Archive: 1994
December
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Federal Crime Bill Passes
(p 1) -
Prisoners Lose Pell Grants
(p 7) -
Altered Disciplinary Evidence Violates Due Process
(p 7) -
BOP Can't Punish Detainees
(p 8) -
No Help for Disciplinary Hearings
(p 8) -
MI DOC Creates Liberty Interest in Seg Release
(p 9) -
Attorney Fee Awards Analyzed
(p 9) -
Pro Se Litigants Subject to Rule 11 Sanctions
(p 10) -
Obtaining Prisoner Witnesses
(p 10) -
Women Prisoners Entitled to Equal Education
(p 11) -
Court Orders Return of Disks
(p 11) -
Women Prisoners Lose Equal Protection Suit
(p 12) -
VA Repressive Sentencing Law Results in Uprisings
(p 13) -
S.Ct. Grants Review in Prison Disciplinary Case
(p 13) -
Fast Food Style Death Penalty Defense
(p 14) -
Houston - Death Penalty Capital of USA
(p 15) -
From the Editor
(p 16) -
Death Penalty Deterrents?
(p 16) -
One and Two Strike Laws Passed
(p 17) -
News in Brief
(p 18) -
PI Issued for Prisoner Transfer
(p 18) -
Ex-Prison Boss Assassinated in Turkey
(p 19) -
Russian Jails in Crisis
(p 19) -
Kurdish Prisoners Resist
(p 19)
November
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UT DOC Violates Court Access Rights
(p 1) -
State Must Provide Assistance for Parental Suits
(p 2) -
UT Section 1983 Statute of Limitations Struck Down
(p 2) -
Sexual Assault by Police States Claim
(p 3) -
Change in Parole Eligibility Actionable Under Section 1983
(p 3) -
Admin Reversal Doesn't Affect Disciplinary Hearing Suit
(p 4) -
RFRA Must Be Argued on Merits
(p 4) -
Refusal to Help Prisoner Eat Illegal
(p 4) -
Disputed Disciplinary Facts Require Reversal
(p 5) -
Attorney Fees for Contempt Hearing
(p 5) -
Failure to Treat Teeth States Claim
(p 5) -
Idaho Cons Entitled to Pen and Paper
(p 6) -
4th Circuit Clarifies Eighth Amendment Standard
(p 6) -
Transferee Entitled to Sending State Case Law
(p 7) -
Prison Alcohol Program May Violate Free Speech
(p 7) -
Retaliation Suit Requires Trial
(p 7) -
Detainees Can't Be Forced to Work
(p 8) -
Retaliation for Grievances Illegal
(p 8) -
Shortened Pens States Claim
(p 8) -
U.S. S.Ct. to Hear Prison and Parole Cases
(p 9) -
Evidence Must Support Disciplinary Charge
(p 9) -
BOP Phone Litigation Update
(p 10) -
MA DOC Uses New Phone System
(p 11) -
Asset Forfeiture is Dysfunctional Policy
(p 12) -
WI Removes Weights and Tennis Courts
(p 12) -
Hazardous Waste Found in WI Prison
(p 13) -
DOJ Releases ADA Advisory Report
(p 13) -
MI Parole Consent Decree Vacated
(p 14) -
Killer Workplace
(p 14) -
Overcrowding Leads to Pneumonia
(p 14) -
Cooling Towers Spread Legionnaire's
(p 14) -
Lawyers Deny Inmate Discovery Pending Motion to Dismiss in Federal Court
(p 15) -
Santeros Win PI
(p 16) -
WA Digital Probe Suits Barred
(p 16) -
No Immunity for Beating
(p 16) -
Committing Journalism - The Prison Writings of Red Hog (Book Review)
(p 17) -
Scared Witless
(p 18) -
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century (Book Review)
