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Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
New York HCV Treatment Suit Not Mooted by Equivocal DOC Concession; Class Certification Granted by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The United States District Court (N.D. N.Y.) rejected the New York Department of Corrections' (NYDOC) attempt to moot a class action claim filed by HCV (Hepatitis-C) infected prisoners who …
Wisconsin Halfway House Overbills BOP; Fired Whistle blower Settles For $435,000 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Federal jurors found that Rock Valley Community Programs (RVCP) in Janesville, Wisconsin and its chief executive officer, Irwin McHugh, had submitted false claims for reimbursement to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). …
California DOC Drug Program Funds Squandered by Marvin Mentor Five California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) employees, testifying under subpoena at a February 27, 2006 State Senate Government Oversight Committee hearing, revealed the use-it-or-lose-it practice of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars allotted to prisoner drug treatment programs on …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Second Circuit: Drug-Abuse Based Denial Of HCV Treatment Is Actionable by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals permitted a prisoners damages claim against the New York Department of Corrections (DOC) to proceed after he had been denied treatment for his Hepatitis-C (HCV) …
California DOC Diverts $480,000 of Drug Treatment Money for Movie Studio by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), while overrunning its 2005 $6.4 billion state budget by $543 million, nonetheless diverted $480,000 of unspent drug treatment money to a private foundation to create a movie studio. The Amity …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
California Probationers and Parolees Not Similarly Situated As To Eligibility For Prop. 36 Drug Tr by John Dannenberg California Probationers and Parolees Not Similarly Situated As To Eligibility For Prop. 36 Drug Treatment by John E. Dannenberg The California State Supreme Court held that Equal Protection claims as to parolees …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Seventh Circuit Reverses Judgment on Denial of Methadone by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment to jail officials on claims of denial of methadone and inadequate medical care. On April 27, 2000, Richard Foelker reported to the Outagamie County, Wisconsin, Jail to …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Poor Substance Abusers Imprisoned En Masse Without Treatment by Michael Rigby More than two-thirds of U.S. jail, prisoners in 2002 were found to be dependent on drugs or alcohol or to abuse them. But many never get the help they need, a study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) …
Federal Judge Enforces "Valdivia Remedial Plan" for California Parole Violators by Federal Judge Enforces "Valdivia Remedial Plan" for California Parole Violators On June 8, 2005, the United States District Court enforced its order in Valdivia v. Davis, 206 F.Supp.2d 1068 (E.D. Cal. 2002) [PLN, Jan.2003, p.16] and its March 9, …
Arbitrary Draconian Restrictions on Texas Parolees by by Matthew T. Clarke Texas parolees have been subjected to a number of draconian measures not necessarily related to their conviction. For instance, parolees who were not convicted of sex offenses have been made to register as sex offenders and take sex offender …
Settlements Reached In Alabama Women Prisoners' Class-Action Suit by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 23, 2004, U. S. District Judge Myron Thompson signed a settlement order in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit brought by prisoners at three Alabama Department of Corrections women's prisons challenging their conditions of confinement. The suit …
Brief • February 3, 2005
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Wisconsin Contract for Faith-Based Program Does Not Violate First Amendment by Bob Williams Wisconsin Contract for Faith-Based Program Does Not Violate First Amendment by Bob Williams A Wisconsin federal district court has found that a state Department of Corrections (WDOC) contract with a faith-based addiction recovery program does not violate …
Florida Jail Pays Prisoner's Family $2.5 Million in Methadone Withdrawal Death by On May 23, 2001, Karen Johnson, 43, literally died of medical neglect while being held prisoner in the Orange County Jail in Orlando, Florida. In July, 2002 PLN reported how Johnson desperately pleaded with her captors to continue …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
California's Proposition 36 Parole Violator Drug Treatment Program Covers Probation Violators by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeal judicially extended the reach of California's parole violator alternative drug treatment program, Proposition (Prop.) 36 (Nov. 7, 2000, codified at Penal Code §§ 1210, 1210.1, 3063.1) …
BOP Rule Denying Early Release Eligibility Violates APA by A federal court in Oregon held that Bureau of Prisons (BOP) drug treatment rules violate the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). "18 U.S.C. § 3621(b) directs the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to provide substance abuse treatment to those prisoners who have a …
Canadian Prisoner Dies After Drinking Drug-Laced Vomit, Others Charged by Michael Rigby Canadian Prisoner Dies After Drinking Drug-Laced Vomit, Others Charged by Michael Rigby Prisoners at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (Canada) have been drinking each other's drug-laced vomit in order to get high. One woman …
Virginia Drug Treatment Program Still Violates Establishment Clause by Virginia Drug Treatment Program Still Violates Establishment Clause A federal district court in Virginia held that the Therapeutic Community Program (TCP) of the Virginia Department of Corrections violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The court also held, however, that …
Any Reliance On AA or NA Participation During Parole Consideration Violates Establishment Clause by Any Reliance On AA or NA Participation During Parole Consideration Violates Establishment Clause by John E. Dannenberg The United States District Court, E.D. Cal., ruled that requiring a California life prisoner to attend Narcotics Anonymous (NA) …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Habeas Granted in BOP Good Time Case by More than one year after Lopez v. Davis, 121 S.Ct. 714, 531 U.S. 230 (2001), an Oregon U.S. District Court has ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to transfer a prisoner to a community corrections (CCC) program "as soon as practicable." …
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