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Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Iowa's Governor Grants Ex-Prisoners Automatic Voting Rights Restoration by Iowa's Governor Grants Ex-Prisoners Automatic Voting Rights Restoration by Matthew T. Clarke On July 6, 2005, Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa signed an Executive Order which enacted a blanket restoration of citizenship rights to ex-prisoners who have completed their sentences. This …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Florida Bans Sex Offenders from Hurricane Shelters by Florida Bans Sex Offenders from Hurricane Shelters A new Florida policy bans sex offenders who are not allowed contact with children from public hurricane shelters. Instead, they will be shuttled to their own shelters-prisons across Florida. The rule applies to offenders not …
300 More Washington Prisoners Headed to CCA Prisons by As we predicted, Washington's sentencing reform" has sharply increased the state's prison population to approximately 17,6001,400 prisoner's overcapacityadding 2,100 prisoners within the last two years alone. Worse yet, nothing, including slashing sentences by up to 50 percent for a few hundred …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
$7,500 of Personal Injury Award Exempt From Attachment By Illinois DOC by A court of appeals in Illinois ruled that the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC), which was seeking to attach a settlement awarded a prisoner in a personal injury suit, could not attach $7,500 of the award. That ruling …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Mother Of New York Prisoner Awarded $377,200 For Suicide by Michael Rigby On March 14, 2005, a court of claims in White Plains, New York, awarded $377,200 to the mother of a suicidal state prisoner who died while in custody. While serving time at New York's Green Haven Correctional Facility …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Hawaii Settles Class Action Wrongful Imprisonment Suit for $1.2 Million by Michael Rigby The state of Hawaii has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a class action federal lawsuit involving hundreds of wrongfully imprisoned individuals. The state also agreed to implement measures ensuring the timely release of prisoners. The …
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New York Prisoner Awarded $5,250 for Prison Welding Shop Injury by On July 27, 2004, the Court of Claims in Rochester, New York, awarded Noel Atkinson, a New York state prisoner, $5,250 for past pain and suffering due to an injury he received while working in a welding shop at …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
New York Prisoner Awarded $1,000 For Uncleaned Prosthetic Eye by On September 1, 2004, a court of claims in White Plains, New York, awarded $1,000 to a state prisoner because prison personnel failed to timely clean his prosthetic eye, causing him pain and suffering. Lionel Walker, a prisoner at the …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
U.S. Supreme Court: Michigan Plea Bargainers Have Right to Counsel On Appeal by by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Michigan defendants convicted pursuant to a plea of nolo contendre or to a plea bargain are constitutionally entitled to appeal their convictions to the Michigan Court of …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Massachusetts DOC Fails to Meet Women's Special Needs by by Michael Rigby The failure of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (MDOC) to address the special needs of women in prison impedes the effective maintenance of family ties, according to a March 2005 research report by the University of Massachusetts's Center …
Only One California Jail Has State-Mandated Psychiatric Treatment Center Licensure by by John E. Dannenberg Although California law has since 1998 required all county jails that provide inpatient medical or psychiatric care to have a correctional treatment center license, only one (Los Angeles) has obtained one. The issue was highlighted …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Acting Pro Se, NJ Prisoner Beats Charges of Spitting on Guard by A New Jersey jury took only three hours to declare William Victor not guilty of spitting on a Northumberland County Prison (NCP) guard in 2003. NCP's warden called the verdict ridiculous." Considering Victor proceeded through trial representing himself, …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Miami-Dade Pays $6.25 Million to Settle Illegal Strip Search Suit by A Florida federal district court has approved a $6.25 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging thousands of female prisoners were illegally strip searched at the Miami-Dade County Correctional Facilities. The settlement entitles l0,000 women who were strip searched after …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
California Guards Assigned Word Puzzles to Satisfy Training Requirements by California State Assembly Member Rudy Bermudez, himself a member of the powerful prison guards union (CCPOA) while on leave from his prison job to serve elective office, sharply criticized the practice of solving word puzzles used by California prison guards …
Prison Health Services: As Health Care in Jails Goes Private, 10 Days Can Be a Death Sentence by By Paul Von Zielbauer; Joseph Plambeck contributed reporting for this article. Brian Tetrault was 44 when he was led into a dim county jail cell in upstate New York in 2001, charged …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Prison Health Services: Missed Signals in New York Jails Open Way to Season of Suicides by by Paul Von Zielbauer; Joseph Plambeck contributed reporting for this article. The warnings were right there in her medical ?le: a childhood of sexual abuse, a diagnosis of manic depression, a suicide attempt at …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
New York Senator Returned To Jail After Illegal Release by Michael Rigby By Michael Rigby Most people will accept that certain perks are available to a state’s top lawmakers. What is unacceptable, however, is that these perks often continue even after the public trust has been violated. The case of …
Federal Immigration Detainee Taken Off Life Support Without Family's Consent by by John E. Dannenberg A 69 year-old Mexican national, who suffered a heart attack at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Los Angeles and was put on life support at White Memorial Medical Center, was taken off life …
Fatal Justice: The New Maryland by Michael Rigby It's a state already steeped in heritage--birthplace of The Star Spangled Banner, home to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, and site of the bloody Civil War battle at Antietam. But now Maryland is raising a new legacy: a system of dangerous …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
From the Editor by Paul Wright We would like to apologize to readers for the delay in issues between the May and June, 2005 issues. A combination of factors have resulted in issues getting delayed. The first was a trial in Florida against the Florida Department of Corrections over the …
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