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Archive: 1997

December

• Massachusetts Prisoner PAC Assailed by Governor, DOC by Dan Pens (p 1)
• Prisoner PAC Announces Formation (p 2)
• Trial Required in Retaliation Claim (p 3)
• Arizona Holiday Package Decree Modified (p 3)
• From the Editor by Dan Pens (p 5)
• Supreme Court Rulings Trickle Down: RFRA (p 5)
• Supreme Court Rulings Trickle Down: Washington Civil Commitment (p 5)
• Arizona Death Row Chain Gang Killing (p 5)
• Supreme Court Rulings Trickle Down: WA Good Time (p 5)
• Pro Se Tips and Tactics (Summary Judgments) by John Midgley (p 6)
• Leon County Employees Replaced by Slaves (p 7)
• Ohio Overtime Gravy (p 7)
• Private Prisons Cheaper? (p 8)
• Jury Awards $201,501 to Raped Indiana Prisoner by John Emry (p 8)
• The Poor Get Poorer - The Rich Get Prisons (p 9)
• AEDPA Applies to Prison Disciplinary Hearings (p 9)
• Uprisings in New York State Prisons by Julia Lutsky (p 10)
• A Matter of Fact (p 11)
• NJ Guards Threaten Walkout Over Vests (p 11)
• Second Circuit Approves Disciplinary Hearing Surcharge (p 12)
• Utah Prisoners May Build Own Cages (p 12)
• AA Still Violates the Establishment Clause (p 13)
• U.S. and Russia Reaching Record Levels of Incarceration (p 13)
• Eleventh Circuit Approves and Applies the PLRA by James Quigley (p 14)
• Fifth Circuit Rules on Appeals to Denials of IFP Status (p 15)
• D.C. Prisoners Win No Smoking Injunction (p 16)
• Frivolous State Litigation by Paul Wright (p 17)
• More Ohio Jail Construction Corruption (p 17)
• GAO Reports Available: Private and Public Prisons by Julia Lutsky (p 18)
• GAO Reports Available: Federal and State Prisons by Julia Lutsky (p 18)
• New York State Drug Sentencing Report by Julia Lutsky (p 18)
• Pepper Spray Report by Julia Lutsky (p 18)
• The Abuse of U.S. Women Prisoners by Julia Lutsky (p 19)
• Qualified Immunity in Failure to Protect Claim by James Quigley (p 20)
• WA Officials Liable for Seizing Court Tape (p 21)
• Montana Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Classification Hearings by Danny Arledge (p 21)
• VI Decree Modification Denied Under PLRA, DOC Held in Contempt (p 22)
• Federal Jail in NYC a Mob Social Club? (p 23)
• CCA Unveils Aggressive New Marketing Ploy (p 23)
• Peruvian Prisoners Rebel by Dan Axtell (p 24)
• Washington Sex Offender Notification Enjoined (p 25)
• DC DOC Official Convicted of Contempt (p 25)
• Man Jailed for Saying 'No' to TB Drugs (p 26)
• New Jersey Jail Brutality Settlement (p 26)
• Prisoner Awarded $30,001 in Beating Suit (p 27)
• More Evidence Required in Retaliatory Infractions (p 27)
• Counselor Liable in Failure to Protect Claim (p 28)
• Americans with Disability Act Applies to Jails (p 28)
• Knowledge of Risk May Establish 8th Amendment Liability (p 29)
• Alabama AG Moves to Dissolve 17 Consent Decrees (p 29)
• News in Brief (p 30)

