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Article • August 1, 2016
BOP Guard Receives $75,000 Settlement for Discrimination Claim by A $75,000 settlement was reached in a lawsuit brought by a BOP guard who claimed discrimination based on his disability. Adrian Billingsley was a guard at FCI Lompoc in California, when he was hired on March 11, 1990, he had informed …
Article • August 1, 2016
BOP Employee’s Discrimination Claim Settled for $10,500 and Back Annual Leave by The Bureau of Prisons paid $10,500 and reinstated 200 hours of annual leave to settle a medical records employee’s discrimination claim under an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint. Sparkey Lee Wadley worked as a Health Information Technician at the …
Article • August 1, 2016
BOP Employee Receives Annual Leave Hours to Settle Racial Discrimination Claim by The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $1,000 in attorney fees and awarded 100 hours annual leave to settle a racial discrimination claim filed under an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint. Sharon Lyles, a Personal Management Specialist in BOP’s …
BOP Employee Receives $45,000 Settlement for Retaliation by The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) paid $45,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging retaliation for engaging in activity protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  Melvin Dunlap began his career with BOP on October 16, 1983, as a guard.  …
BOP Awards $3,033 and Sick Leave to Settle EEOC Claim by The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $3,033.71 and restored 38 hours of sick leave to a Unit Manager who claimed Age, Race, and Reprisal discrimination. Mildred Greer worked at FCI Yazoo City in Mississippi as a Unit Manager.  Her …
USA v. Reddix, MS, Grand Jury Charges - Health Assurance, DOC Epps corruption indictment, 2016
Publication • July 12, 2016
Follow-Up Report on Suicide Prevention Pracitices within MA DOC, Hayes, 2011
OIG Study: Bureau of Prisons Held Thousands of Prisoners Beyond Release Dates by Derek Gilna The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), pilloried by one Congressional study that found it was unable to follow its own compassionate release policy, and by yet another criticizing endemic overcrowding, has again been called to …
Dallas Conviction Integrity Unit Gains National Notoriety by Matthew Clarke The word “first” was applied to Craig M. Watkins multiple times after his election to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in 2006. He was the county’s first black D.A., the first D.A. who had been a public defender before …
Connecticut Prisoner Wins Motion for Sanctions over Destruction of Evidence; Case Settles for $40,000 by Derek Gilna Connecticut state prisoner Tye Thomas won an important pretrial motion that found employees of the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) were “grossly negligent” in failing to preserve key video surveillance footage of assaults …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years PLN has reported extensively on the ACA and NCCHC, and the “accreditation” scams they run using taxpayer money to promote mass incarceration and the prison industry. They are not alone; many other groups like the American Jail Association and National Sheriffs’ …
Brief • June 14, 2016
Shoatz v. Wetzel, PA, Settlement Agreement, Prolonged Solitary Confinement, 2016
Brief • June 6, 2016
Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct
Fitzgerald v. FBOP, FL, Settlement, undated DANIEL M. SOLOWAY, P.A. Attorneys and Counselors at Law 901 Scenic Highway Pensacola, Florida 32503 DISTRIBUTION Thomas M Fitzgerald 00-099 Total Amount Received From the Federal Bureau of Prisons ............ $1,200,000.00 LESS ATTORNEY’S FEES per Contingency Fee Contract (20%) ... (Bivens Claim reduced from …
$8,000 Settlement for Medical Maltreatment by BOP; Court Finds Experts Not Required by Derek Gilna Federal prisoner Michael Alan Crooker filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act alleging “malicious prosecution, negligence, and medical maltreatment by the United States Marshal’s Service (USMS) and the United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP).” …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Seventh Circuit Reverses Denial of Former Prison Guard’s Marriage to Prisoner by Derek Gilna Rebecca Riker, a kitchen supervisor at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Indiana, became romantically involved with prisoner Paul Vest, who also worked in the kitchen. When their relationship was exposed, Riker resigned her position and …
Private Prison Firms Reap Large Profits from Immigration Detention by Gary Hunter Federal immigrant detention has long been a boon to private prison companies Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, the nation’s two largest private prison firms, both of which trade on the New York Stock Exchange. …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Former Wisconsin Corrections Secretary Fired by Wisconsin Attorney General Brad D. Schimel confirmed on April 15, 2016 that Ed Wall, the former state corrections secretary who responded to widespread prison violence by equipping prison employees with pepper spray and Tasers [see: PLN, May 2014, p.30], was fired by the state’s …
Company Owes Nevada Prison Industries $428,000 by Bob Sloan Nevada’s state-run prison industry program, Silver State Industries, came under attack from citizens and business owners in 2014. One criticism of the program involved the loss of jobs to non-incarcerated workers and fewer jobs available to the unemployed. Another complaint was …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Medical Staffing Challenges, OIG, 2016 Office of the Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Medical Staffing Challenges Evaluation and Inspections Division 16-02 March 2016 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for …
Publication • May 26, 2016
The FBOP Abuses of Solitary Confinement, WLC, 2014 THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS’ ABUSES OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Written Testimony of Deborah M. Golden Project Director D.C. Prisoners' Project Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs submitted to REASSESSING SOLITARY CONFINEMENT II: THE HUMAN RIGHTS, FISCAL, AND PUBLIC SAFETY …
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