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Damage Award and Attorney Fees in Censorship Suit Affirmed by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit affirmed a district court ruling awarding a prisoner $1 in damages and $500 ...
for a projected 55,000 state prisoners. This imbalance is primarily due to a "two strikes" law that took effect on January 1, 1995 and a new parole policy requiring felons convicted of any of 20 specific crimes ...
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
or magazines. Prisoners who are on "level 1", a form of classification status which includes both new arrivals and those who are not "programming," are not allowed to receive any publications at all, even ...
with prisoner-to-prisoner legal mail. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa imposed the injunction to ensure the prisoners' right of access to the courts was observed. Until July 1, 2001 ...
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
works projects for $1 or less an hour. Prisoners contributed 3.1 million hours fighting fires in California last year, earning only $1 an hour. By contrast, the average forest fire fighter in the U.S ...
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
. The court analyzed the request for preliminary injunction using four factors and held as follows: 1) The suit raised "questions so serious, substantial, difficult, and doubtful as to make them fair ground ...
-seven months in prison. The incident occurred at Angola's Cuda 1 unit, which is the prison's maximum-security disciplinary unit. In order for Jackson to be escorted to the medical unit for an injection ...
put the one video they made so far, a 3 1/2 hr. production featuring a renowned drug treatment expert, on sale for $100 on Amitys Web site. Calling this a giant waste of taxpayer money, a furious state ...
Case • 2005
Martin v. Somerset County - 387 F.Supp.2d 65 (D.Me. 2005) - 2005 Martin v. Somerset County, 387 F.Supp.2d 65 (D.Me. 09/16/2005) [1] UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MAINE [2 ...
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
extensively on MHC and other violence-wracked Maryland lockups. [See: PLN, February 2007, p.1; August 2006, p.20; and August 2005, p.1]. Though for years prisoners have been killed at MHC, the murder of prison ...
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
offense, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics said in a report released on May 20, 2007. Veterans were also more likely to have been imprisoned for a violent crime, according to the report. Nearly 1 in 4 ...
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
had been previously challenged in federal court in 2002 and found unconstitutional. (See: Daker v. Barrett, USDC ND Ga., Case No. 1:00-cv-1065-RWS). However, the jail's reading materials policy ...
Article • January 15, 2008
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole, Immigration
. Andrade challenged his earlier denial of parole, which was based on two factors: (1) the commitment offense, which was described as "violent and brutal" and "demonstrated a disregard for human life," and (2 ...
Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008
that the war on drugs has produced.? The Sentencing Project estimates that once the sentencing change is fully implemented, there will be a reduction of up to $1 billion in prison costs. African Americans ...
Article • March 15, 2008 • from PLN March, 2008
is at 190 percent capacity and a public safety crisis is upon us,? said WCHC Deputy Superintendent Jeffery R. Turco. A requirement for the WCHC to meet a 1,451 prisoner population cap by October 1, 2007 ...
Sixth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of ETS/Retaliation Claims by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(10)(1) dismissal of an environmental tobacco smoke (ETS ...
for the officer but against the City and awarded $1 in nominal damages. The district Court awarded half the requested attorney fees to the plaintiff: $1,428.25. On appeal the City argued certain jury ...
that Congress intended suits of this nature because 1) it was fully aware of the existence of suits of this nature as indicated by legislative history, and 2) suits of this nature are not listed under the FTCA ...
Article • May 15, 2007
and a preliminary injunction. Defendants moved for summary judgment. In ruling on the motions the Court held: 1) Plaintiffs had standing to seek injunctive relief as it was extremely likely that at least one ...
requirements retroactive to "'sexual offenders who are sentenced or who are in the custody or under the supervision of the department of corrections on or after July 1, 1989." Robert Mount was convicted ...
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