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Reversal of Disciplinary Hearing Doesn't Moot Suit by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit has held that a state court reversal of a prison disciplinary hearing does not preclude the prisoner filing suit for money damages in federal court. The appeals court also criticized and reversed the lower …
Ban on Japanese Publications Struck Down by Yu Kikumura is a member of the Japanese Red Army held at the US Penitentiary in Marion, IL. A Japanese national, he can read, speak or write very little English and Japanese remains his primary language. On more than 20 occasions Marion prison …
Prison Alcohol Program May Violate Free Speech by The Iowa Civil Liberties Union (ICLU) and prisoners at the Clarinda Correctional Facility (CCF) filed suit under § 1983 challenging the DOC's expenditure of taxpayer funds on an alcohol rehabilitation program called "The Other Way." According to the complaint, this program has …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Court Rules on Control Unit Law Library Access by Abdul Akbar is a Delaware state prisoner confined in the Maximum Security Unit (MSU) of the Delaware Correctional Center (DCC). The MSU is a control unit for the long-term segregation of prisoners that prison officials allege to be a danger within …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
AZ Prisoners Have Right to Court Access by Antonio Bustamonte is an Arizona state prisoner held at the Winslow prison. In April of 1992 a riot broke out at the prison resulting in Bustamonte's housing unit being locked down. One of the consequences of the lockdown, in which prisoner's were …
Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
Qualified Immunity for Black Box by Paul Knox is an Illinois state prisoner. After prison officials discovered four knives in his cell, Knox was infracted, found guilty and placed in segregation. Pursuant to prison policy, every time Knox left the segregation unit, to receive visitors, go to the hospital or …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Court Access for Spanish Speakers by This is a § 1983 access to the courts case filed by a county jail prisoner who was not conversant in the English language. The plaintiff, Acevedo, claimed that his jailers denied him meaningful access to the courts by failing to maintain an adequate …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Pro Se Detainee Has Access Rights by A detainee held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) at San Diego, named Gust Janis, was awaiting trial on federal drug manufacturing and possession charges. Janis was also involved in a number of other criminal and civil cases, telling the court he has …
Reduction In Damages Improper by Harry Weeks was a parapeligic Ohio state prisoner. For a two year period Weeks was housed in a control unit at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) at Lucasville, OH. The control unit did not permit Weeks to have a wheelchair. L.R. Chaboudy was the …
Improved Jail Conditions Merits Attorney Fees by Two Wood County, Texas, jail prisoners filed suit under § 1983 claiming the jail had practices of denying prisoners access to the courts, improper classification, punitive isolation without due process, inadequate medical care, denial of reading material and overall unacceptable jail conditions. The …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Dismissal of Religious Freedom Suit Reversed by Dismissal Of Religious Freedom Suit Reversed Robert McKinney is an Oklahoma state prisoner who was infracted for refusing to cut his hair and who was not allowed to practice his Native American religion. His religious beliefs forbid him from cutting his hair. McKinney …
Racial Discrimination in Prison Challenged by Racial Discrimination In Prison Challenged New York's Elmira Correctional Facility is plagued by racism toward prisoners in the areas of job placement, housing assignments, and discipline, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York held. Relying on both anecdotal and statistical …
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