November

• Private Transportation Firms Take Prisoners for a Ride by Alex Friedmann (p 1)
• Escaped Prisoner Rides into Sunset (p 2)
• Tensions Rise in Ohio Prisons (p 3)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 4)
• Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Laura Whitehorn (p 5)
• 'Training Video' Reveals Beatings in Texas Rent-A-Jail (p 6)
• DOJ to Probe Texas Rent-A-Jail (p 6)
• Oklahoma Pulls Out of TX Rent-A-Jail (p 6)
• Alive Today! Death Row Calling U.S.A. (p 7)
• ACLU and PLN Challenge Washington DOC Censorship (p 7)
• Texas Parole Case Reversed (p 8)
• PLN Editor Settles Retaliation Suit (p 9)
• Ohio Prison Doctor Liable in Asthma Death (p 9)
• Detention and Corrections CaseLaw Catalog by Paul Wright (p 10)
• Criminal Practice Handbook by Paul Wright (p 10)
• Civil Disabilities of Convicted Felon: A State-by-State Survey by Jon Marc Taylor (p 11)
• Restoring Justice by Dan Pens (p 11)
• Texas Mandatory Release Statute Creates Liberty Interest (p 12)
• A Matter of Fact (p 13)
• NM Prisoners Refuse to Break Rocks (p 14)
• BOP Sentence Reductions Cannot Be Denied Retroactively (p 14)
• Former Prison Security Chief Convicted by Julia Lutsky (p 15)
• Attention Foreign Nationals by A.I.C.A.P. (p 16)
• Prisoner Literacy Obscure & Outdated by Laura Whitehorn (p 16)
• Prisoner Calls Big Business in CA by D.R. (p 16)
• Sewing Our Own Destruction by Ray Luc Levasseur (p 16)
• Trailers for Tana by Art Longworth (p 17)
• Media Allowed Access to CA Executions (p 17)
• Exiled From Idaho by D.M. (p 17)
• Electronic Guards of the Future? by B.S. (p 17)
• PLRA Exhaustion Requirement Jurisdictional (p 18)
• 3rd Cir. Applies 'Imminent Danger' Exception to PLRA 3 Strikes (p 18)
• Attica Justice -- Served 26 Years Later (p 19)
• Factual Findings Required in 8th Amendment Suit (p 19)
• Fear Alone Doesn't Violate Eighth Amendment: No Immunity for Retaliation (p 20)
• Fourth Amendment Forbids Taping of Jail Confession to Clergy (p 21)
• Washington Officials Liable for Seizing Court Tape (p 21)
• Pepper Spray Uprising in Arkansas (p 21)
• News in Brief (p 22)

October

• Experiment in Access: Law Libraries Eliminated in Arizona Prisons by O'Neil Stough (p 1)
• U.S. Sues Prisons in Arizona and Michigan (p 2)
• A Matter of Fact (p 3)
• Seventh Circuit Applies ADA to Prisoners (p 4)
• Three Texas Guards Indicted in Beating Death (p 5)
• ADA Suits Not Affected by PLRA Attorney Fee Caps by John Emry (p 5)
• Editorial by Dan Pens (p 6)
• No Qualified Immunity for Denial of Exercise (p 7)
• Managed Care Infects Prison Health Services (p 8)
• Fifth Circuit Reverses Scott (p 9)
• Georgia Prison Guards Speak Out by Dan Pens (p 10)
• Senior DOC Officials Implicated (p 10)
• Felon Disenfranchisement Laws Challenged in Washington (p 11)
• Prison Conditions in Venezuela (p 12)
• Get More Georgia Prison Information (p 12)
• Mississippi Good Time Violates Ex Post Facto (p 13)
• California Limits Prison Appeals by Willie Wisely (p 13)
• PLRA Fees Don't Apply to Habeas (p 14)
• Consent Decree Termination Provision Upheld (p 14)
• Filing Fee Assessed in Dismissed Appeal (p 14)
• PLRA Physical Harm Requirement Not Retroactive (p 14)
• PLRA Fees Don't Apply to Released Prisoners (p 14)
• Released Prisoner Must Pay Filing Fees (p 14)
• Released Prisoners Must Pay Filing Fees (p 14)
• PLRA Attorney Fee Cap Not Applicable to Pending Cases (p 15)
• Arizona DOC Contempt Fines Affirmed (p 15)
• Magistrates Lack Jurisdiction to Impose Contempt Sanctions (p 16)
• Clemency Letter Ban Questioned (p 16)
• Eleventh Circuit Reinstates Beating Verdict (p 17)
• $5,000 Verdict for Snitch Jacketing Affirmed (p 17)
• Court Allows Silencing of Environmental Whistle-Blower by Paul Wright (p 18)
• California Guards Set Up Prisoners by Willie Wisely (p 19)
• California, Texas, Arizona Suit Seeking Alien Incarceration Money Fails (p 20)
• Recent US Supreme Court Rulings of Interest: Court Access (p 20)
• Recent US Supreme Court Rulings of Interest: Civil Rights (p 20)
• Recent US Supreme Court Rulings of Interest: Habeas Corpus (p 20)
• CCA Prison Off to a Rocky Start (p 21)
• A Day at the Human Zoo by Alice Lynd (p 21)
• Prison Uprisings Sweep Columbia (p 22)
• Free to Wardens But Not Convicts? (p 23)
• Same Sex Harassment of Prisoner Workers Okayed (p 23)
• Arizona Prisoner Entitled to Kosher Diet (p 24)
• LSC Ban on Funding Prison Litigation Enjoined (p 24)
• Rhode Island Probation Fee Ruling Reversed (p 25)
• Sexual Abuse by Guard Nets New York Jail Prisoner $750,000 (p 25)
• News in Brief (p 26)
• New York AA Program Violates Establishment Clause (p 27)

