Archive: 1995
December
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10th Circuit Vacates Utah Court Access Order
(p 1) -
From the Editor
(p 2) -
Denial of Toilet Unconstitutional
(p 2) -
Opening Legal Mail Violates Access to Courts
(p 3) -
WI Court Upholds DOC Classification Policy
(p 4) -
Detainee States Claim for Retaliation and Med Needs
(p 4) -
Sending State Responsible for Legal Materials
(p 5) -
RFRA Analyzed and Applied in 10th Circuit
(p 5) -
Reversal of Disciplinary Hearing Doesn't Moot Suit
(p 6) -
Missouri Ad Seg Damages Award Upheld
(p 6) -
Open Prison Barracks Unsafe
(p 7) -
CA Guard Plants Ammo
(p 7) -
Iowa Crime Legislation
(p 8) -
Job Discrimination States Claim
(p 8) -
Withholding of Legal Papers Illegal
(p 9) -
Guard and Prisoner Get Damages in Beating Trial
(p 9) -
Washington Translation Suit Settled
(p 10) -
Detainees May Be Disciplined
(p 11) -
Ohio Prison Doctor Imprisoned
(p 12) -
Ohio Mental Health Decree Entered
(p 12) -
Jail Detainee Entitled to Law Library Access
(p 13) -
South Korean Political Prisoners Protest
(p 13) -
Sexual Harassment Violates Eighth Amendment
(p 14) -
PA Prison Investigated for Corruption; Biggest Shake Down Ever
(p 15) -
TRO Granted in Alaska Sex Offender Registration
(p 16) -
No Change in Michigan Consent Decrees
(p 16) -
Denying Witnesses in Disciplinary Hearings Illegal
(p 17) -
Florida Repeal of Earned Time Law Upheld
(p 17) -
Charging for Medication May Violate Eighth Amendment
(p 18) -
NJ Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Staying in Population
(p 19) -
Random Urinalysis Okay
(p 19) -
Jury Demand Must Be Timely
(p 20) -
RFRA TRO Granted
(p 20) -
Contract Physicians Entitled to Qualified Immunity
(p 21) -
Court Access May Require Counsel
(p 21) -
HIV/AIDS in Prison and Jail
(p 22) -
Texas Detainee Wins Damages for Ad Seg Placement
(p 22) -
News in Brief
(p 23) -
Prisoners Entitled to Rely on Marshalls for Service
(p 23)
November
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WA Civil Commitment Law Ruled Unconstitutional
(p 1) -
IN Passes Excrement Law
(p 4) -
From the Editor
(p 4) -
Double Jeopardy in Prison Not Clear
(p 5) -
Judge gets Insight on Jail Reform
(p 6) -
WA Doctor Fit Only for Prisoners
(p 6) -
CA Prisoners Riot
(p 7) -
Lethal Gas Execution Cruel and Unusual
(p 7) -
Billing Prisoners for Medical Care Blocks Access
(p 8) -
AZ Guards Rob and Kill
(p 10) -
World's Longest Held Political Prisoner Released
(p 10) -
Surveys
(p 11) -
WA DOC Gets $745,366,000
(p 11) -
WSR Prisoner Murdered by Neglect
(p 12) -
Medical Evidence Required to Win Delay Claim
(p 13) -
Alaska Prisoners in Exile
(p 14) -
SC Takes Weights
(p 14) -
TX Death Row Protest
(p 15) -
Feeding at the Trough
(p 15) -
Nevada DOC Psychologist Moonlights as Pimp
(p 15) -
AL Adds Rock Breaking to its Repertoire
(p 16) -
Old Friends Only
(p 16) -
New Statewide Data Show Prison Rape a Widespread Problem
(p 17) -
OH Visitor Search Illegal
(p 18) -
Sexual Abuse in Vermont Prisons
(p 18) -
Qualified Immunity for Hearing Officers
