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Homemade Paper Spear Is Not a Deadly Weapon by Homemade Paper Spear is Not a Deadly Weapon The Washington state Court of Appeals held that a spear, made from paper rolled into a rigid shaft and tipped with a golf pencil, used to jab a guard through prisoner's cell door …
Brief • May 1, 2001
Goode v. WA DOC, WA, Appeal Disciplinary Sanction of Dismissal, Neglect of Duty, 2001 1 BEFORE THE PERSONNEL APPEALS BOARD 2 STATE OF WASHINGTON ) ) ) Case No. DISM-99-0065 ) ) ) FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF ) LAW AND ORDER OF THE BOARD ) ) ) ) 3 …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Washington DOC Settles Public Disclosure Suits by Roger Smith Plaintiffs Roger Smith, Donald Miniken, and Karl Twilleager, prisoners at the McNeil Island Correction Center (MICC) near Steilacoom, Washington, settled their consolidated Public Disclosure Act claims against defendants Washington Department of Corrections, MICC, and MICC Public Disclosure Officer, Rosemarie Routson on …
PRP Proper to Challenge Some WA Disciplinary Orders by The Washington state Court of Appeals held that it was proper to utilize a personal restraint petition (PRP) to challenge prison disciplinary sanction ordering disciplinary segregation and lose of good time credits. Raymond McVay, a prisoner of the Washington State Penitentiary, …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Federal Religious Freedom Law Passed by Dan Pens On July 27, 2000, Congress unanimously enacted Senate Bill 2869, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), which was signed into law by president Clinton, as a public law 106-274. The bill passed congress in two weeks and …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
The Funhouse Mirror, By Robert Ellis Gordon and Inmates of the Washington Corrections System by Allen N Huxley WSU Press (2000), $14.95 Review by Allen N. Huxley Robert Ellis Gordon is an educator and fiction writer who conducted creative writing workshops in various Washington prisons during the late 80s and …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
WA DOC Sells Prisoner Information by In response to a Public Disclosure Act (PDA) request from PLN, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) revealed that since at least 1995 it has been selling prisoner information to a variety of private and media companies. The private company data brokers in turn …
Lorton Conditions Unconstitutional by A federal district court for the District of Columbia held that a prisoner stated claims for an assortment of constitutional injuries and a violation of the Lorton Act. The defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint or, in the alternative, for summary judgment was denied in part. …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
"The Judge Gave Me Ten Years--He Didn't Sentence Me to Death" by Anne-Marie Cusac "The Judge Gave Me Ten Years--He Didn't Sentence Me to Death" Prisoners with HIV deprived of proper care By Anne-Marie Cusac In prisons and jails across the country, prisoners with HIV or AIDS are denied proper …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
WA Law Libraries Threatened; DOC Proposes Budget Cuts by On December 5, 2000, deputy DOC secretary Eldon Vail informed the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) executive staff and administrators of the DOC's 2001-03 biennium budget reduction package. The state of Washington has recently been subjected to conflicting ballot initiatives, which …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
Food Strike Puts Washington DOC on Spin Control by Dan Pens Prison food sucks. That's no big secret. And it should come as no surprise that for any given meal only a fraction of prisoners may bother to show up at the chow hall. Turkey A'la King? Good luck! But …
Fraud Charged by Washington DOC Whistleblower by Dan Pens An employee of the Washington Department of Corrections Office of Correctional Operations contacted the state auditor's office in August 1997 pursuant to the State Whistleblower Act. The unnamed whistleblower [we'll call him/her "Doe"] told the auditor that the DOC used improper …
WA DOC Whistleblowers Speak Out: Is Anyone Listening? by Paul Wright Hollywood has glamorized whistleblowers as selfless, dedicated employees with the public interest at heart. It has also implied that when government or corporate employees expose wrongdoing there is someone there to investigate their claims. A veteran investigative journalist writing …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
$7,500 Paid to Settle Delay of Legal Property Suit by On September 27, 1999, District of Columbia federal judge Stanley Sporkin entered judgment on a settlement for $7,500, plus $47.81 in interest, in a lawsuit involving the shipping of a D.C. prisoner's legal property from a Washington state prison to …
Conditions Claims Viable in WA PRP by A Washington state appeals court held that conditions of confinement claims are cognizable under the state's Personal Restraint Petition (PRP) system. In doing so, the court upheld a ban on a sex offender's correspondence with his 11-year-old niece. Robert Arseneau was convicted of …
Brief • February 6, 2001
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Judd v. AT&T, WA, Commissioner's Ruling Dismissing Appeal, Phone Rates, 2001 RECEIVED FEB - 6 2001 1.bVl. QI:FI(;E OF IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGIIION& YOUTZ DIVISION ONE ) ) ) ) ) Respondents, ) ) ) v. ) AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH ) COMPANY, GTE …
Brief • January 29, 2001
Witherspoon v. Pierce County, WA, Claim, Jail Guard Rape, 2001 ~ ~ r" ,f. . HI:\.;I:I VI:U CLAIM FOR DAMAGE L- J.AN 292001 PIERCE COUNTY RISK MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT 955 Tacoma Avenue sOUlh. Suite 303 ,, , T 8CO!Tll, Washington 98402 . PIERCE 'COUNTY RISK MANAGEMENT (253) 79&-7462 c/o attorney Home: …
Brief • January 25, 2001
Iverson v. Snohomish County, WA, Complaint, Wages Owed, 2001 - --------------------------------------. . -" , I 2 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH 3 4 TERRY IVERSON, Plaintiff, 5 y, 6 7 SNOHOMISH COUNTY and SNOHOMISH COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES AND WAGES OWED Defendants. 8 9 COMES …
Brief • January 23, 2001
Davenport v. Seling, WA, Settlement, Civil Commitment Confinement Conditions, 2001 Page,Z of q #1089211 ~oC)~l.t?- ~,;..o m~SS'ZILLY .' 1.1'7 1 2 , 3 ,4 ~~I~DGED:tr-::~_= 5 JAN 1'7 2001 e 7 ~ FILED J:1L,MERED . LODGED _RECQV£D ' JAN 222001 ' . A'f &11ATTt.l .cLERK u.s. DISTRICT COURT WES1EllN DISTRICT …
Brief • January 19, 2001
Myers v. Snohomish County, WA, Special Verdict Form, Medical Malpractice, 2001 • " .. • ~--r flied intPen Co• . l'1 20iir' . PAM L. DANIELS COUNlY CLERK • ~9Q"'fu.U_ DePuty CI.rk IN THE SUPERlOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH FRED C. …
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