September

• U.S. Supreme Court: No Immunity for Private Prisons by Paul Wright (p 1)
• ADA Applies to State Prisons (p 3)
• Pro Se Tips and Tactics (Consent Decrees) by John Midgley (p 4)
• Sixth Circuit Explains PLRA Again (p 6)
• PLRA Applies to Juveniles, Retroactive on Attorney Fees (p 6)
• Second Circuit Affirms IFP Provisions (p 6)
• PLRA Forbids Dismissal of Suits Without Paid Fees (p 7)
• Gun Law Threatens Police, Military, Prisons (p 8)
• A Matter of Fact (p 9)
• Vacant Judgeships Cripple Federal Judiciary by Dan Pens (p 10)
• BOP Mutiny Convictions Affirmed (p 10)
• DC Women Prisoners' Suit Reversed (p 11)
• Alabama Phone System Upheld (p 11)
• Pepper Spray too Dangerous for DOC Training? (p 12)
• Former Mississippi Guards Lose Sentencing Appeal (p 12)
• Disciplinary Segregation Can Create Liberty Interest (p 13)
• New York Jail Overcrowding Unconstitutional (p 14)
• Prisoners Held Beyond Release Date Sue (p 14)
• Montana Paying for 1991 Prison Uprising (p 14)
• Supreme Court Strikes Down RFRA as Unconstitutional (p 15)
• Attorney Fee Award in Nominal Damage Case Affirmed (p 16)
• Farmer Loses at Jury Trial (p 16)
• Detainee Awarded $64,000 in Guard Attack (p 16)
• Indiana ADA Verdict Affirmed (p 17)
• Iowa Grievance Retaliation Suit Set for Trial (p 17)
• Fact Finding of Segregation Conditions Required in Disciplinary Suit (p 18)
• Nebraska Women's Court Access Case Reversed (p 18)
• Failure to Remove Sutures States Claim (p 18)
• Consent Decrees Enforceable on Its Own Terms (p 19)
• Jail Assault Requires Trial (p 19)
• Court Reduces Jury Award in Beating Suit (p 20)
• Reliable Evidence Required at Disciplinary Hearing (p 20)
• Sandin Analyzed for New York Prisoners (p 20)
• News in Brief (p 21)
• New Jersey Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Parole (p 22)
• No Right to TV or Radio (p 22)

