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MA Prison Conditions Might Amount to Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Richard Smith, a Massachusetts state prison at MCI-Concord, filed suit against prison officials after being disciplined for fighting. He sued numerous guards and administrators in state court alleging a multitude of constitutional and statutory violations. Among them was a …
Squalor, Corruption Cause Cancellation of GEO Group’s TYC Contract by Gary Hunter When Texas Youth Commission (TYC) ombudsman Will Harrell toured the privately-operated Coke County Juvenile Justice Center in Bronte, Texas on September 24, 2007, he found children sleeping on dirty bed sheets, walls covered with smeared feces, urine-stained walls …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
“Hot Bunking” at Cook County Jail Could Violate Consent Decree by In December 2007, to alleviate the problem of prisoners sleeping on the floor due to chronic overcrowding, Illinois’ Cook County Jail started “hot bunking.” The practice entails prisoners taking turns sleeping in the same bed in shifts. Each prisoner …
Article • July 15, 2008
Massachusetts Correctional Institution's BX Unit Ruled Inhumane by Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater (MCI) representative, Frank Hall, and other officials objected to a magistrates report finding unconstitutional conditions of confinement at MCl's BX Unit (Unit). The report was adopted and remanded for the magistrate's remedial instruction as Special Master. The …
Philadelphia City Jails Under Federal Supervision, Again, Temporarily by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Pennsylvania federal district court has held that the conditions of confinement in the intake units at Philadelphia?s local police districts, the Police Administration Building (PAB), the Philadelphia Prison System (PPS) and the Curran Fromhold …
Relief for Unconstitutional Mississippi Death Row Conditions Affirmed on Appeal by Bob Williams By Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed most of the sweeping reforms to be implemented at the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), Unit 32-C, Death Row. After several death row …
MA Prison Conditions Might Amount to Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Richard Smith, a Massachusetts state prison at MCI-Concord, sued prison officials after being disciplined for fighting. He sued numerous guards and administrators in state court alleging a multitude of constitutional and statutory violations. Among them was a claim that …
$56,000 Settlement for Torturous Eight Hours in New Jersey Jail by In April 2007, the Borough of Bradley Beach, New Jersey, agreed to pay $56,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging multiple constitutional violations by a woman who spent eight hours in the Borough?s jail. Plaintiff Aimee Sliker was arrested …
Houston Jail Has Highest Number of Deaths in Texas: 101 by Gary Hunter Between 2001 and 2006, 101 prisoners died while in custody at Houston's Harris County Jail, more than in any other Texas county. Dallas County's jail had 70 deaths over the same period. The Harris County Jail has …
$248,000 Jury Award for Inhumane D.C. Jail Conditions by Five prisoners in the D.C. Jail were awarded a total of $248,000 in damages On February 1, 2006, following a two day jury trial in federal district court over inhumane and unconstitutional conditions at the jail. Shannon J. Battle, Bernard Brown, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Former Jail Prisoner's §1983 Complaint Reversed to Add Damages by Former Jail Prisoner's §1983 Complaint Reversed to Add Damages The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in a split decision partly reversed an Oklahoma federal district court's grant of summary judgment to a county sheriff, holding that the district court …
Summary Judgment of Eighth Amendment Claims Reversed by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed and remanded the summary judgment of a prisoner's Eighth Amendment claim. Robert DeSpain, a Wyoming state prisoner, brought a civil rights action against prison officials alleging cruel and unusual punishment in violation …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York AIDS Patient Jailed in Unsanitary Conditions Wins $1,300,000 by The Plaintiff, a 39-year-old man identified only as Jewell, was arrested by New York City police after a dispute with a tow truck driver in July of 1993. He was placed in a cell where he was exposed to …
New Jersey Jail Conditions Suit Goes Forward by The plaintiffs failed to prove that sleeping on two and a half inch-thick mattresses on the floor for months caused their lower back pain. Lack of pillows did not rise to a constitutional level. Food (459): A complaint based only on the …
Retaliatory Discipline Claims Dismissed, Conditions Claims Remain by The plaintiff's damage claim alleging that officers planted a key which led to a disciplinary proceeding in which he lost good time is barred by Heck v. Humphrey, as is his claim that the hearing itself was defective. In any case, federal …
Article • May 15, 2007
Atlanta Jail Conditions Unconstitutional by A federal district court in Georgia approved a consent decree against the Fulton county jail in Atlanta, GA, due to inhumane conditions. Court held that medical care was substandard, detainees were exposed to communicable diseases. Due to vermin infestation there was no clean place to …
Double Celling Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the Third circuit affirmed a district court's order, at 719 F. Supp. 126 (WD PA 1989), which held that double celling in Pennsylvania prisons violated the Eighth amendment under a "totality of conditions" analysis. The overall prison conditions consisted of dilapidated, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Sleeping in Raw Sewage States Claim by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held, for the second time in this same case, that a Louisiana state prisoner had stated a claim under the Eighth amendment when he was forced to sleep in raw sewage. The appeals court reversed …
GA Detainee Awarded $50,000 in Damages, Plus Fees, Over Jail Conditions by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit affirmed a district court ruling awarding a Georgia jail detainee $45,000 in compensatory damages, $5,000 in punitive damages and $13,376.25 in attorney fees after he was held in disgusting jail …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner's Suit Over Unsanitary Meals States Claims by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois held that a prisoner's claims under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and state law were sufficient to withstand a motion to dismiss. Nartin Drake, a prisoner at the Cook County Jail, brought actions under …
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