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Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Houston Crime Lab Closed, Prisoner Freed by Michael Rigby On March 6, 2003, the Houston Police Department (HPD) Chief C. O. Bradford announced that the department's DNA crime lab had been shut down and that internal affairs had launched an investigation into possible criminal and other misconduct. The announcement came …
The Crime of Being Poor by Paul Wright "The law in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread." _ Anatole France A central part of the mythology of the criminal justice system in …
Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Matthew T. Clarke On May 1, 2002, two guards and an assistant warden were convicted in federal court of charges relating to the beating of a …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Texas Parole Officer Hires Parolee for Murder by Gary Hunter In May 2002, Texas Parole Officer Connie Lynn Stones pleaded guilty to charges of solicitation of capital murder after police recorded her trying to hire a hit-man to kill her lover's girlfriend. Stone was in love with Brett Williams, who …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Prison Population Continues to Grow by Continuing a trend first noted in 2000, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, reported that the overall growth rate of the United States' prison population was quite small. In some states, prison populations actually declined. PLN …
Texas Prison Guard Charged with Raping Male Prisoner; Prisoner Files §1983 Complaint by Texas Prison Guard Charged with Raping Male Prisoner; Prisoner Files §1983 Complaint Nathan Essary, a slightly built 22-year-old prisoner, was gang-raped at the Rogelio Sanchez State Jail near El Paso, Texas. Following the rape, Essary was transferred …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Twenty Years for Flinging Feces on Texas Guards by On June 23, 2002, in the first case prosecuted before a jury under a new harassment law, a Texas jury convicted a prisoner of harassment and sentenced him to 20-years in prison. Jeffery Wayne Wheatly, a 35-year old Texas state prisoner, …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
BJS Summarizes State Sex Offender Registries by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, released a state-by-state summary of the Sex Offender Registries (SOR's) throughout the United States. The report, released in March 2002, compared the states' SOR's in February 2001 to BJS's …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Texas Guard's Conviction Reversed by A Texas court of appeals has reversed for retrial the conviction of former Texas City Unit TDCJ-ID guard Charles Melvin Page for sexual assault and impersonating a police officer. Page was convicted of having flashed a badge, claimed he was a cop, and demanded oral …
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
$4.47 Million in Washington Negligent Supervision Settlements and Verdicts by Washington State recently settled or was found liable in three separate law suits alleging that it negligently supervised probationers or parolees. Negligent supervision cases are not new in Washington. Since 2000, the State either settled or was ordered to pay …
Failure to Allege Imminent Threat Precludes Justification Defenses in BOP Weapons Prosecution by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the district court did not error in excluding evidence or argument regarding affirmative defenses of necessity and duress in trials for prisoners' weapon possession. On May 18, 1999, Terry …
Murder, Mayhem, Corruption and Snitches: BOP Florence Exposed by Bob Williams Located in the gently rolling hills of Southern Colorado, dotted with juniper, poplar and cedar trees, Florence is a quiet, small town that was once a prison town without a prison. At just over 5,000 town residents, Florence shares …
California Guards Convicted of Arranging Prison Beatings, New Conspiracy Accusations Leveled by by Marvin Mentor On May 15, 2002, a federal criminal jury convicted two Pelican Bay State Prison (CA) guards of violating the civil rights of eight prisoners whom they conspired to have beaten and stabbed - two fatally; …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Texas Syndicate Gang Members Busted - Again by C.C. Simmons by C. C. Simmons Deep in the bowels of the 4,000-man H. H. Coffield State Prison in east Texas, a young prisoner is locked in a telephone-booth-size holding cage. He screams obscenities at everyone. In the next corridor, a squad …
U.S. Supreme Court: Guantanamo Detainees and "Enemy Combatants" Have Access to Habeas Corpus by John E Dannenberg U.S. Supreme Court: Guantanamo Detainees and "Enemy Combatants" Have Access To Habeas Corpus by John E. Dannenberg In three interrelated decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that "enemy combatant" detainees held at Guantanamo …
Report Downplays Wrongful Convictions in U.S. by Hans Sherrer A report by University of Michigan staffers and law students _ Exonerations in the United States: 1989 through 2003 _ was released to the public on April 23, 2004. The report analyzed data from 328 cases during that 15 year period …
Tulia Travesty Settled for $6 Million by Hans Sherrer Tulia Travesty Settled For $6 Million by Hans Sherrer On August 22, 2003, Texas Governor Rick Perry pardoned 35 people whose convictions stemmed from a Swisher County drug investigation that began in 1998. The prosecution of those people began with the …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
BJS Releases New Recidivism Study by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the Department of Justice, has published a recidivism study of prisoners released in 1994, the first since its 1989 report on 1983 releasees. The report studied the recidivism rate of 272,111 prisoners released from 15 …
Georgia Parole Corruption Deepens by Gary Hunter A trail of corruption, greed, and cronyism has led to the indictment of a Georgia senator, the dismissal of an assistant attorney general and the resignation of six parole board members including the director and the chairman. Van Streat was suspended from his …
Criminal Guards and Escaping Prisoners in Texas by On July 21, 2002, Lt. Rick McCullough was arrested for assaulting two female guards at the Riverside State Prison for women in the central Texas town of Gatesville. McCullough, 41, a Texas prison guard assigned to the nearby Woodman State Jail for …
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