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Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Washington Death Row Prisoners Get Habeas TRO by In the August, 1996, issue of PLN we reported the passage of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (habeas law). One of the new law's provisions is that it has an option whereby a state's death penalty cases can …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Filed under: Court Access
Elizabeth Alexander Named Director of ACLU National Prison Project by The American Civil Liberties Union has announced that Elizabeth Alexander was appointed director of its National Prison Project, which has been in the forefront of the battle for prisoners' rights for 25 years. She succeeds Alvin J. Bronstein, who had …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
From the Home Front by Kate I've been receiving PLN for a year now. I appreciate your work on behalf of prisoners and for the cause of truth telling in our society. PLN is a righteous satisfaction to read. Your editorials are especially excellently written, intelligent, articulate, radical and sane. …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
CBCC Struggle Ongoing by You printed "CBCC Prisoners Struggle" [in the Jan '96 PLN]. Well, prison authorities didn't like that too much. It was photocopied and passed around. It was hanging in every pod in close-custody, and the [guards] here were going around tearing it down, calling it unauthorized. Here's …
Article • August 15, 1996 • from PLN August, 1996
New Washington Prison Needs Major Repairs by Washington's newest prison, Airway Heights Corrections Center (AHCC), constructed in 1993 at a cost of $113 million, was originally slated to open in November, 1993, but the Washington DOC decided to delay opening the prison for nearly a year in order to save …
Article • August 15, 1996 • from PLN August, 1996
Washington Money Seizure Suit Update by Paul Wright In the June, 1996, issue of PLN we reported that Washington prisoners at Clallam Bay had protested the implementation of a statute which will seize 35% of all funds received by prisoners from sources outside prison. In the August, 1995, issue of …
U.S. Supreme Court to Review Cases by Washington Disc. Case On April 29, 1996, the US Supreme Court announced it would hear an appeal by Washington state prison officials involving a prisoner's challenge to the loss of good time during a prison disciplinary hearing. Jerry Balisok filed suit under 42 …
Washington Legislation Passed by The Washington legislature was in session for a mercifully short 60 day session between January and March, 1996. In that period several hundred anti-prisoner and anti-defendant bills were introduced, at a cost of $1,500 each. While several passed the legislature about half of those passed were …
Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996
No Immunity for Washington Religious Name Retaliation by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that prisoners have a clearly established right to use legally adopted religious names and prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity for violating that right. The court also held such prisoners did …
Brief • June 25, 1996
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Shaw v. WA DOC, WA, Judgment, Staff Race Discrimination, 1996 -- 3\OO(Q58~ 1 ., ~,,~ . ;=._ I - i..' .... 4' ." ..'-'t/NT\{ ~ ='lK''': ."'''C·.~. \ ( " . ' ....... 3 ~.!.. """-JUN· ~- ',~ 4 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE IN AND FOR THE COUNTY …
Brief • June 24, 1996
Bradley v. State of Washington, WA, Tort Claim, Staff Sexual Harassment, 1996 ., "I> 1t-3l (J~41f)4- a , ORIGINAL ?~ 1 "; 0 - - STANDARD TORT CLAIM FORM (RCW 4.92) MAIL IN DupLICATE TO : State Office of Risk Management P.O. Box 41027 2420 Bristol Court SW Olympia, WA …
Brief • June 24, 1996
Duvall v. WA DOC, WA, Motion and Order of Dismissal, Admin Agency, 1996 1 2 3 BEFORE THE PERSONNEL APPEALS BOARD '1/~cL 1\ STATE OF WASHINGTON .[JI<LVC,U____ } Appellant, } 4 5 v. ) ) -S, MOTION AND ORDER OF DISMISSAL ) Respondent. } 8 ----------------) 9 The Appellant hereby …
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
Washington Supreme Court Upholds Discriminatory Earned Time Policy by The Washington state supreme court has upheld a practice by county jails awarding lesser amounts of earned time to pretrial detainees, usually too poor to afford bail, who are later convicted. Pursuant to RCW 9.94A.150(l) the DOC, which holds convicted felons, …
No Stay in DC Women Prisoners' Suit by In the December, 1995, issue of PLN we reported Women Prisoners of D.C. DOC v. District of Columbia, 877 F. Supp. 634 (DC DC 1995), a class action suit by women prisoners challenging their conditions of confinement and an atmosphere of sexual …
Washington Prisoners Protest Money Seizure Law by In the May, 1995, issue of PLN we ran the article Harsher Prison Measures Opposed: "Family Values'' Stop Here which reported the solidarity demonstration held by some 20 people in front of the King County (Seattle), WA jail on March 20, 1995. That …
Washington Prison Doctor Has License Suspended, Again by In October, 1994, the Washington State Medial Quality Assurance Commission began an investigation into the qualifications of Dr. Thomas McDonnell, the supervising physician at the Washington Corrections Center (WCC) in Shelton, WA. The investigation began after the Commission received two anonymous complaints. …
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
Washington Prisoners Have No Right to Earned Time by The state court of appeals for Division III has held that Washington state prisoners have no constitutional or statutory right to be allowed to earn "earned time" credits. Dagoberto Galvez was placed in administrative segregation where he was not allowed to …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Citizen Anti-Crime Initiatives? How the Gun Lobby Bankrolls the War on Crime by Paul Wright Recent years have seen a plethora of so called anti-crime initiatives placed on various state ballots, the most famous being the "Three Strikes You're Out" type laws. These initiatives purport to be efforts by state …
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
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
The Keepers and the Caged: Heroes and Necromancers in the Prison System Today (Book Review) by Michael Spencer by Jean Marie Christenson; Kendall/Hunt Publishing 241 pages. $14.95 The Keepers and the Caged is a compilation of 21 personal interviews conducted by the author with Washington State prisoners, prison administrators, and …
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