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News in Brief by California: On May 2, 2003, Gary Culverson, 25, and Van Kopp, 37, were arrested on charges that they assaulted Casey Humphrey, 18, a prisoner at the Monroe Detention Center in Yolo County. Culverson and Kopp were employed as guards at the jail's intake area but the …
The PLRA Does Not Change Leave to Amend Rule by Bob Williams The PLRA Does Not Change Leave To Amend Rule by Bob Williams The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) does not mandate dismissal of an indigent litigant's deficient complaint without …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Illinois Settles Visitor Strip Search Suit for $237,000 by by Matthew T. Clarke In 2001, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) has settled a lawsuit by visitors who claimed strip searches conducted during their visit to the Pontiac Correctional Center (PCC) were unconstitutional. In 1997, Marylin Tompkins and Jess Burgess …
Director Out at Scandal-Plagued Washington State Jail by Lonnie Burton Amid numerous scandals and investigations into wrongdoing and prisoner mistreatment by staff, the director of the Snohomish County jail in Everett, WA was relieved of her duties in mid-April 2003. Corrections department director Andrea Bynum was fired due to her …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Rikers Island Jail Chief Demoted by Rikers Island supervisor Anthony Serra has been demoted from his $140,000 per year position as New York City jail chief amid allegations he improperly assigned underlings to work on Republican Governor George Pataki's re-election campaign. Serra was suspended from duty on October 22, 2002 …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Arizona Prisoner Entitled to Workers' Compensation Payments During Period of Incarceration by The Arizona Court of Appeals held that a prisoner may collect workers' compensation benefits during his term of imprisonment, despite a 1997 state statute prohibiting workers' compensation payments "during the period of time that [a claimant] has . …
North Carolina Juvenile Prisons Plagued by Physical, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect by Lonnie Burton North Carolina Juvenile Prisons Plagued by Physical, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect by Lonnie Burton After four separate lawsuits were filed by prisoners serving sentences at two North Carolina juvenile facilities alleging a wide range …
Deaths and Beatings Rampant in Texas' Nueces County Jail by Gary Hunter Nueces County Jail in Corpus Christi Texas has become a regular source of dead and beaten prisoners. Ten prisoners have died in the jail between 1996 and 2000. Two cases have already cost the county $2 million and …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
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Behind the Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates by Michael Rigby by Jorge Antonio Renaud, University of North Texas Press, 2002, soft cover, 218 pages, $14.95 Review by Michael Rigby If you or someone you know is one of the nearly 150,000 people incarcerated in …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
DSU-Like Conditions in Massachusetts Prison Trigger Due Process Protection by DSU-Like Conditions in Massachusetts Prison Trigger Due Process Protection by Matthew T. Clarke The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has held that the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corrections (MCOC) may not avoid previously ordered due process review of prisoners placed in …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton In February 2002, it was announced that prisoners at a new federal prison in California will soon be partnering with companies such as Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard in a program …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Probation and Parole Populations Continued to Rise in 2001 by According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), in a bulletin released in August 2002, the total number of adult women and men under some form of correctional supervision --jail, prison, probation, or parole rose to 6,592,800 by the end …
Overt Act Unnecessary to Allege Conspiracy Claim in 7th Circuit by The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that it is not necessary to allege an overt act to state a conspiracy claim. The court also held that dismissal of a prisoner's retaliation claim for failure …
America's Prisons Turn a Blind Eye to HCV Epidemic by Mark Wilson The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an insidious and relentless disease which is highly unpredictable and eventually fatal. It is a chronic disease which is the leading cause of cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer which causes an …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Pregnant Wisconsin Prisoner Punished for Sexual Contact While Guard Walks Free by Lonnie Burton In December, 2002, a mentally ill female prisoner at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution (TCI) in Wisconsin was given a year of solitary confinement after being impregnated by a prison guard, while the guard, Mathew Emery, was …
Louisiana Guards' Conviction Upheld in Prisoner's Beating by A jury's conviction of three guards at the Louisianan State Penitentiary at Angola in the assault and beating of prisoner Raymond Jackson has been affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Sergeant Harrison Daniels was convicted in the assault, and denying …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month we continue our coverage of the hepatitis C (HCV) epidemic sweeping through American prisons with little or no treatment for the afflicted. The public health consequences of this and many other diseases that have historically festered in American prisons and jails before …
California Prison Policy Restricting Book Orders Enjoined by The US District Court (ND Calif.) issued a permanent injunction against officials at the maximum security Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) that terminated their policy requiring vendors who shipped books, periodicals, magazines or calendars to PBSP prisoners to use a prison-supplied shipping …
Massachusetts Jury Awards $175,000 to Beaten Ex-Prisoner by On August 28, 2002, a Worcester (MA) Superior Court jury awarded $175,000 to a former Massachusetts state prisoner who sued the Department of Correction (DOC). The jury also found that the DOC negligently hired and supervised a guard with a known propensity …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
900 British Prisoners Freed Following Court Ruling by On July 26, 2002, nine hundred prisoners in England and Wales had to be set free after the European Court of Human rights unanimously ruled that extending prisoners' imprisonment for disciplinary violations without allowing them legal representation violated Article 6 of the …
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