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Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Employee Disciplinary Problems Persist at Houston Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Misconduct by employees in the Harris County jail system in Houston, Texas remains persistent and problematic. A Houston Chronicle review of employee disciplinary actions from 2008 through 2010 found there was an average of 67 disciplinary cases …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics by Osagie K. Obasogie by Prof. Osagie K. Obasogie When the police arrived last November at the ransacked mansion of the millionaire investor Raveesh Kumra, outside of San Jose, California, they found Mr. Kumra had been blindfolded, tied and gagged. The robbers took cash, rare coins and …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Filed under: Stun Guns/Tasers, Police
Missouri: Arrestees Billed for Cost of Police Tasers by Christopher Zoukis Police officers in St. Joseph, Missouri have successfully recouped payments from defendants for the cost of “tasing” them during an arrest. It costs $24.99 for a Taser cartridge and about $1.05 in battery use each time an officer tases …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
The Americans with Disabilities Act and Prisoners by Thomas Weiss The language of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is succinct: “[N]o qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Michigan County Sanctioned for Defrauding Federal Court in Prisoner Death Case by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 4, 2012, a Michigan federal district court imposed sanctions against Wayne County for committing fraud and misrepresentation upon the court and opposing counsel in a prisoner’s wrongful death suit. The …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Solitary Confinement for Death Row Prisoners a Blot on U.S. Justice System by Derek Gilna Although more and more states have abolished the death penalty in recent years, with six states doing away with capital punishment since 2007, the death penalty still has strong support in certain elements of society, …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Oklahoma’s DNA Law Means Post-Conviction Testing Available in All 50 States by Christopher Zoukis On May 24, 2013, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed into law a comprehensive post-conviction DNA review process for defendants in cases involving violent felonies or resulting in sentences of 25 years or more. Oklahoma thus became …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Habeas Hints: Actual Innocence by Kent A. Russell by Kent Russell This column provides “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 on the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), the federal …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Second Circuit Establishes Property Seizure Standards for Civilly Committed Persons by As a matter of first impression, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has undertaken a Fourth Amendment balancing analysis with regard to the right of a civilly committed person to be free from unreasonable seizures under the Fourth Amendment. …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
500 Escape from Abu Ghraib and Taji Prisons in Iraq by Christopher Zoukis On July 21, 2013, military-style assaults at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison and another prison in Taji resulted in the escape of more than 500 prisoners, including an unknown number of al-Qaida members. Many of the prisoners …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
After Ten Years, FCC Votes for Prison Phone Reforms! by David Ganim On August 9, 2013, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn presided over a historic vote by the Commission to reform the prison phone industry, and while doing so publicly acknowledged family members and prisoners’ rights organizations that …
Illinois DOC’s Failure to Accommodate Disabled Prisoners States Rehabilitation Act Claim by In separate decisions, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of two lawsuits filed by disabled state prisoners, finding that the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) may have violated their rights under the Rehabilitation Act (RA), …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Wrongful Immigration Detention Suit Reinstated by Second Circuit, Dismissed on Remand by Derek Gilna Viterbo Liranzo, born in the Dominican Republic, was a U.S. citizen through section 321 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act, which conferred derivative citizenship on children of U.S. citizens. He was required to apply for a …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
PLN Resolves Censorship Suit Against Oregon County Jail for $51,000 Plus Fees and Costs by Alex Friedmann In August 2012, Prison Legal News accepted an offer of judgment made by officials in Umatilla County, Oregon to resolve a First Amendment censorship suit filed against the county, the sheriff’s office and …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Seventh Circuit: Indiana Tolling Provision May Excuse Time-Barred Suit; Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal Improper by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court’s dismissal of an Indiana prisoner’s lawsuit as being time-barred. In January 2008, Pendleton Correctional Facility prisoner Danny R. Richards began complaining of abdominal pain and …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
First Circuit: Rejection of Settlement Offer Does Not Justify Defendants’ Attorney Fee Award by On September 7, 2012, the First Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a $59,787.50 attorney fee award to the defendants in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint, finding that the plaintiffs’ rejection of a settlement offer did …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Probation
Pennsylvania: Parole Board May Expound on Court-ordered Probation Conditions by On September 7, 2012, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that a lower court had incorrectly reversed a probation revocation that was premised on the violation of a probation condition imposed by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board), rather …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Seventh Circuit Retires “De Minimis” Standard for Use of Physical Force by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court’s application of a “de minimis harm” standard in dismissing a Wisconsin detainee’s claim that he was sexually groped. In April 2008, James Washington, Jr. was a pretrial …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Washington Community Custody, Sex Offender Registration and Release Conditions Modified by On September 13, 2012, the Washington Court of Appeals, Division Three, instructed a lower court to clarify a sex offender’s length of community custody, correct his registration requirement, revise prohibitions regarding dating relationships and strike conditions related to Internet …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
New Mexico Prison Doctor Fingered in Lawsuits by Two lawsuits filed in March 2013 seek compensatory and punitive damages against former prison physician Mark E. Walden, GEO Group, Corizon, wardens Erasmo Bravo and Timothy Hatch, and health administrator Sherry Phillips. The suits allege that numerous prisoners were fondled or received …
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