By Bob Williams
The New Jersey State Legislature Auditor's Office conducted an investigation into contractual expenditures, policies and provisional compliance of the Department of Correction’s (DOC) Life Skills Academy (LSA) program. The 2006 report reflected the insufficient administration of procedures and records by the DOC which prevented a compliance determination. ...
By: Bob Williams
District of Columbia (Washington) prisoners Michael and Charles Thompson individually motioned for leave to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) to appeal their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 dismissals. The government argued preclusion from IFP status for having "three strikes" under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). IFP status ...
By Bob Williams
The Vermont Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to balance the privacy interests of Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) Superintendent Kathleen Lanman, of the Northern State Correctional Facility (NSCF), against the need for public disclosure of her performance evaluation in light of prison deaths.
Vermont attorney ...
By Bob Williams
The United States Court of Appeal for the Tenth Circuit has found no liberty interest arising from the placement of a hermaphrodite in administrative segregation (ad seg) for no other reason than sexual characteristics. The State of Wyoming had appealed a due process violation ruling concerning the ...
By: Bob Williams
Portsmouth, New Hampshire former deputy sheriff Matthew Ejma received 200 hours of community service and a $2,500 fine after using Portsmouth Jail work release prisoners for his personal gain. The prisoners were never compensated for their labor.
Ejma was assigned to utilize the prisoners to provide landscape ...
By Bob Williams
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held a sentence containing a sex offender assessment and treatment recommendation for a non sex offense conviction is appropriate given the sexual deviance in the prisoner's history. BOP prisoner Kenneth Ross appealed the 2006 imposition of ...
By: Bob Williams
Illinois State prisoner William Callinan appealed a court denial for the award of attorney fees and costs after successfully litigating against records denial and excessive copying fees by the State Department of Corrections (DOC) and Prison Review Board (Board). The denial was reversed and remanded.
Callinan was ...
Ohio State prisoner Harmony Love sought recovery of the value of personal items lost by the Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW). The court awarded Love $511.62 and assessed court costs against the ORW.
Love was incarcerated in the ORW in 2006. She turned over to ORW personnel a gold chain ...
“The house always wins,” Warden Don Cabana proclaimed to the Sun Herald, a Mississippi newspaper, in July 2007. However, Harrison County, home of the Harrison County Adult Detention Center (ADC), has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the family of Jessie Lee Williams, Jr., who was brutally murdered at the ...
On the sixth anniversary of the 9-11 World Trade Center attacks, Ron Wiley, warden of the Federal Supermax known as ADX, staged a tightly controlled first-ever media visit at the Federal stronghold. Its stated purpose was an education to dispel "myths and rumors"; its effect was media-generated banality culled from ...
