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Brief • December 20, 2011
Filed under: Attorney Fees (PLRA)
Floyd et al. City of New York et al, NY, MOL ISO of Daubert Motion, PLRA attorney fee awards, 2011 Case 1:08-cv-01034-SAS -HBP Document 179 Filed 12/20/11 Page 1 of 20 Case 1:08-cv-01034-SAS -HBP Document 179 Filed 12/20/11 Page 2 of 20 Case 1:08-cv-01034-SAS -HBP Document 179 Filed 12/20/11 Page …
Gaines v. Contra Costa County, CA, Complaint, Failure to Protect - Hazardous Conditions, 2011 . ' ... , /,.-·- -----------~ .2.osqq_ _. 'ATTORNEY OR PARTYwmtoUT ATTORNEY {Nalr.e, Stats.. - ~i=~1-1~1r-,- ___,._ _ _ _ _ _P_L_D•_P_l-0_0__,1 - .,ntw. and address]: _. .. . . ______ . . _l\\oc-:tioe1- .Oe.i:f.otion_fac.i\{t'(-i- ___ …
Morris v. Dallas County, TX, 2nd Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death - ADA, 2011 Case 3:11-cv-00527-K Document 40 Filed 12/16/11 Page 1 of 14 PageID 204 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DALLAS DIVISION ARTHUR MORRIS and BEVERLY MORRIS, Individually and as Representative of the …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Oregon Rethinking Criminal Justice Policies to Avoid Fiscal Crisis by Oregon is one of ten states in “financial peril,” according to a November 2009 report by The Pew Center on the States. Thanks in large part to the state’s criminal justice policies of the last 20 years, Oregon faces an …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
$96,000 Settlement in Massachusetts Conditions of Confinement Suit by Following a Massachusetts Superior Court’s award of nominal damages and attorney fees in a prison conditions case, and with an appeal pending, the parties entered into a settlement agreement. The settlement resulted from a lawsuit that sought damages for “disgusting and …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
$227,500 Settlement in Suit by Former Minnesota DOC Prison Chaplain by A former Minnesota prison chaplain has settled a lawsuit against state officials after she lost her job for raising concerns about the constitutionality of the InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI) program. Kristine Holmgren was employed by the Minnesota Department of …
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Defies Court Order, Refuses to Allow Attorney to Take Photographs of Injured Prisoner by Claiming there was “nothing to hide,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Steve Whitmore nevertheless defended the decision of the Sheriff’s Department not to comply with a court order authorizing an …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Ohio Adam Walsh Act Violates Separation of Powers Doctrine by Provisions of Ohio’s Adam Walsh Act (AWA) that require the reclassification of sex offenders by the Ohio Attorney General violate the separation of powers doctrine, the Ohio Supreme Court decided on June 3, 2010. In 2006, Congress passed the federal …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Indiana DOC’s Refusal to Provide Kosher Meals Violates RLUIPA by Brandon Sample The Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) must provide kosher meals to prisoners who require a kosher diet to properly exercise their religious beliefs, U.S. District Court Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson held on November 1, 2010. Judge Magnus-Stinson’s decision was …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Alabama: Evergreen police officer Sean Klaetsch was placed on paid leave on Sept. 8, 2011 due to “complaints of unprofessional and harassing conduct.” That conduct included Klaetsch allegedly using a Taser on a female prisoner while she was in a restraint chair at the local jail. …
Prison Sexual Abuse Survivor Speaks Out by Alan Prendergast In January 2010, Scott Howard, a 39-year-old federal prisoner, made his way briskly into a hearing room in the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building in Washington, D.C. He was neatly dressed in blazer, slacks and tie, and quite nervous about what …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Filed under: Medical, Medical Expenses
Texas State Auditor Blasts UTMB, Texas Tech Prisoner Health Care Costs by Medical care for more than 150,000 prisoners in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is contracted out to two state university medical systems – the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and Texas Tech University …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of PLN for 2011. Since we began publishing PLN, the issue of prisoner rape and sexual assault has been an important priority. There has been some improvement, at least as far as raising public awareness around this issue, over …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
DOJ Finds No Wrongdoing After Prisoner Dies Due to Grossly Inadequate Medical Care by Brandon Sample Prison officials at the Federal Correctional Institution in Pekin, Illinois, a medium-security facility, were the subject of an FBI investigation related to a prisoner who died in agony after being denied medical care. Adam …
Anatomy of False Confessions, Redux by Earlier this year PLN reported on the phenomenon of suspects who falsely confess to crimes they did not commit. [See: PLN, April 2011, p.18]. As false confessions occur in wrongful conviction cases with disturbing regularity, this article revisits and expounds on this important topic …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Tennessee: Felony Friendly Job Fairs an Unexpected Hit by When Tennessee state Representative Brenda Gilmore and other event organizers planned a Felony Friendly Job Fair in North Nashville on April 23, 2011, they expected a turnout of about 100 former prisoners looking for work. They grossly underestimated the interest among …
Illinois DOC Sued to Accommodate Hearing Impaired Prisoners by A class-action lawsuit filed on May 4, 2011 is challenging the failure of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) to provide assistance to prisoners who are deaf or hard of hearing. The complaint, filed in federal court, alleges violations of the …
Tennessee: Incident Rates at CCA Facilities Higher Than at Public Prisons by According to an analysis of incidents involving assaults and disturbances at government-run and privately-managed prisons in Tennessee from January 2009 to June 2011, incident rates were consistently higher at the state’s three private prisons. Those were the findings …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Study Shows Ex-offenders Have Greatly Reduced Employment Rates by In November 2010 the Center for Economic and Policy Research released a study titled “Ex-offenders and the Labor Market,” which found that a felony conviction or imprisonment significantly reduces the ability of ex-offenders to find jobs, costing the U.S. economy an …
Ohio ACLU, Other Organizations Release Reports on Prison Privatization by In April 2011 the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU) released an expansive report entitled Prisons for Profit: A Look at Prison Privatization, which draws strongly on the experiences of other states with heavily-privatized prison systems. The report concludes …
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