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Retaliatory Transfer Illegal; No Right to Operate Business by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that Iowa prisoners had no constitutional right to operate a leather goods business in prison nor to associate with other prisoners to operate such a business. The court held the district court …
Article • May 15, 2007
Due Process Violated by Property Confiscation by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit upheld a challenge to lockdown conditions at the USP in Marion, IL imposed after two guards and a prisoner were killed at the prison in 1983. The court held that a lower court erred in …
Marion Lockdown Upheld, BOP Must Follow Own Rules by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that the Marion lockdown, started in 1983, did not violate the due process or Eighth amendment rights of prisoners. The ban on group religious services was constitutional as was the denial of …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Right to Typewriter by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that an Arizona prisoner had no right to a memory typewriter. All courts to consider this issue have uniformly held that prisoners have no right whatsoever to typewriters or word processors. No free speech or court …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Right to Radio by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that an Arkansas prisoner had no right to possess a radio in prison. The court accepted prison officials claim that radios pose a security threat in prison. No other court has held that prisoners have a …
Administrative Exhaustion Not Required Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by The United States Supreme Court held that it was not necessary for a prisoner to resort to state administrative remedies before seeking relief under 42 U.S. C. § 1983 for the violation of his constitutional rights. In this case, Pennsylvania …
Article • May 15, 2007
Harassment in Cell Searches Not Permitted by The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the U.S. District Court of Virginia in a cell shakedown case involving destruction of a prisoner's personal property and legal material. Russell T. Palmer, Jr., a prisoner at the Bland Correctional Center in …
No Qualified Immunity for Guards Who Seized Prisoner's Legal Papers by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of prison guards who had confiscated a prisoner's legal papers as an alleged act of retaliation for the prisoner's exercise …
Dismissal of Prisoner's Access to Courts, Due Process Claims Erroneous by The U.S Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a U.S. District Court improperly dismissed a prisoner's pro se federal civil rights action. Plaintiff, a Georgia state prisoner, brought federal civil rights action against prison officials alleging …
Indiana Prisoner's First Amendment Religion Claim Dismissed as Frivolous by The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld dismissal as frivolous of a state prisoner's First Amendment religion claim by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. Patrick O'Banion, a prisoner at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility …
Delay in Treating Broken Foot States Cause and Shows Deliberate Indifference by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the delay of a few hours in treating a prisoner's broken foot states a constitutional claim. This action was filed by a prisoner of the Hamilton County Jail. The prisoner …
Article • May 15, 2007
District Attorney Must Pay $50,001 Damages; Seized Property Illegally Held by The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a $50,001 damages award against a Pennsylvania district attorney who illegally retained an arrestee's property. Frederick A. Brilla sued Washington County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney John Pettit under 42 U.S.C. §1983, claiming …
Article • May 15, 2007
Mailroom Employee's Actions Not Due Process Violation by A Nebraska prisoner brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that prison officials violated his constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by denying him property without due process of law. The suit was filed in response to legally ordered craft materials …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ohio Prisoner Awarded $90.50 For Lost Property, Filing Fee by On August 19, 2004, the Ohio Court Of Claims awarded $90.50--to be paid by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC)--to a state prisoner whose property was confiscated and then lost by DRC personnel. Mark Wooden, a prisoner at …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ohio Prison Liable For Loss Of Prisoner Property by Ohio State prisoner Kevin Scudder filed a State court action against the State Department of Corrections to recover the estimated replacement cost of property lost after delivery to the prison. Scudder's son and a church official sent a package to him …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Guilty Of Introduction Of Marijuana Into County Jail by State prisoner Gary Yarbro was found guilty of introducing marijuana into the Hardin County (Tennessee) jail in a tube of toothpaste upon reporting to serve a forty-five day sentence on an unrelated charge. Yarbro was allowed to bring a clothes …
Jail Confiscation of Personal Bible Upheld by The plaintiff, on admission to jail, had his New International Version Bible confiscated per a policy that prohibits retention of personal reading materials. The jail implemented that policy "to curb fights over who owned what and to avoid compensation claims if the materials …
Wolff Applies to Jail Prisoner Disciplinary Hearings by At 678: "Pre-trial detainees may not be punished without due process of law. . . . A pre-trial detainee is entitled to the procedural protections of Wolff v. McDonnell . . ., before imposition of punishment for a disciplinary infraction." At 679: …
Confiscation of Prisoner Property Upheld by The confiscation of the plaintiff's property did not deny due process because the state made post-deprivation remedies available in the form of a grievance procedure. At 515: "The mere fact that plaintiff has faced some difficulty in having his grievance heard, based on his …
Brief • April 19, 2007
Hopkins v. Flores, CA, Settlement Exhibits, Mismanagement of Inmate Welfare Fund, 2007 ~927MO; SENT BY: CnUNTYCOUNSELj APA-19-07 OffiCE OFTHE COUN'l'\' COU~SKL COUNTY OF SANTA CLAM 1:04PM; PME 1 Ann Mliler Ravel COUNTY COUNSEL 10 West Hedding Stred 9" Floor, Ba~t Wing S!In Jose, California. 95110-1770 WInifred Botha Robert C, Campb"lJ …
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