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Article • December 15, 2007
Georgia Sheriff Offers Requested Documents After Legal Action Initiated by Georgia attorney Bruce Millar appealed a 1999 state court denial of his motion for an injunction which would require document production for use in his client's federal suit. The court affirmed the denial because Millar was offered the documents after …
Arizona Jail Sex Results in Charges for Guards, Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Sexual relationships involving guards and prisoners in Arizona jails have resulted in criminal charges on both sides of the bars. An investigation at the Yuma County Jail snared three guards and four female prisoners. …
California DOC Settles With Mistreated Diabetic Prisoner For $600,000 by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled with a prisoner who had sued for failure to properly treat his diabetic condition that eventually resulted in blindness and amputations. The $600,000 settlement included attorney fees and costs. When Daniel …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Former Florida Prison Officials Sentenced to Federal Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Former Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) Secretary James Crosby and his protégé, Allen Clark, have been sentenced to federal prison terms for accepting kickbacks from profits generated from prison visiting park canteens. PLN has previously …
Bail Bond Businesses Getting Black Eye in Texas, California by Gary Hunter It's common knowledge that outside the federal Bureau of Prisons, California and Texas have the largest prison systems in the U.S. So it should come as no surprise that bail bonds are big business in both states. But …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner Assaulted With Hot Water Awarded $50,000 by On December 15, 2006, a federal court awarded $50,000 to a prisoner who was burned with hot water by another prisoner while in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, jail. Peter Muse claimed that on April 23, 2004, while he slept, another prisoner …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Wisconsin Felon Convicted of Voter Fraud for Voting by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction of a convicted felon for voter fraud. During the 2004 election cycle, Kimberly Prude was serving a term of supervised release for a forgery conviction in Wisconsin. Under Wisconsin law, Prude …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
County, Contractor Settle Diabetic New Jersey Prisoner’s Death for $700,000 by County, Contractor Settle Diabetic New Jersey Prisoner's Death for $700,000 On April 3, 2007, Essex County, New Jersey, and Correctional Health Services (CHS) paid $700,000 to settle with the family of a man who died from insulin deficiency after …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
California Prisoner Workers’ Compensation Eligibility Questioned By Legislators by John Dannenberg California Prisoner Workers' Compensation Eligibility Questioned by Legislators by John E. Dannenberg In 2006, the California state Compensation Insurance Fund paid $5.73 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to cover prisoner workers' compensation claims. This figure …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
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Connecticut Prisoners’ Families Gouged on Phone Calls by Connecticut Prisoners' Families Gouged on Phone Calls Until recently, most Connecticut Department of Correction (CDOC) prisoners were forced to make phone calls using an MCI (Verizon Business) collect calling system at rates much higher than those charged to the general public. Under …
Dallas, Texas, Jail Pays $950,000 for Neglecting Mentally Ill Prisoners by Michael Rigby On February 20, 2007, the Dallas County, Texas, Jail agreed to pay $950,000 for its negligent mistreatment of three mentally ill individuals, one of whom died, while imprisoned at the jail awaiting competency hearings. In 2004, James …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Texas GEO Prison Squalor Drives Idaho Prisoner to Suicide by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Seven months after arriving at the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC), a private prison in Spur, Texas operated by the GEO Group, Idaho state prisoner Scot Noble Payne, 43, was dead by his own hand. …
Policy Lock-Down, The Institute On Money In State Politics, 95 pp., softbound, April 2006 by John Dannenberg reviewed by John E. Dannenberg In a classic case of "follow the money," The Institute On Money In State Politics (IMSP) reviewed influence-peddling by private prison corporations (and their leaders, lobbyists, and subcontractors) …
Public, Private Prison Escapes in Ohio by Gary Hunter On May 11, 2006, Ohio state prisoner Marrion P. Smith was shot in the head by prison guard Gary Myers during a foiled escape attempt. Smith had been transported from the Mansfield Correctional Institution to the Ohio State University Medical Center, …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Sudden Rise in New Jersey Prison Guard Firings by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The number of New Jersey state prison system employees terminated for disciplinary reasons rose from 33 in 2005 to 69 in 2006. 52 of the 2006 firings are final; 17 are on appeal. The reasons for …
Michigan’s Solution to Prisoner Healthcare: Close the Prison by David Reutter Michigan's Solution to Prisoner Healthcare: Close the Prison by David M. Reutter In December 2006, a federal district court found the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) in contempt in the long-running Hadix case, and ordered prison officials to submit …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
FBI Investigates Arkansas Guard Violence by In June 2006, the FBI began a civil rights investigation into a prisoner's beating administered by guards at the Maximum Security Unit in Tucker, Arkansas. The investigation, surprisingly, was requested by prison officials. The officials were investigating an incident that occurred in the prison's …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Sentenced to Science: One Black Man’s Story of Imprisonment in America, by Allen M. Hornblum by Greg Dober Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America, by Allen M. Hornblum Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, 232 pages, 16 illustrations, Cloth Bound, $24.95 Book Review by Greg …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
$4,500 Jury Award in Delayed Medical Treatment of Illinois Prisoner Upheld by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that "verifying medical evidence" to support a prisoner's delayed medical treatment claim can come from the prisoner's medical records and the prisoner. That ruling came in the appeal of prison …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
PLN Files Censorship Suit Against Fulton County Jail in Georgia by On October 22, 2007, Prison Legal News filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Fulton County and Sheriff Myron Freeman, due to a Fulton County Jail policy that prohibits prisoners from receiving …
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