Loaded on
Jan. 15, 1999
by M L
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1999, page 4
A memo has been posted alerting the population at USP-Lompoc [federal prison in Calif.] that a pilot program has been implemented whereby visitors will be scanned with a nuclear ion machine that detects "drug use". There are graduated penalties for those visitors who fail this space-age drug test, ranging from ...
Loaded on
March 15, 1998
by M L
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1998, page 4
Reader Mail
In case you'd like to report on recent events at Shelton [in one of Washington state's three "IMU" Control Units] here are the basics. In the first week of September [1997] a female guard told guys on F-tier to get ready for yard. [Only] One guy was let ...
Loaded on
March 15, 1998
by M L
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1998, page 5
A guy was mad over having his letter rejected because his girlfriend said something [in the letter] about sex. He was also tired of being lied to about getting out of IMU [Intensive Management Unit, Washington state's version of a 23/7 Control Unit].
So last week [just before Thanksgiving] he ...
News From Florida
It seems that the governor of this state [Florida] is trying to pass a 25¢ tax on every pack of cigarettes to raise money for the construction 21,000 additional prison beds to keep the violent offenders behind bars longer and, if possible, not to let them out ...