August

• Supreme Court Upholds Kansas Civil Commitment Law by Dan Pens (p 1)
• Washington Prison Official Tagged for Fire (p 3)
• No P.C. for Informants (p 4)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 4)
• Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Laura Whitehorn (p 5)
• Disputed Facts Require Trial in Beating Case (p 5)
• Washington Prison Food Factory Cooks Up Controversy (p 6)
• Publications Reviews by Paul Wright (p 7)
• Habeas and 1983 Remedy for Disciplinary Hearings Discussed (p 8)
• Washington Prison Legislation (p 9)
• Florida Paradox of Prisons, Politics and Profits (p 9)
• Prisoner's Death Throws Utah DOC into Turmoil (p 10)
• Kansas Ad Seg Hearing Required (p 11)
• AA Probation Requirement Violates Establishment Clause (p 11)
• Punitive Segregation May Violate Due Process (p 12)
• DC Circuit Creates New Immunity Rule: Supreme Court Grants Review (p 12)
• District Courts Responsible for PLRA Appeal Fees (p 13)
• Fifth Circuit Applies Three Strikes Provision (p 13)
• Fourth Circuit Affirms PLRA IFP Provisions in Parole Suit (p 13)
• PLRA Filing Fees Don't Apply to Habeas (p 13)
• PLRA 'Physical Injury' Requirement Affirmed (p 13)
• PLRA Physical Injury Requirement Defined (p 14)
• Con Artist Dupes 'America's Toughest Sheriff' (p 15)
• North Carolina Population Limit Modification Affirmed (p 15)
• Un-Happy Meal Provider Pulls Out of Kansas Prisons (p 15)
• Jail Medical Fees Upheld by Fifth Circuit (p 16)
• Florida Ban on Prisoner Legal Help Struck Down (p 16)
• Florida Supreme Court Strikes Down Gain Time Loss (p 17)
• Failure to Treat Broken Hand States Claim (p 17)
• Administrative Exhaustion Required for Disc. Habeas (p 17)
• Michigan DOC Held in Contempt in Court Access Case (p 18)
• No Immunity for Denial of Exercise (p 18)
• Utah Supreme Court Vacates Damage Reduction in Prison Suit (p 19)
• Washington Cost Bill PI Vacated (p 19)
• News in Brief (p 20)
• Retaliation Verdict Reversed (p 21)
• Res Judicata No Bar to Damages in Illegal Sentence (p 22)
• Medical Malpractice Instruction Warranted in Eighth Amendment Suit (p 22)
• No Private Cause of Action Under BOP Statute (p 23)
• California Prison Focus (p 23)

July

• Edwards v. Balisok: A Partial Victory for Prisoners by David C Fathi (p 1)
• Not All Things Considered (p 3)
• From the Editor by Dan Pens (p 4)
• Ruchell Cinque Magee: Sole Survivor Still by Mumia Abu-Jamal (p 5)
• Trouble Coming Every Day; ADX-The First Year by Ray Luc Levasseur (p 6)
• Prison Pay Policy May Violate Court Access (p 9)
• Prisoners Roasted Alive (p 9)
• Administrative Exhaustion Requirements Not Retroactive (p 10)
• Consent Decree Termination (p 10)
• Special Masters (p 10)
• Filing Fees Required in Civil Mandamus (p 10)
• PLRA Filing Fees Not Applicable to Habeas (p 10)
• Automatic Stay Provisions (p 10)
• 6th Circuit Upholds PLRA IFP Provisions (p 11)
• PLRA Doesn't Apply to Immigration Detainees (p 11)
• Physical Injury Requirement Not Retroactive (p 11)
• New York Smoking Suit Set for Trial (p 12)
• A Matter of Fact (p 12)
• Puerto Rican POW 'Graduated' from ADX Florence to USP Marion by Daniel Burton-Rose (p 13)
• Private Prison Disciplinary Action Subject to Colorado Court Review (p 14)
• Washington Prisoner Escapes from State's Most Secure Lockup (p 14)
• Judge Rules Texas Prisoner's Death a Result of Excessive Force (p 15)
• In Defense of Mumia by Daniel Burton-Rose (p 16)
• Death Blossoms by Mark Cook (p 16)
• Prisoners of Colonialism: The Struggle for Justice in Puerto Rico by Daniel Burton-Rose (p 16)
• Suit Seeks to Expose BOP 'Suicide' Cover-up (p 17)
• Jury Trial May Require Plaintiffs' Presence (p 18)
• Hygiene and Retaliation Claims Require Trial (p 18)
• Lucasville Uprising: $4.1 Million Settlement (p 19)
• Plight of Undertrial Prisoners in India by Sankar Sen (p 20)
• News in Brief (p 21)
• State Must Pay for Prisoner Witnesses (p 22)

