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$1,000 Settlement in BOP Employee’s Age Discrimination Complaint
Article • July 28, 2016
Filed under: Employee Litigation, Age Discrimination
$1,000 Settlement in BOP Employee’s Age Discrimination Complaint by The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $1,000 to settle an employee’s age discrimination complaint. Ronald Riggs, 51, worked at FCI Milan in Michigan when he applied in December of 1999 for a position as Supervisory Clinical Psychologist at FCI Butner in …
Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner Commits Suicide
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Advocacy, Prison Reform, Wrongful Conviction, Death Penalty/Death Row, Suicides
Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner Commits Suicide by Anti-death penalty advocate Darryl Hunt, who was wrongfully convicted and served almost 20 years in North Carolina prisons before being exonerated in 2004, was found dead on March 13, 2016 in a car near the Wake Forest University campus. Police officials revealed that …
ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - Alamance County Detention Center, Graham, NC, ICE, 2008
Publication • June 2, 2016
Filed under: Corrections Audits, Immigration
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ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - Alamance County Detention Center, Graham, NC, ICE, 2012
Publication • June 2, 2016
Filed under: Corrections Audits, Immigration
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North Carolina Banned Books List - 2016
Publication • 2016
Filed under: Publications/Books, Banned Book Lists, Censorship
North Carolina Banned Books List - 2016
Fourth Circuit Upholds Denial of Summary Judgment to Guards in Excessive Force Suit
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Damages
Fourth Circuit Upholds Denial of Summary Judgment to Guards in Excessive Force Suit by In a May 19, 2015 decision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s denial of summary judgment to prison guards in a lawsuit claiming excessive use of force during a cell extraction. Sammy …
NC DOC ICS Rates effective March 2016
Kickback publication • April 7, 2016
Filed under: Telephone Rates
NC DOC ICS Rates effective March 2016  MENU  SEARCH NC DPS  SILVER ALERT ·A Silver Alert has been issued for De'ja Robertson by the N.C. Center for Missing Persons Read More » » » »   Inmate Telephone System Inmate Telephone System Our Organization Law Enforcement …
$2.5 Million Settlement in North Carolina Prisoner’s Dehydration Death
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: Water, Restraints, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)
$2.5 Million Settlement in North Carolina Prisoner’s Dehydration Death by The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of a mentally ill prisoner who died after spending 35 days in an isolation cell. Michael Anthony Kerr’s death in 2014 occurred during a …
McCollum v. Robeson County, NC, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Conviction Death Sentence, 2016
Brief • March 24, 2016
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, Death Penalty
McCollum v. Robeson County, NC, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Conviction Death Sentence, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION ------------------------------------------------------------------------X Docket # 5:15-CV-451-BO HENRY LEE MCCOLLUM and GERALDINE BROWN RANSOM, on behalf of and as legal guardian of LEON BROWN, Plaintiffs, -versusROBESON …
Prison Healthcare Financial Audit, Feb, NC OSA, 2013
Publication • February 16, 2016
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Corrections Audits
Prison Healthcare Financial Audit, Feb, NC OSA, 2013 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY DIVISION OF ADULT CORRECTION RECOVERY AUDIT EFFORTS FINANCIAL RELATED AUDIT FEBRUARY 2013 OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR BETH A. WOOD, CPA STATE AUDITOR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY DIVISION OF ADULT CORRECTION RECOVERY AUDIT EFFORTS …
Death in Military Custody - Commanders Report (NC), 04-08, ACLU, 2008
Publication • February 16, 2016
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Death in Military Custody - Commanders Report (NC), 04-08, ACLU, 2008
The Problem of Supermax Prisons, NC Journal of Law and Tech Vol 4 Issue 1 Fall (Pettigrew), 2002
Publication • February 9, 2016
Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement
The Problem of Supermax Prisons, NC Journal of Law and Tech Vol 4 Issue 1 Fall (Pettigrew), 2002 NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1: FALL 2002 Comment: Technology and the Eighth Amendment: The Problem of Supermax Prisons Charles A. Pettigrew1 “I worry that anytime something …
The Changing Racial Composition of Three State Prison Systems, Justice Center Analysis, 2015
Publication • February 8, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
The Changing Racial Composition of Three State Prison Systems, Justice Center Analysis, 2015 March 2015 In Brief: Examining the Changing Racial Composition of Three States’ Prison Populations T he National Research Council’s 2014 report, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring the Causes and Consequences, highlighted how the …
Heyer v. BOP, Order Granting Partial MSJ, Denying Dismissal Without Prejudice, 2016
Brief • January 4, 2016
Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Americans with Disabilities Act
Heyer v. BOP, Order Granting Partial MSJ, Denying Dismissal Without Prejudice, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION No. 5:11-CT-3118-D THOMAS HEYER and ROBERT PAUL BOYD, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES BUREAU OF PRISONS, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) …
North Carolina District Attorney Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Allegedly Firing Employee Based on His Public Statements Criticizing Program
Article • November 17, 2015
Filed under: Qualified Immunity, First Amendment, Employee Litigation
North Carolina District Attorney Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Allegedly Firing Employee Based on His Public Statements Criticizing Program by North Carolina District Attorney Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Allegedly Firing Employee Based on His Public Statements Criticizing Program The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit …
State Prison Systems Privatizing Prisoner Accounts for Commissions
Article • November 13, 2015
Filed under: JPay, Inc., Trust Accounts
State Prison Systems Privatizing Prisoner Accounts for Commissions by State Prison Systems Privatizing Prisoner Accounts for Commissions by David M. Reutter Three state prison systems have relinquished control of their prisoner trust accounts to a private company. The contracts provide for fees on deposits and “commissions” on each transaction for …
Fourth Circuit Orders District Court to Award Attorney Fees in Free Speech Suit against North Carolina Sheriff
Article • October 30, 2015
Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, First Amendment
Fourth Circuit Orders District Court to Award Attorney Fees in Free Speech Suit against North Carolina Sheriff by Fourth Circuit Orders District Court to Award Attorney Fees in Free Speech Suit against North Carolina Sheriff On July 11, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the Fourth Circuit reversed a lower …
North Carolina Prisoner Awarded $0.99 after Assault by Guard
Article • October 27, 2015
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings
North Carolina Prisoner Awarded $0.99 after Assault by Guard by North Carolina Prisoner Awarded $0.99 after Assault by Guard On July 24, 2012, in the U.S. District Court in Charlotte, N.C., a jury awarded plaintiff Jamey L. Wilkins, a North Carolina state prisoner housed in the segregation unit of Lanesboro …
News in Brief
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
News in Brief by News in Brief California: On April 21, 2015, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi announced that 30 body cameras would soon be deployed by jailers working within Jail No. 4. He said he hopes that the new equipment will emphasize transparency and accountability in his department, which …
Sex Offender Loses Adam Walsh Civil Commitment Appeal
Article • October 14, 2015
Filed under: Civil Commitment
Sex Offender Loses Adam Walsh Civil Commitment Appeal by Sex Offender Loses Adam Walsh Civil Commitment Appeal The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed, on December 10, 2013, the judgement of the District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina civilly committing appellant Richard Savage …
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