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Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Study Shows Care for HIV-Positive Prisoners Poor after Release, Worse for Those Re-Incarcerated by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer A study published by the Public Library of Science on October 18, 2018 found that prisoners with HIV tend not to retain their level of care after being released, and that …
Brief • April 15, 2016
Kirk v. Furlong, NV, Order Accepting Report and Recommendation, Postcard-Only Mail Policy 2016 Case 3:13-cv-00490-MMD-VPC Document 54 Filed 04/15/16 Page 1 of 2 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 7 *** 8 9 10 11 12 DEREK KIRK, Case No. 3:13-cv-00490-MMD-VPC Plaintiff, v. …
Article • January 15, 2010
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations, Postage
Judge Approves Sherriff Arpaio’s Draconian Postcard-Only Mail Policy by On September 24, 2009, U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell entered summary judgment for Sheriff Joe Arpaio on a First Amendment challenge to a mail policy prohibiting prisoners from receiving incoming letters. Due to a purported rise in contraband coming through …
Washington State DOC Guard Demoted For Mail Tampering And Violating Rules by Washington State Department of Corrections guard Teresa McSheery appealed her 1997 demotion for committing regulatory mail and safety violations. The demotion was affirmed. McSheery worked at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in 1989 and was the mail …
California DOC Settles Federal Suit to Permit Bible Study Materials; Establishes Pilot Program For Screening Books and CDs by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled a lawsuit brought by Jesus Christ Prison Ministry (JCPM) that sought to overcome CDCR's rigid bar …
Article • May 15, 2007
Limitations on Indigent Mail Reasonable, Paroled Prisoner's Interest Moot by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that, a prison's effort to balance a prisoner's right to indigent mail with budgetary considerations was valid and that one prisoner's interest in the case was moot due to his …
Article • May 15, 2007
Limited Law Library Time, Postage, Not Denial of Access by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that an Oklahoma prisoner's constitutional rights were not violated by the cancellation of a bland diet, transfer to maximum custody, limited amount of time in law library or prison's indigent …
Article • May 15, 2007
Difference Between Nonprofit and Regular Bulk Rate Mail by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals noted in a New York case that pursuant to the Domestic mail manual, "non-profit organizations . . . are afforded the opportunity to make bulk third-class mailings at special, discounted, bulk third-class rates" if it …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mail, Postage
Two Postage Stamps Weekly Allows Access to Courts by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a district court's judgment upholding an Alabama prison mail policy of providing two free first-class postage stamps per week, per indigent prisoner. After reviewing the complaint raised in the prisoner's 42 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Limits on Prisoner Legal Mail and Photocopy Expenses Affirmed by Colorado Department of Corrections prisoner Benito Negron filed a state court lawsuit against prison officials alleging that administrative regulations violated his right to court access and freedom of speech by limiting legal photocopies and postage, amounting to cruel and unusual …
Article • May 15, 2007
Stamp Ban, Mail Denial in Segregation Upheld by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit upheld an Arkansas prison ban on postage stamps since embossed envelopes could be purchased from the prison commissary. The court upheld a 30 day ban on the receipt and sending of personal mail to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mail, Postage
Postage Stamp Ban Permissible by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit upheld an Arkansas prison ban on postage stamps. Court notes that indigent prisoners must be provided with some postage at state expense. Postage stamps were replaced by embossed envelopes. See: Kaestel v. Lockhart, 746 F.2d 1323 (8th …
Article • May 15, 2007
Errors in § 1983 Dismissal, Reasonableness for Indigent Mail Policy Unproven by Errors in § 1983 Dismissal, Reasonableness for Indigent Mail Policy Unproven The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a U.S. district court procedurally erred in dismissing a prisoner's §1983 action for failure to state …
$4,000 Award to IN Jail Prisoner Placed on Suicide Watch by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana denied a motion by the Allen County, Indiana sheriff and two sheriff's deputies, defendants, for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) or a new trial. A former county jail prisoner …
Transferred Prisoner States Claim As To Legal, Indigent Mail Policies by The United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against prison officials stated a claim as to prison policy of not providing free postage or writing supplies for legal correspondence, forbidding …
Publication, Postage Stamp Ban States Claim by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held the rejection of a prisoner's publication and refusal to allow him to receive postage stamps through the mail may violate the prisoner's First Amendment rights. This action was filed by a prisoner at New York's Clinton …
Article • May 15, 2007
Minnesota Prison's Indigent, Legal Mail Policies Constitutional by The United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Minnesota prison's policy of providing indigent prisoners with writing materials and allowing them one free mailing per week for legal correspondence met constitutional standards. Jerry Wayne Smith, a Kansas state prisoner …
Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006
PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Requirement Distinguished in Two California by John Dannenberg Excessive-Force Suits by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals consolidated two interlocutory appeals from U.S. District Courts in California that distinguished under what circumstances administrative exhaustion is deemed satisfied if the grievance process has been …
PLN in Court by by Paul Wright Since PLN started in 1990 we have been censored in prisons and jails around the country. We have always attempted to resolve censorship issues administratively, but in cases where the goal was to keep PLN out of prison at any cost, that obviously …
PLN Wins Washington DOC Bulk Mail Suit, Again by John E Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. District Court's ruling below (and permanent injunction) that the Washington DOC (WA DOC) policy of prohibiting prisoners' receipt of standard rate mail (AKA bulk mail) and catalogs with …
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