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curb frivolous lawsuits filed by prisoninmates who have been known to sue over meltedice cream,bad-fitting jeans and country Westernmusic.  \nAnd he's using a 1994 Arizona law as amodel.  \nSen.Jon Kyl(R-Ariz.)and a co-sponsor,said the proposed bill's aim is to keep inmates from\"churning out lawsuits with no regard to their costto the taxpayers or their legal merit.\"  \nAt a news conference in Washington onSept.27,Dole decried what he called an \"alarmingexplosion\"of meritless suits filed by state andFederal inmates.  \n\"Frivolous lawsuits filed by prisoners tie upthe courts,waste valuable legal resources and affectthe quality of justice enjoyed by law-abiding citi-zens,\"said Dole(R-Kan).  \nDole cited \"melted ice cream,being forcedto listen to country Western music\"and having toeat chunky peanut butter rather than smooth asexamples of prisoners'legal complaints.He saidthe number of prisoner lawsuits jumped from 6,600in 1975 to more than 39,000 in 1994.  \nThe list included a suit filed by Arizonainmate Donald Beaty after his computer game wastaken away.Beaty was convicted of murdering a13-year-old Tempe newspaper carrier.His suitwas thrown out in 1994.  \nSee LAWSUITS,page two)  \nISSN 0010-9045  \nOctober 6,1995  \nIN THIS ISSUE                 \n\"FRIVOLOUS\"LAWSUITS:Senate Bill Would Curb Them…………   ……   …1  \nDOJ FUNDING BILL:Approved By Full Senat  …….1  \nSENTENCING:One In ThreeYoung Black Males Under Supervision…   ………  …4  \nDRUG CONVICTIONS:Unfair To Blacks,Study Finds..5  \nVIRGINIA:Conducts Nation's300th Execution Since 1976……   …  ……    …6  \nGRATERFORD PRISON:Target Of Hearing.…  ……7  \nIN TIIE COURTS…    …………………    …8  \nSENATE APPROVES DOJSPENDING BILL BUT MEASURESTILLIS IN JEOPARDY  \nEmbattled legislation to fund the Depart-ments of Commerce,Justice and State has lurchedthrough the Senate,but remains in considerableperil.  \nSenators passed the spending bill(HR 2076)by voice vote Sept.29 after softening some of itsmost aggressive budget cuts and policy changes.They added money for the State Department andcertain Commerce Department accounts,and re-stored funding for the Legal Services Corporation.  \nAnd in a surprise move,Republicans agreedto restore funding for a top Democraticpriority--police hiring grants.  \nSee SPENDING BILL,page three)  \n# CORRECTIONS DIGEST\n\n(LAWSUITS,from page one)  \nSen.Harry Reid(D-Nev.)said the \"Top 10\"frivolous lawsuits filed by Nevada inmates includedcomplaints that a prison chaplain refused to per-form a same-sex wedding ceremony,that a prisonmail delivery schedule interfered with an inmate'ssleeping patterns and that jeans fit a prisonerimproperly,causing him to suffer an epilepticseizure.  \nBut Jenni Gainsborough of the AmericanCivil Liberties Union's(ACLU)National PrisonProject said,\"We have very grave civil libertiesconcerns about this bill.It's part of an attempt tobe mean and punitive toward prisoners.\"  \nMany ground-breaking prisoners'rightscases have grown out of the initiatives of individualprisoners,Gainsborough said.  \nArizona Attorney General Grant Woods,who also appeared at the news conference,arguedthose aren't the kinds of suits targeted.  \n\"I don't think anyone is interested in depriv-ing people of their constitutional rights,\"Woodssaid.\"We're talking about frivolous lawsuits thatno rational person could think has any basis.\"  \nThe proposed legislation would:  \n● Require inmates who file lawsuits to paythe full amount of their court fees andother costs.  \n● Require Federal judges to screen any civilcomplaints filed by prisoners against theFederal Government.The judges wouldbe allowed to dismiss suits immediatelythat they deem to be without merit.  \n● Allow Federal courts to revoke any good-time credits accumulated by prisoners toreduce their sentences if they have filedsuits deemed frivolous.  \n● Require state prisoners to exhaust ","cbCaiv6f3ZR9by6r","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiv6f3ZR9by6r","pdf",2975332,11,"English","# 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