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Ninth Circuit Requires Evidentiary Review Before Terminating Old Consent Decree Under PLRA by by John E. Dannenberg The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court's termination of prospective relief under two long-standing consent decrees at San Quentin State Prison and remanded with directions to hold …
Florida X-Wing Guard Acquitted in Valdes Beating by The first of five Florida State Prison guards to be tried in connection with the beating death of "XWing" prisoner Frank Valdes was acquitted by a jury in a rural county dominated by the state "corrections" industry. In the October 1999 PLN …
Death as a Salesman: Benneton Ad Campaign Comes to Death Row by Dan Pens By Dan Pens In January, 2000, Italian fashion conglomerate Benetton Group kicked off a worldwide "issue advocacy" ad campaign titled "Looking Death in the Face." The ads, featuring images of death row prisoners, sparked outrage among …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
America Behind Bars, video series from Deep Dish TV by Janet Stanton AMERICA BEHIND BARS, video series from Deep Dish TV Review By Janet Stanton No society since Nazi Germany has built so many prisons in such a short time. Each of those prisons is a school or a hospital …
Another Texas Prison System Lockdown-Politics as Usual? by by Matthew T. Clarke For the second time in two years, the entire Texas prison system was locked down in a delayed response to isolated incidents in two Texas prisons, once again raising the specter of political motivation for the lockdown. The …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Defiant Texas Death Row Activist Executed by On March 15, 2000, the state of Texas killed Kamau (Ponchai) Wilkerson. He proved to be a fighter to the end. Kamau was among seven Texas death row prisoners who stunned the world with a bold escape attempt on Thanksgiving Day 1998 [See: …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Texas Death Row Hunger Strike by Scores of death row prisoners in Texas kicked off the new millennium with a planned 21-day hunger strike over intolerable conditions of confinement. As many as 100 death row prisoners as well as hundreds of other ad-seg prisoners participated in the hunger strike, according …
Four Florida Prison Guards Face Murder Charges by Nine guards from Florida State Prison's "X-Wing" were suspended while state law enforcement investigators probed their role in the July 17, 1999 beating death of X-Wing prisoner Frank Valdes [see page 1 of the October 1999 PLN]. On February 2, 2000, four …
Valdes Murder Witness Exiled, Muzzled by On the cover of the October 1999 PLN was an article describing the July 9, 1999 beating death of "X-Wing" prisoner Frank Valdes at the hands of Florida State Prison (FSP) guards. The day of the killing Valdes' partner and fellow X-Wing prisoner William …
Insanity, Brutality and Fatality: Florida's X-Wing Marks the End of the Line by Dan Pens Upon the ranks of such as we, They enforce their mastery. And yet we bleed the same as they, The tie that binds us day to day. The public interest uppermost, So some say while …
Arkansas Department of Corruption Revealed by A career employee of the Arkansas Department of Correction was demoted from his position as warden of the state maximum security prison in January 1996, after he spoke out about corruption and lack of security in the prison. He sued the DOC and several …
Prisoners Have First Amendment Right to Private Conversations with Their Attorneys by Prisoners Have First Amendment Right to Private Conversations With Their Attorneys A federal district court in Pennsylvania held that prisoners have privacy and free speech rights to private conversations with their attorneys. Pennsylvania state prisoners incarcerated on death …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
Washington Legislature Amends 35% Law, Again by Paul Wright RCW 72.09:480 was enacted in 1995 as part of House Bill (FIB) 2410, a massive prisoner bashing bill that unanimously passed the legislature that year. RCW 72.09.480 was slipped into HB 2010 with no public hearings, debate or notice. The law …
Jury Awards $2.3 Million for Slain San Quentin Prisoner, State Settles for $2.5 Milliion by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On Monday, November 30, 1999, a federal jury awarded more than $2.3 million in damages to the family of a prisoner shot to death by a San Quentin guard. The …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
Daring Death Row Escape Shakes up Texas by It was a Thanksgiving that will long be remembered by Texas prisoners and guards alike. The first escape of a Texas death row prisoner since Raymond Hamilton, a member of the Bonnie and Clyde gang, busted out in 1934. Shortly after midnight …
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
PLRA Termination Provision Constitutional in Eleventh Circuit by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit held that the termination provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b)(2), does not violate the separation-of-powers doctrine, the due process clause, nor the equal protection clause of the fifth …
Struggling Against the Death Machine by Dan Pens Imagine your entire life concentrated within one tiny cage. Twenty-four hours, by seven days, times three-hundred sixty-five. The state of Pennsylvania owns the cage. Everything you own, everything you do, is squeezed into that suffocating space. There is nothing else. The State …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
CA Death Row Decree Ended by CA Death Row Decree Ended: A federal district court in California upheld the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 3626 and terminated a consent decree that governed numerous conditions of confinement for death row prisoners at San Quentin. Shortly after the PLRA's enactment in 1996 …
Ohio Death Row Uprising by In the November '97 PLN , we reported "Tensions Rise in Ohio Prisons." Our coverage of the September 5, 1997 uprising on Ohio's death row at the Mansfield Correctional Institution (MANCI) was based entirely on published press reports, and as such was woefully inadequate. PLN …
More Evidence Required in Retaliatory Infractions by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that when guards falsely accuse prisoners of misconduct in retaliation for the exercise of constitutional rights, the guard's accusation is not entitled to deference under the "some evidence" standard of review normally used in …
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