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Another CCA Prison in Oklahoma, Another Riot by by Matthew T. Clarke On March 22, 2005, a riot at a private prison run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) near Cushing, Oklahoma resulted in the death of one prisoner and injuries to fifteen others, one of them critically. No guards …
Brain Dead California Prisoner Guarded Around The Clock by A California parole violator, who was declared brain dead from being shot in the head by a guard at 6,100 bed Wasco State Prison during a lounge-area fight, was guarded at a nearby Bakersfield hospital at a cost of $1,056/day in …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
California’s Sex-Offender Internet Site Gets 14 Million Hits In First Four Days by California’s new public internet data-base listing 63,000 of 85,000 convicted sex-offenders was put on line December 15, 2004. By that evening, it was too crowded to navigate, receiving 14 million hits in the first four days. This …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
U.S. Supreme Court Holds California Policy Of Double-Celling By Race During Prison Intake Must Pass by Marvin Mentor U.S. Supreme Court Holds California Policy Of Double-Celling By Race During Prison Intake Must Pass Strict Scrutiny," Not Rational Relationship" Test by Marvin Mentor The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the strict …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
Sex Offenders Living In Nursing Homes by by Matthew T. Clarke A recent study revealed that hundreds of sex offenders live in state-regulated nursing homes nationwide. An Oklahoma-based advocacy group, A Perfect Cause, performed a computer search of the nation's sex-offender registries and cross-matched it with the addresses of the …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
$600,000 Awarded To Paraplegic Jail Prisoner Hurt By Riding In Non-Handicap-Accessible Vehicle by by John E. Dannenberg A paraplegic jail prisoner who was transported to a hospital in a non-handicap accessible police car was awarded $600,000 by a federal jury on November 12, 2003 for injuries he claimed resulted from …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
California Parole Condition Prohibiting Computer Access For Molester Ruled Unreasonable by The California Court of Appeals granted habeas corpus relief sought by a paroled child molester who complained that the condition of parole forbidding him from either using a computer or getting on the Internet was unreasonable. Ramon Stevens was …
Guantanamo: Nine Months after the Supreme Court Victory, the Island Remains a Prison Beyond the Law. by Rachel Meeropol By Rachel Meeropol Consider the situation of Moazzam Begg. He is a 35 year old man with dual British and Pakistani citizenship. In early 2002, he was seized from his apartment …
Brief • May 20, 2005
Castillo v Dashiell, CA, Amended Complaint, medical neglect blindness, 2005 Case 2:04-cv-00737-GEB-GGH 1 2 3 4 Document 24 Filed 05/20/2005 Page 1 of 6 KING HALL CIVIL RIGHTS CLINIC CARTER C. WHITE SBN: 164149 University of California, Davis School of Law One Shields A venue, Building TB-30 Davis, CA 95616-8821 …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Concentration Of Paroled Illinois Sex Offenders Stirs Controversy by Michael Rigby Following news that a disproportionate number of paroled sex offenders were concentrated on Chicago’s South Side, Illinois officials instituted more rigid oversight of transitional group homes and returned 55 parolees to prison. The Chicago Tribune reported on January 3l, …
Abu Ghraib's Stain on Military Medicine by Steven Miles by Steven H. Miles, MD This article examines the relationship of military medical personnel to abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. It is based on testimony before the US Senate and …
New Jersey County Settles With Imprisoned Deaf Man For $175,000 by On November 20, 2003, Mercer County, New Jersey, agreed to pay $175,000 to a deaf man who was imprisoned at the Mercer County Detention Center (MCDC) without appropriate accommodations and appeared before a county court without an interpreter. The …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Race-Based California Prison Job Lockout May Violate Equal Protection by by John E. Dannenberg A divided panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that during a California prison partial lockdown limited to two ethnic populations, prison officials' exclusion from early return-to-work of pre-screened critical" prisoner workers solely …
Fifth Circuit Allows Sexual-Orientation Discrimination in Texas Prisoner Rape Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that a homosexual prisoner who prison officials allegedly allowed to be repeatedly sexually assaulted and made a sex slave may sue the prison officials for both …
Sample v. Lappin, DC, RFRA Complaint, Passover Wine, 2005 Case 1:05-cv-00596-PLF Document 1 Filed 03/22/2005 o Page 1 of 7 FILED IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NANCY MAYER WHiTTiNGTON CLERK U.S. DISTRICT COUIlT' BRANDON S. A~LE"""., § . \<...53q'4;~v·' v •. ~~: ~~ ~-= …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
Judges Of Death by Mumia Abu-Jamal As the nation pondered the fate of a young California man being sentenced to death, the case of another man, one lesser-known, one without wealth or whiteness, comes back before the nation's highest court, after having been shunted through a series of killing courts …
Delaware Prisoner's $100,000 Damage Award For Retaliation Upheld by by Michael Rigby A disabled Delaware prisoner's $100,000 damage award for retaliation will stand, a federal district court in Delaware has held. On August 20, 1999, Roger Atkinson, a blind prisoner with a host of medical problems, sued Delaware prison officials …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
$78,435 in Attorney Fees for Successful Challenge to Pennsylvania's Megan's Law by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal court in Pennsylvania has awarded the plaintiff's attorneys $78,435 in attorney fees and costs in an action that challenged the application of the community notification provision-of Pennsylvania's Registration of Sex Offenders Act …
Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising by Karen Thimmes By Staughton Lynd; Temple University Press, 2004; soft cover, 244 pages. $16.95 Reviewed by Karen G. Thimmes Death Row in Ohio is located at Mansfield Correctional Institution, a stone's throw from the fabled Mansfield Penitentiary, where much of the …
Brief • February 24, 2005
Cordero v DOC, CA, Complaint, medical care denial ADA, 2005 Case 1:05-cv-00268-0WW-DLB 1 2 3 Document 1 Filed 02/24/2005 Page 1 of 29 JAMES S. MULLER, ESQ. SBN#126071 3435 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD SUITE 2900 LOS ANGELES, CA 90010 (213) 381-3299 4 5 6 7 MARGARET WILSON, ESQ. SBN#123766 3435 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD …
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