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Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
Filed under: International, Immigration
Washington State Sues Over Aliens by The state of Washington filed suit in federal district court on November 22, 1995. The suit seeks an injunction which would force the federal government to take all of Washington's 760 illegal alien prisoners (about 7% of the state's prison population) and house them …
Irish POWs in the US by Most people are well aware of the fact that the British government holds hundreds of Irish Republican prisoners of war and political prisoners as a result of its efforts to crush the Irish independence movement. Less well know is the fact that Irish republican …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
Peru Political Materials by Since 1980 the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) has led a people's war against the US backed government in that country. Despite the capture of the party's chairman in 1992 the war has continued as the party recovered from the setbacks it suffered that year. PLN …
$7,639.20 Awarded in Retaliatory Transfer by Afederal district court in Iowa awarded $7,639.20 in compensatory and punitive damages to a prisoner who was transferred from an Iowa state prison to Arizona in retaliation for suing and filing grievances against Iowa prison officials. The plaintiff, Alfonso Sisneros, was largely successful on …
Article • January 15, 1996 • from PLN January, 1996
Failure to Prosecute Dismissal Reversed by The court of appeals for the second circuit has held that a district court abused its discretion in dismissing a prisoner's civil rights suit on a basis of failure to prosecute where the prisoner plaintiff allegedly refused to attend jury selection in his case. …
South Korean Political Prisoners Protest by In early August, 1995, hundreds of political prisoners began a hunger strike to demand their freedom and the end of national security laws that prohibit contact with people in North Korea. The government denied the strike was taking place and stated that anyone taking …
Article • December 15, 1995 • from PLN December, 1995
Washington Translation Suit Settled by Paul Wright On January 23, 1995, Judge William Dwyer, US District Court in Seattle, accepted a stipulated motion in Lopez v. Riveland, Case No. C93-1030WD, a wide ranging lawsuit which challenged the almost complete lack of translation facilities for non- English speaking prisoners in the …
Double Jeopardy in Prison Not Clear by In the Oct. `95 issue of PLN we re ported Massachusetts v. Forte, an unpublished state court ruling dismissing a criminal indictment because the prisoner had previously been subjected to disciplinary action by prison officials. As a result, the trial court dismissed the …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
World's Longest Held Political Prisoner Released by On August 15, 1995, Kim Sun Myung was released from a South Korean prison after spending more than 43 years in captivity. Kim had the unhappy distinction of being the world's longest held political prisoner. Kim was captured 43 years and ten months …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Translators Required for Medical Interviews by Pretrial detainees and convicted prisoners held in the Kern County, CA jail filed a class action suit challenging the jail's use of padded safety cells for violent and suicidal prisoners and other jail conditions. The district court held that the "safety cells," consisting of …
10,000 Kurdish POWs on Hungerstrike by Since 1984 the Kurdish people in Turkey led by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) have been engaged in a war for an independent socialist homeland. The Turkish government has responded with a brutal military and political campaign of terror and genocide, similar to that …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
South Africa Bans Death Penalty by On June 6, 1995, the Constitu tional Court of South Africa issued a ruling banning capital punishment in that country. The court was established earlier this year to interpret South Africa's new constitution, the first to guarantee equal rights for all citizens. During the …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Strangeways 1990: A Serious Disturbance by Reviewed by Bowden, John Review by John Bowden >On 1 April 1990, the British prison system was shaken to its very foundations by an uprising of prisoners at Strangeways in Manchester; an uprising so prolonged and visible that it acted as a catalyst for …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
INS Detainees Trash Private Prison by On June 18, 1995, some 300 im migrants being held at the privately-run Esmor Immigration Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, chased out the guards, trashed the facility and held off federal, state and local law enforcement agents for nearly six hours. Police finally …
Article • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
Translators Required for Medical Interviews by Pretrial detainees and convicted prisoners held in the Kern County, CA jail filed a class action suit challenging the jail's use of padded safety cells for violent and suicidal prisoners and other jail conditions. The district court held that the safety cells, consisting of …
Article • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
Filed under: International, Immigration
INS Deportation Hearings Required Prior to Release by Boyd F Campbell The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a lower court decision that denied relief to an alien inmate convicted of an aggravated felony who claimed the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was not taking steps to …
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 • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
From Senegal in Struggle by Demba Diop The West-African state of Senegal was created by it's former French colonial rulers, who upon granting "Independance" to the country, set up a puppet government subservient to both its former French masters and the multinational corporations, who perpetuate the looting of Senegal's raw …
9th Circuit Affirms Court Access Case by In a wide ranging ruling, a unanimous panel of the ninth circuit court of appeals affirmed most of a lower court ruling designed to ensure Arizona prisoners' right of access to the courts. In the May 1994 issue of PLN we reported Casey …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Special Prison for Military Criminals in Chile by The Chilean government is faced with the prospect of some high ranking military and police officials going to prison for committing crimes against humanity during almost 20 years of U.S. backed fascist military rule. In response, it has announced plans to build …
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