Skip navigation

Search

3144 results
Page 136 of 158. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 ... 154 155 156 157 158 | Next »

Prisoners and Guards Charged With Murder as Drugs and Brutality Plague State Prisons by Vermont: Four prisoners died in the custody of the Vermont Department of Corrections during a five week period between April and May 2003. Only one died of natural causes. [Editor's Note: PLN contributing writer James Quigley …
Washington Sex Offenders' Release Plans Must Be Processed by The Washington State Court of Appeals for Division 1 has held that the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) must process sex offenders' release plans, even if they are being referred for civil commitment as sexually violent predators. William Dutcher was a …
Death at North Carolina Lock Up Spotlights Troubled Jail System by Michael Rigby Death At North Carolina Lock Up Spotlights Troubled Jail System by Michael Rigby The death of Christopher Lee Wood at North Carolina's Cherokee County jail has served to illuminate a sordid history of prisoner abuse, FBI investigations …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
Massachusetts Jail Guards Assault Mentally Disabled Prisoner by Michael Rigby Massachusetts Jail Guards Assault Mentally Disabled Prisoner by Michael Rigby Six Essex County jail guards were suspended and one fired after they assaulted a mentally challenged prisoner in the jail infirmary by forcing him to eat cake while handcuffed. Author …
Qualified Immunity Standards Tightened in Prison Murder Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals brought its law of the Circuit into compliance with recent U.S. Supreme Court case law to add the additional test of "knowing unlawfulness" in Eighth Amendment prisoner …
Immunity Granted to Wisconsin Sex Offenders in Treatment by Immunity Granted to Wisconsin Sex Offenders in Treatment The Wisconsin Supreme Court has held that Gary Tate is entitled to immunity for statements made at court imposed sex offender treatment, and the revocation of his probation for refusing to make admissions …
Non-Sex-Offender Parolee Entitled to Due Process Before Being Treated As Sex Offender by by Matthew T. Clarke The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that a parolee who has never been convicted of a sex offense is entitled to a due process hearing prior to being required to register as …
Article • December 15, 2003
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Lack Of Deliberate Indifference Negates Constitutional Violation In Prisoner Suicide by The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that defendants in a § 1983 action stemming from a prisoner suicide did not violate the deceased's constitutional rights and were therefore entitled to summary judgement. Danny Ray …
Connecticut Prisons Exempt from Patient Bill of Bights by The Connecticut Supreme Court has held that state prisons are not subject to the patients' bill of rights, Connecticut General Statutes §§ 17a-540 through 17a-550. Bryant Wiseman, 28, died at the Garner Correctional Institution on November 17, 1999, apparently while being …
Florida Juveniles Get Lost among Transfer Shuffle, Extending Stays in Wasting Money by Florida Juveniles Get Lost among Transfer Shuffle, Extending Stays in Wasting Money By David M. Reutter Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) regularly transfers its wards among several programs, resulting in extended terms of incarceration, which has …
Any Reliance On AA or NA Participation During Parole Consideration Violates Establishment Clause by Any Reliance On AA or NA Participation During Parole Consideration Violates Establishment Clause by John E. Dannenberg The United States District Court, E.D. Cal., ruled that requiring a California life prisoner to attend Narcotics Anonymous (NA) …
California Sexually Violent Predator's Recurring Habeas Claims Ruled Not Moot, But Nonetheless Merit by California Sexually Violent Predator's Recurring Habeas Claims Ruled Not Moot, But Nonetheless Meritless by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that because the two-year interval between recurring civil commitment trials for …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
Jury Awards $1.75 Million Against CMS in Illinois Jail Suicide by Correctional Medical Services (CMS), a private provider of medical services to jails and prisons, lost a jury verdict in a case brought by a former Lake County, Illinois, Jail prisoner's estate alleging that CMS violated the prisoner's constitutional rights, …
Guard Awarded $515,813 Against Private Medical Provider by A Florida Jury awarded a Martin County Jail guard, Ronald Keeler, $515,813 against a private medical provider. Keeler sued Correctional Physician Services (CPS), who provided medical care to jail prisoners, and New Horizons of the Treasure Coast, Inc., who was a subcontractor …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
$500,000 Settlement in Connecticut Suicide by On April 14, 2003, the family of a prisoner who committed suicide in 1996 while in a Connecticut prison settled with the state for $500,000. William Dumais, 19, was imprisoned in the Corrigan Correctional Institution in Uncasville from December 1995 to February 1996 on …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Washington SCC Injunction and Contempt Order Upheld by On February 26, 2003, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein upheld an injunction and contempt order issued against the superintendent and clinical director of the Special Commitment Center ("SCC") at McNeil Island, Washington. The SCC houses former prisoners civilly committed as "sexually violent …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
PLRA Does Not Apply to Challenges to Civil Commitment by by Matthew T. Clarke The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the PLRA does not apply to challenges to conditions of confinement by persons detained under the Florida sexually violent predator program. Bryant S. Troville, a Florida civil …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Court Okay Needed Before Housing Mentally Ill Prisoners in California Supermax by Court Okay Needed Before Housing Mentally Ill Prisoners in California Supermax The US District Court (E.D. Calif.) issued an order preventing the CA Dept. of Corrections (CDC) from housing mentally ill prisoners in its psychologically isolating and debilitating …
South Carolina Found in Contempt for Non-Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners by South Carolina Found in Contempt for Non-Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners by Lonnie Burton The South Carolina Department of Mental Health (DMH) and its director were held in contempt of court on September 5, 2002, for ignoring repeated …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Pregnant Wisconsin Prisoner Punished for Sexual Contact While Guard Walks Free by Lonnie Burton In December, 2002, a mentally ill female prisoner at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution (TCI) in Wisconsin was given a year of solitary confinement after being impregnated by a prison guard, while the guard, Mathew Emery, was …
Page 136 of 158. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 ... 154 155 156 157 158 | Next »