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Psych Evaluations Questioned Following D.C. Jail Suicides by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The methods used for psychological evaluation and housing of prisoners at the Washington, D.C. Jail are being questioned after two prisoners committed suicide within a three-month period. Alicia Edwards, 32, had a history of mental illness …
California’s Solution To Prison Overcrowding: $7.4 Billion To Build 53,000 New Beds by Marvin Mentor California's Solution To Prison Overcrowding: $7.4 Billion To Build 53,000 New Beds by Marvin Mentor Faced with three federal judges threatening to place a population cap on California's overcrowded prison system, the state Legislature and …
$4 Million Settlement In Rape and Beating Death of Mentally Ill New Jersey Prisoner by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby The daughters of a mentally ill man who was raped and beaten to death by another prisoner in New Jersey's Camden County Correctional Facility (CCCF) will receive a combined $4 …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Eighth Circuit Reverses Dismissal on Wrong Medication Claims by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court?s grant of summary judgment to prison officials, related to erroneous administration of another prisoner?s psychotropic medication. On January 26, 2004, Nurse Assistant Lorna Bell mistakenly required Missouri prisoner James Spann to …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Florida Jails: State’s Largest Mental Health Providers by David Reutter Florida Jails: State's Largest Mental Health Providers by David M. Reutter Florida's policy of allowing mentally ill citizens to languish without treatment until they have encounters with law enforcement has turned the state's county jails into the primary provider of …
Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts to run prisons in the United States and Canada. While the private prison industry is dominated by industry giants Corrections Corporation of America, Geo …
Florida’s Civil Commitment Center Exhibits Little Change Despite New Contractor by David Reutter Florida's Civil Commitment Center Exhibits Little Change Despite New Contractor by David M. Reutter Despite recent scandals and a new private contractor, the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) is still a facility with little direction other than …
CCA Fined for Florida Jail Escape; County Commission Poised to Impose More Fines by After a series of escapes, prisoner suicides and thefts by employees over the past year, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) promised it would take action to prevent similar incidents at Florida?s Hernando County Jail (HCJ). The …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
California Sexual Predator Commitment Requires Trial; Cannot be Based on Civil Discovery Admissions by The California Court of Appeal, District 4, held that the civil commitment of sexual predators (Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code § 6600 et seq.) cannot be obtained upon admissions propounded under civil discovery rules. To do …
Sanabria v. Hillsborough County, NH, Complaint, employee sex bias jail prisoner abuse, 2007 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ************************** * * Plaintiff * * v. * * Hillsborough County Department * of Corrections * * Defendants * ************************** Doris Sanabria Civil Action: 1:07-cv-284-JM COMPLAINT PARTIES …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Torture vs Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment -- Is the Distinction Real or Apparent?, by Metin Basoglu, MD, PhD et al., by John Dannenberg Arch Gen Psychiatry Vol. 64, pp.277-284, March 2007 Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Motivated by recent reports of U.S. human rights abuses in military prisons, …
Due Process Required Before Termination from Colorado Sex Offender Treatment Program by Bob Williams The United States District Court for the District of Colorado has again found that Colorado state prisoners convicted of sex offenses have a liberty interest in receiving treatment and must be afforded due process prior to …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Prior Drug Use Stable Among State Prisoners, Rises For Federal Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In October 2006, the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice released a report on prior drug use among state and federal prisoners. The report compared the years 1997 …
United States Sues Georgia County Jail over Unconstitutional Medical and Living Conditions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Using its investigative powers under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) investigated conditions at the Terrell County, Georgia jail …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
The New Asylum: Supermax as Warehouse for the Mentally Ill by David C Fathi by David C. Fathi1 The prison industry, like any other, has its fashions. And in the 1990s, "supermax" prisons were a raging fad. According to Chase Riveland, former secretary of corrections in Washington and Colorado, [t]hey …
A RE-BIRTH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION: USING THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT TO OVERCOME SECTION 1983 HURDLES AND HOLD GOVERNMENT AND POLICE ACCOUNTABLE by A RE-BIRTH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION: USING THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT TO OVERCOME SECTION 1983 HURDLES AND HOLD GOVERNMENT AND POLICE ACCOUNTABLE A Review of …
Delaware Forced to Clean-up Medical Care by DOJ Settlement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After a nine-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report finding prisoners in four Delaware prisons ?suffer harm or are placed at the risk of harm from constitutional deficiencies in certain …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Washington State’s Federal Oversight of Sexually Violent Predators Ended by John Dannenberg Washington State's Federal Oversight of Sexually Violent Predators Ended by John E. Dannenberg After thirteen years of oversight, the U.S. District Court (W.D. Wash.) dissolved its injunction that had taken over control of Washington State's sexually violent predator …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Washington Supreme Court Reverses Parole Denial by In a shocking five-to-four decision, the Washington Supreme Court, for the first time ever, reversed a parole denial by the state Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (Board). The Court found that the Board had ignored evidence at Richard Dyer?s December 4, 2002 parole hearing …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Suicides Plague Wisconsin Jails; Attempted Suicide Suit Settles for $13.1 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke There has been a rash of suicides in Wisconsin jails, including six in 2005 and four in the first half of 2006. One jail, in LaCrosse County, experienced prisoner suicides in 1997, …
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