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Beaten Connecticut Jail Detainee Awarded $2.07 Million by A federal jury in February, 1999 awarded Kevin King $2 million in punitive damages and $75,000 in compensatory damages for a beating he suffered at the hands of Hartford (Conn.) Correctional Center jail guards. The verdict touched off a firestorm of controversy …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
"Victims' Rights" as a Stalkinghorse for State Repression by Paul Wright "Victims' Rights" As A Stalkinghorse for State Repression By Paul Wight How the ruling class defines and punishes "crime" goes a long way towards demonstrating whose class interests are being served by the criminal justice system. The criminal justice …
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
Restorative Justice Booklet Available by Dan Pens Review by Dan Pens Long time readers of PLN know that I have an interest in Restorative Justice. I have reviewed and recommended several publications on the topic. I bring your attention now to a very well-produced and affordable booklet that offers an …
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 • 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 …
Texas Parole Case Reversed by In the October, 1996, issue of PLN we reported the class action suit Johnson v. Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice, 910 F. Supp. 1208 (WD TX 1995) in which a federal district court in Texas ordered the state parole board to not consider "protest letters" …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Restoring Justice by Dan Pens Over the years, countless people have asked me The Question. People who have never been imprisoned (and who think my 16 years behind bars makes me an expert) are especially prone to ask it. "You seem to be very well informed about criminal justice issues," …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Kansas Prisoners Lose Welfare Fund Suit by A federal district court in Kansas held that state prisoners were not entitled to injunctive relief regarding how money from the Inmate Benefit Fund (IBF) was spent by the DOC. Kansas state prisoners filed a class action suit challenging how the Kansas DOC …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Texas Parole Rules on Litigants and Victim Statements Enjoined by A federal district court in Texas issued an extensive injunction prohibiting the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (TBPP) from taking into account either a prisoner's litigation history or unverified protest statements which oppose a prisoner's parole in making parole …
Washington Legislation Passed by The Washington legislature was in session for a mercifully short 60 day session between January and March, 1996. In that period several hundred anti-prisoner and anti-defendant bills were introduced, at a cost of $1,500 each. While several passed the legislature about half of those passed were …
Prison Litigation Reform Act Passed by Paul Wright On April 27, 1996, president Clinton signed the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) into law attached as a rider to the budget for the Justice Department. The PLRA is the culmination of a lengthy campaign waged by prisoncrats and the National Association …
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Victims
America's Most Wanted Hypocrite by Paul Wright John Walsh is known to millions of television viewers as the host of America's Most Wanted on FOX TV. The program features lurid reenactments of crimes and ask for viewer assistance in locating people that police claim have committed the crime in question. …
Jail Detainee Entitled to Law Library Access by A district court in Texas has held that jail prisoners have a right to law library access in order to defend against lawsuits in which they are the defendant, the court also held that a "bookmobile" system of allowing prisoners to check …
WA Passes Record Anti-Prisoner/Defendant Legislation by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the March, 1995, issue of PLN I gave a rundown on most of the anti-prisoner and defendant legislation then pending in the legislature. After we had gone to press for that issue Ida Ballasiotes, the rabid chair of …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
WA "Corrections" Committee by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On September 6, 1988, Diane Ballisiotes was killed by Eugene Kane, a prisoner on work release in Seattle, Washington. Kane had been serving time for two assaults on women and was paroled despite DOC psychologists stating he was at high risk …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
The Forgotten Crime Victim by Willie Wisely In the seemingly unending clamor for revenge against people in prison and those accused of committing a crime, a particularly vulnerable, unchampioned, group remain overlooked. Casualties of America's "War On Crime," a growing number of people have lost their lives to the unchecked …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
The Death Penalty in Black and White by Michael Ross By Michael Ross "[The] evidence shows that there is a better than even chance in Georgia that race will influence the decision to impose the death penalty: a majority of defendants in white-victim crimes would not have been sentenced to …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Reality of Sexual Victimization Obscured by "Predator" Label by Patricia Novotny (Reprint of letter to the Seattle Times) Thomas Shapley in his column on sexual predators (Focus, April 7) does a disservice to the sexually abused and sexually assaulted. He reminds me of the man in the Mae West movie. …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Texas Woman Wins $125,000 Settlement by A woman won a $125,000 settlement from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles that may set a precedent for more civil suits involving parole decisions. The woman was raped by a man who had been sentenced in 1977 to 123 years in prison …
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