Oregon state representative Greg Smith is up for reelection, and thus looking for a way to win over voters. So why not drop in on an Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) facility and engage in some tough-on-crime prisoner-bashing? That’s likely to get some votes, especially from members of the prison ...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prison guard was not entitled to qualified immunity for depriving a prisoner of 16 meals over a 23-day period.
In 2001, Ronald P. Foster was confined at California’s High Desert State Prison in Susanville. A rash of assaults on staff ...
In May 2007, Katherine Anderson was sentenced to 26 months in prison for embezzling $2,400 from her employer, a non-profit agency. She was sent to Oregon’s Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF). The 31-year-old mother of four was released 17 months later with a replacement heart valve, a shortened life span ...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prosecutors are absolutely immune for making parole recom-mendations.
Liza Brown shot her husband to death and entered into an oral plea agreement. “During the plea colloquy, the prosecutor stated that, if Brown avoided disciplinary problems while in prison, she would be ...
Christopher Bookhart had a fool for a client when he represented himself in an excessive force suit he filed against a guard at the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) in Portland, Oregon.
Bookhart, 45, had sued MCDC guard Steven Meyer, alleging that Meyer had punched him in the chest without ...
On October 7, 2008, a federal court in New York terminated large portions of a sweeping 1979 consent decree related to conditions at 14 New York City jails. However, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision in November 2009, with instructions to afford the plaintiffs an opportunity to ...
The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed a prisoner’s conviction for assaulting a guard at a private jail, finding that the guard was a “corrections officer” under state law. Oregon’s Supreme Court upheld the decision on review.
Jeremy Tate was confined at the Northern Oregon Correctional Facility (NORCOR), a private regional ...
New York prison officials lack the authority to require prisoners to serve Post-Release Supervision (PRS) that was not ordered by the sentencing court, according to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court.
In February 2000, Sean Earley pleaded guilty to burglary ...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court vacated a lower court order which found that a sheriff had violated state law when he released sentenced prisoners on a GPS-monitoring program.
On March 8, 2007, Edward Donohue was convicted of his third drunk driving offense. Twelve days later, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Diane ...
In an important case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that an assessment of a prisoner’s trust account without an actual seizure of funds implicates a property interest. On remand, however, the district court decided that the violation of that right resulted in ...
