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Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Georgia Court Clerk Liable for Failure to Inform Prison Officials of Sentence Reduction by The Georgia Supreme Court has held that a court clerk is not entitled to official immunity in a lawsuit claiming negligent performance of a ministerial duty. At the heart of the case was the clerk’s failure …
Former Mississippi Mayor Charged with Sexually Assaulting Prisoner by Federal prosecutors have charged the former mayor of Walnut Grove, Mississippi with sexually assaulting a prisoner while acting under color of law. He also was charged with telling the prisoner to lie during an investigation into the incident. [See: PLN, April …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Florida Death Row Prisoners Cannot Challenge Sentence Pro Se by Citing its “constitutional responsibility to ensure the death penalty is administered in a fair, consistent and reliable manner, as well as having an administrative responsibility to work to minimize the delays inherent in the post-conviction process,” the Florida Supreme Court …
“Voluntary” Work Program in Private Detention Centers Pays Detained Immigrants $1 a Day by Yana Kunichoff In the Stewart Detention Center in rural Lumpkin, Georgia, Pedro Guzman cleaned the communal areas, cooked, painted walls, ran paperwork and buffed floors. But Guzman was not brought into Stewart as an employee – …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Vermont DOC Disbands Citizens’ Advisory Group that Critics Called “Window Dressing” for Transparency by Ken Picard Andy Pallito was on the hot seat on July 19, 2012 at a meeting of the Joint Legislative Corrections Oversight Committee. Vermont’s commissioner of corrections had failed to notify lawmakers that he had disbanded …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: ASPC Florence prison guard Jeffrey Williams, 46, was arrested and booked into the Pinal County jail on April 20, 2012 after child pornography was found on his computer. Williams had taken the computer to a repair shop, which notified the sheriff’s office about the child …
Federal Sex Offender Civil Commitment Process Under Fire by Derek Gilna Among other provisions, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 allows the federal government to indefinitely detain “sexually dangerous” offenders through a civil commitment process, which requires mandatory court hearings after such offenders have been certified …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Ethics Complaint Against Former Oregon Prison Official Dismissed by As previously reported in PLN, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,020-per-year position with the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) in March 2011. He had been employed as an assistant administrator with the ODOC’s Health Services Division, and served on a …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
From the Editor by Paul Wright When Prison Legal News published its first issue in May 1990, it was less than one month after Washington state became the first in the nation to enact a civil commitment law for sex offenders. PLN has reported on this issue ever since as …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Maryland Women Prisoners Sew Commemorative 1812 Flags by In July 2011, prisoners at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup were busy sewing 1812-style flags to be flown at Maryland public buildings. The plan was to replace the state’s old flags with the 1812-style flags, which have 15 stars …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Hawaii Audit Finds Offenders Rarely Pay Restitution Owed by Thirteen years after the Hawaii Office of the Auditor issued a report critical of the state judiciary’s efforts to collect restitution payments from offenders, only a small fraction of tens of millions of dollars in restitution has been collected, which has …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Prisoner Lacked Standing to Challenge Georgia’s Failure to Send Absentee Ballot to Jail by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on February 2, 2012 that a former Georgia jail prisoner lacked standing to complain that state and local officials had failed to mail his absentee ballot to the jail, …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Federal BOP to Let Prisoners Have MP3 Players by The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has announced that it will allow federal prisoners to purchase MP3 music players, which were first tested at Federal Prison Camp Alderson, a women’s facility in West Virginia. The policy change, expected to be implemented …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
$975,000 Award to Former Prisoner Who Gave Birth in Seattle, Washington Jail by A federal jury in Washington State has awarded $975,000 to a mentally ill woman who gave birth in a cell at the King County Correctional Facility (KCCF). The jury found both the county and jail staff liable …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
California Pays $295,000 to Settle Religious Discrimination Lawsuit by Sikh Barred from Employment as Prison Guard by California Pays $295,000 to Settle Religious Discrimination Lawsuit by Sikh Barred from Employment as Prison Guard In August 2011, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled a religious discrimination suit filed …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
California Supreme Court Restricts Lifer Parole Challenges by In its second review in three years of a state prisoner’s habeas corpus petition seeking review of an adverse parole decision, on December 29, 2011 the California Supreme Court again reversed the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Div. 1, which had ordered …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
CA Court of Appeal: Documents Identifying Suppliers of Execution Drug are Public Records by On December 20, 2011, a California Court of Appeal held that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) may not withhold the names of pharmaceutical companies and other sources from which it sought to acquire …
Florida Town Rallies to Stop CCA Immigration Detention Facility by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Residents in a South Florida community near a proposed 1,500-bed privately-operated immigration detention center waged a successful yearlong opposition campaign that culminated in the cancellation of the project in June 2012. Corrections Corporation of …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
PLN Settles Censorship Suit Against Sacramento County, California Jail by On July 17, 2012, Prison Legal News settled a lawsuit against Sacramento County, California and Sheriff Scott R. Jones for $300,000 plus policy changes in the county’s jail system. The suit was filed in federal court in April 2011 after …
U.S. Supreme Court Holds AG Rules Required Before SORNA Sex Offender Law is Applied Retroactively by Derek Gilna On January 23, 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision written by Justice Stephen Breyer, reversed the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which had held that the federal Sex Offender …
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