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Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
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Summary Judgement Reversed on Illinois Outgoing Mail Ban by The Illinois Court of Appeals held that prison officials violated a prisoner?s First Amendment free speech rights by refusing to allow him to mail an investigative report out of the prison. Illinois prisoner Gene Arnett and two other prisoners attempted to …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Illinois Jail’s Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby Illinois Jail's Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby On December 16, 2005, a federal district judge ruled that the Will County, Illinois jail routinely violated prisoners' Fourth Amendment rights by subjecting them to a blanket strip search policy, paving the …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Illinois Parole Violators Enforce Revocation Due Process Rights with Consent Decree by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The class of all Cook County, Illinois parole violators was granted a preliminary injunction by the U.S. District Court, Northern District, Eastern Division, ordering the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) to conduct …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Vienna Convention Creates Individually Enforceable Rights by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In a ground-breaking decision the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Vienna Convention) created individual rights to consular notification that may be enforced in a civil action. Thus, …
Seventh Circuit Rejects Total Exhaustion Rule for § 1983 Complaints by Bob Williams Seventh Circuit Rejects Total Exhaustion Rule for § 1983 Complaints by Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated the dismissal of a prisoners amended complaint, finding prior exhaustion putting the state …
Seventh Circuit Discusses Administrative Exhaustion by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoners amended complaint was the functional equivalent of a new complaint, and that new claims that were administratively exhausted after the original complaint was filed satisfied the Prison Litigation Reform Acts (PLRA) exhaustion requirement. …
Illinois Cook County Jail Embroiled in Shootings, Scandals and Escapes by by Gary Hunter Shootings, stabbings, suicides, a death and multiple escapes have turned the Cook County Jail in Chicago on its proverbial ear over the past year, in addition to misconduct by guards, a change in the jails leadership …
Successor Judge Needs Compelling Reason to Reopen Prior Judges Ruling by Successor Judge Needs Compelling Reason to Reopen Prior Judge's Ruling The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a successor judge did not have record support to reopen another judge's decision that a prisoner's suit was not barred …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Maywood, Illinois Jail Settles Failure to Protect Suit For $750,000 by The Village of Maywood, Illinois, paid $750,000 to settle with a former Maywood prisoner who was severely beaten by his cellmate at the village jail, according to a January 19, 2006, settlement agreement. George Caithamer, 22, was arrested by …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
$1.35 Million Settlement for Wrongful Death of Illinois Prisoner by On March 17, 2005, Cook County, Illinois, agreed to pay $1.35 million to the surviving son of a woman who died in a county jail after she was denied medical attention. Marilyn Bones, 37, was arrested on August 14, 2000, …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Dismissal of Failure to Protect Claim Reversed; No Showing Necessary to Survive Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal by Dismissal of Failure to Protect Claim Reversed; No Showing Necessary to Survive Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of a civil committees failure to protect and …
Brief • September 12, 2006
Westefer v. Snyder, IL, Order Granting Class Certification, ad seg placement, 2006 Case 3:00-cv-00162-GPM-DGW Document 156 Filed 09/12/2006 Page 1 of 25 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ROBERT WESTEFER, et al., Plaintiffs, vs. DONALD SNYDER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Illinois Prisoner Raped By Guard Settles For $15,000 by On July 2, 2005, a prisoner who was raped by a guard settled her lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) for $15,000. While imprisoned at the Dixon Correctional Center on May 26, 2000, the plaintiff, Rose Marie Smith 51, …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Political Patronage In Hiring Illinois Prison Wardens? by Julie Wilkerson was a Rend Lake College associate music professor and band director making under $40,000 annually when she was hired as an assistant warden at Indianas Big Muddy River Correctional Center at a salary of $65,000 a year. Two other newly-minted …
Illinois Prison Official, Parole Board Member Indicted For Corruption by On December 9, 2005, a Lee County, Illinois, grand jury returned indictments against former Illinois Department of Corrections official Ron Matrisciano and former Illinois Parole Board member Victor Brooks. Matrisciano was indicted for five counts of official misconduct and two …
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
Qualified Immunity Denied in Illinois Jail Rape Case by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity for failing to protect a pretrial detainee from being raped by his cellmate. In 1999, David Velez was confined in the Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Jail. In late August, Velez …
Limited Scope Compliance Evaluation, Illinois Youth Center Kewanee, 2006
Brief • May 24, 2006
Wofford v. Sutton, IL, PLRA Physical Injury Religious Diet, 2006 Order Case 3:03-cv-00725-JPG-DGW Document 58 Filed 05/24/2006 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS STANLEY WOFFORD, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. RICK SUTTON, Defendants. Case …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Retaliation Claim by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district courts dismissal of an Illinois prisoners retaliation claim. On January 17, 2003, Illinois prisoner Robert Hoskins worked in the Dixon Correctional Center (Dixon) cafeteria when Food Services Supervisor Connie Lenear called him a …
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