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Retaliation Claim Merits Factual Resolution by An Arizona federal district court has held that a prisoner's claims that he was subjected to urinalysis, placed in administrative segregation, classified as a gang member and denied access to the law library as retaliation for filing civil actions against prison officials warranted proceedings …
PLRA Physical Injury Rule Applies to ADA Claims by The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) rule of requiring physical injury applies to damage claims brought under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Richard …
Court to Determine if Louisiana Must Treat Male and Female Prisoners Equally by The court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that the issue of whether Louisiana violated the Equal Protection Clause by treating female prisoners more favorable than male prisoners cannot be resolved at the motion to …
New York City Settles Black Panther Frame Up Suit for $890,000 by Roger Smith On December 5, 2000, New York City officials agreed to settle Dhoruba alMujahid bin Wahad's wrongful imprisonment suit for $490,000 in damages, costs, and attorney fees. Wahad, a former Black Panther leader, was convicted of attempted …
$1.4 Million Awarded to Raped Alaska Women Prisoners by $1.4 Million Awarded To Raped Alaska Women Prisoners On January 22, 2001 an Anchorage, Alaska superior court jury awarded nearly $1.4 million to five women in a civil action arising from their being sexually assaulted by a guard at an Anchorage …
Brief • June 20, 2001
Barham v. Pierce County, WA, Claim, ADA Discrimination Firing, 2001 Ulj/l\J/.':J1 . TUr; lJ:Jkt ~::>J·/}JOt.U1J to"Ju'. ' ~vv"- . -' RECEIVED ~.O·-"IM . ol1"o~ K, CLAIM FOR DAMAGES r~ R'&wAnut: ~ ~ 'PIERC~1G.0UNTY RISK MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT Jl.lfJ 2 \l '}ilO' ~ JUN 202001 955 Tacoma Avenue SOuth, Suite 303 Tacoma, …
Women Behind Bars by Silja JA Talvi It's the kind of statistic that deserves repeated mention: America's prisons and jails now hold just under two million persons, or 1 in every 142 U.S. residents. To put America's incarceration rates into perspective, it's worth bearing in mind from 1990 to 2000, …
Federal Court Partially Terminates New York Jail Consent Decree Relief by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in New York has terminated consent decree relief for New York City Jail prisoners with respect to restrictive housing due process, prisoner correspondence, and law libraries, while leaving intact the consent …
ADA Settlement at Washington Special Commitment Center by Hank Balson By Hank Balson In December 2000, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) settled a lawsuit brought by seven disabled residents of the Washington Special Commitment Center (SCC), the state's civil …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Louisiana Prison Activist Freed by On February 8, 2001, Robert King Wilkerson, one of the prisoners known as the Angola 3, was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana after spending twenty-nine years in solitary confinement for a crime he did not commit. Wilkerson, 57, was convicted of …
Guards Use Shotguns to Control Riot by Guards Use Shotguns To Control Riot Guards used shotguns loaded with rubber pellets to break up a riot at Wallens Ridge Prison in Virginia. On Sunday December 3rd, in a deliberate violation of prison procedure, prisoners returning from lunch left the sidewalk and …
Washington Media Royalties Sentencing Condition Reversed by A Washington State Court of Appeals modified the sentence of childrapist Mary R. Letourneau by striking a requirement that inperson contact with her own children be supervised and lifting the prohibition on her profiting from any commercialization related to her crimes. In early …
Washington DOC Hit with almost $50 Million in Verdicts and Settlements in Parole Victim Suits by Paul Wright In a four-month period between September, 2000 and January, 2001, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) was hit with separate jury verdicts for $22.4 and $15 million and settled two additional cases …
Eight Prisoner Deaths in California Women's Prison by Silja JA Talvi Eight Prisoner Deaths In California Women's Prison Revive Concerns About Medical Care, Availibility Of Compassionate Release by Silja J.A. Talvi The deaths of eight female prisoners within a seven-week period at a California women's prison have sparked a new …
New York Jury Awards $900,000 for Jail's Failure to Protect by A federal jury awarded judgment of $900,000 against the County of Nassau and the Sheriff of Nassau for failing to protect prisoner Steven W. Arnold from being assaulted and severely beaten while detained in the Nassau County Jail. PLN …
Gay New York Guard Wins $1.5 Million Harassment Award by On July 18, 2000, a gay Nassau County, NY jail guard won $1.55 million in damages after a federal jury agreed that his supervisors failed to intervene when his coworkers repeatedly tormented and harassed him due to his sexual orientation. …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Bogus Felons List Results in Suppression of Florida Votes by Ronald Young Bogus Felons List Results In Suppression of Florida Votes by Ronald A. Young Undoubtedly, it was the politically motivated decision handed down by five U.S. Supreme Court justices to put a halt to counting untallied Florida votes which …
California Legislative Committee Hearing Meets Behind Prison Walls To Hear Testimony From Female Prisoners by Silja JA Talvi by Silja J.A. Talvi It was anything but an ordinary California legislative hearing. On Wednesday, October 11,2000, behind the barbedwire grounds and multiple security checkpoints of Chowchilla's Valley State Prison for Women …
$57,000 Awarded in Illinois Prison Beating by Lonnie Burton In 1999 an Illinois state prisoner was awarded nearly $57,000 in damages and fees following trial on his charges that fellow prisoners beat him while a guard stood and watched. Ronnie W. Carroll filed suit in the United States District Court …
TRO Allows Father to Attend Birth; Court Awards Full Attorney Fees by A U.S. District Court in Ohio awarded attorneys' fees and court costs to a state prisoner and her husband who sought and were granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) allowing the husband to attend the birth of their …
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