June

• America's Private Gulag by Ken Silverstein (p 1)
• Texas Sheriff Exploits Prisoner Labor (p 5)
• Speedy Death Penalty Provisions Enjoined in California (p 5)
• Strange Bedfellows; CCA's Political Connections by Alex Friedmann (p 5)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 6)
• Grievance Retaliation Unconstitutional (p 7)
• Qualified Immunity for Strip Search (p 7)
• Sixth Circuit Issues PLRA IFP Order (p 8)
• PLRA Not Enough for Fourth Circuit (p 8)
• Massachusetts Court Avoids Ruling on Consent Decree Termination (p 9)
• Fifth Circuit Holds that PLRA Requires Fees in All Pending Cases (p 9)
• Ninth Circuit: PLRA Doesn't Apply to Habeas (p 9)
• Pro Se Tips and Tactics (Declaratory Relief) by John Midgley (p 10)
• Federal Parolees Kicked off Internet (p 11)
• Texas Prison Building Corruption, Problems and Dangers (p 12)
• A Matter of Fact (p 13)
• Jury Verdict in Prisoner Attack Affirmed (p 13)
• On the Edge of Midnight by Mr Wolf (p 14)
• CDC Consent Decree Contempt Vacated (p 15)
• PLN Readers Dissatisfied with Freedom Press (p 16)
• California Prisoner Wins Judgment Against Guard in Shooting (p 16)
• California Slave Labor Loses Money (p 17)
• Denial of Eyeglasses Violates Eighth Amendment (p 17)
• Illinois Jail Conditions Suit States Claim (p 18)
• Swastika Carved on CDC Prison Guard Rifle (p 18)
• Trial Required on ADA EFV Claim (p 19)
• FTCA Suit Not Barred by Prior Bivens Claim (p 19)
• No Frivolousness Review Allowed When Filing Fee Paid (p 20)
• California Prisoners Entitled to Contact Attorney Visits (p 20)
• Book Review - Privatization and the Provision of Correctional Services: Context and Consequences (p 21)
• Iowa Retaliation Verdict Affirmed (p 21)
• Pro Se Litigant Entitled to Defendant's Identity (p 22)
• 'Scared Straight' Youths Molested in Texas Prison (p 22)
• Relation Back Period Suspended during IFP Application (p 22)
• BOP Owes Duty of Care to Prisoners (p 23)
• Prison NA Meetings Violate Establishment Clause (p 23)
• TB Isolation May Violate RFRA (p 23)
• News in Brief (p 24)
• Habeas Petition Not Mooted by Segregation Release (p 25)
• BOP Can't Set Restitution (p 26)
• Wisconsin RFRA Jewelry Ruling Affirmed (p 26)
• Mississippi Detainees Awarded Damages in Disciplinary Suit (p 26)
• Massachusetts Prisoners Awarded Back Pay (p 27)
• $7,500 Awarded in Guard Beating (p 27)
• Prisoners' Spouses Challenge Washington 35% Law (p 27)

May

• US Supreme Court: Oklahoma Pre-Parole Program Requires Hearing Before Removal (p 1)
• California PIA Employees Lose Minimum Wage Suit (p 3)
• Consent Decrees Create Enforceable Right (p 5)
• Notes from the Unrepenitentiary: " Schooling the generations in the politics of prison" by Laura Whitehorn (p 6)
• Matter of Fact (p 7)
• Sixth Circuit Defines Legal Mail (p 7)
• PLRA Codifies Injunction Standards in Conditions Case (p 8)
• PLRA Allows Sua Sponte Dismissal (p 9)
• PLRA Applied to Released Prisoners (p 9)
• Indiana Muslim Consent Decree Vacated under PLRA (p 9)
• PLRA Fee Requirements Not Applicable to Pending Suits (p 10)
• PLRA Confuses Courts; Applies Only to Prisoners (p 10)
• Ninth Circuit Affirms BOP Sentence Reductions (p 11)
• Drug Policy as Social Control by Noam Chomsky (p 12)
• Virginia Warden Stabbed by Dan Pens (p 13)
• Should Prisoners Have the Right to Strike? Some Union Leaders Say "Yes!" by Phil Wilayto (p 14)
• Texas Prisoners Get Second-Rate Doctors (p 15)
• New Jersey Prison Guard Recruiting for KKK (p 15)
• Update on Washington Money Seizure Suit by Paul Wright (p 16)
• Democracy, Racism and Disenfranchisement (p 17)
• Reviews (p 17)
• Moors Settle with Indiana DOC (p 18)
• Illinois DOC Phone System Upheld (p 18)
• Seventh Circuit Questions ADA Applicability to Prisons (p 19)
• Disciplinary Finding Must Be Supported by Reliable Evidence (p 20)
• Qualified Immunity for Infraction Suit (p 20)
• No Care for STD Violates Eighth Amendment (p 21)
• Racial Rioting Erupts in L.A. Jail (p 22)
• $1.65 Million Jury Verdict in Cell Assignment Case Affirmed (p 22)
• Mental Unhealth and Prisons by E.D. (p 23)
• Do the Math by E.D. (p 23)
• Guard Tower Scam by A.L. (p 23)
• News in Brief (p 24)
• RFRA Allows Redaction of Religious Publication (p 25)
• Washington EFV Ban Upheld (p 26)
• $75,000 Jury Verdict in Prisoner Attack Affirmed (p 26)
• TRO Granted in DC Smoking Suit (p 26)

