Alabama Settles Class Action Medical Suit;
Institutes HCV Treatment Protocol
by John E. Dannenberg
In a major milestone along the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) march towards gaining humane medical care in Alabama's prisons, a Settlement Agreement was signed in June, 2004 that commits the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) ...
AEDPA One-Year Clock Starts When
Administrative Parole Appeal Is Denied
by John E. Dannenberg
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that for 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus filing-deadline purposes, the AEDPA one-year filing clock starts at the time that state administrative remedies not state court remedies are ...
New York's Felon Disenfranchisement Law Not Saved
By Federal Voting Rights Act
by John E. Dannenberg
The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that New York Election Law § 5-106, which disenfranchises [i.e., suspends voting rights] of parolees and currently incarcerated felons is not overridden by the federal Voting ...
Los Angeles County Pays $800,000 To Settle
County Jail Medical Suit for Untreated Lupus
by John E. Dannenberg
On June 3, 2002, the Los Angeles (L.A.) County, California Claims Board agreed to pay $800,000 to settle medical negligence and consortium loss claims by a prisoner and his wife for the ...
California Demands $1.6 Million In Diverted Telephone Revenues
From Private Prison Contractor
by John E. Dannenberg
The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has charged private prison contractor Marantha Corrections LLC with "misappropriating" more than $1 million in telephone revenues at its 500 bed prison in Adelanto, California, and ordered CDC's ...
Iowa Must Give Kosher Meals To Civilly Committed Sex Offender
by John E. Dannenberg
The United States District Court (S.D. Iowa) ordered that Kosher meals be provided without co-payment to an Orthodox Jewish prisoner who is committed to the Civil Commitment Unit for Sexual Offenders of the Iowa Department of ...
by Madeline Severin, 25 Cardozo Law Review 1469, March, 2004
Review by John E. Dannenberg
We all know about how prisons and jails conspire with telephone companies to bilk recipients of prisoner phone calls via exorbitant chargesswollen by kickbacks approaching 60%but how does one legally challenge this scheme?
Yeshiva University ...
DNA Profiling Of Conditionally Released Federal Offenders Upheld
by John E. Dannenberg
A sharply divided en banc Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that the United States does not violate the Fourth Amendment when it requires "DNA profiling", a practice compelling the submission of DNA samples from certain conditionally ...
by John E. Dannenberg
Los Angeles, California voters, in a November 2004 campaign marred by scare tactics, rejected a 1/2 cent sales tax measure (Measure A) that would have raised $560 million per year to pay for 5,000 added cops. At the same time, the voters approved a $500 million ...
Section 1983 May Be Used To Challenge Disciplinary Hearings Not Affecting Total Length of Confinement
by John E. Dannenberg
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals joined four other circuits in holding that when challenging the procedure or result of a prison disciplinary hearing, one may utilize 42 U.S.C. § ...