(p 19) -
New Mexico Blood Money
(p 19) -
Time Barred Dismissal Reversed
(p 20) -
Standard for Gender Discrimination Clarified
(p 20) -
Detainees Entitled to Hygiene Items
(p 21) -
News in Brief
(p 22) -
TX Abolishes Furloughs
(p 22) -
Prisoners Entitled to Safe Jail
(p 23)
October
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The Bottom Line: California's Prison Industry Authority
(p 1) -
Editorial
(p 3) -
AZ Chain Gangs Protested
(p 4) -
10,000 Kurdish POWs on Hungerstrike
(p 5) -
U.S. Supreme Court: Time on Bail Doesn't Count
(p 6) -
Police Chiefs Scoff at Death Penalty
(p 6) -
WA Publisher Only Rule Challenged
(p 7) -
Delay in Dental Care States Claim
(p 7) -
Loompanics Unlimited
(p 8) -
Jail Population Report
(p 8) -
The Citebook
(p 8) -
US Prison Population Report
(p 8) -
Strangeways 1990: A Serious Disturbance
(p 9) -
South Africa Bans Death Penalty
(p 9) -
Detainees Entitled to Exercise and Law Library
(p 10) -
No Immunity for Hearing Officers
(p 10) -
7th Cir. Clarifies "Deliberate Indifference" for Medical Cases
(p 11) -
Retaliatory Discipline Violates Due Process
(p 12) -
Translators Required for Medical Interviews
(p 12) -
Disciplinary Segregation Bars Criminal Prosecution
(p 13) -
Cocaine Sentencing Disparities May Change
(p 13) -
Retaliatory Infraction Illegal
(p 14) -
Death Row Prisoners Keep Right to Contact Visits with Counsel
(p 15) -
All Writs Act Limited
(p 16) -
Asbestos Exposure States Claim
(p 16) -
Population Cap, Fines Affirmed
(p 17) -
Article Clarification
(p 18) -
CBCC EFV Stabbing Trial
(p 18) -
Worked to Death: OH Work Release Programs
(p 18) -
Gunslingers Dressed in Hot Pink
(p 19) -
MN Passes Laws Against Prison Litigators
(p 19) -
FL Enacts More Anti-Prisoner Laws
(p 19) -
AZ Court Affirms Food Packages
(p 20) -
Madrid Published
(p 20) -
AZ's War on the Federal Judiciary
(p 21) -
Reader Mail: PA Settlement Correction
(p 21) -
News in Brief
(p 22)
September
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Civil Forfeiture and Criminal Prosecution as Double Jeopardy
(p 1) -
Supreme Court Rejects Govt Inter-Locutory Appeals in Civil Rights Suits
(p 4) -
Editorial
(p 6) -
New Prisoners' Self Help Litigation Manual
(p 7) -
Live From Death Row
(p 8) -
How to Win Prison Disciplinary Hearings
(p 8) -
Chain Gangs Challenged in Court
(p 10) -
Some Evidence Must Support Guilty Finding
(p 11) -
Injunction Saves CA Family Visits
(p 12) -
CA Prisoners Assault Prison Office
(p 13) -
Economic Reality Applied to FLSA Claims
(p 14) -
IL Change in Good Time Statute Unlawful
(p 14) -
No Immunity for Visitor Searches
(p 15) -
NY Prisoners Awarded Damages in Beatings
(p 16) -
INS Detainees Trash Private Prison
(p 17) -
Guard Gets 10 Years for Beating Prisoner to Death
(p 17) -
WA DOC Computerizes Visitor Tracking
(p 18) -
Spitting by HIV+ Prisoner Results in Attempted Murder Conviction
(p 18) -
Detainee Entitled to Medical Care
(p 18) -
Court Formulates New "Use of Force" Standard
(p 19) -
Law on Retaliation Well Established in 9th Cir.
