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Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
of habeas corpus. Jack Donald Egerton, a Texas state prisoner, filed a federal habeas petition on October 1, 1998. It concerned his February 12, 1996, conviction. The district court dismissed the petition ...
under ORS 421.195. In 1993, however, the Oregon legislature repealed ORS 421.195 and enacted ORS 421.194(1) which provides: "Disciplinary orders of the Department of Corrections . . . are not subject ...
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
%) on the part of the defendant State of New York and one-third (33 1/%) to" the offender. Franklin Scruggs was serving two concurrent sentences on 20 years to life within the custody of the New York Department ...
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
disregard of prisoners' constitutional rights. The plaintiff's §1983 constitutional law claims include three First Amendment challenges for (1) a vague and overbroad regulation, (2) improper censorship ...
the suit survived a motion to dismiss (See: Caldwell v. Hammonds , 53 F.Supp.2d 1 (D.D.C. 1999)) [ PLN , March 2001], the court appointed Elizabeth Alexander, Director of the ACLU National Prison Project ...
that clearly links an inmate's behavior and participation in available education and work programs with the receipt or denial of earned early release days [good time] and other privileges." RCW 72.09.130(1 ...
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
offenders to serve 85% of their sentences before becoming parole eligible. In Connecticut, Public Act (P.A.) 95-255 implemented the "85% rule," effective July 1, 1996. On November 10, 1995, Dwayne Johnson ...
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
prisoners identified as Jewish. Significantly, the court enjoined treating Younger in a lesser manner because either (1) his mother was not Jewish or (2) he had not gone through a formal rabbinical ...
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
or activity that receives Federal financial assistance," citing 42 U.S.C. § 2000 cc-1(b)(1). The court further reasoned that although the U.S. Supreme Court has suggested that federal grants conditioned ...
(206 deaths per 100,000 inmates), while the rate for white prisoners was 67% higher (343 per 100,000). About 1 in 12 prisoner deaths resulted from suicide (6%) and homicide (2%). Alcohol/drug ...
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
30, 2006, 1 in every 133 U.S. residents was behind bars. This is one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. State and federal prisons accounted for 70% of the increase in the imprisoned ...
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
(and they) were embarrassed to have it publicized that their father was in prison. SPS had made the following blanket policy in regards to prisoner phone calls. (1) Prisoners may only call one of 20 numbers pre ...
Article • January 15, 2008
and awarded him $236,000 for economic loss from July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2009, the date Raspa would have been eligible to retire. Following the verdict the judge granted Raspa's post-verdict motion ...
$67,295 on 29,971 collect calls made from March to June 2005. Under the settlement, persons seeking reimbursement can file a claim by contacting AT&T toll free at 1-800-826-9923. They can also check ...
, the SCSO had had a contract with Prison Health Services (PHS) to provide medical services to prisoners in its jail. That contract was worth $2.4 million yearly. With the contract expiring on October 1 ...
Los Angeles Settles County Jail Murder Suit For $1 Million by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On August 14, 2007, Los Angeles County settled a lawsuit brought by the family ...
Alabama DOC Charges Prisoners Unlawful Fees to Cover Budget Shortfalls by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 1, 2007, the Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts released ...
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
in a longstanding federal civil rights case concerning overcrowding at the Cook County Jail (Duran v. Dart, U.S.D.C. ND Ill., Case No. 1:74-cv-02949). That lawsuit, originally filed in 1974, resulted in a consent ...
pay awarded after civil service board reviews. (See, e.g., PLN, March, 2005, p.1.) Sheriff's deputy Timothy Berry signed the Recruit Honor Code when he joined up, avowing I will not lie, cheat or steal ...
Article • May 15, 2007
followed in which Shain received a $1 nominal damage award and a declaration that the policy was unconstitutional. The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's declaration of unconstitutionality ...
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