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Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Filed under: Tax Law, Visiting
Arizona DOC Makes Visitors Pay for Prison Maintenance, Repairs by Joe Watson Two lawsuits have challenged the Arizona Department of Corrections’ newly-adopted policies of imposing a background check fee on prison visitors and deducting a fee from deposits made into prisoners’ accounts. On July 20, 2011, Arizona began charging visitors …
Article • May 15, 2012
Filed under: Visiting
Sixth Circuit Affirms Michigan Jail's No-Contact-Visiting Rule by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prisoners do not have a constitutional right to contact visitation. While in pre-trial status at Saginaw County Jail, Michigan in 1975, plaintiff James O’Bryan, et al, challenged, among other issues, the Saginaw County …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Filed under: Visiting, Attorney Visits
Alabama Sheriff Capitulates to ACLU in Challenge to Denial of Attorney Visits by The ACLU of Alabama has reached a settlement that allows its staff members to have consultation visits with prisoners at the Fayette County Jail (FCJ). The settlement was reached within six weeks after the ACLU sued the …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Judge Rejects Challenge to BOP’s Special Administrative Measures by Brandon Sample On January 27, 2011, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis T. Babcock dismissed a lawsuit challenging Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) imposed by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). SAMs are authorized under 28 C.F.R. § 501.3(a). Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali, …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Filed under: Visiting, Fathers in Prison
Ninth Circuit: Prison Visitation Privileges May be Temporarily Restricted for Legitimate Penological Reasons by Holding that the temporary suspension of a prisoner’s visiting privileges with his minor children due to an alleged rule infraction did not violate any clearly established constitutional right of which a reasonable prison official would have …
Article • May 15, 2011
Second Circuit: Jail Can Deny Paralegals with Prior Felonies Privileged Visits by On May 13, 2003, the Second Circuit court of appeals held that a New York jail could deny privileged visitation rights to paralegals with prior felony convictions. Rogers Hicks and John Ives are paralegals with prior felony convictions …
Brief • March 9, 2011
ACLU AL v. Ingle, AL, Complaint, Due Process Prisoner Attorney Visitation, 2011 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA JASPER DIVISION AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA and ALLISON NEAL, Plaintiffs v. RODNEY INGLE, in his official capacity as Sheriff of Fayette County, Alabama, …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
Filed under: Death Row, Visiting
Georgia Ends Contact Visits for Death Row Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Three non-execution deaths on Georgia’s death row in as many months, including two suicides, resulted in a focus on conditions for condemned prisoners at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. The response by prison officials …
Brief • March 24, 2010
Filed under: Exercise, Visiting
Mcghee v. Williams, NM, Judgment, Denial of Exercise & Spousal Visitation, 2010 Case 6:04-cv-00239-MV-LAM Document 320 Filed 03/24/10 Page 1 of 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO WILLIAM MCGHEE, Plaintiff, v. CIV-04-0239 MV/LAM JOE WILLIAMS, et al., Defendants. ORDER ADOPTING MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S PROPOSED …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Swine Flu Widespread in Prisons and Jails, but Deaths are Few by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For hundreds of years the cramped, overcrowded and often filthy confines of dungeons, prisons, jails and other places of imprisonment have served as incubators for infectious diseases, which have killed more prisoners …
Army Prisoners Isolated, Denied Right to Legal Counsel by Dahr Jamail The military’s treatment of Army prisoners is “part of a broader pattern the military has of just throwing people in jail and not letting them talk to their attorneys, not let visitors come, and this is outrageous. In the …
Soft Porn, Bribery and Jailed Millionaire Make for a Dangerous Mix by Brandon Sample In April 2007, Joe Francis, 36, the multi-millionaire founder of the popular soft porn Girls Gone Wild videos – which consist of young women exposing themselves at parties, clubs and spring break – was charged with …
Federal Court Holds Enemy Combatant Detainee May Sue Government Officials by On June 12, 2009, a federal district court in California ruled that a U.S. citizen detained in the U.S. as an enemy combatant could sue a high-ranking federal official who promulgated legal opinions on policies that led to the …
Article • December 15, 2009
Paralegal Barred from Illinois Prison by On August 22, 1983, the Seventh Circuit affirmed a lower court's decision to deny relief to Illinois prisoner Preness Crusoe. Crusoe filed a complaint against the warden of Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois, Richard DeRobertis, for his decision to deny visitation privileges to …
Article • September 15, 2009
$1,500 Settlement for Prisoner-on-Prisoner Assault at Seattle Jail by Washington State’s King County paid $1,500 to settle the claim of prisoner Steven L. Morris, who claimed that as he concluded a visit on December 24, 2003 at the Regional Justice Center King County Jail, he was attacked by another prisoner …
Consent Decree Improving Conditions on Louisiana Death Row Terminated by A landmark 1990s consent decree improving conditions on death row has been terminated under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). In 1991, the warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of current and future …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
Federal Prisoner Dies During Illicit Tryst With His Wife by Desmond A. Greene, a prisoner at the Big Sandy federal prison in Martin County, Kentucky, was in his bunk just after midnight on October 5, 2008. But at 1:12 a.m. his wife, Susan A. Witherspoon, was banging on the front …
Brief • March 17, 2009
Filed under: Exercise, Visiting
Mcghee v. Biamont, NM, Judgment, Denial of Exercise & Spousal Visitation, 2009 Case 6:07-cv-00609-BB-LAM Document 48 Filed 03/17/09 Page 1 of 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO WILLIAM MCGHEE, Plaintiff, v. CIV-07-0609 BB/LAM PAULA BIAMONT, et al., Defendants. ORDER ADOPTING MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S PROPOSED …
Gay and Lesbian Prisoners: Recent Developments and a Call for More Research by Zachary Wolfe, Esq. by Zachary Wolfe, Esq.1 This is an interesting time in the changing legal landscape relating to gay and lesbian prisoners, but public and scholarly attention is lacking. Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered …
Brief • September 9, 2008
Filed under: Exercise, Visiting
McGhee v. Biamont, NM, SJ Order, Denial of Exercise and Spousal Visitation, 2008 Case 6:07-cv-00609-BB-LAM Document 45 Filed 09/09/08 Page 1 of 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO WILLIAM MCGHEE, Plaintiff, v. CIV-07-0609 BB/LAM PAULA BIAMONT, et al., Defendants. ORDER ADOPTING MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S …
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