(p 20) -
Diabetic Sues for Meals
(p 21) -
Medical Care Ordered
(p 21) -
Attorney Fees Awarded in MCC Suit
(p 21) -
Ohio Prison Activist Conference
(p 22) -
Trial Required on Clothing Claim
(p 22) -
News in Brief
(p 23) -
BOP Prisoners Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies
(p 23)
August
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Supreme Court Guts Due Process for Prisoners
(p 1) -
Pelican Bay Ruling Issued
(p 3) -
WA Passes Record Anti-Prisoner/Defendant Legislation
(p 9) -
IFP Dismissal Reversed
(p 13) -
INS Deportation Hearings Required Prior to Release
(p 14) -
Qualified Immunity RA Defense
(p 14) -
Martinez Hearing Reversed
(p 14) -
Shackled Litigant Denied Due Process
(p 15) -
ID Rider Program Creates Liberty Interest
(p 15) -
8th Amendment Discussed
(p 16) -
Outgoing Mail Censorship Illegal
(p 17) -
Translators Required for Medical Interviews
(p 17) -
Detainees Entitled to Non-Punitive Conditions
(p 17) -
No Immunity for Smoke Exposure
(p 18) -
OR DOC To Ban Smoking
(p 19) -
Hearing No Substitute for Trial
(p 19) -
From The Editor
(p 20) -
Fear Constitutes Actual Injury
(p 20) -
News in Brief
(p 21) -
Police, Death and Inquests
(p 21) -
From Senegal in Struggle
(p 23)
July
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Supreme Court Turns Back Parole Challenge
(p 1) -
4th Cir. Clarifies IFP Dismissal Standard
(p 2) -
Private Physician Subject to Section 1983 Liability
(p 3) -
No Interlocutory Appeal of Discovery Order
(p 4) -
Appointment of Counsel
(p 5) -
9th Cir. Upholds Attorney Fee Award
(p 5) -
Unprovoked Assault States Claim
(p 6) -
Prisoners Entitled to Meaningful Ad Seg Review
(p 6) -
Helms Amendment Ruled On
(p 7) -
Qualified Immunity Granted for Denial of Exercise
(p 8) -
AA Probation Requirement Illegal for Atheist
(p 9) -
Denial of Food May Violate Eighth Amendment
(p 9) -
Confinement Claim Barred by Res Judicata
(p 10) -
NJ Sex Offender Registration Ruled On
(p 10) -
Retaliatory Infraction States Claim
(p 10) -
Dismissal for Failure to Amend Complaint Reversed
(p 11) -
PA Class Action Settlement Published
(p 11) -
Denial of Witnesses Violates Due Process
(p 11) -
TDCJ Selling Counterfeit Meat
(p 12) -
Warden Survey Released
(p 12) -
CA Families Fight to Maintain Bonds
(p 13) -
MI Drug Patch Testing
(p 13) -
NV Phone Rate Scalping Examined
(p 13) -
51 Months for Sex With Prisoners
(p 14) -
Who's Treating the Doctor
(p 14) -
Violence Increases in Fed Prisons
(p 15) -
SC Prisoners Protest Haircut Policy
(p 15) -
AL Brings Back Chain Gangs
(p 15) -
From The Editor
(p 16) -
FL Prisoner Has Right to Die
(p 16) -
Books Available: Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention
(p 17) -
Prisoners and the Law
(p 17) -
Books Available: The Penitentiary in Crisis: From Accomodation to Riot in NM
(p 17) -
Books Available: Cages of Steel
(p 17) -
Book Review: Civil Liability in Criminal Justice
(p 18) -
The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement (Book Review)
(p 18) -
News in Brief
(p 18) -
Litigation Status Report Available
(p 18) -
Book Review: Prison Violence in America
(p 18) -
Health Problems in WY
(p 19) -
Raze the Walls Burned
(p 19)
June
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9th Circuit Affirms Court Access Case
(p 1) -
No Immunity for Cold Filthy Cell
(p 3) -
MO Hair Cut Rule Violates RFRA
(p 3) -
Excessive Force Jury Instructions Affirmed
(p 4) -
Turner Applied to Rehabilitation Act Claims
(p 4) -
Pen, Photocopies and Exercise Must Be Provided
(p 5) -
Delay in Hearing States Claim
(p 6) -
Retaliatory Infractions Illegal
(p 6) -
WA Powell Update
(p 6) -
Bye Bye Mike
(p 7) -
WA Prisoners Protest HB 2010
(p 7) -
VA Guards Indicted in Beatings
(p 7) -
AZ DOC Takes Weights
(p 8) -
VA Jails Sue State Prisons
(p 8) -
DOJ Issues Guidelines for Seizing and Searching Computers
(p 8) -
DOJ Sues MT DOC
(p 9) -
Winds of Unrest Blowing Over Arizona
(p 9) -
Grand Jury Slams FL Prison, Again
(p 10) -
Prison TV: Aid and Comfort to the Enemy
(p 11) -
Just Say "No?"
(p 12) -
The New Politics of Crime
(p 13) -
Grievance Policy Modified
(p 13) -
Attention Prisoners Convicted of Drug Offenses!
