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Article • December 15, 2007
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Attempted Hanging Suit Settled for $1.5 Million by California Jail by A California prisoner was paid $1.5 million to settle a suit for injuries incurred when he attempted to hang himself. Mr. Davey was a 21-year-old prisoner when he attempted to hang himself with a bed sheet in a California …
Retroactive Application of NJ Sex Offender Law Upheld by The plaintiffs were convicted before September 1979 of sex offenses and their conduct determined to be characterized by "a pattern of repetitive and compulsive behavior." They were sentenced to indeterminate terms in an Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center and could not …
Eighth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Forced Religion Claim by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a prisoner?s Establishment Clause Claim as frivolous. In June 2000, Arkansas prisoner James Munson was granted parole, contingent upon completion of a year long sex offender treatment program called Reduction of …
Article • December 15, 2007
Louisiana Prisoner Paid $1,822 in Emotional Damages for Moving Dead Body by A Louisiana prisoner was paid $1,822 to settle emotional distress claims related to being forced to move the body of a prisoner who hung himself to death. Mr. Cotton was a prisoner at the Shreveport City Jail when …
“Please Rip Us Off” Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies by David Reutter "Please Rip Us Off" Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies by David M. Reutter Despite having ordered a criminal investigation into its private prison contractors, the Florida Legislature and Governor Charlie Crist have enacted legislation that specifies …
California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program “A Complete Waste Of Money” by Marvin Mentor California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program "A Complete Waste Of Money" by Marvin Mentor California's Inspector General Matthew Cate issued a scathing 52-page report in February 2007 which …
Article • November 15, 2007
An Unprecedented Crime: Mass Torture in America. And How to Stop It by Lance Tapley By: LANCE TAPLEY 11/14/2007 1:49:18 PM Editor's Note: This is an edited version of a speech given by Phoenix contributing writer Lance Tapley to a seminar at the National Lawyers Guild 70th Anniversary Convention in …
MDC Brooklyn: Sex Scandal and 11 Staff Indicted for Beating Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 12, 2007, eleven guards at the federal Bureau of Prison's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York " including a captain and three lieutenants" were indicted for abusing prisoners. At …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Indiana DOC Agrees to Remove Mentally Ill Prisoners from Control Units by The Indiana Department of Corrections (IDC) settled a class action lawsuit brought by mentally ill prisoners whose Eighth Amendment rights had been trampled since 1993 by IDC policy that placed them in long-term disciplinary housing instead of treating …
March Madness in Georgia Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke March 2007 was an unusually bloody month in Georgia prisons, with three murders of prisoners by other prisoners and one severe beating of a mentally ill, handcuffed prisoner by guards. Since 2005 there have been five homicides in the …
Rikers Island Diapered Mentally Ill in Segregation by Prison officials in New York City have been charged in a lawsuit filed upon behalf of four mentally ill prisoners with depriving those prisoners of their basic human rights and placing them in diapers while in isolated segregation. The prisoners, who were …
Prisoners Died By the Thousands Between 2001 and 2004 by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby Elderly prisoners are more than twice as likely to die behind bars as those who are not in prison, a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) on prison mortality rates reveals. White and …
Texas Jail Pays $200,000 to Settle Rape/Suicide Suit by Val Verde County, Texas and its contract Del Rio jail operator, GEO Group, Inc., agreed in March 2007 to pay $200,000 to the surviving family of a 23-year-old woman prisoner who, upon becoming depressed after being raped in the jail, hung …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
$150,000 Settlement in Suit over Atlanta Prisoner’s Fall-Related Death by $150,000 Settlement in Suit over Atlanta Prisoner's Fall-Related Death In November 2006, the family of a man who suffered fatal injuries when he fell over a railing on an upper floor of an Atlanta jail settled with the city for …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
New York High Court Invokes Due Process Rights for Civil Commitment of Alleged Sexual Predators by The New York Court of Appeals reversed a ruling by the Appellate Division that had permitted sex offenders nearing the end of their criminal sentences to be summarily transferred to mental health facilities (e,g., …
Coleman v. Schwarzenegger, CA, Joint Statement Re Discovery Dispute, Medical Class Action, 2007 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PRISON LAW OFFICE DONALD SPECTER Bar No.: 83925 STEVEN FAMA Bar No.: 99641 E. IVAN TRUJILLO Bar No.: 228790 General Delivery San Quentin, California 94964 Telephone: (415) 457-9144 BINGHAM, …
Unsupported Penile Plethysmograph Testing as Condition of Release Rises to Due Process Violation, Creates Liberty Interest by The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that arbitrarily imposing a penile plethysmograph [electromechanical gauge of male sexual stimulation] testing requirement as a condition of supervised release for a sex offender violates …
Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Mississippi Retaliation For Letters to a Newspaper Claim by In an unpublished opinion the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's dismissal, for failure to state a claim, of a prisoner's retaliation suit against one prison official, but upheld the dismissal of claims …
Little State, Big Problems: Maine’s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated by Lance Tapley Little State, Big Problems: Maine?s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated by Lance Tapley Only big prison systems mistreat prisoners, right? Only prison systems where racism, right-wing tough-on-crime attitudes, or prison-industrial-complex power have full reign, like in California or Texas, …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Minnesota Sanction for Sex Offender Treatment Refusal Violates Fifth Amendment by The Minnesota Court of Appeals held that disciplining a prisoner and extending his prison sentence for refusal to participate in sex offender treatment was a violation of the Fifth Amendment. The appellate court concluded that State ex rel. Morrow …
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