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Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Filed under: Medical, Tuberculosis
Man Jailed for Saying 'No' to TB Drugs by An Olympia, WA, man was jailed in mid-March 1997, for refusing to take his tuberculosis medicine. Kenneth Elkins, 44, was living homeless in Olympia after having been released from McNeil Island Corr. Ctr. in the summer of 1996. In November, 1996, …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Supreme Court Rulings Trickle Down: Washington Civil Commitment by Washington Civil Commitment La.: In the November, 1995, issue of PLN we reported Young v. Weston, 898 F. Supp. 744 (WD WA 1995) where a district court in Washington struck down as unconstitutional that state's civil commitment law. The case was …
The Abuse of U.S. Women Prisoners by Julia Lutsky It is really like this dirty little secret that everyone in corrections knows about and doesn't want to talk about. It is a huge problem." The words are those of Brenda Smith, senior counsel of the National Women's Law Center quoted …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
WA Officials Liable for Seizing Court Tape by In an unpublished ruling, the court of appeals for the ninth circuit held prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity for intentionally withholding a prisoner's video taped court transcript. Robert Wrinkle a Washington state prisoner at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center, …
Brief • December 12, 1997
McFarland v. WA DOC, WA, Judgment, Rape Murder Case, 1997 .. THE HONORABLE KAREN STROMBOM 1 2 3 4 5 6 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 7 FOR PIERCE COUNTY - 8 9 10 11 SYLVIA McFARLAND, individually and as personal representatIve of the Estate of Meeka Louise …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Trailers for Tana by Art Longworth I have received new insight into the warden [Tana Wood's] motivations for arbitrarily taking away as many EFV [Extended Family Visit, aka trailer visit] privileges as she can. In the early 90's at MSC [the Medium Security Annex of the Washignton state penitentiary at …
PLN Editor Settles Retaliation Suit by In the May, 1993, issue of PLN we reported that PLN editor Paul Wright had won a reversal and remand from the ninth circuit court of appeals in an unpublished ruling, Wright v. Rebiero, a retaliation suit filed against Washington state prison officials. On …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
ACLU and PLN Challenge Washington DOC Censorship by In its 1995 session the Washington state legislature considered HB 1054, which would have censored a wide variety of publications sent to prisoners based on their "sexual" or "violent" content. HB 1054 was not passed but the DOC got the message and …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Washington Officials Liable for Seizing Court Tape by In an unpublished ruling, the court of appeals for the ninth circuit held prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity for intentionally withholding a prisoner's video taped court transcript. Robert Wrinkle a Washington state prisoner at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center, …
Brief • November 14, 1997
Wrinkle v. Wright, WA, Report and Recommendation, Video Tape Withheld, 1997 "-. I~ECE\VED \ I~ , 4 ''397 1 2 3 4 5 6 lJ'N1TED STATES DISTRlCT COu~T '-tVESTER.'i DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 7 ATTACONL~ 8 9 ROBERT D. WR~l<LE, CASE );0. C94-5730RJB 10 11 12 13 Plaintiff, REPORT .~~TI RECONfMENTIATION …
Brief • October 17, 1997
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
Miniken v. Walter, WA, Order, Mail Restrictions, 1997 I , 1 RECEIVED" \9~: OCT 17 BRI~KLlN &. GENDLE.R, I L P . us. ~~~:~ig~RT UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTEastern District of Washington EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 2 0CT 1 5 1997 JAMES R. LARSEN. CLERK 3 _ - - - - …
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
Felon Disenfranchisement Laws Challenged in Washington by In the January and December, 1996, issues of PLN we reported Baker v. Cuomo, 58 F.3d 814 (2nd Cir. 1995) and Baker v. Pataki, 85 F.3d 919 (2nd Cir. 1996)(en banc) in which New York state prisoners were using the Voting Rights Act …
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
Released Prisoners Must Pay Filing Fees by The court of appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that PLRA fee requirements apply to all federal civil actions and must be paid by prisoners later released from prison. Shortly before being released from prison Peter Smith, a federal prisoner, filed …
Brief • September 22, 1997
Macfarlane v. Walter, WA, Court Order, PLN Ban, 1997 1 2 FILED IN ME U.S.DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 3 SEP 2 2 1997 4 JAMES A LAFIIIGN CaFt4 5 YAKI1AA 6 UNITED STATS DISTRICT COURT 7 EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 9 DONALD D. MacFARLANE Plaintiff, 10 11 …
Brief • September 22, 1997
Macfarlane v. Walter, WA, Order, Report and Recommendations, PLN Ban, 1997 4t.' . .........-' " 1 Flt.ED IN THE us. DISTRICT COUAT 2 EASTERN OISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 3 SE? 2 2 1997 4 JAMES A wa'N 5 YAKIM" c.. ~~ 6 Ul~T~ED 7 DONALD D. MacFARLANE Plaintiff, 10 11 12 …
Brief • September 16, 1997
Wright v. Riveland, WA, Plaintiff Opposition to Motion to Dismiss, Money Seizure Statute, 1997
Article • August 15, 1997 • from PLN August, 1997
Washington Prison Food Factory Cooks Up Controversy by The idea was peddled to the Washington state legislature as a scheme to save tax dollars: a giant prison food factory manufacturing institutional meals on a vast scale for sale to other prisons. "Build it," they said. When the $3.5 million "Correctional …
Article • August 15, 1997 • from PLN August, 1997
PLRA Filing Fees Don't Apply to Habeas by The court of appeals for the Fourth and District of Columbia circuits held that the filing fee provisions of the PLRA do not apply to habeas corpus petitions filed by prisoners. These courts agreed with all other circuits, the second, third, fifth, …
Article • August 15, 1997 • from PLN August, 1997
Washington Prison Official Tagged for Fire by In the summer of 1996, a wildfire consumed 3,000 acres and destroyed eight homes in a sparsely developed area about five miles north of the Airway Heights Correctional Center. Now the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has presented Delbert and LaVaughn Nuner …
DC Circuit Creates New Immunity Rule: Supreme Court Grants Review by The court of appeals for the DC circuit, on rehearing en banc, overruled prior circuit precedent by holding that a civil rights plaintiff is no longer required to plead a government official's unconstitutional intent with specific discernible facts or …
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