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Brief • March 25, 2013
Lehr et al v. City of Sacramento, CA, Order, homeless anti-camping rules property seizure, 2013 Case 2:07-cv-01565-MCE-EFB Document 237 Filed 03/25/13 Page 1 of 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 ANTHONY LEHR, et al., 12 Plaintiffs, …
Coleman v. Brown, CA, Declaration of Scott in Support of Def. Prison System Overcrowding, 2013 Case 2:90-cv-00520-LKK-JFM Document 4479 Filed 03/22/13 Page 1 of 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 KAMALA D. HARRIS Attorney General of California JONATHAN L. WOLFF Senior Assistant Attorney General JAY C. …
Article • March 15, 2013
Mass Incarceration Now, Tomorrow, Forever: Gov. Jerry Brown and the Politics of Court Bashing by Jonathan Simon by Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law Just about two years ago, in May 2011, the US Supreme Court in Brown v. Plata 131 S.Ct. 1910 (2011) upheld what Justice Scalia called the "most …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
California Governor Approved Parole for 377 Life-Sentenced Murderers in 2012 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Last year, California Governor Jerry Brown approved four out of every five parole grant decisions by the Board of Parole Hearings (Board) for prisoners convicted of murder and sentenced to life with parole. …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Los Angeles County Settles Civil Detainee Wrongful Death Claim for $750,000 by On August 1, 2012, the County Counsel for the County of Los Angeles, California recommended settlement of a lawsuit filed by the survivors of a civil detainee who died as a result of an accident while working on …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Filed under: News
California Prison Town Files for Bankruptcy by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The City of Stockton, California, which hosts two youth correctional facilities and is the site of current construction for a new $700-750 million prison hospital for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, filed for Chapter 9 …
Dangerous Jails - LA Weekly by DANGEROUS JAILS, PART 1 by Matthew Fleischer A Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department whistleblower reveals to the LA Justice Report that groups of rogue deputies have flourished for years inside the nation’s largest jail system while the LASD command staff looked the other way. What …
Abuse in Los Angeles Jails Leads to Investigations, Lawsuits and Eventual Reforms by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim and Alex Friedmann WITH SEVEN FACILITIES THAT HOUSE from 15,000 to 18,000 prisoners, Los Angeles County’s jail system is the nation’s largest – and, arguably, among the most dangerous in terms of …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
The Color of Corporate Corrections: Overrepresentation of People of Color in the Private Prison Industry by Christopher Petrella by Christopher Petrella and Josh Begley While data generated by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and state departments of corrections (DOCs) have long demonstrated persistent racial disparities in rates of incarceration, …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Federal Court Grants Six-Month Extension to Reduce CDCR Prison Population by The three-judge federal court over a long-standing prison healthcare class-action suit against California took a slight turn on January 29, 2013, when the court gave the state a six-month extension to achieve the prison population reduction it had ordered …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Former California Prison Guard Convicted of Lying about Injury Sustained at Sex Club by In March 2012, an ex-prison guard and his wife were convicted of attempted perjury for trying to swindle California’s workers’ compensation system by claiming that injuries the guard sustained at a San Francisco sex club were …
$2.6 Million Jury Award for Prisoner Beaten in Los Angeles County Detox Cell by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 13, 2012, a federal jury awarded over $2.6 million to a man who was brutally assaulted by another prisoner while being held in a detoxification cell in a West …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
California Prison Psychiatrists Reap Rewards from State Bidding War by Following a competitive bidding war between California state mental hospitals and state prisons, both seeking psychiatrists to treat their mentally ill patients, the prison system has emerged as the winner – largely due to a federal court order to improve …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Filed under: Medical, Hernias
Prison Doctor’s Failure to Follow Prescribed Hernia Treatment States Claim by On May 25, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a prisoner’s civil rights complaint, finding he had alleged facts that showed a prison doctor had diagnosed a hernia but failed to implement the prescribed …
Second Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment for Non-Treatment of Prisoner’s HCV by On March 9, 2012, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a New York prisoner’s claims related to denial of hepatitis C (HCV) treatment. The Second Circuit also determined that the district court had misinterpreted a …
Article • March 15, 2013
California: CDCR Releases Latest Recidivism Report by In October 2010, in what California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Secretary Matthew Cate billed as the first in a series of annual reports designed to provide new insights to policy-makers and correctional stakeholders with regard to the dynamics of recidivism, CDCR's …
Article • March 15, 2013
California: Confidential Lifer Files Found Discarded in Dumpster Outside Prison by Mysteriously, the files of eight California prisoners serving life sentences turned up in a dumpster at a Shell gas station outside the California Men’s Colony (CMC) in San Luis Obispo. The files were found by a homeless couple looking …
Article • March 15, 2013
California: Corrections Department Donates Confiscated Cell Phones to Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Organizations by In recognition of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced plans to donate thousands of confiscated cell phones to organizations that help victims of domestic violence. In …
Article • March 15, 2013
California: CDCR Pays $5,000 to Settle Failure-to-Protect Suit Brought by Pre-Operative Transsexual Prisoner by In April 2010, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) signed off on a settlement agreement of $5,000 to Lorenzo Carl Paynes in exchange for a voluntary dismissal of Paynes’ federal lawsuit alleging that CDCR …
Brief • March 8, 2013
Filed under: Mental Health
Coleman v Brown CA, Deposition - Scott, 07-26, prison population, 2013 TLS I THORSNES litigation services Transcript of the Testimony of: Charles Scott, M.D. Coleman v. Brown March 8, 2013 Volume I THORSNES LITIGATION SERVICES, LLC P: 877.771.3312 | F: 877.561.5538 www.thorsnes.com Charles Scott, M.D. March 8, 2013 UNITED STATES …
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