April

• US Supreme Court: Florida Gain Time Statute Violates Ex Post Facto by Paul Wright (p 1)
• California EFV Injunction Reversed (p 3)
• California Slashes Family Visits by Willie Wisely (p 3)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 5)
• Law's Nature by Mumia Abu-Jamal (p 6)
• A Matter of Fact (p 7)
• PLRA Consent Decree Termination Provision Unconstitutional (p 8)
• Reversal of Frivolous Dismissal Voids PLRA Strike (p 8)
• PLRA Applied to Attorney Fees (p 9)
• Philadelphia Fined for Degrading City Prisons (p 10)
• Prisoners Retain Right to Safety (p 10)
• Racial Violence in California Lockups by Willie Wisely (p 11)
• Florida Private Prison Criticized by Dan Pens (p 11)
• Impregnated Arkansas Prisoner Wins Suit (p 12)
• No Double Jeopardy in Massachusetts Disciplinary Hearings (p 13)
• Inadequate Jail Staffing Violates Due Process (p 13)
• Ohio Jail Construction Corruption? (p 14)
• No Immunity for Eighth Amendment Violation in Rectal Search (p 14)
• Beating and Strip Cell Require Trial (p 15)
• Drug Sales Boom in Wisconsin Prisons (p 16)
• Connecticut Supreme Court Upholds Phone and Mail Restrictions (p 16)
• Farmer Remanded Again, for Discovery (p 16)
• Virginia Felons Disenfranchised (p 17)
• FJC Prisoner Litigation Guide (p 17)
• Ex-Sheriff Sex Offender Retains Pension (p 17)
• A Native American Resource (p 17)
• Texas Lawyers Unhappy About Conscription (p 18)
• ABA Calls for Halt to Executions (p 18)
• Louisiana Jail Abuse Settlement (p 18)
• CBCC Associate Superintendent Resigns (p 19)
• Copying Claims Not Barred by Res Judicata (p 19)
• News in Brief (p 20)
• Double Celling States Eighth Amendment Claim (p 21)
• Seventh Circuit Analyzes RFRA (p 22)

March

• Making Slave Labor Fly: Boeing Goes to Prison by Paul Wright (p 1)
• From the Editor by Dan Pens (p 4)
• Litigant Entitled to Summary Judgment Notice (p 5)
• BOP Brutality Info Wanted (p 6)
• From the Editor by Dan Pens (p 6)
• A Matter of Fact (p 7)
• Denial of Medical Diet States Claim (p 7)
• Pro Se Tips and Tactics (Injunctive Relief) by John Midgley (p 8)
• Detainee Excessive Force Jury Instructions Reversed (p 9)
• Media TRO Denied (p 10)
• Congress Bans Porn in Federal Prisons by Paul Wright (p 11)
• Execution Conflicts with Medical Ethics (p 12)
• Reach Out and Bilk Someone (p 12)
• No Remedy for State Law Violations in Washington Disciplinary Hearings (p 13)
• New Triad by Pierre Duterte (p 13)
• 5th Circuit: PLRA Doesn't Apply to Habeas (p 14)
• Third Circuit: PLRA Doesn't Apply to Mandamus (p 14)
• PLRA Overrules FRAP 24(a) (p 14)
• PLRA 'Strike' Removed (p 14)
• Case Closed After 24 Years (p 15)
• Canteen Corp. Info Wanted by Anthony Palacioz (p 15)
• Three's Company by N.H. (p 15)
• Strife in Pleasant Valley by N.H. (p 15)
• California Bans Media Interviews with Prisoners by Willie Wisely (p 16)
• PNS Suspends US Publication (p 17)
• Pierce County (Tacoma) Jail Suit Settled (p 18)
• Tent City Jail Erupts in Flames (p 19)
• California Prison Computer Project Crashes (p 20)
• Washington Union Sues over Prison Slave Labor (p 20)
• CDC Trying to Polish Tarnished Image by Dan Pens (p 21)
• Third Annual NCSCUP Conference by Daniel Burton-Rose (p 22)
• Detainee Entitled to Ad-Seg Hearing (p 23)
• Used Law Books Not Good Enough in California (p 23)
• News in Brief (p 24)
• Ten Years Is Enough; Belgian POWs Seek Freedom (p 25)
• No Immunity for Kidney Transplant Denial (p 25)
• No Service on US Required for Bivens Claim in Work Injury Suit (p 26)

