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Eighth Circuit Upholds Arkansas Sex Offender Registration/Residency Restrictions by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a civil rights challenge to provisions of the Arkansas Sex Offender Registration Act, Ark. Code Ann. § 12-12-901 et seq., and to a criminal statute …
Colorado Settles Class Action Prison Disability Discrimination Suit For Over $3 Million by The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) has settled a class action disability discrimination suit over accessibility inside its state prisons for prisoners with impairments in mobility, hearing, sight and for diabetics. Over $3 million will be spent …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
BOP Settles “Terrorism” Classification Privacy Act Suit for $3,000 by BOP Settles "Terrorism" Classification Privacy Act Suit for $3,000 Plaintiff William Francis fought for more than 12 years to have what he claimed was erroneous information linking him to "terrorism" removed from his prison file. His persistence ultimately paid off. …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Satellite Surveillance Approved For Wisconsin Sex Offenders by Gary Hunter Tracking sex offenders just cost Wisconsin taxpayers millions of dollars and ensures that citizens will pay millions more every year. Governor Jim Doyle signed a bill on May 22, 2006 that requires GPS monitoring for certain child molesters. The vote …
Temporary Restraining Order Suspends California’s Sex Offenders’ Housing Banishment Law by John Dannenberg Temporary Restraining Order Suspends California's Sex Offenders? Housing Banishment Law by John E. Dannenberg The U.S.D.C. (N.D. Cal.) issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on November 8, 2006, the same day California voters approved state Proposition 83 …
$9,063,000 Jury Award For Illinois False Rape Conviction by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On October 23, 2006, a federal jury in Illinois awarded a man who had been falsely convicted of rape $9,063,000. On September 19, 1989, Alejandro Dominguez was a 16-year old living in an apartment complex …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Retroactive Application of Missouri Sex Offender Registration Law Banned by Missouri's Supreme Court has held that the state's "Megan's Law" cannot be retroactively applied to persons convicted prior to January 1, 1995. The ruling affects about half of the people previously required to register as sex offenders, but allows information …
Texas Prison Chief Escapes Sex Charges, Convicted of Lesser Offenses by Gary Hunter On March 31, 2006, in a Walker County courthouse, Salvador ?Sammy? Buentello pleaded guilty to a felony charge of unlawful restraint and five counts of official oppression. Buentello, 50, had been the assistant director of gang affairs …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
California Lifers’ Parole Reversals Tossed by Two State Appellate Courts by Marvin Mentor California Lifers' Parole Reversals Tossed by Two State Appellate Courts by Marvin Mentor An infirm, 82-year-old lifer's reversal by Governor Schwarzenegger of the Board of Parole Hearing's (BPH) grant of parole was itself overturned by the California …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
New York City Settles With Stabbed Riker’s Prisoner For $40,000 by New York City Settles With Stabbed Riker's Prisoner For $40,000 On August 17, 2006, the City of New York paid $40,000 to settle with a prisoner who was stabbed while imprisoned at the Riker's Island Correctional Facility. Plaintiff Melvin …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Lifetime Supervision or Lifetime Incarceration for Colorado Sex Offenders? by by G.A. Bowers Colorado has one of the toughest sex offender laws in the nation, according to University of Denver law professor Karen Steinhauser. Under the 1998 Lifetime Supervision of Sex Offenders Act (Act), over 800 sex offenders have been …
Ninth Circuit: Prisoner is Protected by Legal Privilege but Not Marriage Privilege When Writing His Lawyer-Wife by A California state prisoner who was being tried in United States District Court for federal conspiracy, racketeering and murder offenses committed from state prison, and whose wife was his lawyer, was permitted to …
New York Prisoner Beaten By Unofficial Enforcer Awarded $500,000 by A man who claimed he was beaten while imprisoned at New York?s Rikers Island jail complex will receive $500,000 under the terms of a settlement agreement reached with the City on February 14, 2007. Donald Jackson had claimed in his …
Harsh Federal Parole Conditions for Federal Sex Offender Upheld by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed a federal district court order requiring a released sex offender to undergo polygraph exams, to avoid contact with minors, and to abstain from using the Internet while on parole. …
Increasingly Repressive Sex Offender Residency Restrictions Have Doubtful Benefits by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg While politicians trample each other in their rush to enact increasingly onerous post-release residency restrictions on all manner of sex offenders, the California Legislature took pause to commission a study to measure the effectiveness …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Colorado Successfully Pressures FBI To Release DNA Info; Racial Bias Infects DNA Databases by Gary Hunter State law enforcement agencies have struck a tentative deal with FBI officials that allows agencies to share previously privileged information. The deal resulted from the brutal rape and beating of a Colorado woman who …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ohio Supreme Court Finds Sex Offender Labeling Without Hearing Constitutional by The Ohio Supreme Court has held that labeling a sex offender as a "sexually oriented offender" without a hearing does not violate the Confrontation Clauses or Due Process Clauses of the United States or Ohio Constitutions. In 1997, Ohio's …
Washington DOC Pays $2,500 to Settle Disabled Discrimination Suit by Bart Blackburn, a prisoner confined at Washington State Penitentiary, was paid $2,500 in 1999 by the Washington Department of Corrections. Blackburn, a disabled person with bi-polar disabilities and a hearing impairment was denied access to transfer to a lesser custody. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Racial Discrimination Case Reversed and Remanded for Damages by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a U.S. district court's finding that a Nebraska prison official did not racially discriminate against a state prisoner and remanded for a damages hearing. Prisoner Plaintiff brought a §1983 action after …
Michigan Sex Offender Registration Enjoined by The United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division found that the Michigan statute requiring the registration of sexual offenders violated due process. The statute was challenged by a plaintiff convicted of a sex offense which mandated continuing legal obligations, public disclosure, and criminal …
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