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Fired, Tattooed, Nude-Posing Guard Settles with Maryland DOC for $10,000 by by Matthew T. Clarke Maryland has agreed to pay an ex-guard who appeared nude on a website and in a tattoo magazine $10,000 to get her to drop her wrongful discharge claim after an administrative law judge sided with …
Brief • October 20, 2005
Filed under: Discrimination
Mason v. Granholm, MI, Complaint, Anti-Civil Rights Amendment Unconstitutional, 2005 5:05-cv-73943-JCO-DAS Doc # 2 Filed 10/20/05 Pg 1 of 50 Pg ID 64 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION NATHEAULEEN MASON, RENEE WILLIAMS, YOLANDA LIMMITT, HELISHA BAILEY, Case No. 05-73943 TAMMY LaCROSS, VELVET FARLEYtons ocT 20 …
Bringing Down The Brotherhood by by Alan Prendergast Inside the feds' war on the deadliest prison gang: 16 murders. 21 death-penalty cases. Snitches galore. A wide red line runs across the floor of the visiting room like a clown's grin, separating the guard post and the civilian exit from the …
Guards Rape, Sexually Harass and Smuggle at Colorado Prisons by by Matthew T. Clarke There are new troubles at several prisons in Colorado. At a 250-bed GRW-run private prison in Brush, a tiny town 91 miles northwest of Denver, the newly-resigned ex-warden and two guards have been indicted in relation …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Massachusetts DOC Denies Two, Approves One, Same-Sex Marriages by Massachusetts DOC Denies Two, Approves One, Same-Sex Marriages by Matthew T. Clarke The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) has denied the request of two civilly-committed sex offenders to marry. It also denied a similar request by two other male prisoners, but …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Damages Denied To Bilingual Iowa Prisoner Prohibited From Writing Family In Spanish by by John E. Dannenberg The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that an Iowa prisoner was not entitled to damages when he challenged a policy requiring prisoners to correspond only in English because he had not …
NY DOC Agrees to Comply with A.D.A. by The New York City Department of Corrections (NYDOC) on Rikers Island has entered into a voluntary compliance agreement that requires it to comply with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). A NYDOC prisoner filed a complaint with the United States Attorney for …
Article • October 15, 2005
$175,000 Award in Chicago Jail Failure to Protect Case by While held at Illinois' Cook County Jail, Stanley Davis Jones was beaten by two fellow prisoners in March 1999. He suffered a dislocated shoulder and broken wrist from the attack, which he alleged was caused by jail officials' failure to …
Article • October 15, 2005
Prior Sex Offense Plea Qualifies For California Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment by The San Joaquin County California District Attorney requested review by the State Supreme Court of an appellate decision that State prisoner Norman Yartz's first sex offense conviction in 1978 could not be used to support his civil …
First They Came For Lynne Stewart by Marjorie Cohn First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the …
Ban On Male Guards In Michigan Women's Prisons Upheld by Michael Rigby The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a Michigan Department of Corrections policy prohibiting male guards from holding certain positions in the state's female prisons did not violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Seventh Circuit Upholds Indiana Sex Offender's Banishment From City Parks by In a decision that further restricts the already limited movement of sex offenders, the en banc U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that banning a convicted child molester from all public parks in the City of Lafayette, …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Confiscation of "New Afrikan" Literature May Violate First Amendment by Confiscation of "New Afrikan" Literature May Violate First Amendment The Second Circuit Court o Appeals reversed a New York district court's dismissal of a prisoner's complaint alleging violation of his rights under a Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act …
Habeas Hints by Kent Russell This column is intended to provide habeas hints" to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys (in pro per). The focus of the column is habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA, the 1996 habeas corpus law which now governs …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Florida Bans Sex Offenders from Hurricane Shelters by Florida Bans Sex Offenders from Hurricane Shelters A new Florida policy bans sex offenders who are not allowed contact with children from public hurricane shelters. Instead, they will be shuttled to their own shelters-prisons across Florida. The rule applies to offenders not …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Massachusetts DOC Fails to Meet Women's Special Needs by by Michael Rigby The failure of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (MDOC) to address the special needs of women in prison impedes the effective maintenance of family ties, according to a March 2005 research report by the University of Massachusetts's Center …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Miami-Dade Pays $6.25 Million to Settle Illegal Strip Search Suit by A Florida federal district court has approved a $6.25 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging thousands of female prisoners were illegally strip searched at the Miami-Dade County Correctional Facilities. The settlement entitles l0,000 women who were strip searched after …
Bailey v. MN DOC, MN, Order awarding atty fees, ASL interpreter sex offender treatment disabled prisoner, 2005
Arbitrary Draconian Restrictions on Texas Parolees by by Matthew T. Clarke Texas parolees have been subjected to a number of draconian measures not necessarily related to their conviction. For instance, parolees who were not convicted of sex offenses have been made to register as sex offenders and take sex offender …
Settlements Reached In Alabama Women Prisoners' Class-Action Suit by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 23, 2004, U. S. District Judge Myron Thompson signed a settlement order in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit brought by prisoners at three Alabama Department of Corrections women's prisons challenging their conditions of confinement. The suit …
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