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Firing of Abusive Texas Prison Guards Upheld by The plaintiff correctional officers were fired for misconduct in connection with a use of force. After acquittal in their criminal trials, the prison system refused to restore their jobs. They claimed that the prison system had suppressed exculpatory evidence. Their claims are …
Article • August 15, 2008
No Right to Have Evidence Preserved or Wrongdoers Prosecuted by At 81: ". . . [T]here is no federal right to have criminal wrongdoers prosecuted. See Leeke v. Timmerman, 454 U.S. 83, 87 (1981)...." The failure to preserve evidence of an alleged use of force did not violate the right …
Article • August 15, 2008
Slapping Prisoner on Face Okay by The plaintiff was being transferred and shouted obscenities and refused to put out her cigarette. The Sheriff says he tried to take the cigarette out of her mouth and she tried to bite him, and his hand "made contact" with her face. The plaintiff …
Beating Claims Must Be Exhausted by The PLRA exhaustion requirement applies to use of force claims The plain meaning of "prison conditions" encompasses such claims ("conditions" defined as "restricting, limiting, or modifying circumstances") However, some courts think there is an ambiguity, so the court looks to Congressional intent In § …
Fifth Circuit Upholds Convictions of Three INS Officers by The Fifth Circuit has upheld the convictions and sentences of three Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) deportation officers for excessive use of force and deliberate indifference to the serious medical needs of a prisoner. Richard Gonzales, Louis Gomez and Carlos Reyna …
Federal Court Rules RFRA Applies to Guantanamo by by Matthew T. Clarke The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. 2000bb, et seq., applied to the detention facilities at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Shafiq …
PRISON IS A CENTRAL FEATURE OF PALESTINIAN LIFE by Audrey Bomse, Esq. Since 1967, when the West Bank and Gaza were first occupied by Israel, over 650,000 Palestinians have been detained for resisting the Israeli Occupation by political, military and other means. This constitutes approximately 20% of the total Palestinian …
Federal Prison Guard Suspended Indefinitely for Active Duty Assault in Iraq by Former Metropolitan Detention Center (New York) federal prison guard Gary Pittman sought review of a 2006 Merit Systems Protection Board's (Board) affirmation of his release from federal employment upon return from active military duty in Iraq. He alleged …
$1 Million Awarded to Innocent Victim of Police Dog Attack by Washington state resident Ken Rogers was awarded $1.05 million by a federal jury after a police dog attacked him while sleeping on July 13, 2003. Kennewick city police were chasing a suspect utilizing a K 9 police dog. The …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
C O R R E C T I O N by Since PLN began publishing in 1990, we have never had to make a retraction based on our own factual mistake. While we’ve run corrections before, they were based on errors in the original news articles or reports that were …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Maryland Juvenile Justice Official Resigns Over Past Abuse Allegations by David Reutter Just seven months after he was hired as director over Maryland’s juvenile detention facilities, Chris Perkins, 38, resigned his $76,000 a year position when a Montana judge unsealed a report that found Perkins had abused children at a …
$64,900 Award in Arkansas Excessive Force Claim; Warden Held Not Liable by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a judgment against the warden of Arkansas’ Cummins Unit, finding he did not have sufficient knowledge that the guards under his supervision were inflicting …
Article • August 15, 2008
Losing Brutality Suit in State Court Bars Federal Claim by The plaintiff lost his use of force claim in the state Court of Claims; the court held that the preponderance of evidence showed that the officers followed DOCS routine. That decision precludes the plaintiff from relitigating the use of force …
Jail Guards Get Qualified Immunity for Beating, Pepper Spraying Prisoner Who Commits Suicide by The decedent was arrested for public intoxication; there was a fight when he was booked, resulting in his being sprayed with pepper spray or other chemical restraint. The officers carried him to a cell and sprayed …
Class Certified in Conditions Suit at SD Juvenile Prison by Plaintiffs challenged conditions in a juvenile training school, including the use of mechanical restraints, strip searches by opposite sex guards, excessive force, arbitrary lockdown or isolation, lack of disciplinary due process, etc. The court certifies a class of a present …
Article • August 15, 2008
$100,000 Awarded Daughter Of Man Negligently Killed By Nashville Police by Tennessee resident Angela Rhodes, representing her daughter, Angela Denham, brought is against the Metropolitan Government of Davidson County after her father, James Denham, was accidentally shot and killed in 2005. The suit settled for a meager $100,000. James Denham …
Article • August 15, 2008
San Leandro (California) Police Taser, Choke Man To Death; $395K Settlement by A San Leandro (California) family (plaintiffs) brought suit against the city and it's police after the tasing and choking of Jose Perez, Jr., in 2005 resulting in his death. The suit settled on May 24, 2007 without admission …
Article • August 15, 2008
Salinas (California) Police Harassment, False Arrest Suit Settles For $90,000 by San Mateo County (California) Superior Court staff Paralegal and youth football coach, Maurice Goodman, brought a § 1983 action for civil rights violations against the City of Salinas and police for being falsely arrested in 2005. The suit settled …
Prison Beating Claim Subject to Exhaustion by Use of force claims are prison conditions claims for purposes of exhaustion. At 1365: The court treats exhaustion as jurisdictional, interpreting a line in Alexander v. Hawk for more than it probably is worth and ignoring all contrary case law. A statement from …
Article • August 15, 2008
$1 Million Settlement After Florida Teen's Shooting Death by Police by Delray Beach, Florida residents Kenneth Miller and Terry Glover brought a § 1983 action against the city and rookie policeman Barren Cogoni for negligence and excessive force after Cogoni shot and killed Jerrod Miller in 2005. The suit settled …
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