Skip navigation

Search

3144 results
Page 108 of 158. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 ... 154 155 156 157 158 | Next »

Indeterminate Commitment Order Reversed on Appeal by On March 15, 2007, a California superior court erroneously granted a motion requesting the involuntary commitment of David Litmon, Jr. for an indeterminate length of time. The State filed the motion under the terms of Proposition 83, which went into effect in 2006 …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
$75,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by $75,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Prisoner’s Suicide Officials at the Salt Lake City Jail settled a lawsuit involving a prisoner’s suicide for $75,000. The settlement came in the hanging death of Arthur Henderson. When he was booked on January 28, 2006, Henderson …
Oregon Jail Suicide Nets $59,422 by On March 14, 2008, Multnomah County, Oregon paid $59,422 to the estate of a mentally ill female detainee to settle a suit stemming from her jail suicide. Berta Ray Lee was a 27-year-old mother of three minor children, ages five, seven and nine. She …
New Jersey Judge Denied Sex Offender a Fair Hearing, Appellate Court Finds by New Jersey Judge Denied Sex Offender a Fair Hearing, Appellate Court Finds Questioning a lower court’s ability to conduct a fair hearing, a New Jersey appellate court ordered a new hearing before a different judge for a …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
Second Prisoner Unconditionally Released from Washington State Civil Commitment Center by Washington State, for only the second time ever, has unconditionally released a prisoner from the Special Commitment Center (SCC), a facility for civilly-committed sex offenders located on McNeil Island near Tacoma. John Henry Mathers, 56, was civilly-committed in July …
$150,000 Settlement in Wrongful Death Suit Against Kitsap County Jail by Washington State’s Kitsap County Jail paid $150,000 to settle the claim of the estate of David Franklin, who committed suicide at the jail on August 21, 2000. The claim asserts the jail failed to properly treat Franklin or properly …
Washington State DOC Guard Demoted For Mail Tampering And Violating Rules by Washington State Department of Corrections guard Teresa McSheery appealed her 1997 demotion for committing regulatory mail and safety violations. The demotion was affirmed. McSheery worked at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in 1989 and was the mail …
Odumabo v. Lake County, IN, Complaint, Jail Death, 2009 USDC IN/ND case 2:09-cv-00047-APR document 24 filed 04/29/09 page 1 of 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA, HAMMOND DIVISION TAMARRA SOWELL, as personal representative, administrator for the Estate, and on behalf of the heirs of ADEKUNLE …
Ware v. CCA, TN, Complaint, solitary inmate suicide medical neglect, 2009 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0139 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0140 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0141 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0142 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0143 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0144 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0145 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0146 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0147
Duvall v. Dallas, County, TX, Judgment, Failure to Protect, Infection, Judgment, 2009 Case 3:07-cv-00929-L Document 85 Filed 04/21/09 Page 1 of 2 PageID 759 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DALLAS DIVISION MARK DUVALL, Plaintiff, v. DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, Defendant. § § § § § § …
Article • April 15, 2009
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Unreported Jail Deaths: There have been two apparent suicides, one of which remains a mystery. by Rick Anderson By Rick Anderson Gas-station robber Ronald Ray Hicks went to sleep in his King County Jail bunk just before 10 p.m. July 25 and never woke up. His cellmate noticed Hicks still …
Article • April 15, 2009
California Sexual Predators Have Right to Testify at Civil Commitment Hearings by The Supreme Court of California has held that a defendant in a sexually violent predator proceeding does have California and federal constitutional rights to testify over counsel’s objection, but that refusing to allow the testimony is a harmless …
Article • April 15, 2009
Time Spent in Civil Commitment Detention Credited Toward Criminal Sentence by Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that there is no meaningful distinction between incarceration in prison or jail and confinement in a sex offender civil commitment facility, for the purposes of sentence calculation. The Court’s ruling came …
Article • April 15, 2009
Homeless Michigan Man Nets $20,000 for Outrage Claim Stemming from Pepper Spray Arrest by A federal jury in Michigan awarded a mentally ill homeless man $20,000 for outrage claims involving two Mt. Clemens police officers pepper spraying him during an arrest. The arrest occurred on June 27, 2002, after Officers …
Connecticut Settles Mental Health Suit by On May 22, 1995, the state of Connecticut agreed to settle a lawsuit challenging the quality of mental health care it provides to its prisoners. Edward Roe and class of other prisoners sued Connecticut prison officials alleging that the mental health services provided by …
Design of Prison Telephone Held Not To Infringe Patent by On June 18, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a judgment of non-infringement in a patent dispute over the design of a prison telephone. TIP Systems, LLC patented the design of a telephone for use …
Article • April 15, 2009
Proof of “Overt Act” not Required in Washington to Civilly Commit Incarcerated Sexually Violent Predator by David James Lewis challenged a Washington Court of Appeals decision that held the state was not required to prove a recent overt act during civil commitment proceedings. Lewis was convicted in 1992 of two …
Testimonial Hearsay Ruled Admissible in Florida Probation Revocation Hearings by The Supreme Court of Florida has held that testimonial hearsay is admissible in probation revocation hearings. In July 2003, Robert Sheldon Peters had his community control revoked, received a suspended 24 month prison sentence, and was placed on drug offender …
Article • April 15, 2009
Methadone Treatment is Not Inconsistent with Washington’s Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative by The drug offender sentencing alternative (DOSA) of the Sentencing Reform Act may be utilized to afford offenders methadone treatment the Washington Court of Appeals held on June 9, 2008. David Anderson pled guilty to reckless burning in the …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Minnesota Sex Offenders’ Requisite Disclosure in Treatment Can Violate Fifth Amendment by Minnesota Sex Offenders’ Requisite Disclosure in Treatment Can Violate Fifth Amendment Minnesota state prisoners Frank Johnson and John Henderson individually petitioned for writs of habeas corpus in 2005 after 45 days were added to their sentences for noncompliance …
Page 108 of 158. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 ... 154 155 156 157 158 | Next »