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$6 Million Settlement in Beating Death of California Detainee by California’s Kern County agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit in the beating death of a pre-trial detainee at the county’s jail. The August 15, 2005, incident involved “as many as 14 detention officers [who] … beat, hit, …
$500,000 Settlement for Fatal Beating of Phoenix Jail Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 3, 2009, the Maricopa County (Arizona) Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 to settle for $500,000 a lawsuit brought by survivors of a man beat to death in the Fourth Avenue Jail of the …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Los Angeles County Agrees to Pay $7,000,000 to Beaten Juvenile Prisoner by On March 27, 2009, Los Angeles County agreed to pay $7,000,000 to a youth that was severely beaten at the Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall (Nidorf) in Sylmar, California after the youth was pressured, but refused, to join …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Missouri DOC Permits Gift Books in Response to PLN Demand Letter by On September 15, 2009, the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to revise its policy prohibiting prisoners from receiving books purchased for them by third parties or sent to them free of charge. The DOC also agreed to …
Hawaii to Remove Prisoners from CCA Facility Over Abuse Charges by Ian Urbina Hawaii prison officials said Tuesday that all of the state’s 168 female inmates at a privately run Kentucky prison will be removed by the end of September because of charges of sexual abuse by guards. Forty inmates …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Military Psychologist Implicated in Abusive Interrogations by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A lawsuit against the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists (LSBEP) accuses retired Army Col. Larry C. James of professional and ethical violations stemming from his former role as chief psychologist at the U.S. military prisons …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Indigent Connecticut Prisoners Entitled to Copies of Records Under FOIA Without Charge by On April 29, 2008, the Superior Court of Connecticut upheld the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission’s decision to invalidate a state prison rule that prevented indigent prisoners from obtaining copies of records under the state’s Freedom of …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Duration of Confinement in Segregation Affects Due Process Inquiry by On May 12, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the length of a prisoner’s confinement in administrative segregation (ad seg) affects whether there has been a due process violation. Carey Harden-Bey, a Michigan prisoner …
Second Circuit Reinstates New York Jail Guard’s Excessive Force Conviction by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Second Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the federal conviction of a New York jail guard for intentionally using excessive force on a prisoner in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242. Zoran Teodorovic, a …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Filed under: Medical, Medical Expenses
Oregon Illegal Detention Suit Settled for $30,000 by The State of Oregon and Multnomah County paid a former detainee $30,000 to settle his illegal detention claims. In 2006, Irving Robinson was confined in the Multnomah County Jail, facing criminal charges. The State failed to bring him to trial within 60 …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Filed under: Medical, Medical Expenses
California: City Liable for $237,000 Hospital Bill for Prisoner’s Medical Care by On May 22, 2003, indigent prisoner Kenneth Lee Denham was arrested and detained by Oakland police officers at the city jail. He was later taken to the county jail, but the county refused to accept him because he …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Florida: For Sentence Calculation Purposes, Civil Commitment Detention Same as Jail Confinement by Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that there is no meaningful distinction between incarceration in prison or jail and confinement in a sex offender civil commitment facility for the purposes of sentence calculation. The Court’s …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Oakland, CA Police Policy of In-Field Public Strip Searches Without Arrest or Warrant Found Unconstitutional by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held on March 27, 2008 that the Oakland Police Department’s (OPD) policy permitting non-medical strip searches of detainees in the field, conducted in public …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Ohio County Jail Agrees to Pay $75,000 For Locking Up Poor by On April 30, 2009, Hamilton County, Ohio agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of over 600 individuals who were jailed for non-payment of a fine without first being afforded an attorney or hearing to …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Filed under: Reviews, Sentencing, Parole
Audit Finds California Parolees Sometimes Slip Through Bureaucratic Cracks by At the request of the legislature, the Bureau of State Audits examined the adult parole discharge practices of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and found that parolees, even those regarded as violent or serious offenders, occasionally slip through …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Maryland Prisoners Make Flags by Made in the U.S.A. got a whole new meaning with the passage of a recent Maryland law that requires all Maryland and United States flags to be produced in the United States. For many years in Maryland, all but one flag that flies at the …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Small Amounts of Marijuana Not “Dangerous Contraband” Under New York Law, Court Rules by The possession or introduction of small amounts of marijuana into a New York state prison is not punishable as a felony, the New York Court of Appeals held. Robert Finley, a New York state prisoner, was …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Clerk Erred in Refusing to File Unsigned 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Motion by Clerk Erred in Refusing to File Unsigned 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Motion The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that it was error for a district court clerk to refuse to file an unsigned …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Mississippi Prisoners Make Collect Call for Jesus by On April 15, 2009, the Mississippi Legislature passed legislation authorizing up to 25 percent, or $25,000 annually, of the money collected from prisoner telephone calls to fund a Jail and Prison Ministry. Since the late 1990s, the Good News Jail and Prison …
Aramark Discontinues, Loses Prison Food Service Contracts by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The corporate philosophy of cutting corners to enhance profits is catching up with Aramark Correctional Services, causing the company to lose prison and jail food service contracts and putting other contracts in jeopardy. Aramark has discontinued …
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