(p 18) -
A Prison a Week
(p 19) -
Asian Prison News
(p 19) -
Crisis Continues in Salvadoran Prison System
(p 19)
October
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Retaliation Case Dismissal Reversed
(p 1) -
CBS Liable for Filming Search
(p 2) -
WA DOC Negligence Caused Prisoner Death
(p 3) -
Prisoner Mail Trashed at Waupun
(p 3) -
The Forgotten Crime Victim
(p 4) -
MS Prison Officials Indicted
(p 5) -
Fraudulent Police Chemist Flees Justice
(p 5) -
New York Police Falsify Evidence
(p 5) -
Prisoners Have Right to Prompt Sentence Computation
(p 6) -
Court Returns Fines
(p 6) -
No Immunity for Delay of Medical Care
(p 6) -
Federal Public Defenders Govt. Employees for FTCA
(p 7) -
Ad-Seg Placement Without Hearing Illegal
(p 7) -
Correct Jury Instructions Needed for Beating Trial
(p 8) -
No Right to HIV Testing
(p 8) -
MO Court's HIV Disclosure Rule Struck Down
(p 9) -
Name Change Statute Upheld
(p 9) -
Florida Prisoners Have Right to Attend Forfeiture Trial
(p 10) -
New Trial Required for Improper Testimony
(p 10) -
Agreement Reached in State-Wide Pennsylvania Prison Case
(p 10) -
Pepper Spray Hazardous
(p 11) -
U.S. Number 1 (in Murder, Violence, Imprisonment, etc.)
(p 11) -
Bias in Military Death Penalty
(p 11) -
Seg Prisoner Entitled to Competent Hearing Help
(p 11) -
El Salvador Prison System in Crisis
(p 12) -
German Court Legalizes Soft Drugs
(p 12) -
PR Prisoners Rebel
(p 12) -
The Fire Inside
(p 13) -
News in Brief
(p 15) -
Eleventh Anniversary of Marion Lockdown
(p 15) -
Amnesty Criticizes OK Control Unit
(p 16) -
From The Editor
(p 17) -
Reviews
(p 18) -
$273,000 Settlement for Gassing
(p 18) -
$1 Million for Boiling Prisoner
(p 19) -
$153,400 Awarded to Estate for Stabbing Death
(p 19) -
$1.7 Million Settlement for Beating
(p 19) -
Peruvian Government to Stand Trial for Prison Massacres
(p 19) -
Swedish Prisoners Mutiny
(p 19)
September
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The Unconstitutionality of Discriminatory Jury Selection
(p 1) -
Michigan Prisoner Challenges Jury Selection Process
(p 2) -
Prison Racial Segregation Illegal
(p 3) -
The Death Penalty in Black and White
(p 4) -
Demanding Death
(p 6) -
Disciplinary Guilty Plea No Waiver to Suit
(p 7) -
Delay in Dental Care Creates Fact Dispute
(p 7) -
PA Prisoners Enjoy Right to Parole Consideration
(p 7) -
BOP Ad Seg Rules Create Liberty Interest
(p 8) -
Breach of Contract Claim OK Against Medical Contractor
(p 8) -
VA "Men Only" Boot Camp Illegal
(p 9) -
New Trial for Beating
(p 9) -
WA Mail Policy Illegal
(p 10) -
Further Developments in WA Powell Case
(p 10) -
Airway Heights Opens
(p 11) -
WA DOC Enjoined From Taking Costs
(p 11) -
Few Programs for FL Women Prisoners
(p 12) -
S.Ct. Distinguishes Habeas and Section 1983
(p 12) -
Juries Tougher on Prisoner Litigators in Big Law Suits
(p 13) -
PA Supreme Court Justice Sentenced
(p 13) -
Two Dead in CT Riots
(p 13) -
Prison TV: Luxury or Management Tool?
