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Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Illinois Suing Prisoners for Cost of Incarceration by Illinois prisoner Kenneth Williams has spent much of the last 12 years working in the Stateville Correctional Center tailor shop sewing prison pants, coats, jumpsuits and shirts. As a result of the job, Williams has saved about $5,000. Money he says he'll …
Strip Searched Massachusetts Women Settle Suit for $80,000 by On December 12, 1997, the Massachusetts DOC settled a lawsuit filed by women prisoners for a total of $80,000 plus attorney fees. The class action suit was filed in Suffolk county superior court on behalf of 112 female prisoners by Massachusetts …
Struggling Against the Death Machine by Dan Pens Imagine your entire life concentrated within one tiny cage. Twenty-four hours, by seven days, times three-hundred sixty-five. The state of Pennsylvania owns the cage. Everything you own, everything you do, is squeezed into that suffocating space. There is nothing else. The State …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Court Refunds PLRA Deferred Fee Overpayment by A federal court in Illinois has held that neither prison officials nor the courts have the statutory authority to take more than 20% of a prisoner's monthly income to satisfy deferred filing fees under the PLRA. James Higgason, an Illinois prisoner, filed suit …
Cases of Interest From the U.S. Supreme Court's 1997-98 Term by Forfeitures: In a federal criminal case the supreme court held that the Excessive Fines clause of the Eighth amendment prohibits "grossly disproportionate" forfeitures of funds. The court held that forfeitures are "fines'' if they are punishment for a crime. …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
TDCJ PLRA Forms Okay by TDCJ PLRA Forms Okay: The court of appeals for the fifth circuit denied a prisoner's motion to proceed on appeal with IFP status because he refused to fill out a Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) form authorizing withdrawals from his prison trust account to …
Behind Closed Doors: Struggle in Washington IMU's by Jennifer Vogel In the "Intensive Management Unit" at the state prison in Shelton, WA a man who looks to be in his 50s is wearing an orange plastic rain jacket and pacing the parameter of the "yard." The yard is really just …
Washington Child Support Minimum Struck Down by The Washington state court of appeals, Division I, held that RCW 26.19.065, which requires a statutory minimum child support payment of $25 per month, violates federal law and the supremacy clause. David Gilbert, a Washington state prisoner, was court ordered to pay $25 …
Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
PA County Medical Co-Payment Constitutional by The court of appeals for the third circuit held that a program charging prisoners a small ($3-$5) fee when they sought medical care, is not per se unconstitutional, nor as implemented, under the eighth amendment. The court further held that the program is not …
Discriminatory Policy Enforcement Actionable by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that the discriminatory enforcement of prison policies is actionable as an equal protection violation. William Foster is a black Missouri state prisoner. A prison policy required that all electronic equipment be bought from the prison commissary. …
PA DOC Not 'Victim' for Restitution Purposes by A Pennsylvania court of appeals held that the DOC was not a "victim" for restitution purposes and that prison expenditures on health care for a murdered prisoner were not compensation reimbursable to the DOC under a restitution statute. Three Pennsylvania state prisoners …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
Florida Prisoners Have Property Interest Under DOC Rules by A Florida appellate court held that Title 33 of the Florida Administrative Code, the rules of the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC), affords Florida state prisoners a vested right to possess property insofar as the property was authorized and the prisoner …
Refusal to Waive Interest States Claim by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed a prisoner's claim that he was fired from his prison job when he refused to waive his right to interest accruing to his prison trust fund …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
U.S. Liable for Loss of Prisoner's Property by Afederal district court in Kansas held that federal prisoners can properly seek damages for the negligent loss of their property by prison employees pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b), 2671, et seq. Warren Melvin, a federal …
Ohio Death Row Uprising by In the November '97 PLN , we reported "Tensions Rise in Ohio Prisons." Our coverage of the September 5, 1997 uprising on Ohio's death row at the Mansfield Correctional Institution (MANCI) was based entirely on published press reports, and as such was woefully inadequate. PLN …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
Fingers in the PIE by D.H. I thought you might be interested in the Prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) program that was implemented at select Virginia prisons in 1997. The program allows the VDOC to contract outside of Virginia for prisoners to perform labor at minimum wage. I worked in the …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
Tax Court Required to Assist in Witness Subpoena by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that a tax court's refusal to honor subpoenas filed by an indigent pro se prisoner litigant, without prepayment of the witness and mileage fees, violated the prisoner's right of access to the …
Turning the Screws in California by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely Each year, the California Department of Corrections asks the Legislature for an ever-increasing piece of the state's tax pie based in part on claims that violence in the prison system is increasing. The truth is, violent incidents inside have …
Article • February 15, 1998 • from PLN February, 1998
KS S.Ct. Affirms Trust Account "Service Fee" by KS S.Ct. Affirms Trust Account "Service Fee" In two separate cases the Kansas supreme court affirmed a state DOC policy, KAR 44-5-115, which imposes a $1 monthly surcharge on prisoners for administering their prison trust accounts. A state district court held that …
Article • February 15, 1998 • from PLN February, 1998
Rhode Island Ban on Royalties to Felon Authors Struck Down by The supreme court of Rhode Island held that the state's Criminal Royalties Distribution Act (CRDA) of 1983, Title 12, chapter 25.1 of the general laws of Rhode Island, is unconstitutional. The CRDA requires that any funds felons receive from …
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