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Rhode Island Pays $120,000 To Prisoner Forced To Eat Feces by Michael Rigby The State of Rhode Island has paid $120,000 to settle with a prisoner who was forced by guards to eat his own feces. While serving a six month sentence for shoplifting at the Adult Correctional Institution (ACI) …
Arkansas Ups Work-Release Fees to Pay for Guard-Drivers by On October 27, 2006, the Arkansas Board of Corrections unanimously voted to increase the daily fees charged prisoners participating in the work-release program from $15 to $17. The increase is to be used to pay for guards to drive the prisoners …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Drunk PA DOC Attorney Charged in Hit-and-Run by Michael Farnan, 40, chief counsel for the Pennsylvania DOC, resigned from his job after he was involved in a hit-and-run accident in his state car. Farnan had been drinking heavily when he ran into the back of Tamara Hughes? minivan on November …
$27,500 Settlement for Rape of Four Women Prisoners in Pittsburgh Jail by There have been settlements in four separate lawsuits involving the Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Jail. The suits alleged that seven Allegheny County Jail guards sexually assaulted four women prisoners. In May 2006, Allegheny County began settling a series of …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Oklahoma Escapee Who Fled With Warden’s Wife Sentenced to Maximum, Then Dies by Oklahoma Escapee Who Fled With Warden's Wife Sentenced to Maximum, Then Dies When Randolph F. Dial escaped from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in August 1994, he set off a search not only for himself, but also for …
Escape From TransCor Van Not a Crime in Montana by On January 11, 2006, a Montana state district court set aside two prisoners' convictions for escape and acquitted them after holding that no evidence had been presented that they were in the custody of a peace officer, a requirement for …
Texas Prison Chief Escapes Sex Charges, Convicted of Lesser Offenses by Gary Hunter On March 31, 2006, in a Walker County courthouse, Salvador ?Sammy? Buentello pleaded guilty to a felony charge of unlawful restraint and five counts of official oppression. Buentello, 50, had been the assistant director of gang affairs …
Three Failures To Segregate Vulnerable Jail Prisoner Costs Los Angeles County $44,000 by On November 21, 2006, Los Angeles County paid a thrice-injured jail prisoner $44,000 to settle a tort claim for the injuries he sustained on three occasions when he was placed in general population housing and beaten by …
Michigan Prisoner Boycotts Rape Trial, Still Acquitted by Facing a sexual assault trial of a fellow prisoner is a pretty serious felony, making one think they would want to be present during the trial. Feeling he could not get a fair trial, Charlie Lee Floyd, 46, boycotted that trial. Despite …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Study: Supermax Prisons Achieve Control While Inflicting Debilitating Side Effects, But Don’t Reduce Recidivism by John Dannenberg Study: Supermax Prisons Achieve Control While Inflicting Debilitating Side Effects, But Don't Reduce Recidivism by John E. Dannenberg The Justice Policy Center of the Urban Institute (UI) issued a research report, Evaluating the …
Second Hawaii Sex Assault Case Settled for $25,000 by The state of Hawaii has agreed to settle with a second prisoner who claimed she was sexually assaulted by a former warden while imprisoned at the Maui Community Correctional Center, as reported in a February 9, 2007 article in the Honolulu …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Federal Prisoner’s Criminal Assault Conviction Reversed; Entitled to Raise Self-Defense by Federal Prisoner's Criminal Assault Conviction Reversed; Entitled to Raise Self-Defense The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a California federal district court failed to properly define the elements of a claim of self-defense when a prisoner was …
Washington Indigents All Get Experts at Public Expense by The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled that CrR 3.1(f) entitles indigent criminal defendants to expert services at public expense, even if they?re represented by private counsel. Rodin Punsalan and Chayce Arden Hanson were prosecuted in the King County Superior Court …
Florida’s Broward County Jail: Abuse and Misconduct As Usual by David Reutter Florida's Broward County Jail: Abuse and Misconduct As Usual by David M. Reutter Despite Florida's Broward County jail (BCJ) being under the supervision of a court-appointed monitor, recent incidents reveal prisoners are still at danger. BCJ has been …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Colorado Successfully Pressures FBI To Release DNA Info; Racial Bias Infects DNA Databases by Gary Hunter State law enforcement agencies have struck a tentative deal with FBI officials that allows agencies to share previously privileged information. The deal resulted from the brutal rape and beating of a Colorado woman who …
State of California - Corrections Corporation of America Contract, 2007 STATE orQAUFORN,!\ STANB~"1!I.6.GREEMENT AME~ STD.213 A (Rev 6i'Y2t... D .IENT . CH}:CK HERE IF ADDITIONAL PAGES ARE ATTACHED 3 Pages I [AGREEMENTNUMBER C06.298 AMENDMENT NUMBER REGISTRATION NUMBER L 1. This Agreement is entered into between the State Agency and Contractor …
Article • May 15, 2007
Evidence From Tape-Recorded Conversation Not Admissible by In this criminal proceeding, the Supreme Court of California held that evidence from a car towed from defendant's apartment was admissible, but evidence from a tape-recorded conversation between the defendant and his wife was not. After his arrest, defendant's wife was permitted to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Escaped Prisoner Has Limited Expectation of Privacy by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that an escaped prisoner is considered to be in constructive custody and therefore has a limited expectation of privacy. Roy, an escaped prisoner, was detained by Rocky Hill., Connecticut police on suspicion …
Article • May 15, 2007
Claim of Juror Alcohol Use Does Not Warrant Evidentiary Hearing by The U.S. Supreme Court held that a district court's refusal to hold an evidentiary hearing on allegations that jurors used alcohol during a criminal trial was not in error. Defendants, two friends who were involved in an allegedly illicit …
County Officials Not Liable in Prisoner' Beating by Fellow Prisoner by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky, held that Ohio County, Kentucky, jail officials were not liable for a prisoner's vicious beating by a fellow prisoner. Sherman Taylor and Charles …
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