Federal Supermax Terrorist's New Home and Bargaining Chip;
$1 Million Cells Planned
by Bob Williams
The United States PenitentiaryAdministrative Maximum Facility goes by many names: ADX, Supermax, Alcatraz of the Rockies. It has been the federal Bureau of Prison's (BOP) home to problem and high profile prisoners since opening in ...
The New Mexico State Court of Appeals has ruled that Dona Ana County must disclose to the Las Cruces Sun-News records relating to a civil suit settlement between the County and female jail detainees who were sexually abused by jail guards. Sun-News attorney fees were also awarded.
In 1999 a ...
Unearned Good Time Credits May Not Be Withheld As Disciplinary Sanction
by Bob Williams
The West Virginia Supreme Court of
Appeals has held that a state prisoner may not lose more good time credits as a disciplinary sanction than those actually earned as of the disciplinary hearing date.
Randy Bailey ...
The U.S. District Court for the
Middle District of Alabama has brought to a halt prospective relief from unconstitutional conditions at an Alabama state women's prison because a previously entered preliminary injunction was allowed to expire under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA).
As reported in the September 2003 issue ...
Mandating administrative hearings
and allowing for judicial review, the Colorado Court of Appeals has reversed a state district court's dismissal of a prisoner's challenge to his Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) sex offender classification.
Albert Fisher, serving time in the CDOC for aggravated motor vehicle theft, was classified without a ...
Consent Decree Entered in Unconstitutional BOP
Parole Revocation Procedures
by Bob Williams
The United States District Court for
the District of Columbia has approved a Consent Decree correcting unconstitutional parole revocation procedures of the United States Parole Commission (USPC) for the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area.
Pursuant to the National Capital ...
BOP Doctor Indicted, Pleads Guilty To Sexual Assault
by Bob Williams
On May 14, 2003, Dr. Carlos Baez, 41, a staff obstetrician-gynecologist in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was indicted on three counts of sexual abuse of a ward for having sexual intercourse with three prisoners between November 2002 ...
$50,000 HCV Settlement and New Treatment Protocol
Approved in Colorado
by Bob Williams
The federal district court in Colorado has approved a settlement awarding $50,000 and treatment for hepatitis-C (HCV) infection to six named plaintiffs. The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) has instituted a new treatment protocol as part of ...
Loren Gasiorowski, 41, awoke one morning with a big mosquito bite on his forearm and one on his shoulder. Within days he couldn't leave his cell. After being sick for two weeks he couldn't take it any more. He decided to run the gauntlet required for medical access. Once there, ...
Despite a 2002 federal district court Consent Order finding conditions at the Women's Detention Center of the Baltimore City Detention Center (WDC) unconstitutional due to excessive heat and despite an injunction issued to immediately remedy the problem, WDC women continue to suffer through the excruciating heat and humidity of the ...
