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Article • May 15, 2011
New York Prisoner Awarded $316.93 for Lost Property by A New York Court of Claims awarded a prisoner $316.63 for the loss of his property by prison officials. Acting pro se in the bailment claim, prisoner James Towner claimed that when his property was received from Marcy Correctional Facility at …
Article • May 15, 2011
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$150 Award to New York Prisoner for Top Bunk Placement by A New York Court of Claims awarded a prisoner $150 for an injury sustained due to improperly being in an upper bunk. The award to Auburn Correctional Facility prisoner Cedric Reid was for a mild sprain that occurred while …
Seventh Circuit: Habitual Disciplinary Offender Finding Does Not Open Door to Attacking Prior Disciplinary Convictions by On September 12, 2008, the Seventh Circuit court of appeals held that a prison's finding that a prisoner was a habitual disciplinary offender and punishing him therefore does not open the door for a …
Prison Pays: Geo Corp Profits from Half-Way House Murder and Mayhem in Texas by Craig Malisow Despite a history of abuse and bad conditions, private-prison corporation GEO Group keeps getting contracts in Texas by Craig Malisow Anthony Ferrell left the Ben A. Reid halfway house in northeast Houston on October …
Article • April 15, 2011
Second Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment for Connecticut Prisoner Allegedly Misclassified as a Sex Offender by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reversed a grant of summary judgment for a Connecticut prisoner who had alleged that he was misclassified as a sex offender. Joe Vega sued Connecticut …
Article • April 15, 2011
7th Circuit: Reverse and Remand “Inherently Transitory” Complaint by On February 4, 2010, the 7th Circuit reversed and remanded a district court ruling dismissing as moot a case alleging various constitutional and state law violations against Tippecanoe County, Indiana Sheriff Tracy Brown. The initial complaint was filed on January 2, …
Questionable New Jersey Halfway House Funding Benefits CEC by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie insisted on budget cuts in 2010, except when it came to funding treatment centers, formerly called halfway houses. Gov. Christie wanted to increase funding for treatment centers by $3.1 million, …
$6,000 Settlement in D.C. Youth Prisoner’s Stabbing by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $6,000 to settle the negligence suit of prisoner Jeremiah Lester for injuries incurred from being stabbed by two other prisoners. While at D.C.’s Youth Center One in Lorton, Virginia on May 16, 1999, Lester was assaulted …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
BOP’s Furlough Notification Policy Not to be Addressed for Seven Years by Derek Gilna A September 2010 report by the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice cast light on deficiencies with the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) furlough policy, and in doing so inadvertently highlighted the …
Article • March 15, 2011
Washington Settles Work Release Denial Claim for $2,284 by The State of Washington paid a prisoner $2,284.00 to settle his tort claim for negligently delaying his work release. Washington prisoner Jeremy Post became eligible for work release on July 25, 2007. He was approved on October 2, 2007 for release …
Article • March 15, 2011
Elderly Home Detention Program Eligibility Determined Based on Sentence Imposed Without Good Time by In determining eligibility for the Elderly Offender Home Detention Pilot Program (EOHDPP), the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) may not consider a prisoner’s earned good time in calculating whether a prison has served enough time to enter …
D.C. Pays $80,000 to Settle Prisoner’s Civil Rights Suit by On August 2, 2006, the District of Columbia paid $80,000 to settle with a prisoner who alleged violations of his civil rights under the 5th and 8th Amendments and D.C.’s Lorton Act. The suit was filed in the U.S. District …
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
Texas Pays for Geriatric Prisoners, Rarely Grants Medical Parole by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), geriatric prisoners – those over 55 years old – comprise only 7.3% of TDCJ’s population. However, they account for almost one-third of the prison system’s medical expenses. …
The Graying of America’s Prisons by James Ridgeway Frank Soffen, now 70 years old, has lived more than half his life in prison, and will likely die there. Sentenced to life for second-degree murder, Soffen has suffered four heart attacks and is confined to a wheelchair. He has lately been …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
Expanded Eligibility for New York Medical Parole Has Little Effect by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In April 2009, New York passed a statutory amendment that expanded the state’s compassionate release program for terminally ill prisoners. The amendment permitted medical parole for prisoners convicted of certain violent crimes who were …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
Wheelchair-bound Texas Escapee Produces Pistol, Commandeers Transport Van by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 30, 2009, a maximum-security Texas state prisoner who was shackled to a wheelchair in the back of a transport van while being transferred between prisons pulled out a pistol, commandeered the van, handcuffed the …
Washington DOC Pays $3,275,000 to Family of Deputy Killed by Former Prisoner by In September 2009, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to settle a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a King County deputy who was murdered by a recently-released prisoner. On December 2, 2006, while …
Report on Prison Privatization Plagued with Political Connections, Conflicts of Interest, Faulty Data by On May 21, 2010, the Private Corrections Institute, a non-profit citizen watchdog group that opposes prison privatization, issued a statement sharply criticizing a joint report by the Reason Foundation, a California-based libertarian think-tank that promotes the …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
California: Furloughing Prison Employees Costing Taxpayers More by Michael Brodheim Faced with an unprecedented budget deficit, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered state workers to stay home three Fridays each month, which amounts to a 14% pay cut. Known as the “Furlough Friday” program, the cost-cutting measure, implemented in February 2009, …
No Qualified Immunity for Denial of Protective Custody to Ohio Prisoner by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity in an Ohio prisoner’s lawsuit raising a failure to protect claim. Ohio prisoner George Hamilton was the target of a “hit” by the Aryan …
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