(p 13) -
News in Brief
(p 15) -
New Habeas Book
(p 16) -
From The Editor
(p 16) -
Forfeiture and Double Jeopardy
(p 16) -
Two Strikes and You're Out - of Prison Space
(p 17) -
True Lies in Philly
(p 17) -
The Last Mile
(p 18) -
Gangs in OH
(p 19) -
Trailer Visits Curtailed at CBCC
(p 19)
May
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Silencing the Oppressed: No Freedom of Speech for Those Behind the Walls
(p 1) -
Jail Detainee Entitled to Hearing
(p 9) -
NC DNA Testing Statute Upheld
(p 9) -
IL DOC Confinement Policy Illegal
(p 10) -
Court Clerk Suable
(p 10) -
PI Granted to Satanist
(p 11) -
Disciplinary Evidence Must be Reliable
(p 12) -
Harassing Searches State Claim
(p 12) -
Retaliatory Threats Illegal
(p 13) -
DA Liable for Preventing Court Appearance
(p 13) -
Prison Worker Compensation Law No Bar to Bivens
(p 14) -
Prisoners Can't be Forced to Choose Between Law Library and Recreation
(p 14) -
MS Prison Rights Litigator Threatened
(p 15) -
IL Visiting Rules Create Liberty Interest
(p 15) -
Prisoners With Children
(p 16) -
BOP Set to Stun Prisoners
(p 16) -
WY Trailer Visits Taken
(p 16) -
Prisoners as NAFTA Export?
(p 17) -
WA Civil Commitment Sham
(p 17) -
TDCJ Grows & Grows
(p 18) -
Tommy's Jobs Program
(p 18) -
Venezuelan Prison Crisis Continues
(p 19) -
Alert: Danger in Using Bleach to Clean Needles
(p 19) -
Special Prison for Military Criminals in Chile
(p 20) -
The Political Base of the Death Penalty
(p 20) -
S&L Looters Do less Time than Petty Thieves
(p 21) -
FL Ends Early Release
(p 22) -
Editorial
(p 22) -
Harsher Prison Measures Opposed: "Family Values" Stop Here
(p 23) -
WA Prisoners Help Elect Republican
(p 23) -
Armed and Dangerous
(p 25) -
Ohio Activist Needs Help
(p 27) -
Correction on Clinton
(p 27)
April
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A Viable ACA Litigation Strategy
(p 1) -
CDC Issues New Shooting Policy
(p 3) -
From The Editor
(p 4) -
Pierce County Jail Sued
(p 5) -
Death Penalty Challenged by Philadelphia Public Defenders
(p 6) -
IN Prisoner and Guard Executed
(p 6) -
Purdy Medical Suit Settled
(p 7) -
Mumia Speaks
(p 8) -
S.Ct. to Hear Quayle Retaliation Claim
(p 8) -
Population PI Vacated
(p 9) -
$50,000 Awarded in Groin Kneeing
(p 9) -
$157,000 Awarded in Retaliation Suit
(p 10) -
Most Murders by Friends and Family
(p 11) -
Death Penalty Sought for Kurdish Legislators
(p 11) -
9th Cir. Clarifies Mailbox Rule
(p 12) -
State Prisons Subject to RA & ADA
(p 12) -
VA Parole and Good Time Laws Don't Create Liberty Interest
(p 13) -
Retaliatory Infraction Illegal
(p 13) -
Forfeiture Violates Double Jeopardy
(p 14) -
CA Legislative Horror Show
(p 14) -
No Habeas for Jailhouse Lawyer Aid
(p 16) -
Attorney Fees for Monitoring Consent Decree
(p 16) -
Federal Habeas Rarely Granted
(p 17) -
Reviews
(p 17) -
News in Brief
(p 19)
March
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CA Prison Guards - A Potent Political Interest Group
(p 1) -
WI Guard Indicted for Mail Obstruction
(p 3) -
AG Mail Must be Treated as Legal Mail
(p 3) -
Liability for Filming Search Affirmed
(p 3) -
6th Cir. Rules on BOP Phone Suit PI
(p 4) -
Police Report Inadmissible in Rape Case
(p 4) -
Attorney General Subject to Suit
(p 6) -
No Liberty Interest in GA Parole Rules
(p 6) -
MI DOC Has Duty to Give Women Prisoners Legal Aid
(p 7) -
New Trial for Improper Voir Dire
(p 7) -
Medical Indifference Suit Requires New Trial
(p 8) -
TX Parole Board Can't Use Voided Priors
(p 9) -
MI DOC Visitor Ban Overturned
(p 9) -
Settlement Reached in MT Prison Case
(p 10) -
