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Brutality Behind the Orange Curtain
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2001
by Willie Wisely
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2001, page 8
by W. Wisely
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Guard Misconduct,
Jail Misconduct,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Injury -- Misc.,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Settlements.
Location:
California.
The FBI began its second civil rights investigation of the Orange County, California, sheriff's department following the beating of a diabetic prisoner asking for food to lower his blood sugar. Michael Gennaco, head of the civil rights division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, told ...
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More from this issue:
- New York Guards Watch as Prisoner Kills Cellmate
- From the Editor
- Executive Director Note
- $1.1 Million Awarded in Texas Restraint Chair Settlement, by Ronald Young
- Michigan DOC Sex Abuse Suit Nets Nearly $4 Million, by Roger Smith
- Michigan Prison Visitor Forced to Wet Pants Wins $40,000 in Damages and Fees
- Brutality Behind the Orange Curtain, by Willie Wisely
- Private Prison Corporation Can Be Sued in Bivens Action: Supreme Court Grants Review, by John E Dannenberg
- INS Force-Feeds Long-Term Detainee, by Mark Dow
- BOP Changes Organ Transplant Policy, by Robert Durkee
- Pelican Bay Policy Banning Internet-Generated Mail Upheld
- 305 Days in New York SHU Is Atypical
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- Notes From the Unrepenitentiary: Whose Security?, by Marilyn Buck
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- Unjust Rape Conviction Nets New York Man $530,000
- Habeas Hints: Apprendi, by Kent Russell
- Turkish Prisoners Struggle Against Transfers, by Julia Lutsky
- Two Escape from Oklahoma Control Unit
- U.S. Supreme Court Requires Futile Administrative Exhaustion
- Washington Civil Commitment Injunction Upheld
- Arizona Supreme Court Rules on 1993 Earned Release Statute
- $80,000 Settlement in CDC Transsexual Suit
- Court Awards $146,000 in Arizona Medical Indifference Case, by Lonnie Burton
- Kansas Disciplinary Restitution Orders Authorized
- Pre-Sentence Detention Earns Good Time Credits in Montana Prison
- PLRA Attorney Fee Cap Analyzed
- Dismissal of Washington Persistent Prison Misbehavior Charge Upheld
- Retaliation Complaint Not Frivolous if Not Irrational or Wholly Incredible
- Kansas 2-Year Visiting Restriction Unauthorized
- Arizona Judgment Seizure Statute Upheld; Fees Protected
- Retaliation Claim Not Foreclosed by Sandin
- New York District Court Reversed for Failure to State Legal Reasoning
- Washington ISRB May Rescind Parole after Final Discharge
- No Due Process for Washington Sex Offender Registration
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- DC Prisoner Wins $175,000 in Conditions Case, by David C Fathi
More from Willie Wisely:
- From the Editor, Sept. 15, 2002
- California Guards Bust Budget, June 15, 2002
- California Pays for Guard's Sexual Misconduct, Jan. 15, 2002
- Prison Guard Sentenced in Escape Plot, Dec. 15, 2001
- California Dials Wrong Number, Nov. 15, 2001
- Plug Pulled in California Prison, Nov. 15, 2001
- Cowboys and Prisoners, Sept. 15, 2001
- Racist Knot of Florida Guards, Sept. 15, 2001
- Brutality Behind the Orange Curtain, Aug. 15, 2001
- Pelican Bay Guard's Conviction Upheld, July 15, 2001
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