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Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
$73,700 Jury Award for Guard’s Sexual Encounters with Massachusetts Prisoner by David Reutter A Massachusetts federal jury has awarded $73,700 in damages to a woman who was repeatedly sexually assaulted while imprisoned at the South Middlesex Correctional Center (SMCC). After being convicted of drug offenses in 2003, Christina Chao, 31, …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Sixth Circuit Upholds Tennessee’s Financial Obligation Re-Enfranchisement Law by Mark Wilson The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Tennessee statute that bars the restoration of voting rights to ex-felons who have outstanding restitution or child support obligations. Tennessee law disenfranchises convicted felons but allows reinstatement of their voting …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
New Mexico Spends $20 Million in Federal Stimulus Money to Fund Prison Jobs by Like most other states, New Mexico received a large amount of federal money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Of the billions of dollars in stimulus funds, $260 million was earmarked as a “state fiscal …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches
$60 Million in Strip Search Settlements for Cook County Jail Prisoners by Derek Gilna Two separate settlements totaling almost $60 million were approved between November 2010 and January 2011 for Cook County, Illinois jail prisoners who were strip searched before being released. Both settlements stemmed from federal court cases filed …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches
Ninth Circuit Finds Maricopa County Jail’s Cross-Gender Strip Searches Unreasonable by On January 5, 2011, the en banc Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Charles Edward Byrd, while a pre-trial detainee …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
California: OAL Disapproves Proposed Parole Board Regulation Formalizing Lifer Risk Assessments by Michael Brodheim In May 2011, California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) disapproved a proposed regulation submitted by the Board of Parole Hearings intended to formalize procedures requiring Board psychologists to evaluate the risk for future violence of life-sentenced …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Feds Pay Wrongfully Convicted D.C. Men $1.9 Million by The U.S. Department of Justice agreed in April 2011 to pay almost $1.9 million to two former prisoners wrongfully convicted of murder, who spent a combined 49 years in prison for a District of Columbia homicide. Joseph Wayne Eastridge and Joseph …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Florida Reenacts Reconstruction-Era Felon Disenfranchisement Rule by David Reutter On March 9, 2011, Florida’s executive clemency board unanimously voted to make it more difficult for ex-felons to have their civil rights restored – including the right to vote, sit on a jury and hold public office. Rather than automatic restoration …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
New Mexico State Auditor Investigates Prison Contracts by On November 12, 2010, New Mexico State Auditor Hector Balderas revealed that his office was investigating whether a former state prison employee violated rules when awarding construction and maintenance contracts to three vendors between 2007 and 2010. Balderas said New Mexico Department …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, News
Washington State Closes McNeil Island Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Citing $12 million in annual savings, the Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) has closed the 1,200-bed McNeil Island Corrections Center. A 2009 audit, however, found there would be no actual savings because it would cost the …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Smoke ’Em if You Got ’Em, Says Oklahoma DOC by The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) has partially reversed its six-year-old smoking ban. Citing increased prisoner health care costs caused by smoking, the DOC banned cigarettes in all its facilities in 2004. Since then, predictably, a black market for tobacco …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Oregon Settles Prisoner’s Heart Failure Medical Mistreatment Case for $390,000 by Mark Wilson “This poor woman had two valves diseased, both of them stressing her heart out, giving her heart failure,” said Dr. Sanjiv Kaul, head of cardiovascular medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), speaking of Katherine Anderson, a …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
California: Orange County Jail System Ordered to Remedy ADA Violations by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim Following remand from the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in Pierce v. County of Orange, 525 F.3d 1190 (9th Cir. 2008) [PLN, Feb. 2009, p.34], U.S. District Court Judge Audrey B. Collins held on January 7, …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Arizona County to Pay Ex-Prisoner $325,000 in Jail Guard Beating by The Board of Supervisors for Pima County, Arizona has agreed to pay $325,000 to a former prisoner for injuries he received in a beating by jail guards that resulted in blood clots and a heart attack. Clifford Linebarger, 29, …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
UNICOR Wins $20 Million No-Bid Body Armor Contract by On March 9, 2011, the U.S. Army announced that it had awarded a $20 million no-bid contract to Federal Prison Industries, also known as UNICOR, to fulfill an order for body armor. The U.S. military is one of UNICOR’s top customers; …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country, by Susan Rosenberg (Kensington Publishing Corp. 2011), 400 pages, $14.95 paperback by Book review by Bruce Reilly Susan Rosenberg was raised on the 1950s anti-segregation movement, became an activist within the 1960s anti-war movement, and believed in armed resistance throughout the …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Federal Stimulus Money Not Spent as Intended by San Diego County Probation Department by According to an internal audit disclosed in November 2010, the San Diego County Probation Department did not allocate federal stimulus funds for the purposes intended under the terms of the stimulus program. The good news is …
Texas Chaplain Who Complained of Jail Conditions Reinstated, Suit Settled by In January 2011, Gail Hanson was reinstated as a volunteer chaplain at the Cameron County Jail in Brownsville, Texas. She had been banned from the facility after she publicly criticized conditions at the jail, and her reinstatement was part …
Protective Order Denied in Privately Run Florida Juvenile Facility Class-Action Suit by David Reutter A Florida federal district court has denied a motion for a protective order filed by the defendants in a class-action lawsuit brought by five current or former residents of Thompson Academy, a juvenile facility managed by …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
$4.5 Million Settlement in Texas County Jail Strip Search Suit by On January 12, 2011, a Texas federal court approved a $4.5 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit involving suspicionless strip searches of people booked into the Bexar County Detention Center (BCDC) in San Antonio, Texas for minor offenses. …
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