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Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Virginia Warden Stabbed by Dan Pens In the December 1996 issue of PLN we reported, "Botched Escape Sparks Rebellion," about an attempted escape and prison uprising at the Nottoway Correctional Center in Virginia. Cited in that article was the high level of tension in the Virginia prison system due, in …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Guard Tower Scam by A.L. In the January PLN, Paul Wright described the ordeal of the guards' union in Washington state successfully fighting the DOC's effort to reduce staffing of the guard towers in Washington's prisons. While it's clear that the public-employee unions representing turnkeys fight tooth-and-nail to keep positions …
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
California Slashes Family Visits by Willie Wisely The young Hispanic woman, juggling a squirming infant under each arm, began to cry as she read the notice posted on the wall of the visitor processing building at Lancaster prison. For months prisoner rights advocates had been warning visitors, trying to organize …
Ex-Sheriff Sex Offender Retains Pension by In the July 1995 issue of PLN we reported "51 Months for Sex With Prisoners," about Gulf County (FL) sheriff Al Harrison, then 52, who was convicted of seven misdemeanor counts of violating the civil rights of five female prisoners over a period of …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
CDC Trying to Polish Tarnished Image by Dan Pens The editors of PLN receive newspaper clippings from all over the U.S. We recently received articles clipped from about a dozen California newspapers. The articles appeared in the same week and all were strikingly similar. They were about how California Department …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Eyewitness News from Missouri by K.C. This is the eyewitness account of what went down here at the Jefferson City Correctional Facility on August 10, 1996. At about three in the afternoon, a prisoner in Four House was being seen on a [disciplinary] violation. The caseworker (guard) got loud with …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
Washington Pork Refuses to Be Trimmed: Guard Towers Stay by Paul Wright In the August and November, 1995, issues of PLN we reported the passage of House Bill (HB) 2010 and the DOC's 1996-97 budget by the Washington state legislature. Among HB 2010's provisions were instructions for the DOC to …
Corcoran Prison Cover-up by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On October 7, 1994, former California prison guard Richard Caruso decided he had enough. The frequent shooting of prisoners forced into fights staged, then covered up, by guards at Corcoran prison's Security Housing Unit (SHU) weighed on his conscience. So, Caruso …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
Iowa DOC Shake-Up by Michael Brant The Iowa DOC administration under director Sally Chandler Halford is taking a "get tough" position against prisoners. Up for a tough reconfirmation next year by the senate, the director plans to shake-up the whole system in the wake of recent incidents within the Iowa …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
Disciplinary Records Inadmissible Evidence by The court of appeals for the second circuit vacated a jury verdict in favor of prison guards holding that the prisoner plaintiff's prison disciplinary record should not have been admitted as evidence. Christopher Hynes, a New York state prisoner, filed suit claiming prison guards chained …
Jail Guards File Suit by Five jail guards, disciplined for throwing a blanket over the head of a mentally ill detainee and choking him into a coma, have sued the Santa Clara (Calf.) County Department of Correction and its two highest officials, claiming that they were unjustly scapegoated. The lawsuit, …
Retaliatory Transfer and Discipline Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit affirmed an award of damages and attorney fees to an Iowa prisoner who was infracted and transferred after he cooperated with an investigation into guard misconduct. Robert Cornell was contacted in 1987 by DOC internal affairs …
Khalfani Trial Due to Begin by Leonard McQuay, also known as Khalfani X. Khaldun, was due to be released in 1997 from the Indiana prison system. But on December 13, 1994, Khalfani was transferred to the Maximum Control Complex in Westville, under investigation for it allegedly stabbing a prison guard …
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
Military Prison Locked Down by On March 2, 1996, Pfc. Thomas Enochs, a prison guard, told a prisoner at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas not to wear a T-shirt on his head. The unidentified prisoner then assaulted Enochs, who set off a body alarm to summon other …
Okay for Guards to View Naked Prisoners by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that it is constitutionally permissible for female guards to routinely view naked male prisoners. Albert Johnson, a pretrial detainee in the Cook County (Chicago) jail, filed suit claiming that female guards monitoring male …
Brief • June 14, 1996
Goldsmith v. Dean, VT, Settlement Agreement, Failure to Protect, 1996 State of Vermont OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HUMAN SERVICES DIVISION 103 South Main Street Waterbury, Vermont 05671-0701 Fax: (802) 241-2736 June 14, 1996 Allen F. Breed P.O. Box 698 San Andreas, California 95249 Re: Goldsmith v. Dean Settlement Agreement …
Brief • June 11, 1996
Goldsmith v. Dean, VT, Order, Failure to Protect, 1996 Goldsmith v. Dean PC-VT-001-003 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF VERMONT -WJ c-. Robert Goldsmith, et al., Plaintiffs, Civil Action No.""> 2:93-CV-383 f v. Howard Dean, et al., Defendants. ORDER AND NOW, this 10th day of June. 1996, upon …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
USP Atlanta Locked Down by Prisoners at U.S.P. Atlanta are now on lockdown and are seeking assistance of counsel - pro bono - to represent their interests in litigation against the BOP and warden Willie Scott. On Thursday, January 18, 1996, a guard working in the education department was stabbed …
Brief • April 25, 1996
Van Wijk v. State of Washington, WA, Complaint, Negligence Rape Victim, 1996 RECE1"l.ED - 1 '" I<ir.g CCiur~,. SUQ'lrior C~I.n C:tllk's Office -. ' - ... . , 2 Cl ARLES V. JOHNSGi·~ . APR 2, 5 1996 ' 3 ~~;"i-. ~~'":",,, .." ..\:",,, r... Q~.,,·l·;~ .'-i', IN THE SUPERIOR …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Racist Guards at Florida Prison by Dan Pens Rarely do you find reports of racist actions of prison guards in the mainstream press. Most editors wouldn't consider it news for white prison guards to display racial hatred towards their black captives. Ho-hum. But the Palm Beach Post featured several lengthy …
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