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Article • January 13, 2016
Baltimore Settles Lawsuit over Confiscation of Cell Phone Recording of Arrest by Derek Gilna The City of Baltimore has settled a lawsuit filed by a citizen at Pimlico Racetrack who filmed an arrest at the track and whose cell phone camera was confiscated by police. Christopher Sharp was told by …
Article • January 13, 2016
Settlement in Lawsuit Alleging Kentucky Jail Allowed Prisoner to Die From Untreated Diabetes by David Reutter A confidential settlement was reached on July 30, 2013 in a lawsuit stemming from the death of a pre-trial detainee from untreated diabetes while held at Kentucky’s Whitley County Detention Center (WCDC). Ronald S. …
Article • January 13, 2016
Fifth Circuit Holds No Bivens Action Available for Immigration Arrests by Two undocumented immigrants who were subjected to traffic stops and arrested by federal Customs and Border Patrol agents far from the border filed Bivens actions against the agents including claims of due process violations, requests for relief under the …
Article • January 13, 2016
Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Former Louisiana Deputy’s Whistleblower Suit by When attorney and former Chief Deputy Tregg Wilson of the Sheriff's Office of St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana discovered that interrogation rooms in the office's Criminal Investigation Division were under 24-hour, motion-sensor-activated video and audio surveillance and recording, …
Brief • January 13, 2016
Filed under: Good Time, Due Process
Green v. TN DOC, TN, Memo & Order, good time credit due process, 2016 1/29/2016 Search ­ 100 Results ­ Green v. Sullivan Correctional Facility Switch Client | Preferences | Help | Sign Out My Lexis™ Search Get a Document FOCUS™ Terms Shepard's® More Search Within Original Results (1 ­ …
Article • January 12, 2016
Texas Counties Still Stuck With Empty Public-Private Prisons by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke It was a bad deal for Texas cities and counties when, prison-construction entrepreneurs talked them into building publicly-financed prisons, for private corporations to operate; housing a surplus of prisoners at a profit. The counties went deep …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Transfers
“Realignment” Forces California's Newest City to Disincorporate by Joe Watson California's decision to transfer responsibility of tens of thousands of state prisoners to its counties is being blamed for the state's newest city, Jurupa Valley, disincorporating. About 50 miles east of Los Angeles, Jurupa Valley, a city of around 100,000, …
Article • January 12, 2016
Overcrowding Causes Unrest in Oklahoma Jail by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke Around 43 prisoners in Oklahoma's Bryan County Jail took part in unrest on August 18, 2013. According to Bryan County Sheriff Ken Golden, the prisoners, who had been sentenced to serve time in prison and were awaiting transfer …
Article • January 12, 2016
Ohio County Jail Overcrowded, Understaffed and On Verge of 'Catastrophe' by Joe Watson The results of a September 2013 inspection of the Hamilton County Jail in Cincinnati, Ohio, revealed that the facility failed to adequately meet 48 of 69 standards set by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC). …
Article • January 12, 2016
Obamacare, Universities Can Help Lower Prison Health Care Costs, Report Says by Joe Watson A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts recommends that states pursue Medicaid financing for prisoners' medical services through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as outsourcing such care to public university medical centers to …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Staffing
Nevada Jail Guard Works 1,438 Overtime Hours for $84,166 in Overtime Pay by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke It is not unusual for guards at the short-staffed Henderson Detention Center to earn overtime. In 2012, the 73 guards at the Nevada jail earned a total of $668,000 in overtime pay, …
Article • January 12, 2016
Escape from Jail in Small Washington Town Not, Like, a 'Big Raging' Deal by Joe Watson When Johnny Cagle, 53, escaped from the Wapato jail near Yakima, Washington, on the evening of July 1, 2013, he probably assumed he had precious, little time to get as far away as possible …
Article • January 12, 2016
Delayed Memo Shows Stint in Segregation Increases Stay in New York Jail by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke In June 2013, the New York City (NYC) Department of Corrections announced that it would cease using solitary confinement as a punishment for mentally ill prisoners. The reasoning underlying the move was …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Prison Guard Implicated in Derailing Drug Probe Avoids Prosecution by Christopher Zoukis A former guard at Lebanon Correctional Institution in Ohio will not be prosecuted in connection with allegations that he not only participated in drug and tobacco smuggling into the prison, but accessed a state computer and tipped off …
Article • January 12, 2016
Indiana Judge Removed From Bench For Multiple Instances of Misconduct by Christopher Zoukis The Indiana Supreme Court has ordered that Marion County Superior Judge Kimberly Brown be permanently removed from the bench, after three judges appointed to investigate complaints against her found she had committed judicial misconduct in 46 of …
Article • January 12, 2016
Hawaii Warden Allegedly Sexually Abuses Female Prisoners In Guise of Rehabilitation by Christopher Zoukis   By Christopher Zoukis A Hawaii prison warden who allegedly forced female prisoners to disclose their sexual history -- in some cases while being filmed or in front of male prisoners -- is being sued in …
Article • January 12, 2016
Texas State District Judge Sentenced for Corruption by Matthew Clarke On August 21, 2013, Abel Corral Limas, 60, former judge of the 404th Judicial District Court of Cameron County, Texas, was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison on racketeering charges he pleaded guilty to on March 31, 2011. Limas …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Prisoner Media, TV/Movies
Tennessee Jail Duped into Allowing Filming of Rap Video by David Reutter Officials at Tennessee’s Davidson County Jail (DCJ) are outraged at being “duped” into allowing a film crew record inside DCJ under the guise of creating a documentary and then seeing it be transformed into a music video. Rapper …
Article • January 12, 2016
Releasees under Three Strikes Reform Have Lower Recidivist Rate by David Reutter More than 1,000 prisoners have been released since California voters approved in 2012 the reform of the state’s harsh three strikes law. Despite not being provided pre-and post-release services afforded other prisoners, the strikers have a lower recidivism …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Louisiana Jail Phone Consultants Resign Due to Conflicts of Interest by David Reutter Two consultants hired to analyze the cost of prisoner phone calls charged by Louisiana’s Sheriffs have resigned due to conflict of interest. The Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) held two hearings in 2012 on the prison phone …
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