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Medical Treatment Cannot Be Delayed to Coerce Confession by Medical Treatment Cannot Be Delayed To Coerce Confession Wesley Taylor is a Missouri state prisoner who suffered a ruptured appendix. Upon arriving at the prison hospital, vomiting blood and in extreme pain, the prison doctor asked him if he had swallowed …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Due Process Requires Hearing Before Punishment by Keith Brown-El is a prisoner at the Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP). He was infracted for staying in bed during count and staying in the shower too long. He was found guilty at a disciplinary hearing and sentenced to segregation, transferred to another prison …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Prisoner Has No Right to Independent Drug Test by Prisoner Has No Right To Independent Drug Test Rick Koenig is an Arizona prisoner who tested positive for marijuana use in an ADx urine test. He was infracted for drug use. Prior to his disciplinary hearing Koenig requested a gas liquid …
Perotti Needs Help by John Perotti John Perotti, Mansfield, OH On August 7, 1992, MANCI prisoncrats Bill Rachael (unit manager), Terry Knight (SHP Investigator), Mr. Fleming (SHP) and Capt. Jackson and Sgt. Harrell called a prisoner named Jerome Evans to their office and made a deal that if he set …
Expungement of Infraction Reversed by Michael Elkin is a New Jersey state prisoner. During the process of obtaining and testing a urine sample from Elkin, prison officials did not comply with the terms of a consent decree requiring urine samples to have a "continuity of evidence" attached and completed. Elkin …
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Disciplinary Hearing Must Rely on Preponderance of Evidence by George Goff is an Iowa prisoner who was infracted for verbally abusing a guard. He was found guilty at a disciplinary hearing and filed suit under § 1983 claiming violation of his rights to free speech and due process. The district …
Washington Feces Watch and Visiting Policy Create Liberty Interest by Rogaciano Mendoza was a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla in 1989 when prison officials discovered a broken balloon containing a white substance in the visiting room bathroom being used by Mendozas 6 children. Mendoza was …
Interstate Compact Does Not Create Liberty Interest by Fred Pletka was an Iowa prisoner in disciplinary confinement at the Iowa State Penitentiary when he was transferred to Texas under the interstate corrections compact. Shortly after arriving in Texas Pletka was released into the general prison population. Later, when he was …
Infracting Cop Cannot Hear Own Infraction by John Diercks is a prison informant in protective custody (PC) in Jefferson City, MO. While in PC Diercks approached a prison official and asked him to make the urine samples of two prisoners "disappear" in exchange for which Diercks would supply the names …
Test for Calling Witnesses at Disciplinary Hearing by An inmate was found guilty of fighting and creating a dangerous disturbance on the basis of his being identified in a photo of the fight by an unidentified person. At the disciplinary hearing, he denied the charges and requested the name of …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Home Release Status Revoked for Exercising Right to Silence by Adrian Lomax By Adrian Lomax Steven Asherman was doing a fourteen-year bit for manslaughter in the Connecticut prison system. After he had served three years, the keep [guards] approved Asherman's application for Supervised Home Release. SHR is not parole, but …
Can't Stop Con's Legal Help Due to Transfer by Can't Stop Con's Legal Help Due To Transfer A New York prisoner incarcerated at Attica was granted authorization to provide legal assistance to two other inmates after completing a law clerk training program sponsored by the Department of Correctional Services. When …
Informant Testimony Must be Independently Weighed by Informant Testimony Must Be Independently Weighed Spellmon Bey is a Texas prisoner who was infracted for threatening other prisoners in order to extort commissary and sexual favors from them. The infraction was written by the unit captain, based on informant testimony, and listed …
Credibility of Informants Must be Weighed by Credibility Of Informants Must Be Weighed Jerome Russell, a New York state prisoner at Greenhaven prison, was infracted for assaulting another prisoner. Three confidential informants submitted statements to prison officials identifying Russell and four others as the assailants. At his hearing Russell requested …
Receiving State is Agent of Sending State; Qualified Immunity Examined by Receiving State Is Agent Of Sending State; Qualified Immunity Examined An Iowa prisoner was under punitive segregation when he was transferred to the Texas prison system and released to the general population. When he was later transferred back to …
Geronimo Pratt Wins Injunction Against Future Harassment; Loses Drug Trafficking And Possession Appeal by Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt is a political prisoner convicted after an FBI COINTELPRO frame job of murdering a school teacher during an alleged robbery attempt of the victim and her husband on a Santa Monica tennis court. …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Non-Specific Infractions Violated Due Process by Two prisoners found guilty of participation in "violent group conduct" challenged the sufficiency of the evidence presented at their hearings to establish their guilt. The principal evidence utilized were written misconduct reports stating that all inmates present in a mess hall (numbering around 140) …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Written Findings of Disciplinary Hearing Held Inadequate by An Illinois prisoner launched a 1983 challenge to the prison disciplinary hearing committee's finding of guilt on several infractions, including one charging him with conspiracy to murder a Unit Manager. The civil rights complaint alleged a number of constitutional infirmities in the …
Evidence Must Be Presented at Disciplinary Hearing by Evidence Must Be Presented At Disciplinary Hearing Eddie Griffin, a Pennsylvania state prisoners was infracted for possessing a fermented beverage. Prison guards destroyed the liquid in question prior to the disciplinary hearing. At the hearing Griffin was found "guilty" solely on the …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
No Liberty Interest in Prison Jobs by No Liberty Interest In Prison Jobs The 7th circuit in an en bane ruling held that neither the due process clause nor Illinois statutes create a protected liberty interest in a prisoner holding one prison job over another. Phillip Wallace is an Illinois …
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