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Denial of Wheelchair Claims Survive Summary Judgment by A federal court in Massachusetts held that issues of material fact concerning the extent of a prisoner's injuries precluded summary judgment. The court also held that the corrections commissioner was not entitled to qualified immunity related to the denial of a wheelchair …
Brutal Jail Conditions Warrant Reduced Federal Prison Sentence by A federal court judge granted a defendant's request for a reduced prison sentence based upon the abject conditions of pre-sentence confinement in a New York Jail. Elvin Francis came before a U. S. District Court where he pled guilty to illegal …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Washington Sex Offender Community Placement Dilemma by Roger Smith When "high-risk" sex offenders are released from Washington State prisons their pictures, names, addresses, and offenses are broadcast on the local news. Armed with that information, angry neighbors often drive them from the communities they're released to. With no one willing …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Colorado Sex Offenders Freed from Mandatory Parole by Bob Williams In one of the most criticized and widely reported rulings in Colorado history, the state Supreme Court has held that the state's mandatory parole laws do not apply to sex offenders whose crimes were committed on or after July 1, …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
2003 Political Prisoner Calendar Available by As 2002 ends, the need for a calendar for the coming year becomes more apparent. Activists in Canada have published the Free Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War 2003 Calendar. The eye catching and well designed calendar is filled with slick graphics and plenty …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Prisoners, Politics, Money and the Census by Gary Hunter It's a standing joke that the Texas economy has been grounded in the 3 C's: cattle, crude, and convicts. But while Texas gets most of the publicity for its massive prison build-up, the human-warehousing trend is literally sweeping the countrysideand it …
Judge Approves $9.6 Million Settlement in DC Jail Employees' Sexual Harassment Suit by Lonnie Burton In January 2002 U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth gave final approval for disbursement of $9.6 million from the settlement of a class-action sexual harassment lawsuit brought by female employees of the Washington D.C. Department …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Plaintiff's Disability Impacts Venue by A federal district court in New York held that a plaintiff's physical disabilities were relevant in deciding which court should hear his case. Ambroz Nikac is a wheelchair bound paraplegic who was arrested on federal weapons and stolen property charges. He spent ten months in …
Ripole v. Stanley, NH, Bill in Equity, ADA Violations, 2002 THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MERRIMACK COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT ___________________________________ : DONALD RIOPEL, : : Plaintiff : : v. : : PHILLIP STANLEY, in his : official capacity as Commissioner, : New Hampshire Department of Corrections : : JANE COPLAN, …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Into the Twilight Zone by Mumia Abu-Jamal by Mumia Abu Jamal With the seizure of the person (one can't say "arrest," for the government has announced it has no intention of prosecuting) of the American citizen alleged to have been planning "dirty bomb" strikes against U.S. targets, Abdullah AlMuhajir (formerly …
Supreme Court: No Punitive Damages Allowed Under RA and ADA by In a unanimous opinion, the United States supreme court held that punitive damages are not allowed under the Rehabilitation Act, (RA), 29 U.S.C. § 794 (a) or the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12132. Jeffrey Gorman …
Bailey v. MN DOC, MN, Complaint, ASL interpreter sex offender treatment disabled prisoner, 2002
Girls Sue Alabama Juvenile Prison for Abuse by Five girls who were incarcerated at the Chalkville juvenile lockup in Alabama have filed a massive $171 million lawsuit against the agency that runs the jail, the Department of Youth Services (DYS). The suit charges, among other things, that the girls were …
Georgia Prison Guards Caught in Bondage Videos by More than 150 law enforcement officers from various Georgia agencies including the Department of Corrections, have been moonlighting as actors in gay bondage videotapes since 1980. Sold over the internet, the tapes include scenes of kidnapping and torture. In November 1999, Hays …
Then They Came for the Lawyers: The Persecution of Lynne Stewart by On April 9, 2002, in a chilling first application of the USA-Patriot Act (pushed into law after 9-11), the U.S. government indicted attorney Lynne Stewart along with three Arab men, Mohammed Yousry, Ahmed Abdel Sattar, and Yassir Al-Sirri. …
Ill Treatment on Our Shores by Anne-Marie Cusac ( On October 24, 2001, Muhammed Butt died of a heart attack at the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, New Jersey. Butt, a Pakistani national, was detained on September 19 by the FBI as a suspect connected with the September 11 …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
New Jersey Goes Online with Sex Offender Website by A federal district court in New Jersey has denied sex offender plaintiffs Motion for Preliminary Injunction Relief seeking to prevent implementation of New Jersey's (NJ) Internet sex offender registry, but barred the listing of the offenders' home addresses. On November 7, …
Brief • July 25, 2002
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Cooke v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, TX, First Amended Complaint, Racial Discrimination, 1999 .. ;: L 6£t6S6~~tS ' • CAUSE NO. 9900445 ARTHUR COOKE. ERNEST CORTEZ. § L..ARRY JOHNSON AND OEQUINNA § § MOORE, Plaintiffs IN THE OISTRICT COURT OF § § TEXAS OEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL § § § …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Prison Population Growth Slows Dramatically in 2000 by In the year 2000, America's prison population slowed its growth dramatically, showing the lowest growth rate seen in 28 years. The state prison population experienced its first measured decline in nearly three decades. These data highlighted an August 2001 report published by …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
$603,500 in Washington Jail Guard Discrimination Suit by In November, 2001, a King County (Seattle) Superior Court jury awarded $603,500 in damages to Ralph Bunch, a former guard at the King County Juvenile Detention Center. In May, 1999, Bunch, who is black, filed suit against the county claiming he was …
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