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Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Los Angeles County Pays $40,000 Damages to Assaulted Prisoner Informant Witness by The County of Los Angeles, California paid $40,000 to a prisoner who was badly beaten in the county jail upon returning from court, by friends of the defendant he had just testified against in a murder trial. In …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
C O R R E C T I O N by Since PLN began publishing in 1990, we have never had to make a retraction based on our own factual mistake. While we’ve run corrections before, they were based on errors in the original news articles or reports that were …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Deal to Reconsider 1,000 Paroles Scotched When New York Governor Capitulates Over Cop Killer’s Case by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Faced with a pending federal class action lawsuit brought by New York state prisoners seeking relief from being denied parole based solely on the nature of their crimes, …
Phoenix New Times Executives Arrested for Reporting About Sheriff Joe Arpaio by Matthew T. Clarke by Matt Clarke On the night of October 18, 2007, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, founders and owners of the Phoenix New Times, an independent weekly publication in Phoenix, Arizona, were arrested and charged with …
Mississippi Jail Prisoner Wins $3,000,000 in Failure to Protect Suit by The Hinds County Board of Supervisors (Board) agreed to settle a three-million-dollar federal lawsuit filed by a former prisoner in the Hinds County Jail after he was left paralyzed by a beating at the hands of other prisoners in …
Oklahoma Pays $844,000 for Comprehensive Performance Audit of DOC by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 4, 2008, MGT of America, Inc. released a performance audit of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC). The 285-page report cost $844,000 and provided several clues as to how the prison system could …
$300,000 Settlement in Murder of College Student by Released Sexual Predator by The State of Minnesota has paid $300,000 to the family of a University of North Dakota student who was kidnapped, raped and killed by a recently-released sexual predator. The payment was offered as a pre-litigation settlement before a …
Human Rights Watch Report: Most Sex Offender Laws Misguided and Ineffective by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2007, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US. The report concluded that most sex offender laws are ineffective and misguided in that …
More Prisoners Murdered in Texas Federal Prisons by Gary Hunter Until February 13, 2008, Ronald Joseph, 29, was serving time at a federal penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas for firearm and drug-related convictions. On that date he was found dead in his cell; a preliminary autopsy report indicated he had been …
Fifth Circuit: Federal Prisoner Loses Retaliation Suit but U.S. Attorney Sanctioned by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A federal prisoner in Texas sued prison officials for retaliating against him for filing grievances. While the court found for the defendants, it nonetheless sanctioned two Assistant U.S. Attorneys $500 for procedural …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis, Damages
Illinois Prisoners Win $8 Million for Failure to Treat Hep C by A federal jury has awarded four Illinois prisoners over $2 million apiece in a civil rights action filed against state prison officials for denying treatment for Hepatitis C (Hep C). In 2005, Edward J. Roe, Anthony P. Stasiak, …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Over $6 Million Awarded in Oakland, California Parolee’s False Arrest Suit by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A federal jury awarded $6,058,000 in damages to a parolee and his girlfriend for outrageous conduct by Oakland, California city police (OPD) when they broke into his residence, told him they had …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Washington Inter-Prison Property-Shipping-Fee Class Action Suit Settles For $1,262,500 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Between 1995 and 2005, Washington State Department of Corrections (WADOC) policy 440.000 required prisoners who were being transferred between WADOC prisons to pre-pay the shipping costs of their personal property in excess of two …
Unlocking America, Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population, The JFA Institute, November 2007, 32 pp. by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Unlocking America is a study on how to approach the task of reducing America’s prison population (“decarceration”) without compromising public safety. Key factors recommended to …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Former North Carolina Lawmaker’s Son Submits Highest Bid, Gets Prison Contract by David Reutter Last year, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation began examining the award of a prison pest control contract to the son of the state’s former House Speaker. The contract raised questions because the winning bid …
Complaint Against Utah DOC for Non-Delivery of PLN Fails Because Defendants Only Negligent; Jail Publication Ban Illegal by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has rejected several Utah-based civil rights complaints concerning the denial of reading material to prisoners, including issues of Prison …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Maryland Juvenile Justice Official Resigns Over Past Abuse Allegations by David Reutter Just seven months after he was hired as director over Maryland’s juvenile detention facilities, Chris Perkins, 38, resigned his $76,000 a year position when a Montana judge unsealed a report that found Perkins had abused children at a …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Pennsylvania Prison Medical Firm’s Performance Called into Question by Dr. Edward Zaloga, co-owner of Correctional Care, Inc. (CCI) of Moosic, Pennsylvania, a firm that provides medical services at the Lackawanna County Prison, had his past called into question when a female prisoner was forced to give birth alone in her …
$64,900 Award in Arkansas Excessive Force Claim; Warden Held Not Liable by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a judgment against the warden of Arkansas’ Cummins Unit, finding he did not have sufficient knowledge that the guards under his supervision were inflicting …
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges to Pay for Grant Fraud by On March 10, 2008, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) agreed to settle a grant fraud case for $300,000. After being promoted to Special Projects Manager of the NCJFCJ, Serena Hulbert requested …
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