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, it may take some time to see what challenges, if any, may be brought against it. There is almost sure to be constitutional arguments made against many of the provisions of the new sentencing laws ...
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
, as well as their hope to be a respected, productive human being within the community. If one is unable to become productive, earn one's living, then what is left? If Eliott Abrams is allowed to work ...
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
." A constitutional right, in order to be clearly established, "must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right. That is not to say that an official's ...
remedy to remedy an injury to a plaintiff. "When a federal funds recipient violates conditions of Spending Clause legislation, the wrong done is the failure to provide what the contractual obligation ...
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
people were seriously injured. The company paid a $200,000 fine. According to Kenneth Moll, a Chicago attorney representing the families of the victims, this is what happened: Bil Mar has a hot dog ...
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
at the outcome of the prisoner case docket - how many cases are dismissed, how many are settled, how many are tried, and with what result. Not surprisingly, the results are that prisoners fare worse than other ...
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
of this issue]. What better place for a lawyer to develop and market the same techniques that made fast food a commercial success in this country? Joe Frank Cannon, acting as a court-appointed attorney, has ...
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
the state or federal court declared the hearing unconstitutional could the prisoner then file a § 1983 case seeking damages. But what about a prisoner who is released soon after the constitutional ...
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Filed under: Organizing
what we know via hard-fought experience with others who hold the same beliefs in the dignity and value of all people. Our panel was entitled, "Legal and Cultural Strategies for Challenging the Prison ...
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
the Ninth circuit panel had initially reversed the policy, Arpaio told the Arizona Republic that he would never let prisoners receive "pornographic magazines", regardless of what the court might rule ...
15 minutes before this thing went down," he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "If something was going to happen that was planned, what better time to do it than then? I think it was spontaneous ...
. There is no mention in the court record as to what became of the East Carroll Detention Facility or its prisoners. Perhaps that will be a story for another day. See: U.S. v. Wyly, 193 F.3d 289 (5th Cir. 1999). ...
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
the SPR amicus brief in Farmer v. Brennan, the landmark case where the supreme court held that prisoners had a constitutional right to be protected from assault by their fellow prisoners. What made Donny ...
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
witness to the reality of prison in 1971. They had no voice. They had no way to bear witness themselves. Prisoners in 1971 had almost no access to the courts. The constitution was blind to what went ...
Article • January 15, 1996 • from PLN January, 1996
schedule. We think there is a greater need than ever for publications like ours. To cut expenses what we are doing is cutting down the number of free subscriptions we are able to provide to prisoners ...
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
, and escape are just four of 23 criteria that can keep a prisoner off the crew. Gordon Lafer points out what is perhaps the most perplexing part of Oregon's dilemma. Lafer, an assistant professor ...
. "Spoons? Imagine what they can do with a fork," said County Commissioner Carlos Cascos. David Veal, 36, escaped from the Hood County Jail on February 13, 2001. He had been arrested and charged ...
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
-privileged prisoner. Or what if such a pariah viewed the same periodical in the prison library, or the visiting room [where confiscated publications are donated] _ would KDOC's security crumble? Under ...
segregated prison housing. The question remained here as to what would amount to "particularized circumstances" or "necessities of prison security and discipline." The court focused on the legitimate ...
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Filed under: Prison Labor, Medical
a nurse practitioner told Gamboa that what he had was "almost like West Nile but its not." Gamboa contacted Walter Gerash, a prominent Colorado attorney featured in the Denver Post's expose of WNV ...
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