Skip navigation

Search

27100 results
Page 1017 of 1355. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 1018 1019 1020 1021 ... 1351 1352 1353 1354 1355 | Next »

California Guard Convicted of Abetting Prison Gang by A twenty-year veteran California state prison guard was convicted on February 14, 2006 in Los Angeles U.S. District Court of federal charges of participating in a corrupt organizations conspiracy, violent crimes in the aid of racketeering, and deprivation of rights under color …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Texas Prisoner Gets 40 Years For Cellphone; Guards Get Probation by Michael Rigby In April 2006 a Texas prisoner was sentenced to 40 years in prison for possessing a contraband cell phone--8 years more than the 32-year sentence he was already serving for auto theft. The sentence, the longest anyone …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Iowa Prisoners Settle Sexual Abuse Lawsuits For $160,000 by Iowa taxpayers and former state prison guard Kenneth Parrot will pay a combined total of $160,000 to three women whom Parrot sexually abused, according to the terms of a December, 2005 settlement agreement. One of the victims, Melissa Henderson, says the …
District of Columbia Jail Pays $14 Million For Over-Detentions and Strip Searches by Bob Williams While denying a pattern and practice of over-detentions and strip searches, the District of Columbia (the District) has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a class-action lawsuit plus an additional $2 million in additional …
Nebraskas County Jails Neglect Mentally Disabled by Gary Hunter Nebraskas County Jails Neglect Mentally Disabled by Gary Hunter Nebraskas American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has revealed major problems in the state's county jails. Prisoners with physical handicaps, chronic illnesses and mental disabilities receive little or no healthcare in a state …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Los Angeles County Pays $110,000 for Wrongful Jail Death by Los Angeles County settled a lawsuit for the wrongful death of Julius Gray in the North County Correctional Facility on November 21, 1998. Gray, jailed for corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, died from a ruptured aneurysm, according to …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Mumia Abu-Jamal Honored in Paris, France by Gary Hunter Prison Legal News columnist Mumia Abu-Jamal was recently honored by the citizens of Paris, France who named a street in his honor. The controversial Philadelphia figure has the dual distinction of being a hero in one country and a villain in …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Washington Liable for Negligent Parolee Supervision; Bad Jury Instruction Vacates $33 Million Verdic by Washington Liable for Negligent Parolee Supervision; Bad Jury Instruction Vacates $33 Million Verdict; Settles for $6.5 Million In a 6-3 decision, the Washington Supreme Court reaffirmed its earlier holdings that the state may be held liable …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Massachusetts Prisoners Battle MRSA, Untreated Hepatitis C by Michael Rigby Kerry M. Castello is infected with hepatitis C, a disease that is slowly destroying his liver. But because Massachusetts prison officials are short on funds, he cant get the treatment he desperately needs. Castello, 41, was first diagnosed with hepatitis …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Texas Jail Suicide Suit Settles For $300,000 by In December 2005 Nueces County, Texas, agreed to pay $300,000 to settle with a woman whose husband committed suicide in the county's jail. In 1995, while imprisoned in the Nueces County Jail in Corpus Christi, Texas, Jose Orlando Sanchez-Ortiz committed suicide. His …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Supreme Court: Lethal Injection Procedure May Be Challenged Via § 1983 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held that a condemned prisoner's challenge to the procedure used in lethal injection may be brought in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and need not be brought in …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Virginia's General Assembly Sells Out Prisoners' Families for Phone Money by Gary Hunter Virginia's General Assembly reneged on their agreement with a prisoner advocate group to substantially reduce phone rates between prisoners and their families. Virginia's Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) had lobbied for years to have …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Audit Criticizes Management of ODOC Financial Computer System by An Audit found that the main financial accounting system of the Oregon Department of Corrections(ODOC), was in a general state of disrepair and the...project to upgrade [the system] was in jeopardy of failure. Additionally, approximately $177,000 in contract payments...were made contrary …
Years Long Pattern of Medical Neglect Defeats Summary Judgment by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner's claim showing years of failure to adequately treat a medical problem is sufficient to defeat summary judgment. This civil rights action was filed …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Arkansas County Pays $40,000 To Handicapped Man Raped In Jail by Michael Rigby On May 22, 2006, Saline County, Arkansas, agreed to pay $40,000 to a deaf man who was raped by other prisoners in the Saline County Detention Center. Johnny Jones, a deaf man who is unable to speak, …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Florida DOC Cuts Prisoner Collect Call Costs by 30% by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For over 10 years, the family and friends of Florida prisoners have paid exorbitant costs to communicate with their imprisoned loved one. I dont think that's right, said interim secretary of Florida's Department of …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
EMSA, Florida County to Pay $500,000 for Untreated Ectopic Pregnancy by Michael Rigby Broward County, Florida, and EMSA Correctional Care, Inc., must pay $500,000 to a county prisoner who suffered permanent injury and weeks of unnecessary pain because jail medical personnel failed to diagnose or treat her ectopic pregnancy, a …
Arkansas Mayor, Sheriff, Wife Jailed for Burglary, Drugs, Sex and More by Gary Hunter On February 6, 2006, just weeks after Lonoke Arkansas Mayor Thomas Privett, 68, and Sheriff Jay Campbell, 46, admitted to a state monitoring committee that they had illegally used state prisoners for personal benefit, the two …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Audit Reveals California DOC Employees Illegally Received Holiday Pay for Scheduled Days Off by The California State Auditor found that Sierra Conservation Center (SCC) State Prison management permitted exempt health and social services professional employees to accrue holiday credits when a holiday fell on a scheduled day off, notwithstanding that …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Female Missouri Prisoners Make $291,000 as Sexy Pen Pals, AG Wants His Cut by Some Missouri prisoners have been making money by soliciting donations from pen pals found using internet web sites. Attorney General Jay Nixon says Missouri wants a piece of the action. Well, actually, the state wants all …
Page 1017 of 1355. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 1018 1019 1020 1021 ... 1351 1352 1353 1354 1355 | Next »