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Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
376 Days in New York Seg "Atypical and Significant" Hardship by 376 Days in New York Seg "Atypical and Significant" Hardship Afederal district court in New York held that a state prisoner's 376-day confinement in segregation was an atypical and significant hardship pursuant to Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 …
Detainee Beaten to Death at Nassau County Jail by Alex Friedmann When Thomas Pizzuto entered the Nassau Co. jail in East Meadow, New York to serve 90 days for traffic violations, he didn't know the jail term would become a death sentence. Pizzuto, 38, a recovering heroin user who was …
Adequate Opportunity for Discovery Required by The court of appeals for the Second Circuit held that when a pro se prisoner brings a colorable claim against supervisory prison officials, and those officials respond with a dispositive motion based on the prisoner's failure to identify the real culprits, dismissal should not …
$130,000 in Damages and Fees Awarded in New York Retaliation Suit by In the October, 1996, issue of PLN we reported Alnutt v. Cleary, 913 F. Supp. 160 (WD MY 1996). The case involves New York state prisoner Jeffrey Alnutt who filed suit in 1990 after various guards at the …
New York Work Release Suit Dismissed by In the February, 1997, issue of PLN we reported Roucchio v. Coughlin, 923 F. Supp. 360 (ED NY 1996), which held that New York prisoners may have a due process liberty interest in work release status. In this ruling, the same court held …
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
Withholding Dental Care Violates Eighth Amendment by Ronald Young ANew York federal district court held that failure to treat a prisoner's abscessed wisdom tooth was a sufficiently serious medical condition to sustain an Eighth Amendment claim. The court also held that material issues of fact as to whether the prison's …
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
Exhaustion Required by A federal district court in New York held that a New York state prisoner was required to exhaust the prison grievance system before filing suit. The court held that exhaustion under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) is required even if the grievance process is futile. The case involved …
Guard Guilty of Penis Stomping by Afederal district court in Buffalo categorically rejected a jail guard's post-trial motions in a criminal proceeding, in which he was found guilty of violating a prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights. John Walsh was a lieutenant at the Orleans County (NY) jail. He weighed 400 pounds …
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
$660,000 Awarded in Post-Sandin Segregation Suit by On February 26, 1999, a federal jury in Rochester, New York, awarded New York state prisoner David McClary $660,000 in damages after finding he was improperly held in administrative segregation for over four years. In the March, 1999, issue of PLN we reported …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
New York Paroles for Sale by Julia Lutsky In January 1997 the parents of a young Korean prisoner walked into the Brooklyn offices of federal prosecutor Zachary Carter to report that a volunteer fund raiser for Republican Governor Pataki said he would use his influence to win parole for their …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
180 Days in SHU Not "Atypical and Significant" by 180 Days in SHU Not "Atypical and Significant" A federal district court in New York held that 180 days in a Special Housing Unit (SHU) , along with loss of package, commissary and telephone privileges, does not give rise to a …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
Cane Seizure Can Violate Eighth Amendment by Afederal district court in New York held that the seizure of a prisoner's medically prescribed cane by a guard can give rise to an Eighth Amendment violation. Because the guard's subjective intentions for seizing the cane were at issue, the court denied summary …
New York Prisoners Have Right to Staff Assistance and Witness Testimony by The court of appeals for the Second Circuit held that New York state prisoners have a right under the Due Process Clause to have disciplinary hearing officers provide staff assistance and to obtain requested documentary evidence and witness …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
U.S. District Courts Have No Authority To Grant Or Deny Credit Toward Sentence by The court of appeals for the Second circuit held that district courts do not have the authority to order the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to either grant or deny credit or to disregard the BOP's …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
$355,000 Verdict in New York Asthma Death by On November 23, 1998, New York court of claims judge Nicholas Midley Jr. awarded the family of Peter Farace $350,000 in damages for Farace's death and $50,000 in interest. Farace, 25, died of an asthma attack on February 9, 1986 at the …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
New York Jail Brutality Suit Settled for $3,500 by On September 25, 1998, the City of New York settled a brutality suit for $3,500. Edward Massey, a prisoner at the Anna M. Kross Center In East Elmhurst, New York, was attacked by several jail guards after he protested the beating …
Retaliatory Beating of Prisoner Is Triable Fact Issue by Afederal district court in New York has held that a prisoner who alleged he was beaten by guards in retaliation for filing grievances against the guards presented a disputed material fact issue precluding summary judgment for the guards. Ramel Mahotep, a …
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
Lengthy Ad Seg Is Atypical and Significant Hardship by Lengthy Ad Seg is Atypical and Significant Hardship Afederal court in New York has held that uninterrupted confinement in administrative segregation (ad seg) for more than four years is an atypical and significant hardship, implying a liberty interest protected by the …
Judicial Sentence of Life in Solitary Upheld by The court of appeals for the Second circuit affirmed a court imposed sentence of life imprisonment in solitary confinement and prohibiting all communication with anyone except the defendant's attorney and close family members after the district court had approved them. The appeals …
Rikers Island Brutality Suit Settled by Jonathan Chasan By Jonathan Chasan New York City officials have acknowledged the need for far-reaching court-ordered reforms to curb systemic brutality and its cover up in the Rikers Island Central Punitive Segregation Unit ("CPSU" or "the bing"), known in the City jails as "the …
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