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Investigation into Complaints from Native American Inmates at Crossroads, MT DOC, 2009
Publication • May 26, 2016
Neither Fair Nor Impartial - An Investigation into IA DOC’ Sanctions Against an Inmate, IA OO, 2015 Neither Fair Nor Impartial An Investigation into the Iowa Department of Corrections’ Sanctions Against an Inmate Iowa Office of Ombudsman Ruth H. Cooperrider, Ombudsman February 16, 2015 Contributors Investigator Bert Dalmer, Senior Assistant …
Article • May 12, 2016
Maine Legislators Not Informed Of Murder At Secure Mental Health Unit Occurring Before Funding Vote by Christopher Zoukis Members of the Maine Legislature voted to enlarge the Mental Health Unit at Maine State Prison's Supermax facility last August, doubling its size to 32 beds.  What they did not know when …
$8,000 Settlement for Medical Maltreatment by BOP; Court Finds Experts Not Required by Derek Gilna Federal prisoner Michael Alan Crooker filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act alleging “malicious prosecution, negligence, and medical maltreatment by the United States Marshal’s Service (USMS) and the United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP).” …
Florida’s Private Prison Movement Alive and Well by David Reutter With the promise of saving taxpayer dollars to house a growing prisoner population during a cyclical crime wave in the early 1990s, Florida decided to experiment with private prisons. From the start, those involved in the push to privatize were …
BOP Pays $70,000 to Settle Lawsuit by Sexually Abused Transgender Prisoner by Derek Gilna Samantha Hill, a male-to-female transgender prisoner in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was raped at USP Florence in December 2013 – one of many sexual assaults the BOP failed to prevent through …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
New York: $35,000 Awarded for Three-week Illegal Confinement by Mark Wilson The Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division has upheld a $35,000 damage award in favor of a former prisoner illegally confined for three weeks. In October 2007, Robert Miller was charged with second- and third-degree drug offenses. He …
California’s Inspector General Cites Abuses at High Desert State Prison by Derek Gilna A special report by Robert A. Barton, Inspector General of the State of California, released in December 2015, highlighted numerous problems at the High Desert State Prison in Susanville. The California Senate Committee on Rules had requested …
Thomas. v. Butkiewicus, CT, Ruling re: Plaintiff's Motion for Sanctions, Spoliation of Evidence, 2016 Case 3:13-cv-00747-JCH Document 134 Filed 04/29/16 Page 1 of 41 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT : : : : : : : : : TYE THOMAS, Plaintiff, v. DAVE BUTKIEWICUS et al., Defendants. CIVIL …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Ninth Circuit: Freezing Prisoner’s Funds Requires Pre-deprivation Process by Mark Wilson Prison officials must provide a pre-deprivation hearing before freezing substantial prisoner assets, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on April 6, 2015. Under Oregon’s “pay-to-stay” law, prisoners are fully liable for their incarceration costs. The Oregon Department of …
Lawsuit Claiming CMUs Lack Due Process on Appeal to D.C. Circuit by Derek Gilna The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) first instituted Communication Management Units (CMUs) in 2006 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, then added another unit to the supermax in Marion, Illinois in 2008. CMUs were designed …
Article • March 31, 2016
Bids for Florida DOC Video Visitation Technology Result in Lawsuit by On March 7, 2014, the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) released a request for proposal (RFP) seeking a five-year contract with a vendor to install telecommunications services in its prisons. Proposals were submitted by Century Link to Public Communications, …
Article • March 30, 2016
$100,000 Award to Pennsylvania Prisoner Denied Dental Care by A Pennsylvania federal jury awarded $100,000 to a prisoner who was denied treatment for a “rotten molar” while at the Washington County Correctional Facility (WCCF). Upon his February 6, 2009 intake at WCCF, Joseph Consonery informed a nurse that he had …
Article • March 7, 2016
Birdman of Alcatraz's Book on Federal Prison Makes It to Press After 51-Year Delay by Christopher Zoukis Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz immortalized in an eponymous film starring Burt Lancaster, wrote a 2,000 page history of the Federal Bureau of Prisons before his death in 1963.  That book is …
Report Highlights Continuing Problems with Florida Department of Corrections by Derek Gilna The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) was the subject of a recent Prison Legal News cover story that detailed prisoner deaths, excessive use of force by guards, and other types of misconduct and corruption. [See: PLN, Feb. 2016, …
Tennessee: Federal Court Orders Interim Medical Care in Prisoner’s Pro Se Suit by Following an evidentiary hearing on November 15, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge William J. Haynes, Jr. ordered Tennessee prison officials to provide medication to a prisoner with a severe case of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) until he …
Sexual Harassment, Abuse Alleged at Oklahoma Halfway House for Women by Joe Watson Ownership of a privately-operated Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) halfway house near Tulsa has changed hands in the midst of at least two lawsuits and possible criminal charges stemming from allegations that the owner of a sandwich …
Farrell v. Kernan, CA, Order dismissing consent decree, CDCR juvenile remdial plans, 2016
Publication • February 24, 2016
Lax Oversight Plagues Private Prisons in Texas, Watch Your Assets, 2008 Exposing the misuse and abuse of the public commons This edition of the “Watch Your Assets” newsletter is a joint project between Texans for Public Justice and Grassroots Leadership. Vol. 1, No. 9 February 6, 2008 Lax Oversight Plagues …
Letter re CCA IN Jail Litigation re Canceled Pill Call due to Staffing, Roberts and Bishop, 2008
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