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Article • April 13, 2017
to supervise those 1,481 prisoners, an 8.4 to 1 guard to prisoner ratio. It has used overtime to increase the number of onsite guards to 216, or a 6.9 to 1 ratio, which cost ADOC $2.9 million in overtime last ...
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
as defendants while the other named Zink and WASPC. The trial court consolidated the cases. Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 42.56.070(1) mandates that each government agency “shall make available ...
Article • April 5, 2017
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
$1 billion for a 25,000 seat stadium for a Major League Soccer team, a 275,000 square-foot retail complex, 1 million square-feet of residential space, and 1.3 million square-feet of office space ...
Article • April 13, 2017
facilities: (1) a detainee can place acollect call, or (2) a family member or friend can contact the telephone service provider for the detention facility to establish a prepaid account which funds a detainee ...
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
Filed under: Parole, Parole Conditions
Centers (RRCs), nationwide. The BOP claims that the reduction in halfway houses will impact only 1 percent of affected prisoners nearing release, but a prisoners’ rights organization says the number ...
Article • September 12, 2017
of the Washington State Court of Appeals held in a 2-1 ruling that the Department of Corrections (DOC) was not liable for an assault suffered by a man while he was serving his term of community supervision following ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
alleged that “(1) he routinely had to wait outdoors in adverse conditions to receive his medications, (2) he received inadequate care from the prison’s medical staff, and (3) the prison’s ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
-fived” each other in apparent celebration of the incident. [See: PLN, Oct. 2009, p.1]. Roberts filed a civil rights suit in U.S. District Court pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the assaults ...
on her § 1983 excessive force claim. Depee appealed the fee award, and on February 1, 2010 the Ninth Circuit held that it was guided by Justice O’Connor’s concurrence in Farrar v. Hobby, 506 U.S. 103 ...
was convicted of a sex offense and sentenced to 10 years in prison. After his conviction was affirmed on appeal, the district court imposed a special life sentence pursuant to Iowa Code § 903B.1 in addition ...
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
certain state licenses. Governor Scott’s new policy also required studies of those whose rights were restored under the Crist administration. The first report, issued by the FPC on July 1, 2011, found ...
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
, as it presents defendants with a “choice” between “(1) going to jail, paying a fine, and developing a criminal record; or (2) going to church and having the charges eventually dismissed....” Even Bay Minette’s ...
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
. [See: PLN, Jan. 1, 2009, p.46]. The Appellate Division held that the trial court had misapplied the standards in Mason. Under the so-called catalyst theory adopted in Mason, a plaintiff can be awarded ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
crews have saved the county,” said Precinct 1 County Commissioner Randy Williams. “But over the past 10 years, it has to be in the millions.” However, Sheriff Bruce began running a greatly reduced set ...
to several prisoners, sickening them. The prisoners filed suit and settled the case in August 2015. See: Rushing v. Apgar, U.S.D.C. (D. Del.), Case No. 1:13-cv-01103-GMS. The lawsuit against Dr. McDonald ...
in 2001 and 2002 about the airborne toxic dust. [See: PLN, July 2009, p.21; Jan. 2009, p.1; March 2007, p.1]. OIG investigators noted that prior to 2003, when recycling procedures were changed, prisoners ...
issues: (1) whether the prison litigation reform act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997E (A), requires dismissal in its entirety of a claim brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 with respect to conditions ...
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
of those who have died. Tasers are used extensively by police and sheriff’s departments, and also by prison and jail staff. [See, e.g.: PLN, Dec. 2010, p.34; Oct. 2006, p.1; June 2005, p.1]. Taser’s ...
violence. The district court’s initial order found the unconstitutional conditions resulted from three undisputed failures by prison officials: 1) failure to adequately train and supervise staff in how ...
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Filed under: News
is estimated at $1 billion. Not to mention the 2,400 jobs the facility will create. There is a growing need for the new prison hospital, as California’s prison population continues to age due to lengthy ...
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