It's spreading like wildfire, from New York to Seattle, Chicago to Dallas, and coming soon to an urban setting near you. It's the "NO MORE PRISONS" graffiti movement, a simple form of civil disobedience which requires only a can of spray paint and an unspoiled public canvas (such as the ...
CCA Gets Tangled In Financial Quagmire
Corrections Corporation of America said it is contesting an $8.1 million request for payment from Merrill Lynch & Company related to its hiring of the investment firm in late 1999 for advice on a company restructuring.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange ...
Environmental Concerns Halt Construction Of Pennsylvania Prison
The wretched and overcrowded conditions at Washington, D.C.'s Lorton Correctional Complex have resulted in Congress giving the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) responsibility for housing all D.C. prisoners. Lorton, located in Fairfax, VA, must close by the end of 2001, and all prisoners ...
Nueces County, Texas, settled a $1.1 million lawsuit filed by the father of Andrew Sokolinski, a prisoner who died while strapped into a restraint chair at the Nueces County Jail. The county settled the lawsuit midway through an August 2000 trial, three years after Sokolinski died from the abuse of ...
Bogus Felons List Results In Suppression of Florida Votes
by Ronald A. Young
Undoubtedly, it was the politically motivated decision handed down by five U.S. Supreme Court justices to put a halt to counting untallied Florida votes which actually decided the outcome of Presidential election 2000. Some folks, this writer ...
Two recent federal appeals court decisions highlight some of the repressive measures used by U.S. authorities to isolate and silence political dissenters. Though the methods used by the two political prisoners involved in these cases may be distasteful to some people, Americans must understand that the U.S. government has repeatedly ...
New York state prison guard Edward Kuhnel was suspended from his job on December 12, 1996, two days after a picture of a Nazi flag flying outside his home appeared in a local newspaper. Pursuant to the grievance procedure outlined in the collective bargaining agreement between the prison guards union ...
No Immunity For Ignoring Prisoner Work Restrictions
by Ronald Young
A federal district court for the Eastern district of New York held that a prisoner's allegations that he was required to perform sanitation duties despite a doctor's orders to the contrary were sufficient to state an Eighth Amendment claim. The ...
NY Prisoners Have Liberty Interest In Work Release
by Ronald Young
A federal district court for the Eastern District of New York held that the failure of the state to provide a prisoner with 24 hour's notice of a hearing concerning removal from a work release program violated due process. ...
By Ronald Young
Marvin Johnson, a 28-years-old diabetic, required 100 units of insulin per day to stay alive. On the morning of July 27, 1995, he was arrested and jailed in Little Rock, Arkansas for driving an acquaintance's red Ford Escort without permission. Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed ...
