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Kansas Gift Subscription Ban Rejected by State Court But Upheld By Federal Court

Kansas Gift Subscription Ban Rejected by State Court
But Upheld By Federal Court

by John E. Dannenberg


In two independent but inconsistent rulings, Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) policy IMPP 11-101 (banning gift subscriptions of magazines and newspapers to prisoners) was determined to be a regulation that both did impinge ...

Asset Forfeiture Defense Manual

by Brenda Grantland, Judy Osburn and Susan Raffanti;


Liberty Press, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2001; 500 pp. (soft-back)


Vol. 1: Substantive Law and Administrative Procedure;


Review by John E. Dannenberg


You may have thought your troubles were over when you were prosecuted for a state or federal crime, until your ...

Permanent Injunction Requires Full HCV Retreatment for Florida Prisoner

Permanent Injunction Requires Full HCV
Retreatment for Florida Prisoner

by John E. Dannenberg


The U.S. District Court (S.D. Fla.) is-sued a permanent injunction on July 24, 2003 ordering James Crosby, the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections (FLADOC) and its contract health care provider Wexford Health Sources, Inc. (Wexford) ...

California Presentencing Credits Upheld For Jail Time in Another County

California Presentencing Credits Upheld
For Jail Time in Another County

by John E. Dannenberg


The California Supreme Court ruled that while a prisoner was on pre-trial bail from one county, but had been arrested for an unrelated offense in another county - for which the first county then placed a ...

§ 1983 Disciplinary Challenge Available to Parolee Because Habeas Would Be Moot

§ 1983 Disciplinary Challenge Available To Parolee Because Habeas Would Be Moot

by John E. Dannenberg


The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a prisoner suing under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for damages resulting from unconstitutional procedures in an earlier disciplinary hearing would not be required instead to ...

$108,352 Attorney Fee Award Approved in California Prisoner ADA/RA Suit

$108,352 Attorney Fee Award Approved
in California Prisoner ADA/RA Suit

by John E. Dannenberg


The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals approved attorney fees/costs totaling $108,352 for litigation efforts in gaining injunctive relief under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act (RA) for California prisoners who had ...

California Initial Cell Assignments By Race Upheld, U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review

California Initial Cell Assignments By Race Upheld,
U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review

by John E. Dannenberg


The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the policy of the California Department of Corrections (CDC) of using race as a factor in initially housing cellmates did not offend the US Constitution's ...

$40.1 Million Verdict Against CSC in Texas Prisoner's Medical Neglect Death

by John E. Dannenberg


A Tarrant County, Texas jury awarded $35 million for negligence in the death of a boot camp prisoner, plus $5.1 million in punitive damages, against Florida-based Correctional Services Corp. (CSC) and their nurse Knyvett Reyes. The August 27, 2003 $40.1 million verdict was the largest known ...

$177,000 Awarded in California Jail Medical Neglect Trial

by John E. Dannenberg


On March 26, 2003, an Orange County, California Superior Court jury returned a verdict of $77,000 in compensatory damages against Orange County and County Sheriff Mike Carona, plus $100,000 in punitive damages, for ignoring a jail prisoner's known medical needs and thereby causing him undue-pain and ...

No Presumption of Collateral Consequences from California Disciplinary Proceeding

by John E. Dannenberg


The Ninth Circuit US Court of Ap-
peals held that in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas proceeding, a guilty finding in a California state prison disciplinary proceeding would not be accorded a presumption of collateral consequences.


Stephen Wilson, sentenced to 25 years-to-life for first degree ...