by John E. Dannenberg
The California Court of Appeal judicially extended the reach of California's parole violator alternative drug treatment program, Proposition (Prop.) 36 (Nov. 7, 2000, codified at Penal Code §§ 1210, 1210.1, 3063.1) to include similarly situated probation violators. Prop. 36, which permits a drug treatment sentencing alternative ...
by Dr. D.M. Granit, Two Rainbow Publishing Co., Oct. 2003, 106 pp.
Review by John E. Dannenber
The Inmate's Guide to Prison Health
Care offers prisoners a unique perspective on how to get the best response to their health care needs: being a better patient. Dr. D.M. Granit (pseudonym and ...
Amended Pennsylvania Parole Statute Ruled Ex Post Facto; Third Circuit Orders Release On Parole
by John E. Dannenberg
The US District Court (E.D. Pa.) held that a 1996 amendment to the Pennsylvania Probation and Parole Act violated constitutional ex post facto protections because it increased to a significant degree the ...
Missouri Guards Liable For Refusing Prisoner's Seatbelt Request
by John E. Dannenberg
The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals permitted a 42 U.S.C § 1983 complaint to proceed against five Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) transportation guards for injuries suffered by a shackled prisoner in a prison van crash after ...
Illinois Segregation Brutality Suit Fails Because
Injury Was De Minimis
by John E. Dannenberg
An Illinois state prisoner who alleged
in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights complaint that he had been maliciously injured by prison guards escorting him to administrative segregation, lost his appeal of the unfavorable court ...
California Prisoner Not Earning Wages is Denied Workers' Comp.
by John E. Dannenberg
The California Court of Appeals held
that a prisoner injured on his job in the prison laundry was entitled to a $0.00 Workers' Compensation Insurance Fund (Fund) award based upon his actual wages (no money - only ...
Ninth Circuit Affirms California Parole Denial
Based On "Some Evidence"
by John E. Dannenberg
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. District Court, E.D. Calif. denial of a California state lifer's federal habeas petition which had found "some evidence" to support one of the ten reasons the ...
by John E. Dannenberg
The County of Los Angeles settled
for $2.75 million the complaints of illegal strip searches and body cavity searches of female demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention in August, 2000, and the mistreatment and over detention of all plaintiffs. An additional settlement with the City of ...
Prisons Nationwide Fail To Treat HCV Epidemic
by John E. Dannenberg
The JeopardyTM answer is: "The national average treatment rate for HCV-infected prisoners." The winning question is: "What is approximately 1%?"
With HCV [Hepatitis-C] infection rates in state prisons nationwide estimated at between 16 and 41%, state prisoners account for ...
by John E. Dannenberg
The California Court of Appeal found that former Governor Davis's reversal of the grant of parole for a second degree murderer was not wholly supported by "some evidence," and returned the case for a new review by recently-elected Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Ernest Smith, a California state ...
