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Article • February 15, 2009
California Prison Sentence Credits Based On Crime, Not Pleaded Offense by California State prisoner Damian Pacheco challenged the work time credit applied to his sentence pursuant to statutorily mandated violent crime enhancement, although he pled to a lesser offense. His state habeas corpus petition was denied. Pacheco broke a wooden …
Article • February 15, 2009
Civilians Replace Kitchen Guards At New York Correction Center by Nassau County (New York) Sheriff Officer's Association, Inc., and individual guards (plaintiffs), petitioned to prevent the County from replacing guards with civilian workers and supervisors in the kitchens at the Nassau County Correction Center (NCCC) pending the disposition of an …
Article • February 15, 2009
District Of Columbia Moultrie Courthouse Deemed Seriously Substandard by The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), prepared a report revealing substandard conditions as well as safety and security inadequacies at the District of Columbia's (DC) H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse. In 1975, construction began on …
Federal Officials' Refusal To Treat Prisoner's Severed Tendon Settles For $22,500 by Virginia federal prisoner Chris Walker brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1998 after various officials refused to treat his severed Achilles tendon. Jail and prison officials, as well as Bureau of Prisons personnel ignored …
Article • February 15, 2009
$5,000 Settlement For Leavenworth Guards' Unprovoked Beating Of Federal Prisoner by Illinois federal prisoner Kerry Dixon brought a combined Bivens and federal tort action against the United States in 1994 after guards beat him without just cause at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas (USP Leavenworth) in 1993. The …
Article • February 15, 2009
$10,000 Settlement For Ex Federal Prisoner After Slipping In Water by Ex Federal prisoner and Michigan resident William Bonhart brought a federal tort action in 2000 against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) after slipping in water in 1998 at the Federal Correctional …
Article • February 15, 2009
$11,000 Settlement For Failure To Treat Federal Prisoner's Hepatitis "C" Virus by Illinois federal prisoner Louis Sheptin brought a combined federal tort and Bivens action against the United States in 2000 for the failure to treat and disclose to him that he was infected with Hepatitis "C." The $10 million …
$12,773.46 Settlement After BOP Vehicle Rear Ends Motorist by Tennessee resident Beverly Oliver brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1996 after being rear ended by a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) truck driven by a prisoner. The $75,000 suit settled for $12,773.46. Oliver was a passenger in …
Article • February 15, 2009
$20,000 Settlement After Citizen Falls At Federal Medical Center by Missouri resident Wealtha Liggins brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1996 after she fell at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Kentucky. The $500,000 suit settled for $20,000. Liggins was a guest at the FMC in …
$40,000 Settlement After BOP Employee Causes Automobile Accident by West Virginia resident Lillian Poindexter brought a federal tort action in 1997 against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and federal agent Mari Higgins after being struck by Higgins' vehicle. The $139,000 suit settled for …
$50,000 Settlement In Memphis Policeman's Training Injury by Memphis (Tennessee) policeman Michael Cockerell and his wife Linda brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1999 after he fell during an obstacle course training exercise at a federal facility. The $1,500,000 suit settled for $50,000. Cockerell was training …
$125,000 Settlement In BOP Guard Induced Prisoner's Death by Parents of deceased ex Kentucky federal prisoner, Marcus Dascenzo, brought a federal tort action against the United States in 2002 after a guard's failure to treat their son resulted in his death. After the Department of Justice's initial refusal to pay …
$185,000 Settlement For Man Needlessly Beaten By Seattle Police by Seattle resident Maikoiyo Alley Barnes (plaintiff) brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against Seattle police after being beaten in 2005 for questioning a sergeant's motives to ticket his friend for littering. The suit settled for $185,000. The plaintiff questioned …
Article • February 15, 2009
$250,000 Settlement After LA Sheriff's Bullet Hits Innocent Bystander by The County of Los Angeles (L.A.) proposed a settlement of $250,000 after an innocent bystander was wounded by a ricocheting bullet. An investigation cleared sheriff's deputies of any wrongdoing but litigation was feared to result in a greater loss. L.A. …
Corruption in Orange County, CA Sheriff’s Department Revealed; Sheriff Resigns, Convicted on Criminal Charges by Marvin Mentor Corruption in Orange County, CA Sheriff’s Department Revealed; Sheriff Resigns, Convicted on Criminal Charges by Marvin Mentor Former Orange County, California Sheriff Michael S. Carona and many of his staff at the Theo …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright This is the first issue of PLN published during the Barak Obama presidency. Hopefully we will see change for the better. Even before he took office Obama and Biden were making good on their promises to provide billions of dollars to local police departments …
Second Chance Act Signed Into Law, But Not Yet Funded by Brandon Sample Second Chance Act Signed Into Law, But Not Yet Funded by Brandon Sample On April 9, 2008, President Bush signed the Second Chance Act into law. The Second Chance Act (P.L. 110-199), a bi-partisan effort, was designed …
Private Prison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths by Private Prison Companies Not Forthcoming About Immigration Detainee Deaths by Matt Clarke The private prison industry has benefited from a recent influx of contracts from the federal government to incarcerate immigration detainees. Such contracts are more lucrative than those for …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
BOP Suspends Use of Ion Spectrometry Drug Detection Devices by Brandon Sample On April 10, 2008, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) discontinued the use of all ion spectrometry drug detection machines, more commonly known as ion scanners. According to a memo from BOP assistant director Joyce K. Conley, “the …
Officials Agree To Cap Population at D.C. Jail by Michael Rigby After decades of fighting lawsuits, skirting court orders, and defying legislative decrees, the District of Columbia Mayor’s Office has finally agreed to a definitive population cap at the notoriously overcrowded and dangerous D.C. Jail. Under the terms of the …
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