, WA, Motion to Dismiss Undisclosed Phone Rates, 2000 RECEIVED 0" I 2 2000 sl~~1v2rFICE OF HONORABL1r~RATHLEENLEARNED 1 2 "; . \.,,:,. 1. \ " 3 4 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR KING COUNTY 5 6 7 SANDY JUDD, TARA HERIVEL and ZURAYA WRIGHT, for themselves, …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
WA and IN Prison Phone Rates Challenged by On June 20, 2000, a class action suit was filed in King county (Seattle) superior court in Washington. The suit claims that various phone companies that have contracted with the Washington Department of Corrections to provide collect call services for Washington prisoners …
Sweeping ADA/RA Jail Settlement Benefits Hearing Impaired Prisoners by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in California has approved a sweeping settlement of hearing impaired prisoners' claims in a civil rights, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Rehabilitation Act (RA) class-action suit against the Santa Clara County (California) …
$100,000 Awarded Under ICCPR in GA Jail Suit by On February 24, 2000, a federal jury In Augusta, Georgia awarded 1100,000 in damages to a Danish citizen who was denied medical care and phone calls to his family in Denmark while he was awaiting trial in the Lincoln county jail …
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