BOP Good Time Ploy Exposed
(p 10) -
WA Special Commitment Center Failing
(p 11) -
BOP Guard Killed
(p 11) -
FBI Investigates CDC Shootings
(p 11) -
WA Prisoners Under Attack
(p 12) -
WA "Corrections" Committee
(p 15) -
Confronting the Helms Amendment
(p 16) -
Editorial
(p 16) -
Prison Weight Lifting is a Nonsense Issue
(p 17) -
Ohio Offshore Industries Project
(p 18) -
News in Brief
(p 19)
February
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Contract With America = Contract on Prisoners
(p 1) -
From The Editor
(p 2) -
Immigration Detainees Rebel
(p 3) -
FL DOC Industries Fined
(p 3) -
PA Limits Suits Against Defense Attorneys
(p 4) -
Visitor Search Held Illegal
(p 4) -
No Immunity for Visitor Strip Search
(p 5) -
Brutality Protested
(p 6) -
AZ Passes Repressive Prison Laws
(p 6) -
Fear and Loathing in California
(p 7) -
News in Brief
(p 8) -
Revolutionary Literature at Half-Price
(p 9) -
Rikers Island Detainees in Struggle
(p 9) -
Texas DOC to Ban Tobacco Use
(p 10) -
Unconstitutional Jail Conditions Don't Need to be Relitigated
(p 10) -
CT Phone Suit Filed
(p 10) -
OR Voters Pass New Prison Laws
(p 10) -
S.Ct. Revokes Review
(p 11) -
Former TX Parole Board Chairman Sentenced
(p 11) -
Speeding Cop Loses Job
(p 11) -
No Interlocutory Appeal From Judgement
(p 11) -
Settlements and Jury Awards
(p 12) -
Prisoner Raped by Custodians
(p 12) -
Exposure to Cold Illegal, Rectal Search Upheld
(p 13) -
9th Cir Reverses Dismissal of Publisher Only Rule
(p 14) -
Guard Sues Over Discrimination Order
(p 14) -
Prisoners Entitled to Free Legal Mail Postage
(p 15) -
Damage Awards Can be Used for Restitution
(p 15) -
WA DOC Sanctioned in Grievance Mail Case
(p 16) -
NC Consent Decree Modified
(p 16) -
OK Prisoners Have Disciplinary Hearing Remedy
(p 17) -
MS Jail Officials Held in Contempt
(p 17) -
CDC Must Establish Hobby Program
(p 18) -
Contempt Finding Reversed
(p 18) -
Tight Handcuffs State Claim
(p 19) -
No Immunity for Sweat Lodge Denial
(p 20)
January
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Unconstitutionality of Florida's Outdoor Yard Policies for Close Management Prisoners
(p 1) -
Pretrial Detainee Housed at Marion
(p 3) -
Racist Guard Fired
(p 3) -
Ban on Japanese Publications Struck Down
(p 4) -
Frivolous Litigation
(p 4) -
Kansas Ad-Seg Plan Clarified
(p 5) -
Discriminatory Jury Selection Reversed
(p 6) -
Federal Courts Must Rule on State Law Claims in Beating
(p 6) -
No FLSA Protection for Prisoner Workers
(p 7) -
Legal Papers Filed When Mailed
(p 7) -
CA BPT Lawyer Sentenced
(p 8) -
MS Bans Appliances
(p 8) -
TX Guards Charged in Beating Murder
(p 8) -
Limits on Contact Visits With Counsel Reversed
(p 8) -
Prisoner Shot Dead
(p 9) -
Jail Population Cap Affirmed
(p 9) -
Warden Killed in Alabama
(p 9) -
Law Library Access Not "Core" Bounds Requirement
(p 10) -
WI Enacts Sex Predator Law
(p 11) -
WSR Guard Convicted of Soliciting Assault
(p 11) -
Tennis Shoes Cost US Taxpayers Over $8,000
(p 12) -
OK Early Release Law Legal
(p 12) -
Lucasville 1994 "Spilt Milk"
(p 13) -
Award for Prisoners Beaten by OH Guards
(p 14) -
Did Warden Seek SOCF Riot?
(p 14) -
News in Brief
(p 15) -
From The Editor
(p 16) -
Algerian Prison Uprising
(p 16) -
Japan Uses Prison Slave Labor
(p 17) -
Resource Info Wanted
(p 17) -
CT's "Gang Problem"
(p 17) -
From a Michigan Reader
(p 17) -
U.S. Prisoner in Thailand Needs Info
(p 18) -
From a California Reader
(p 18) -
Activists Labeled "Security Threat"
(p 18) -
Televisions in Prison
(p 19) -
AIDS Info Sought
(p 19) -
Conditions in Thai Prisons for US Prisoners
(p 19)