(p 14) -
FL DOC Corruption
(p 15) -
News in Brief
(p 15) -
Justice for Mark Cook - It's Way Past Time
(p 16) -
From The Editor
(p 16) -
Letter From Mark Cook
(p 17) -
South American Prison News
(p 18) -
Art and Writings Against the Death Penalty / Save Mumia Abu Jamal
(p 18) -
The "Correcting Corrections" Project Distributes Prison Video Documentaries
(p 19)
August
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The Scandal of Prison "Management"
(p 1) -
NJ Prisoners' Resource Center
(p 2) -
AZ Medical Care Unconstitutional
(p 2) -
Coalition and Prisoners Fight for Better Health Care
(p 3) -
Researching Medical Deliberate Indifference
(p 4) -
TB Alert
(p 4) -
AIDS #1 Killer in FL DOC
(p 4) -
WA Initiative to Increase Gun Penalties
(p 6) -
Little Diversity in WA State Courts
(p 7) -
WSR Consent Decree Loses S. Ct. Challenge
(p 7) -
WA Punishment for Use of Religious Name Illegal
(p 8) -
OR DOC Held in Contempt for Retaliatory Transfer
(p 8) -
MDOC Sanctioned for Ex Parte Contacts with Prisoners in Court Cases
(p 9) -
UNICOR Info Wanted
(p 9) -
Suit Filed Over Conditions at Virgin Islands Criminal Justice Complex
(p 9) -
Help Get Mumia Abu-Jamal Back on the Air!
(p 10) -
Suit Challenges Inadequate PD Funding
(p 10) -
Oppression on the Rise in Arizona
(p 11) -
FBI Heroin Dealer
(p 11) -
Crimes Against Habeas Corpus
(p 12) -
Recidivism Revisited
(p 13) -
Statistics Under Attack: F.B.I. Director Speaks out in Support of DNA Profiling
(p 13) -
Aids in WA DOC
(p 14) -
Prisoner Unrest in Georgia
(p 14) -
Lucasville Riot Tab $34 Million Plus
(p 14) -
How to Win Disciplinary Hearings (Book Review)
(p 15) -
Reviews
(p 15) -
From The Editor
(p 16) -
Freedom for Political Prisoners
(p 16) -
Medical Help Sought for Danish POW
(p 17) -
South African Prisoners Rebel
(p 17) -
The Global Prison (Book Review)
(p 17) -
Peru's Lawyers: A High Risk Profession
(p 18) -
Indonesia's Final Solution to Crime
(p 19)
July
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Supreme Court Defines "Deliberate Indifference" in Prison Rape Case
(p 1) -
Media Hype Exposed
(p 3) -
Lockdown May Be Unconstitutional
(p 3) -
NM Visitors May Refuse Searches
(p 3) -
Prisoners Retain Right Against Self-Incrimination
(p 4) -
2nd Cir. Declines to Rule on Informant Testimony
(p 4) -
Prison Industries Supervisor Liable for Attack
(p 5) -
WA Prisoners Must Exhaust State Remedies
(p 5) -
Prisoners Denied Right to Vote
(p 5) -
Cross Gender Strip Searches Illegal
(p 6) -
WA S.Ct. Upholds Sex Offender Registration
(p 6) -
English Only Rule for Prayer Illegal
(p 7) -
CO Ad Seg Rules Don't Create Liberty Interest
(p 7) -
Filthy Cell Standards Clarified
(p 8) -
Non-English Mail Okay
(p 8) -
Change in Parole Hearings Violates Ex Post Facto
(p 9) -
Delay in Treatment States Claim
(p 9) -
Shackling States Claim
(p 10) -
No Right to Self-Defense in Prison
(p 10) -
Administrative Exhaustion May Be Required
(p 11) -
Prisoners Have Right to Jury from Community
(p 11) -
Urinalysis is Search
(p 11) -
Court is Ultimate Arbiter of Consent Decree
(p 11) -
RFRA Has Retroactive Application
(p 12) -
Court Upholds Denial of Prisoner Witness Fees
(p 12) -
RFRA Supersedes O'Lone
(p 12) -
Photos Unlawful
(p 13) -
Transport of Prison Made Goods Illegal
(p 13) -
FL DOC to Deport Aliens
(p 13) -
Suit Filed Against "Shoot to Wound" Policy
(p 14) -
Texas Prison Reform Suit May Reopen
(p 14) -
The ACLU Takes Indiana Prison Officials to Court
(p 15) -
From The Editor
