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Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Rampant Sexual Favoritism By California Prison Warden Is Actionable Under Hostile Work Environment T by Rampant Sexual Favoritism By California Prison Warden Is Actionable Under Hostile Work Environment Theory A unanimous California State Supreme Court held that non involved female employees could sue the Department of Corrections (CDC) for sexual …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Filed under: Death Row, Media, Prisoner Media
The Decline and Fall of the Prison Press by Leah Caldwell It was a melee, a riot, a simmering dispute. Despite the nomenclature, coverage of the August 9, 2005, prisoner incident at San Quentin prison was hardly diversified. 39 prisoners were injured in one of the largest riots since 1982 …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Audit of Californias Failed Intermediate-Parole-Sanctions Program Blames Lack of Benchmarks And D by Audit of Californias Failed Intermediate-Parole-Sanctions Program Blames Lack of Benchmarks And Data Analysis The California State Auditor issued a stinging 58 page report in November 2005 that squarely fixed the blame for the purported failure of the …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Nevadas Son of Sam Statute of Violates First Amendment by Mark Wilson Nevadas Son of Sam Statute of Violates First Amendment by Mark Wilson The Nevada Supreme Court held that the States Son of Sam law violates the First Amendment. In 1977, New York enacted the nations first Son of …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
California Legislature Reorganizes DOC To Add Rehabilitation by Marvin Mentor California Legislature Reorganizes DOC To Add Rehabilitation by Marvin Mentor Via legislative enactment (SB 737) effective July 1, 2005, the California DOC (formerly CDC) was renamed the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the Board of Prison Terms (BPT) was …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
$40,000 Default Judgment Reversed for Determination of Service of Process Validity by In a case of unusual circumstances, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a default judgment of $40,000 in favor of a prisoner against a prison nurse for failure to serve process, but ordered the district court …
Aramark to Pay $65,000 for Overbilling Pennsylvania Prison by Pennsylvania's Dauphin County Prison (DCP) will receive $65,000 from its food service vendor due to overbilling. The settlement comes on the heels of a several-month grand jury investigation started in 2004 to examine allegations of watered-down food and overcharging. The agreement, …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
California Auditor: Prison Industries Loses Money and Fails to Demonstrate Rehabilitative Success by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR) Prison Industry Authority (PIA) loses money in 20 of 28 enterprises it operates in CDCR prisons, provides rehabilitative work for a declining number of prisoners in spite …
$20,500 New Hampshire Jail Award Upheld for False Disciplinary Charges by The First Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a jurys award of $20,500 to a pretrial detainee in a civil rights action, alleging denial of due process from the filing of false disciplinary charges. Jason Surprenant was a pretrial …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Unpaid Prisoners Clean Up Rita Ravaged Southeast Texas by With few federal funds headed for areas of Southeast Texas devastated by Hurricane Rita, state officials are using the free labor of Texas prisoners to augment clean up efforts. As of January 30, 2006, prisoners from the Larry Gist State Jail …
Estate of Pennsylvania Prisoner Killed By Wexford Health Sources Settles Suit for $2.15 Million by Michael Rigby Wexford Health Sources and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have agreed to pay $2.15 million to the family of an asthmatic prisoner who died after her medication was denied at the State Correctional Institution …
Michigan Youth Prison Closed But Problems Continue by Michael Rigby During its six years of operation, the Michigan Youth Correctional Facility has been criticized over abuse, suicide attempts, and a policy of filling beds at the maximum-security prison with low level offenders. But even after its closure, the privately run …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Love Letter Mail Scam Nets Ten Prisoners $221,000 and Fed Time by On October 4, 2005, Karen Ann Erdely, 40, a Pennsylvania state prisoner, was sentenced to the maximum term of five years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud. The federal court found that she was the …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Filed under: Sanctions, Visiting
Michigan DOCs Visitation Ban for Substance Abuse Upheld by Michigan DOCs Visitation Ban for Substance Abuse Upheld The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a Michigan federal district court erred in refusing to dissolve its injunction ordering the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) visitation limitations violated the due …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Maryland ALJ Faults Arbitrary Transfer/Medical Order Violation by A Maryland Administration Law Judge (ALJ) held that the Maryland Division of Correction (MDOC) violated a Settlement Agreement and acted arbitrarily, capriciously and in violation of law by transferring a prisoner. The ALJ also found the refusal to provide ordered medical devices …
GEO Buys CSC After Settling $38.8 Million Judgment in Texas Boot Camp Death by Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) has settled a $38 million judgment that held the company responsible for the 2000 death of Bryan Dale Alexander, an 18 year old prisoner at a Texas boot camp. The terms are …
California Prison Excessive Force Death Suit Settled For $850,000 by A Corcoran State Prison prisoner whose psychotropic medications had not been renewed for 20 days died from excessive force used to subdue him when he suffered withdrawal symptoms. On November 4, 2005, California settled his parents civil rights wrongful death …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Washington DOC Pays Again for Flaunting Open Records Law by The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) has agreed to pay $65,000 to a state employee who claimed prison officials rejected his attorney’s request for electronic records, instead insisting on providing 38,000 pages of expensive hard copies that would have cost …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Illinois DOC Seeks to Block Ex-Wardens Benefits by Matthew Clarke Illinois DOC Seeks to Block Ex-Wardens Benefits by Matthew T. Clarke On September 13, 2005, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) filed an appeal of a workers compensation arbitrators decision to grant ex-prison warden William Barham permanent total disabilities benefits. …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Filed under: PLRA, Attorney Fees (PLRA)
PLRAs 150% Attorney Fee Cap Applied in Nominal Damages, Non Prison Case Against Police by PLRAs 150% Attorney Fee Cap Applied in Nominal Damages, Non Prison Case Against Police The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, has reversed a panel ruling holding that the Prison Litigation Reform Act …
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