February

• Second Circuit Rejects Prison FLSA Claim, Modifies Standard (p 1)
• New Plantation by Bill Dunne (p 1)
• Washington Pork Refuses to Be Trimmed: Guard Towers Stay by Paul Wright (p 3)
• New Prisoner Resource Guide Available (p 3)
• Law Against Love by Mumia Abu-Jamal (p 4)
• From the Editor by Dan Pens (p 4)
• Washington Grievance Mail Case Reversed (p 5)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 5)
• From the Inside Looking Out by Jon Marc Taylor (p 5)
• Costs of Crime by JW Mason (p 6)
• DiIulio's Crime Solution (p 6)
• Prison Time vs. Crime Rate Study (p 6)
• Ninth Circuit Rules on Washington ADA Suit by Leonard Feldman (p 7)
• Seventh Circuit Defines and Applies PLRA and AEDPA (p 8)
• PLRA Fees Don't Apply to Released Prisoners (p 8)
• Late Notice of Appeal Allowed (p 8)
• Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Laura Whitehorn (p 8)
• NY Jail Consent Decrees Vacated under PLRA (p 8)
• New Improved Chain Gang by F.B. (p 9)
• Center for Advocacy of Human Rights Update (p 9)
• Eyewitness News from Missouri by K.C. (p 9)
• Beating Damages Affirmed; PLRA Not Retroactive on Vacated Attorney Fees (p 9)
• Seventh Circuit Applies PLRA to Federal Prisoners (p 9)
• Circus is in Town (p 10)
• Virginia Hawks Parolees' Names (p 10)
• No Qualified Immunity for Private Prisons; Supreme Court Grants Review (p 11)
• Kansas Prisoners Lose Welfare Fund Suit (p 11)
• Stunning Revelations by Adrian Lomax (p 11)
• Third Circuit Rules that PLRA Doesn't Apply to Habeas (p 12)
• Prisoner Litigation in the US Courts (p 12)
• PLRA Doesn't Apply Retroactively to Special Masters (p 12)
• Habeas Corpus Study (p 12)
• PLRA IFP Provision Applied Retroactively (p 12)
• Publications of Interest (p 12)
• PLRA's IFP Provisions Violate Equal Protection (p 12)
• Call Recipient's Rights Not Violated in Phone Taping (p 13)
• Rosenberg Fund for Children by Carol Carvalho (p 13)
• South Carolina Consent Decree Terminated under PLRA (p 13)
• Washington Religious Name Retaliation Suit Settled (p 13)
• Corcoran Prison Cover-up by Willie Wisely (p 14)
• County Liable for Trustee's Work; No Remedy for Illegal Detention (p 14)
• News in Brief (p 15)
• Tennessee Jail Overcrowding is State's Fault (p 15)
• World Criminal Justice Systems: A Survey (p 16)
• Book Review: Constitutional Rights of Prisoners (p 16)
• Prison Health Report Issued (p 16)
• Corrections in the Community (book) (p 16)
• Women's Prison Book Project (p 16)
• New Jersey Sex Offender Registration Injunction Vacated (p 17)
• Prison Population Growth in 1995 (p 17)
• No Administrative Exhaustion Requirement in 7th Circuit (p 18)
• Informant Testimony Must Be Reliable (p 18)
• New York Work Release Creates Liberty Interest (p 19)
• Lawsuits Target Georgia Prison Abuse by Robert Bensing (p 20)
• Private Prison Liable for Wrongful Imprisonment (p 20)
• ADA Requires Phones for Deaf (p 21)
• News in Brief (p 22)
• Inadequate Public Defender Funding Unconstitutional (p 23)
• Washington Prisoner May Have Right to Attend Paternity Hearing (p 30)
• New York Sex Offender Registration Enjoined (p 30)