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Article • October 15, 2012
Arizona County Jail Rescinds Daily Fee for Prisoners’ Meals by Arizona’s Santa Cruz County Jail will no longer charge prisoners $2.00 per day for their meals. According to Sheriff Antonio Estrada, the pay-for-food policy resulted in prisoners abusing both the system and other prisoners. Since indigent offenders still received meals, …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Tainted Chicken Sickens Hundreds of Prisoners, Staff at Pennsylvania BOP Facility by In late June 2011, around 320 prisoners and employees at USP Canaan in Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia, became sick due to salmonella poisoning after eating “tainted chicken” used to make fajitas. Four prisoners were ill enough to require …
Article • July 15, 2012
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes, Food
Washington Force-Feeding Interests Outweigh Prisoner's Privacy Rights by The En Banc Washington State Supreme Court held that the State's interests in force feeding a prisoner outweighed his constitutional right to refuse artificial means of nutrition and hydration. In July 2004, Charles R. McNabb was transferred from the Spokane County Jail …
Article • May 15, 2012
Soy-Based Meals: Cruel & Usual in Florida by Soy-Based Meals: Cruel & Usual in Florida "Excessive soy can be toxic to the thyroid gland," according to Sally Fallon Morell, president and treasurer of the Weston A. Price Foundation. "It can have hormonal effects." Of course, the excessive flatulence and cramping …
Brief • March 12, 2012
Filed under: Food, Eighth Amendment
Williams . CCA Canteen, TN, Settlement, food kitchen injury, 2015 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0205 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0206 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0207 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0208 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0209 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0210 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0211 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0212
Article • February 15, 2012
Motion to Dismiss Prisoner’s Soy Diet Suit Denied by A federal district court in Illinois has issued a case management order concerning the Defendant’s motion to dismiss a suit filed against prison dietary products. The ongoing case concerns the Illinois Department of Corrections’ use of soy products as a main …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
New York City Jail Considered Serving Spoiled Meat by David Reutter After Rikers Island officials discovered 65,000 pounds of spoiled meat at the jail, at least one official suggested that it be served to prisoners. The meat, valued at $130,816, was found rotting on July 11, 2011 when nauseating smells …
Article • November 15, 2011
Consent Decree Sets Religious Diet Regulations at Wyoming State Prison by Based upon a negotiated settlement, a Wyoming federal district court entered a consent decree that establishes rights for prisoners around religious diet regulations at the Wyoming State Prison (WSP). The suit was brought by two Muslim prisoners, Joseph Miller …
Article • November 15, 2011
Washington DOC Settles Claims over Food Poisoning Outbreak by Eight prisoners affected by food poisoning while incarcerated at the Washington State Penitentiary accepted settlement offers of $1000 each on their claims of unsanitary food service practices against the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC). Plaintiffs experienced high fever, vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Massachusetts Prisoners Receive Expired Food Rejected by Schools by According to an April 2011 news report, the Massachusetts Department of Education set aside 11,000 cases of expired cheese, blueberries, frozen chicken and other food items for use in prison kitchens after an investigation discovered the out-of-date food was being served …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Fugitive Oregon DOC Food Manager Getting Homesick in Iran by “I would love to come back to my country ... but unfortunately they want to fry me for my mistake,” wrote international fugitive and former Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) Food Service Administrator Farhad (“Fred”) Monem, in emails sent to …
Lippert v. Godinez, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011 Case: 1:10-cv-04603 Document #: 39 Filed: 10/07/11 Page 1 of 33 PageID #:113 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DON LIPPERT, Plaintiff, v. SALVADOR GODINEZ, PARTHA GHOSH, M.D., WILLARD ELYEA, JOSEPH SSENFUMA, LOUIS SHICKER, QUENTIN TANNER, ADRIAN BACOT, …
Publication • September 13, 2011
Filed under: Food
USDOJ Food Service Manual 2011 U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons PROGRAM STATEMENT OPI: HSD/FDS NUMBER: P4700.06 DATE: September 13, 2011 Food Service Manual /s/ Approved: Thomas R. Kane Acting Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons 1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE To standardize management of Food Service operations within the …
Article • August 15, 2011
Alabama Sheriff Jailed For Starving Prisoners: States Cut Prisoner Meals by Gary Hunter By Gary Hunter Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett was arrested by federal authorities on January 8, 2009, after he admitted to pocketing $200,000 designated for prisoners' meals in the Alabama jail. Johnny Maynor and Anthony Murphree, prisoners …
Article • August 15, 2011
Filed under: Classification, Transfers, Food
Judge Orders Marshals to Transfer Prisoner Due to Inadequate Diet at Jail by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample United States Magistrate Judge Todd Campbell has ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to transfer a pre-trial detainee from a county jail after determining the jail failed to provide a nutritionally adequate diet. …
Gipe v. State of Vermont, Amended Complaint, Duty to Protect Inmate Health, 2011 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Rutland Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No.515-7-11 Rdcv JAMES OWE, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF ASHLEY ELLIS, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF VERMONT, VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, DELORES BURROUGHS-B IRON, M.D., Director of …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
The Incredible Honey Bun Behind Bars by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Things that are seemingly inconsequential to people outside of prison can quickly become something of great importance when made available to prisoners. The honey bun is one such item, which has taken on its own lore and …
Hurricane Rita FTCA Action Dismissed by On September 22, 2009, a federal court in Texas dismissed a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) action brought by one attorney on behalf of more than 400 prisoners who were injured during Hurricane Rita. The plaintiffs were all incarcerated at the U.S. Penitentiary in …
Article • April 15, 2011
California Prisoner, As Pro Per Plaintiff In Civil Complaint, Has Right To Reasonable Law Library Access by John Dannenberg By John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeal (1st District) held that an indigent pro per prisoner plaintiff who is prosecuting a bona fide civil complaint is entitled to meaningful …
Article • April 15, 2011
Class Action Settlement Reached on Dysentery Lawsuit by The District of Columbia settled a prisoner class action lawsuit after a large population of jail prisoners developed shigellosis, a bacterial illness, due to a malfunctioning dishwasher in the jail. At the D.C. jail in late January through early February, 1996, 616 …
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