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Federal Sex Offender Civil Commitment Process Under Fire by Derek Gilna Among other provisions, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 allows the federal government to indefinitely detain “sexually dangerous” offenders through a civil commitment process, which requires mandatory court hearings after such offenders have been certified …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Ethics Complaint Against Former Oregon Prison Official Dismissed by As previously reported in PLN, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,020-per-year position with the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) in March 2011. He had been employed as an assistant administrator with the ODOC’s Health Services Division, and served on a …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
From the Editor by Paul Wright When Prison Legal News published its first issue in May 1990, it was less than one month after Washington state became the first in the nation to enact a civil commitment law for sex offenders. PLN has reported on this issue ever since as …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Maryland Women Prisoners Sew Commemorative 1812 Flags by In July 2011, prisoners at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup were busy sewing 1812-style flags to be flown at Maryland public buildings. The plan was to replace the state’s old flags with the 1812-style flags, which have 15 stars …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Hawaii Audit Finds Offenders Rarely Pay Restitution Owed by Thirteen years after the Hawaii Office of the Auditor issued a report critical of the state judiciary’s efforts to collect restitution payments from offenders, only a small fraction of tens of millions of dollars in restitution has been collected, which has …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Prisoner Lacked Standing to Challenge Georgia’s Failure to Send Absentee Ballot to Jail by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on February 2, 2012 that a former Georgia jail prisoner lacked standing to complain that state and local officials had failed to mail his absentee ballot to the jail, …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Federal BOP to Let Prisoners Have MP3 Players by The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has announced that it will allow federal prisoners to purchase MP3 music players, which were first tested at Federal Prison Camp Alderson, a women’s facility in West Virginia. The policy change, expected to be implemented …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
$975,000 Award to Former Prisoner Who Gave Birth in Seattle, Washington Jail by A federal jury in Washington State has awarded $975,000 to a mentally ill woman who gave birth in a cell at the King County Correctional Facility (KCCF). The jury found both the county and jail staff liable …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
California Pays $295,000 to Settle Religious Discrimination Lawsuit by Sikh Barred from Employment as Prison Guard by California Pays $295,000 to Settle Religious Discrimination Lawsuit by Sikh Barred from Employment as Prison Guard In August 2011, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled a religious discrimination suit filed …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
California Supreme Court Restricts Lifer Parole Challenges by In its second review in three years of a state prisoner’s habeas corpus petition seeking review of an adverse parole decision, on December 29, 2011 the California Supreme Court again reversed the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Div. 1, which had ordered …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
CA Court of Appeal: Documents Identifying Suppliers of Execution Drug are Public Records by On December 20, 2011, a California Court of Appeal held that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) may not withhold the names of pharmaceutical companies and other sources from which it sought to acquire …
Florida Town Rallies to Stop CCA Immigration Detention Facility by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Residents in a South Florida community near a proposed 1,500-bed privately-operated immigration detention center waged a successful yearlong opposition campaign that culminated in the cancellation of the project in June 2012. Corrections Corporation of …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
PLN Settles Censorship Suit Against Sacramento County, California Jail by On July 17, 2012, Prison Legal News settled a lawsuit against Sacramento County, California and Sheriff Scott R. Jones for $300,000 plus policy changes in the county’s jail system. The suit was filed in federal court in April 2011 after …
U.S. Supreme Court Holds AG Rules Required Before SORNA Sex Offender Law is Applied Retroactively by Derek Gilna On January 23, 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision written by Justice Stephen Breyer, reversed the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which had held that the federal Sex Offender …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
New Mexico Sheriff Sentenced for Selling County Property on eBay by On July 20, 2011, former Santa Fe County, New Mexico Sheriff Greg Solano, 47, pleaded guilty to five counts of third-degree fraud for selling county property on eBay and keeping the proceeds. The property, which was reportedly worth over …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
Eleventh Circuit Upholds Florida DOC’s Ban on Pen Pal Solicitations by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) may ban all pen pal solicitations between pen pal services and Florida prisoners, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on December 22, 2011. The appellate decision …
Former Florida Sheriff Cleared in Theft Investigation and PHS Contract Fraud Suit by Following a two-year investigation and a jury verdict in a civil suit, a special prosecutor announced in June 2011 that criminal charges would not be forthcoming against Bill Balkwill, former sheriff of Sarasota County, Florida. The jury …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Pro Se Virginia Prisoner Settles Religious Exercise Suit by Virginia state prisoner Rashid Qawi Al-Amin, proceeding pro se, reached a settlement with prison officials that requires them to purchase Islamic reading materials, CDs and DVDs for the prison chaplain’s library. The state also agreed to pay him $2,000. Al-Amin, a …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
$50 Million in Grants Targets HIV in the Criminal Justice System by The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the National Institutes of Health, is awarding almost $50 million in grants to fund research projects that target HIV among prisoners, parolees and probationers. The grants will be …
$3.5 Million Settlement in Teen’s Death at New York Juvenile Facility by A $3.5 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over the death of a juvenile offender who was restrained by two staffers at the Tryon Boys Residential Center in Fulton County, New York. The suit claimed that …
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