(p 16) -
PLN Suit Filed Against ISRB
(p 17) -
Drug Use Legalized in Columbia
(p 17) -
News in Brief
(p 18) -
Prisoner Dies at Purdy
(p 18) -
Prison Psychologist Opens Brothel
(p 19) -
HIV+ Cellmate Doesn't State Claim
(p 19) -
Prison Overcrowding Crisis Continues, Says ACLU Report
(p 19) -
OH Double Standard
(p 19)
June
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Three Strikes Racks 'em Up
(p 1) -
Habeas Doesn't Bar Section 1983
(p 3) -
Why the Mighty GE Can't Strike Out
(p 3) -
Infraction No Double Jeopardy Bar
(p 4) -
Stun Gun Use Violates Constitution
(p 4) -
Intake Center Prisoners Have Right of Access to Courts
(p 5) -
Fed Death Penalty Biased
(p 5) -
Modification of Consent Decree Denied
(p 6) -
Evidentiary Hearing Cannot Replace Trial in Beating Suit
(p 6) -
Public Strip Searches Unlawful
(p 7) -
NV Disciplinary Seg Rules Create Liberty Interest
(p 7) -
Law Students Entitled to Attorney Fees
(p 8) -
No Court Review of Work Credit Denial
(p 8) -
CO Affirms Right to Impartial Hearing Board
(p 8) -
Religious Freedom Restoration Act Passed
(p 9) -
UT Property Regs Create Liberty Interest
(p 9) -
Riot at FCI Florence
(p 10) -
Hog-Tying Violates 8th Amendment
(p 10) -
Guards Have Duty to Protect Prisoners
(p 10) -
ISR Seg Conditions Suit Not Frivolous
(p 11) -
Rape Victim States Claim
(p 11) -
UNICOR Sued for Illegal Sales
(p 12) -
$35,000 Awarded for Beating
(p 12) -
AK Disciplinary Hearing Violates Due Process
(p 12) -
ABC Benefit Tape
(p 13) -
No Miranda Rights in Prison
(p 13) -
DOJ Seeks More Money for Prisons
(p 13) -
IL Bans Prisoner Name Changes
(p 13) -
Prison Labor and the Need for Representation
(p 14) -
RICO Expanded by Supreme Court
(p 15) -
Repression Ohio Style
(p 16) -
From The Editor
(p 16) -
A Call to Reason
(p 17) -
Court Allows Video Commitment Hearing
(p 18) -
Computerless in Alaska
(p 19) -
AZ Prison Blues
(p 19)
May
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Giving Cons and Ex-Cons the Vote
(p 1) -
Drugging of Prisoners Upheld
(p 2) -
Lifers Vote in General Election
(p 2) -
OK State Courts Can Hear Prison Suits
(p 3) -
Consent Decree Creates Right to Uninspected Legal Mail
(p 3) -
Stay of Suit Not Appealable
(p 4) -
Prison Officials Can't Prevent Jailhouse Lawyers From Assisting Other Prisoners
(p 4) -
Witnesses May Be Subpoenaed at Government Expense
(p 5) -
AZ DOC Denies Court Access
(p 5) -
Prisoner Litigants Have Right to Out of State Citations
(p 6) -
Evidence Required to Sustain Disciplinary Ruling
(p 6) -
Atheist Challenges AA Probation Requirement
(p 7) -
Phone Company State Actor for Section 1983
(p 7) -
Visitor Awarded Damages
(p 7) -
Improper Testimony Requires Reversal
(p 8) -
ISRB Must Follow Own Rules
(p 8) -
Accessible Facilities Required for Disabled
(p 8) -
VT Class Action Suit
(p 9) -
Medical Claims Standards Discussed
(p 9) -
FL Reforms Sentencing Law
(p 9) -
WA Civil Commitment Challenged
(p 10) -
Qualified Immunity Hinges on All Relevant Law
(p 10) -
Hearing Required Before Denial of IFP
(p 10) -
Petty Drug Criminals Fill BOP
(p 11) -
Prisoner Beating Filmed
(p 11) -
CDC Spreads Gangs
(p 11) -
NJ Prison "Emergency" 12 Years Old
(p 11) -
Guard's Attack for Smoking States Claim
(p 12) -
DOJ Orders MS Jails Closed
(p 12) -
Justice Watch
(p 12) -
Informants Must be Reliable
(p 12) -
Prison Rape Survivors Sought
(p 12) -
Prisoners Employed by PIA Seek Minimum Wages
(p 13) -
Ask the Media if Crime pays, Then Who's Footing the Bill?
