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Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Georgia Jail Guards Charged in Prisoner Abuse Incident by Three guards at Georgia’s Dekalb County Jail (DCJ) were arrested and charged in connection with a May 15, 2011 altercation involving a pretrial detainee. The prisoner, whose name was not released, had been booked into the DCJ on a disorderly conduct …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Medical Parole Law Costs California Taxpayers Millions of Dollars by Responding to concerns that prisoners who are granted compassionate release due to terminal medical conditions may “cheat” the system by outliving a doctor’s prognosis, the California legislature enacted a medical parole law in 2010 that allows prisoners to be re-incarcerated …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Workers’ Comp Claims by Illinois Prison Guards Under Investigation by David Reutter Illinois taxpayers have shelled out over $10 million to settle workers’ compensation claims filed by employees at the Menard Correctional Center (MCC), mainly related to repetitive trauma injuries. However, a study concluded that the job duties guards are …
Offenders Cannot Sue Over Violations of Interstate Probation Transfer Compact by The Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision (“the Compact”) does not create a private right of action, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held on April 11, 2011. Plaintiff M.F. and his domestic partner sued New …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Exec with GEO Group, which Operates Immigration Detention Facilities, Intimidates Immigrant In-Law by Thomas M. Wierdsma is the Senior Vice President for Project Development at The GEO Group, Inc., a Boca Raton, Florida-based company that, according to its 2010 annual report, operates “a broad range of correctional and detention facilities …
31,000 Criminal Cases Under Review After Detroit Crime Lab Closes by After the police crime lab in Detroit, Michigan was found to have provided faulty firearm ballistics evidence in criminal cases, the lab was closed in 2008. A subsequent review of around 31,000 firearm-related prosecutions was deemed “admittedly impossible work,” …
CCA Objects to Shareholder Resolution Filed by Former CCA Prisoner, PLN Associate Editor by When PLN associate editor Alex Friedmann was released from prison in November 1999, he had served six of the ten years he spent behind bars at the South Central Correctional Center in Clifton, Tennessee, a private …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Filed under: Medical
$125,000 Settlement in New Jersey Jail Delayed MRSA Treatment Case by New Jersey’s Cumberland County Board of Freeholders voted on July 26, 2011 to pay $125,000 to settle a prisoner’s claim related to denial of medical care. While confined at the Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) in September 2007, James E. …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Electronic Monitoring: Some Causes for Concern by James Kilgore Electronic monitoring (EM) looms high on the list of alternatives to incarceration for corrections officials seeking solutions to overcrowded prisons and budget deficits. First used in 1983, today some 200,000 people in the United States wear some sort of electronic monitor, …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Pennsylvania Jail Guard Accused of Stealing from 93-Year-Old Widow by Prosecutors have charged an Allegheny County, Pennsylvania jail guard with theft. Mark Hendrick, 46, was charged with access device fraud, theft and misapplication of entrusted property in April 2011 after it was discovered that he had taken more than $147,000 …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
U.S. Department of Justice Releases Statistics on Jail Prisoners at Midyear 2010 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In April 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice issued a statistical report on the nation’s city and county jail population for the twelve-month period ending …
Settlement in Alabama Prison Overcrowding and Violence Suit by David Reutter A class-action lawsuit that alleged conditions at Alabama’s Donaldson Correctional Facility (DCF) placed prisoners “at a substantial risk of injury due to violence, lack of security, understaffing, corruption, and severe overcrowding” has concluded with a settlement agreement designed to …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
$10 Million Settlement in Suit Over Oklahoma Sheriff’s Sex Abuse Scandal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Members of the public typically have little concern over what happens in the jails and prisons in their communities. Taxpayers in Custer County, Oklahoma, however, are now very concerned following a $10 …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Death Sentence Reversed Due to “Accidental” Perjury by Texas Prison Investigator by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed a death sentence imposed on a state prisoner convicted of capital murder, because a prison investigator had falsely described the prisoner classification system in the Texas …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Forty Percent of Adult Offenders Return to Prison Within Three Years of Release by In April 2011, the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States issued a report concerning recidivism rates for released offenders. The report, which updates a similar though far less extensive 2002 study …
HRDC Files Suit on Behalf of Family of Hawaii Prisoner Murdered at CCA Facility by On February 15, 2012, the family of Bronson Nunuha, a 26-year-old Hawaii prisoner who was brutally murdered at a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) prison in Arizona in 2010, filed suit in circuit court in …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
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Prisons in California, Indiana and New Mexico Go Solar by While solar-powered prisons may be a thing of the future, they have already arrived in California, Indiana and New Mexico, at least at a few facilities. In California the move to go solar is part of a larger effort to …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Texas Psychologist Who Approved Prisoners for Execution Receives Reprimand by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Texas psychologist who used questionable methods to examine over a dozen Texas death row prisoners prior to their trials, and found them intellectually competent to face the death penalty, has been fined for using …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
California’s Race-Based Prison Lockdowns Targeted in Class-Action Lawsuit by The Prison Law Office (PLO) has teamed up with the San Francisco-based law firm of Bingham McCutchen, LLP to challenge the official policy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to impose blanket race-based lockdowns in response to potential …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
California: Orange County Settles Suit Over Jail Detainee’s Death for $2.1 Million by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim In April 2011, the family of a detainee who died while being restrained by Orange County jail guards agreed to settle a lawsuit against the county for $2.1 million. The April 1, …
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