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Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Local Officials Tell Prisoners: "You don't live here" by Peter Wagner Many prison town officials are quick to claim prisoners as residents when the Census Bureau comes to town, but prisoners report that this is the only time these officials are so welcoming. The Census Bureau counts the nation's mostly …
CCA Medical Contract Doesn't Violate 8th Amendment by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated an injunction holding a contract between Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and a private doctor; Dr. Robert B. Coble, was unconstitutional. The contract at issue required Dr. Coble to, among other things, "determine the …
No Qualified Immunity for Florida Jail Guards in Prisoner Murder by The U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a case involving a Florida pre-trial detainee's death at the hands of a mentally ill co-prisoner, affirmed denial of qualified immunity to two guards at the North Broward Detention Center (NBDC) …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
New Jersey Civil Commitment Hearings Secret, Biased by Michael Rigby The growing trend of keeping sex of-fenders confined even after they have completed their prison sentences has taken a bizarre turn for the worse in New Jersey, where civil commitment proceedings are held in secretthe records sealedand sex offenders are …
Rape of Women Prisoners Rampant in Ohio by Michael Rigby The sexual assault of female pris-oners at the Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) in Marysville, Ohio, is shockingly commonplace, according to a report by Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) released on December 10, 2003. The 15-page report, titled The Sexual Abuse …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Facts Contained in Administrative Remedies Not Automatically Deemed Facts Alleged in Complaints by The Seventh Circuit Court of Apeals held the attachment of grievances to a complaint, for the purpose of demonstrating exhaustion of remedies, does not permit holding that the plaintiff vouches for the truth of the statements in …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Executions Rose in 2002; Texas Led in Number of Deaths by In 2002, thirteen states in the United States of America executed 71 prisoners, with Texas killing the greatest number of them (33). California held the most prisoners on death row at year end 2002 (640), followed by Texas (450), …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
California Prison Guards Organize to Sue Assaultive Prisoners by California Prison Guards Organize To Sue Assaultive Prisoners In a classic case of "man bites dog," California state prison guards have begun a program to sue prisoners whom they allege assaulted them. To prosecute these suits, 2,900 guards have organized the …
No Qualified Immunity for Prison Officials on Tobacco Smoke Complaints by No Qualified Immunity for Prison Officials on Tobacco Smoke Complaints The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of summary judgment and qualified immunity for the Delaware prison guards who exposed a prisoner …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Florida's Felon Disenfranchisement Law Under Spotlight by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Since the 2000 presidential election, Florida's voting laws have been under scrutiny. One of the issues being debated is Florida's constitutional provision that permanently disenfranchises felons. When Florida gave blacks the right to vote as a condition …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
California No-Parole-Policy Suits For Damages And Injunctive Relief Fail by John E Dannenberg California No-Parole-Policy Suits For Damages And Injunctive Relief Fail by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Ap-peals affirmed the district court's dismissal of suits attacking an alleged unconstitutional no-parole policy that had been brought …
California Guard's Obscene Behavior Towards Prisoner Is Actionable by Marvin Mentor The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Ap-peals permitted a prisoner's damage suit for retaliation by guards whom he had grieved to proceed based on First Amendment grounds. Samuel Austin, incarcerated at California State Prison, Solano, was in the psychiatric …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Filed under: Medical, Dental Care
Denial of Dentures States Eighth Amendment Claim by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed a lower court's grant of summary judgment favoring an Alabama state prison dentist who did not timely furnish a prisoner with dentures. When Dean Farrow arrived at Alabama's Easterling Correctional Facility in …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Ohio Supreme Court Holds Some Sex Predators Not Required to Register by Ohio Supreme Court Holds Some Sex Predators Not Required to Register In a unanimous decision, the Ohio Su-preme Court ruled that some persons labeled as sexual predators cannot be required to register with law enforcement authorities. Lawrence J. …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Permanent Injunction Against California Book Ordering Restrictions Affirmed by John E Dannenberg Permanent Injunction Against California Book Ordering Restrictions Affirmed by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Ap-peals affirmed the district court's permanent injunction (PI) against a California Department of Corrections (CDC) policy at its supermax Pelican …
Georgia Sheriff as "Arm of the State" Entitled to Eleventh Amendment Immunity by Bob Williams Ruling 6-5 en banc in a case of first impression, the Eleventh Circuit has found that Georgia sheriffs act as "arms of the state" and thus as state actors are entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity …
Fifth Circuit Vacates $70,000 Award Against Texas Prison Officials by Michael Rigby The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated and remanded the jury verdict in a Texas prisoner's failure-to-protect suit because the prisoner had not provided evidence supporting a jury finding of deliberate indifference against prison officials. …
No Summary Judgment for Ohio Guards Who Used Excessive Force, Case Loses At Trial by No Summary Judgment for Ohio Guards Who Used Excessive Force, Case Loses At Trial The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment favoring certain prison guards …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by California: On April 11, 2004, Matthew Jacquot, 28, a guard at the Orange County jail, was arrested in San Diego on felony vandalism, battery and being under the influence charges after he ran into a Seven Eleven store, broke doors, ripped out a sink and overturned …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
Michigan Grievances Exhausted Upon Fair Notice of Claim by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred when it found that a Michigan prisoner failed to exhaust available administrative remedies and dismissed his § 1983 action on that basis. Michigan prisoner Ronnie Burton brought suit against …
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