(p 13) -
Chelan County Jailer Jailed
(p 13) -
Slaves of the State
(p 14) -
Prisoners = Profit
(p 15) -
News in Brief
(p 16) -
From The Editor
(p 17) -
Book Review: Subpoena George Bush - The Anatomy of a Cover Up
(p 18) -
Algerian Prison Break
(p 18) -
Chilean Prisoners Resist Control Unit Move
(p 18) -
Marion Prisoners to be Moved Soon
(p 20)
April
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Court Rules on Control Unit Law Library Access
(p 1) -
Ad Seg as Punishment Unlawful
(p 2) -
Jail Detainees Have Right to Library Access
(p 2) -
5th Cir. Guts Legal Mail Standard
(p 3) -
Wolff Hearing Required Before Detainees Punished
(p 3) -
9th Cir. Explains Review of Religious Claims
(p 4) -
Okay to Disclose Informant's Identity
(p 5) -
Excluding Alibi Witness Unconstitutional
(p 5) -
AZ Prisoners Have Right to Court Access
(p 5) -
BOP Liable for Recalculating Sentence
(p 6) -
Detainees Have Right to be Vermin Free
(p 6) -
Infestation Violates 8th Amendment
(p 6) -
IL Prisoners Have No Right to a Valid Classification System
(p 7) -
MO Ad Seg Practices Unlawful
(p 7) -
Double Celling Pre-Trial Detainees Violates Due Process
(p 7) -
Washington Litigation Update
(p 8) -
LA Prisoners Boycott Phones
(p 9) -
Court Cannot Dismiss Suit When Partial Filing Fee Paid
(p 9) -
Report on Indiana Control Unit Issued
(p 10) -
Prisoners Pursue Prison Industries Litigation Despite Continued Retaliation
(p 10) -
Stop the Ohio Super-Max!
(p 11) -
From The Editor
(p 11) -
Informant Sues Over Disclosure
(p 11) -
GA Parole Rules Create Liberty Interest
(p 12) -
Ohio Targets Activists as "Gang Members"
(p 12) -
Work Release Revocation Requires Hearing
(p 13) -
No Right to Gate Money
(p 13) -
Jail Sued Under ADA
(p 13) -
Mexican Prisoners Speak Out
(p 14) -
BOP Suits Require Administrative Exhaustion
(p 14) -
Brazilian Guard Gets 516 Years
(p 15) -
Legal News in Brief - 9th Cir. Amends LeMaire Opinion
(p 15) -
British Govt Rolls Back Civil Rights
(p 15) -
Legal News in Brief - NCIC Info Rule
(p 15)
March
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Court Enjoins BOP Phone System
(p 1) -
Ohio to Build Super-Max Prison
(p 2) -
OH Prisoners Seek Court Access
(p 2) -
Minor Detainees Entitled to Education
(p 3) -
9th Circuit Affirms Gutting of WSR Consent Decree
(p 3) -
Chicago Police Torture Suspects
(p 4) -
Court Rules Suit Waiver is Not Enforceable
(p 4) -
Smoking Ban Upheld
(p 5) -
Someone Wants to Listen to You!
