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Judge Reduces Damage Award Against PHS In New York Jail Heart Attack Suit by by John E. Dannenberg In July 2005, a New York federal jury awarded $150,000 in compensatory damages and $632,988 in punitive damages to a jail prisoner who suffered permanent disabilities when treatment for his heart attack …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Auditors Uncover Hidden Cash Accounts at Chester County, Pennsylvania, Prison by An audit of the Chester County, Pennsylvania, Prison's finances uncovered hidden cash accounts used to collect $18,000 from prisoners between 1984 and 2003. All but $4,000 of the money had already been spent at management's discretion over the years," …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Federal Court Finds California Murder Paroles Blocked by Illegal No-Parole" Policy by Federal Court Finds California Murder Paroles Blocked by Illegal No-Parole" Policy by Marvin Mentor On May 19, 2005, the United States District Court (E.D. Cal.) ruled that the California Board of Prison Terms (BPT), between 1992 and 1998, …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Class Action Suit Filed Against L.A. County Jail After 4,000 MRSA Infections by by John E. Dannenberg A class action lawsuit against Los Angeles (L.A.) County and its Sheriff Leroy Baca was filed in 2004 in the United States District Court (C.D. Cal.) on behalf of an estimated 4,000 present …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Feres Doctrine Bars FTCA Actions by by Military Prisoners The Unites States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the Feres doctrine, adopted by the United States Supreme Court in Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135 (1950), bars suits brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
New Jersey Parole Officials Pay $50,000 for Delayed Release by On February 3, 2005, a New Jersey man settled his federal lawsuit against state parole officialswhom he claimed were responsible for his remaining in prison 11 months beyond his approved parole datefor $50,000. Vincent Pannone was imprisoned on May 7, …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
California's Preferential Bulk Price For Hepatitis-C Drugs Kept Secret by The good news is that California's Department of General Services (DGS) negotiated a bulk discount price for the large quantities of pegylated interferon it buys for the treatment of Hepatitis-C infected prisoners, and will save the state $1 million on …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
New York: Wrongfully Imprisoned Man Settles For $5,000,000 by by Michael Rigby A man who was wrongfully convicted of raping a 5-year-old girl has settled with the state of New York for $5 million, the largest such settlement in state history. But no amount of money can atone for the …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Los Angeles County Pays $60,900 To Settle Jail Detainee Rape Claim by Los Angeles County Pays $60,900 To Settle Jail Detainee Rape Claim Los Angeles (L.A.) County, California, paid $60,900 to a female detainee who was raped in her Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF) cell by a male prisoner who …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Wisconsin Must Install Air Conditioning in Supermax by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order requiring prison officials to take immediate steps to air condition the cells of Wisconsin's supermax prison. In 2000, two prisoners confined in the Supermax prison in Boschobel, Wisconsin brought suit alleging …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Double-Celling Mentally Ill California Ad-Seg Prisoners Proves Fatal by When administratively segregated mentally ill prisoners were placed in the same cell at California State Prison, Los Angeles (LAC) in September, 2004, one strangled the other with a bed sheet. Upon investigating the death, the watchdog Office of the Inspector General …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Hawaii Prisoner Injured In Fight Awarded $25,427 by On February 1, 2005, a Hawaii court awarded $25,427.00 to a prisoner who claimed he was assaulted by another prisoner. Plaintiff Lael Samonte, 47, contended that while imprisoned at the Halawa Correctional Facility on May 22, 2002, he was attacked and knocked …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
11th Circuit Finds S.Ct. Overruled Heightened Pleading Standard by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the heightened pleading standard is not applicable in a § 1983 action against a non-governmental entity that cannot raise qualified immunity as a defense" pursuant to Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence & …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Seventh Circuit Reverses § 1915(e)(2) Dismissal of Meritorious Complaint by by Bob Williams The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reversed a Wisconsin Federal District Court's dismissal of a prisoner complaint the district court found to have probable merit but dismissed under 28 U.S.C. § 191S(e)(2) screening because …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Alabama: On January 10, 2006, Ronald Hammonds, 35, a guard at the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega was arrested in a Taco Bell parking lot by FBI agents on charges of supplying prisoners with marijuana. Arizona: On December 31, 2005, Vincent Cannon, 23, …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief: Arkansas: In 2001 prison guards used force 12 times to remove prisoners from their cells. By 2005 they did it at least 40 times. Prison officials attribute this to more hardened prisoners and not more brutal guards. Arkansas: On December 1, 2005, an …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Former California Warden Allegedly by Former California Warden Allegedly Assaults News Reporter The former warden of Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP), Anthony Lamarque, allegedly swung a cane at Sacramento News and Review reporter Stephen James and then pinned him against a wall, when Lamarque apparently objected to being photographed at …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Virginia Governor Warner Restores Felons' Voting Rights, Ignites Controversy by by Matthew T. Clarke Then Virginia Governor Mark Warner restored the voting rights of 1,892 felons who had served their sentences, 1,110 of them in 2004. Opposition politicians have accused him of "rubber-stamping" the restoration process. Virginia is one of …
28 Die in Philippines Jail Uprising by A March 14, 2005, botched escape attempt by an Al-Qaida linked Abu-Sayyaf member at the Camp Begang Diwa (CBD) detention center in Tanguig, Manila started as a two-day takeover of CBD that ended with 28 dead. When the incident began, CBD held 470 …
Privatized Medical Services in Delaware Kill and Maim by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Anthony Pierce was serving a 14 month sentence for parole violation of a burglary charge at Delaware's Sussex Correctional Institution when he discovered a marble-sized lump growing on the back of his head. A prison …
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