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Absolute Immunity For Acting On Court Order Denied In Failure To Protect Claim by Bob Williams Absolute Immunity For Acting On Court Order Denied In Failure To Protect Claim by Bob Williams The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the denial of absolute immunity against prison guards who claimed …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
California Latino Gang Members Locked Down Over 20 Months; Narrow U.S. Attorney Criminal Review Finds "No Abuses" by California Latino Gang Members Locked Down Over 20 Months; Narrow U.S. Attorney Criminal Review Finds "No Abuses" Latino gang members at California's 124 year-old Folsom State Prison (FSP) were locked down for …
Three Americans Convicted of Running Sham Military Jail in Afghanistan by Three Americans Convicted of Running Sham Military Jail in Afghanistan by Matthew T. Clarke Three Americans, led by ex-special forces soldier Jonathan Keith Idema, 48, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, have been convicted of running an unauthorized jail in Kabul …
Publication • February 2, 2005
Comparables for Judgments and Settlements of Male Guard on Female Inmate Sexual Assault Cases, Ashlie Case and Ashley Walker, 2005 Comparables for judgments and settlements of male guard on female inmate sexual assault cases Prepared by Ashlie Case and Ashley Walker 2/2/2005 Page 1 of 10 case name citation 1) …
Latest Honduran Prison Massacre: "Homies Were Burning Alive" by Tom Hayden In first-ever interviews, representatives of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS) gang in Tegucigalpa, Honduras this May described how security forces were to blame for the May 17, 2004 prison fire that killed 105 of those they call their homeboys. In …
Texas "Gang Expert" Indicted for Sex Assaults by On June 17, 2004, top Texas prison administrator Salvador "Sammy" Buentello was indicted on felony charges that he sexually assaulted three female employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). A week earlier Buentello had been indicted on four misdemeanor charges …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Ex-Rikers Island Chief Indicted by Anthony Serra, formerly the second in command at the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC), has been indicted for felony grand larceny and 145 counts of misdemeanor violations of the Conflict of Interest Law. He faces up to 15 years in prison for the …
Uprisings at CCA Prisons Reveal Weaknesses in Out-of-State Imprisonment Policies by by Matthew T. Clarke States strapped by tight budgets and pressed by a swell of prisoners are faced with the Hobson's choice of releasing prisoners early to ease overcrowding or building prisons they can ill afford to construct and …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Don't Build It Here - The Hype Versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment by Clayton Mosher Don't Build it Here - The Hype Versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment by Clayton Mosher, Gregory Hooks, and Peter Wood Fueled by the war on drugs, Draconian sentencing policies, …
California Initiative To Soften "3-Strikes" Law Defeated; DNA Collection From Arrestees Approved by California Initiative To Soften "3-Strikes" Law Defeated; DNA Collection From Arrestees Approved Proposition 66 (Prop. 66), a voter Initiative Act placed on the ballot by prisoners' families to soften California's unforgiving "3-Strikes" law by qualifying an offense …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Los Angeles Voters Reject 5,000 More Cops; Invest In Clear Ocean Instead by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Los Angeles, California voters, in a November 2004 campaign marred by scare tactics, rejected a 1/2 cent sales tax measure (Measure A) that would have raised $560 million per year …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
BOP Fires Prison Guard Accused of Rape, Attempted Murder by BOP Fires Prison Guard Accused Of Rape, Attempted Murder A federal prison guard charged with the kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder of an 18-year-old woman has been fired from the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon. Robert James Stamper Jr.'s …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
New York City: Thousands Unnecessarily Imprisoned at Enormous cost by New York City: Thousands Unnecessarily Imprisoned At Enormous Cost New York City is spending a fortune to unnecessarily imprison thousands of its citizens for relatively minor offenses. According to the city's Independent Budget Office, in fiscal year 2003 the total …
Guards Fornicate, Sell Drugs in Pennsylvania Jails by Guards Fornicate, Sell Drugs In Pennsylvania Jails The Allegheny County Jail in Pennsylvania is a den of perversion and sexual predation. To date, eleven guards have been ordered to stand trial on charges they sexually assaulted female prisoners at the jail. The …
New York Prisoner Informant Awarded $7.65 Million In Failure-To-Protect Suit by Michael Rigby On May 3, 2004, a federal jury in Manhattan awarded $7.65 million to a New York prisoner who was nearly killed when another prisoner attacked him with a razor. The plaintiff had alleged in his civil rights …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
Arrestee Cannot Be Charged With Bringing Drugs Into Jail by The Ohio Second District Court of Appeals has held that an arrestee cannot be charged with knowingly conveying drugs onto the grounds of a detention facility. Stephen Sowry was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. A pat-down …
A Death in Custody: Massachusetts DOC Wracked by Scandal by Peter Costanza On August 23, 2003, the 26 men in Unit J-1 at SBCC, a "supermax" prison in Shirley, Massachusetts, were finishing lunch. It was just before noon. There was one guard in the unit, a prison guard named David …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Washington Police Kill Unarmed Escapee in Botched Raid; Prisoner Also Killed by Michael Rigby Washington Police Kill Unarmed Escapee In Botched Raid; Prisoner also Killed By Michael Rigby One day after he used a fake gun to escape from a courthouse in Tacoma, Washington, a "three-strikes" prisoner was killed by …
Cowboy Justice: BOP Guards Convicted by Alan Pendergast by Alan Prendergast The seven men sat around the defense table Tuesday afternoon, June 24, 2003, murmuring quietly to each other and exchanging hearty good-luck handshakes with their attorneys. The tension was thick, anticipation high. Shortly after 4 p.m., the jurors filed …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Gates of Injustice - The Crisis in America's Prisons by Tom Murlowski by Alan Elsner, FT Prentice Hall, 256 pp., hardcover Review by Tom Murlowski "Alan Elsner's powerful book demonstrates that our $40 billion corrections system for both adults and juveniles is badly broken. Our jails and prisons and penitentiaries …
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