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Brief • January 1, 2009
Rosen v. New York, NY, Pltff Motion, Opp to MSJ, 2009 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ------------------------------------------------------------------------X JESSE ROSEN, Plaintiff, -againstTHE CITY O FNBEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION, PRISON HEALTH SERVICES, INC., MARTIN F. HORN, Commisioner of the New York City of …
Roy v. Wrenn, NH, Instruction, Interrogatories, 2009 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE --------------------------------------------------------------X STEVEN ROY, PRAYER FEATHER FARROW ) CHARLES WOLFF, ERIC CHAPLIN, JOEL ) SMITH, JOHN GOSSELIN, BRUCE USHER AND) WILLIAM JOHNSON, ) Plaintiff ) ) VS. ) ) WILLIAM WRENN, RICHARD GERRY, LARRY) BLAISDELL, DR. …
Social Psychology of Isolation - Why Solitary Confinement is Psychologically Harmful, Haney, 2009 U 232 PSJ 181 CRAIG Text (Jan 09):Prison Service Journal 6/1/09 16:14 Page 12 The Social Psychology of Isolation: Why Solitary Confinement is Psychologically Harmful Craig Haney is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa …
Smith v. Beck, NC, 2nd Amended Complaint, Sexual Assault & Retaliation by Prison Superintendent, 2008 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA CASE NO. I:08-CV-166-TDS-WWD S. SHANE SMITH, ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. ) THEODIS BECK, individually and in his official capacity as Secretary for …
Rice v. City and County of Denver Co, Order Denying Def Mot for Protective Order, Wrongful Death, 2008 Westlaw Delivery Summary Report for SATAWA,MARK Date/Time of Request: Client Identifier: Database: Citation Text: Lines: Documents: Images: Friday, December 26, 2008 12:51 Eastern TMLOEB DCT Slip Copy 442 1 0 The material …
Use of Questionable “Lie Detectors" by Law Enforcement Expands Nationwide by Matthew Clarke Use of Questionable “Lie Detectors” by Law Enforcement Expands Nationwide by Matt Clarke In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, law enforcement and other government agencies implemented new practices to obtain information from suspects …
PLN Attorneys Awarded $137,672 for Post-Settlement Work in CDCR Censorship Case by John Dannenberg PLN Attorneys Awarded $137,672 for Post-Settlement Work in CDCR Censorship Case by John E. Dannenberg On April 10, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California awarded $137,672 in supplemental legal fees and …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright With the election past there has been a change in the faces of government and the election of Barak Obama is a historic occasion in US history with the election of a black man to the presidency for the first time. Whether there is …
$2.75 Million Verdict in Dehydrated Michigan Prisoner’s Death by A Michigan federal jury awarded $2.75 million to a prisoner’s estate in a case claiming deliberate indifference to serious medical needs. The prisoner, Jeffrey Clark, was having mental health problems and died due to the effects of dehydration and inhumanely hot …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
StopMax: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons Heats Up by Jessica Pupovac “When I left Angola,” says Robert King Wilkerson, who spent 29 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary for a crime he was later found innocent of, “I said, ‘I may be free of Angola, but …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Arkansas: On June 9, 2008, Rolanda Barron, 33, the director of nursing at the Tucker unit prison was arrested after a search disclosed she was smuggling tobacco into the prison as well as cell phones, cell phone chargers and batteries, all of which are prohibited in …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
$635,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Woman Prisoner’s Suicide by The family of a Wisconsin prisoner who committed suicide has agreed to accept a $635,000 payment from the state to settle a federal lawsuit. The suit claimed that Taycheedah Correctional Institution (TCI) prisoner Angela Enoch was able to strangle herself with torn …
Article • December 15, 2008
Stick to Your Guns: Restoration of Tennessee "Firearm Rights" by David L. Raybin By David L. Raybin of Hollins, Wagster, Weatherly & Raybin, P.C. "When can I get my gun rights back now that I have finished serving my time?" Hopefully the client has the sense to even ask the …
Article • December 15, 2008
ARE FALSE IMPRISONMENT RECOVERIES TAXABLE? by Robert Wood By Robert W. Wood* News stories about prisoners released from custody following the discovery of exculpating evidence have become commonplace. As CSI fans will attest, one path that can lead to this result involves DNA evidence, a relatively recent scientific phenomenon.1 A …
Article • December 15, 2008
Dangers of a preventive detention law by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi | January 1, 2009 PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama has said he'll close the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay. The question is how. If the government has evidence that Guantanamo detainees have committed crimes, it should put …
Sentenced to rape: LGBT inmates face unusually high risk of sexual assault in prison by Meghann Myers Sentenced to rape LGBT inmates face unusually high risk of sexual assault in prison BY MEGHANN MYERS It's been 60 years since the United Nations General Assembly issued the Universal Declaration of Human …
Nebraska Appeals Court: Failure to Exhaust Remedies Jurisdictional Defect by The Nebraska Court of Appeals held in this case that a prisoner's failure to exhaust his administrative remedies deprived the district court of jurisdiction over his civil rights lawsuit. On May 22, 2003, Dukhan Iqraa Jihad Mumin, a Nebraska prisoner, …
Texas: $232,000 Settlement, $82,000 Award in Prison Employees' Discrimination Suits by In 2003 and 2004, plaintiffs in two separate lawsuits prevailed on their claims of racial discrimination against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). In the most recent lawsuit, four auditors in the Community Justice Assistance Division of TDCJ …
Article • December 15, 2008
Filed under: Organizing, Voting, Elections
Many Iowans Mistakenly Identified as Felons, Purged From Voter Lists by A large number of voters in Iowa were mistakenly purged from the voter rolls due to a faulty state-promulgated list that showed they were felons. Rick Brown, 47, of Madrid, a postal worker, was a typical case. Brown never …
Article • December 15, 2008
$1,250,000 Settlement in Michigan Police Shooting Death by The Township of Clinton, Clinton Township Michigan, has agreed to settle a wrongful death action for $1,250,000 in 2008. Clinton Township officers were called to the home of Zephonia Baher in order to remove an unwanted guest, Tim Antoine Curry. Curry was …
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