(p 5) -
New Book Planned
(p 5) -
S.Ct. Hears Argument in Prisoner Attack Case
(p 5) -
The Rights of Visiting and Visitors
(p 6) -
A Tomb in Columbia
(p 8) -
Eighth Circuit Clarifies Retaliation Standard
(p 10) -
Consent Decree Modified to Permit Racial Segregation
(p 10) -
PCP Responds to Allegations of Gay Persecution
(p 11) -
Voices from the Chowchilla Women's Prison
(p 12) -
News in Brief
(p 14) -
Prison Takeovers, Austerity Protests Wind Down in Argentina
(p 15) -
100 Plus Killed in Venezuelan Prison Riots
(p 15) -
Needs Mail Stamping of Prisoner Mail Information
(p 15)
February
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How to Secure the Attendance of Witnesses at Trial
(p 1) -
Ninth Circuit Upholds Ban on Attorney Contact Visits
(p 2) -
Murder Incorporated
(p 3) -
Qualified Immunity Law Clarified
(p 3) -
Shackling of Con Litigants Discussed
(p 4) -
California DOC Starts Use of Electric Fence
(p 4) -
Reviews
(p 5) -
Delay of Medical Care States Claim
(p 6) -
Estate Proper Party When Defendant Dies
(p 6) -
Officials Must Assess Informant's Credibility
(p 6) -
No Right to TV Interviews
(p 7) -
Loved One in Prison?
(p 7) -
Prisoner Entitled to Interest From Prison Account
(p 7) -
More Censorship and Repression in Indiana
(p 8) -
Class Differences in Crime Control
(p 8) -
Twenty-Seven Cons Die in El Salvador Riot
(p 8) -
What's Wrong in the Ohio DOC?
(p 9) -
WA DOC Wants to Open New Prison, Close Old Ones
(p 10) -
Involuntary PC Violates Due Process
(p 10) -
City Liable for Negligent Medical Care
(p 10) -
Attorneys File Briefs for Peruvian POW's
(p 11) -
Third Circuit Announces Rules for Appointment of Counsel
(p 12) -
Rule of Law or Rule of Five?
(p 13) -
Court Upholds Silencing of Dan Quayle's Drug Supplier
(p 14) -
From The Editor
(p 15)
January
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Ninth Circuit Approves Oregon Control Unit Conditions
(p 1) -
Outgoing Mail May Contain Slander
(p 2) -
Bankruptcy Appeal Filed When Mailed
(p 3) -
WI Prisoners Not Entitled to Minimum Wage
(p 3) -
Discipline For Rude Letter Struck Down
(p 3) -
Conditions Habeas Requires Administrative Exhaustion
(p 4) -
Law of Medical Treatment Explained
(p 4) -
WA State DOC "Work Ethic" Program: Capitalist Training Camp, or Liberal Rehabilitation Scheme?
(p 5) -
Exposure to Cold Weather States Claim
(p 6) -
Court Declines to Define "Frivolous" Suits
(p 6) -
MI Hearing Officers Have Absolute Immunity
(p 7) -
Prisoner's Assault Claim Must Go to Trial
(p 7) -
Death Row Prisoners Entitled to Limited Contact Attorney Visits
(p 7) -
Classification Chief Liable for Attack
(p 8) -
Only One Appeal on Qualified Immunity
(p 8) -
Visitor Cannot Withdraw Consent to Search Once Search Has Begun
(p 9) -
Common Law Right to Inspect Court Records
(p 9) -
Parole Commission Guidelines Not Ex Post Facto
(p 9) -
Making Con Drink from Toilet States Claim
(p 9) -
Nominal Damages in Eighth Amendment Claim Upheld
(p 10) -
No Cause of Action in Reversed Disciplinary Sanction
(p 10) -
"Tough On Crime" Law Increases Michigan Crime Rates
(p 11) -
Reviews
(p 11) -
BOP Must Disclose Program Statement
(p 12) -
Editorial
(p 12) -
WA DNA Identification Statute Upheld by District Court
(p 12) -
Weed and Seed: The Fortress Culture
(p 13) -
Disastrous Conditions in Vermont Prisons
(p 14) -
Materials on Prison Rape Survival Available
(p 14) -
Dime Down
(p 15)