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Torture Info Wanted by Bonnie Kerness, longtime prison rights activist; PLN supporter; and Associate Director of the American Friends Service Committee, Criminal Justice Program, is seeking information from U.S. prisoners who have been subjected to the use of restraint chairs (aka "the chair"), four-point restraints (aka "the motorcycle"), stun belts, …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Prisoner Awarded $30,001 in Beating Suit by A federal jury in Bangor, Maine, awarded damages to 25-year-old Billy Williams for being beaten by two guards while imprisoned in Maine's Supermax prison in 1994. A seven-member jury deliberated for two and a half hours before deciding to award $30,000 in punitive …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
New Jersey Jail Brutality Settlement by Seventeen former detainees of the Sussex County (NJ) Jail settled a lawsuit alleging a pattern and practice of guard brutality, inadequate medical and psychiatric care, and inadequate legal access. As part of the settlement, the county agreed to pay $372,000; install video surveillance cameras …
Uprisings in New York State Prisons by Julia Lutsky By Julia Lutsky Brutality by guards lay behind a major uprising at the Mohawk Correctional Facility in upstate New York in July 1997. Josea Benefield, a 22 year-old African-American prisoner in solitary confinement was reported to have hung himself with a …
DOJ to Probe Texas Rent-A-Jail by The Brazoria County Jail, site of the video-taped beatings that aired on network television, is but one of 38 for-profit jails or prisons in the state of Texas. And it's not the only one with problems, just the one with the most press. A …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Attica Justice -- Served 26 Years Later by The old Italian proverb postulates that "revenge is a dish best served cold." Justice is a dish also usually served cold, although those with a taste for justice rarely prefer it so. Maybe somebody should ask Frank Smith. Twenty-six years after Smith …
Oklahoma Pulls Out of TX Rent-A-Jail by The state of Oklahoma announced in July that it would pull 500-plus prisoners out of the Limestone County Detention Center, in part because of a conflict over the use of pepper spray on "unruly inmates." Limestone County, Texas, contracts with a private firm, …
'Training Video' Reveals Beatings in Texas Rent-A-Jail by The state of Missouri was swift to react to the explosive national news coverage resulting from the release of a video tape showing Missouri prisoners being kicked and beaten during a "shake down" at a Texas Rent-A-Jail. The state of Missouri announced …
Georgia Prison Guards Speak Out by Dan Pens Shortly after Wayne Garner took over as Georgia's Corrections Commissioner in December 1995, he addressed the state legislature wherein he quipped, "...thirty to thirty-five percent [of GA prisoners] ain't fit to kill, and I'm going to be there to accommodate them." [See: …
Three Texas Guards Indicted in Beating Death by In the July issue of PLN we reported "Judge Rules Texas Prisoner's Death Excessive Force" about Gary Crenshaw, 31, who died at the hands of his captors January 26, 1997, at the French Robertson Unit. On June 30, 1997, a Jones County …
Eleventh Circuit Reinstates Beating Verdict by The court of appeals for the eleventh circuit reversed a judgment as a matter of law entered against a Florida prisoner after a jury found in his favor. The court reinstated both the verdict and a damage award for the prisoner. The court also …
Senior DOC Officials Implicated by After lower ranking guards crossed the blue line, Hays state prison Lt. Ray McWhorter offered a stunning account of events -- including allegations that senior GA DOC officials not only witnessed the massive shakedown, but were instrumental in igniting the firestorm of brutality. McWhorter admitted …
Detainee Awarded $64,000 in Guard Attack by A federal district court in Iowa denied jail guards' motion for a new trial on a detainee's jury verdict awarding $64,000 in an excessive force suit. Jeffrey Schultz was arrested and booked into the Woodbury county jail. During the booking Schultz was shackled, …
Former Mississippi Guards Lose Sentencing Appeal by On November 17, 1991, Larry Floyd escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) at Parchman. He was captured the following day in an abandoned house near the prison. Upon his capture he was beaten by several MSP guards while others looked on. A …
Court Reduces Jury Award in Beating Suit by A federal district court in New York entered a jury verdict awarding compensatory and punitive damages to a prisoner beaten and tranquilized by guards, it then reduced the punitive damage award. Donovan Blissett, a New York state prisoner, filed suit claiming his …
PLRA Physical Injury Requirement Defined by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) physical injury requirement for prisoners seeking money damages is the same as the standard used in determining eighth amendment claims. This ruling is significant because it is the …
Article • August 15, 1997 • from PLN August, 1997
Disputed Facts Require Trial in Beating Case by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that a district court had improperly dismissed a pretrial detainees' excessive force claim. Reginold Dorsey was an Indiana pretrial detainee who filed suit claiming jail guards beat him without provocation during a cell …
Judge Rules Texas Prisoner's Death a Result of Excessive Force by On January 27, 1997, a guard at the French Robertson Unit in Abilene, TX, showed up to search Gary Lee Crenshaw's cell. Crenshaw, 31, serving a 45-year sentence for possession with intent to deliver cocaine, returned from the shower …
Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
$7,500 Awarded in Guard Beating by A federal district court in Delaware awarded a prisoner $7,500 in damages after ruling the prisoner was beaten without provocation by a prison guard. Augustus Evans, a Delaware state prisoner was in segregation and repeatedly asked guards to turn off his cell light. When …
Lucas v. White, CA, Amended Complaint, Abuse of Inmates, 1997 1 ROSEN, BIEN & ASARO MICHAEL W. BIEN - 096891 155 Montgomery Street, 8th Floor San Francisco, California 94104 Telephone (415) 433-6830 2 3 4 LAW OFFICES OF GERI L. GREEN GERI L. GREEN - 127709 368 Hayes Street San …
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