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Publication • 2004
A Case Study of LaMarca v. Turner, Karen Paik, 2004 LaMarca v. Turner ™ V • • • • • • Hfl • • PC-FL-007-038 Rethinking the Use of Class Actions to Combat Inmate-on-Inmate Sexual Assault: A Case Study of LaMarca v. Turner Karen Y. Paik Karen.Paik@post.harvard.edu (760) 492-4222 May …
Thirty-Two Years of Resistance: Free the Angola Three! by Shana Griffin by Shana Griffin and Brice White Thirty two years in solitary confinement would be enough to drive many of us to despair. Yet as of April 17, 2004, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 have each …
Article • March 15, 2004 • from PLN March, 2004
Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 Signed into Law; Commission to Be Formed Soon by Paige Welch On September 4, 2003, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (H.R. 1707), creating the first ever federal law to address rape behind bars. Appointing members to the new National …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
First Circuit Reverses 12(b)(6) Dismissal in Jail Rape Case by The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a district court's Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of a failure to protect action, holding that the complaint sufficiently stated a claim for failure to protect. On August 30, 1999, Jesus …
North Carolina Juvenile Prisons Plagued by Physical, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect by Lonnie Burton North Carolina Juvenile Prisons Plagued by Physical, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect by Lonnie Burton After four separate lawsuits were filed by prisoners serving sentences at two North Carolina juvenile facilities alleging a wide range …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
$13 Million Approved for Study of Prisoner Rape by A $13 million funding package has been approved for the study of prisoner rape, the first-ever federal appropriation for research on the issue. The package is part of the $397 billion federal spending bill signed by President Bush on February 20, …
Compelled Oral Sex Satisfies PLRA's "Physical Injury" Requirement by The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, denying a defendant's motion for partial judgment on the pleadings, has held that compelled oral sex constitutes "physical injury" for purposes of the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA's) requirement that …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons: A Human Rights Watch Report by Joanne Mariner by Alex Coolman Review by Alex Coolman In April of 2001, Human Rights Watch released a report called No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prison. The report, written by Joanne Mariner, contains dozens of first-hand …
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 …
Woman Gang Raped in Back of Jail Van by In August 1999, four Connecticut men sexually assaulted an unnamed female prisoner while being transported together in a New Haven County Sheriff's Department van. The men, who were also prisoners, allegedly broke down a metal gate separating them from the woman, …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
Trial in Prison Violates Oregon's "Public Trial" Guarantee by The Oregon Court of Appeals held that a trial conducted within the confines of a prison that was not open to the public violated Oregon's constitutional guarantee of a public trial. James Jackson, a prisoner at the Snake River Correctional Institution, …
Texas Sex Slave Sues Prison System for Failure to Protect by For more than a year, Roderick Johnson was regularly and brutally raped and sexually abused while confined in a Texas state prison. In April 2002, Johnson filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 where he complained that prison officials …
7-up To Pull TV Ad Under Pressure from Human Rights Groups by Under pressure from Stop Prisoner Rape, a nonprofit human rights organization, and nearly 100 other human rights, HIV/AIDS, prisoner rights, and sexual violence organizations, Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. has decided to stop airing a national television commercial that …
CYA Suit Alleges Abuse of Juveniles by Anne Mania The California Youth Authority (CYA) houses 6,000 juvenile offenders and was once considered a model for juvenile justice in this country. However, after decades of declining funding and worsening conditions, the California Youth Authority has deteriorated to where severely mentally ill …
$287,500 Awarded in Texas Jail Rape by On February 19, 2002, a federal jury in Lubbock, Texas, awarded $287,500 to a former prisoner raped in the Lamb county jail. The plaintiff, who used the pseudonym, J.L., suffers from scoliosis and brain damage. He was serving a 29-day sentence on unspecified …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
California Jury Awards $1 Million in Jail Rape by On November 20, 2001, a Los Angeles county jury returned a $1 million verdict to 39 year-old Jay Reynolds, a former jail detainee who was raped by his cellmates after a judge ordered his release from jail. Reynolds was arrested in …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
California Jail Settles Rape Case for $95,000 by On November 19, 2001, the city of Santa Ana, California, agreed to pay $95,000 to an unidentified former jail detainee who was beaten and raped by his cellmate, to settle a lawsuit stemming from the attack. The 32-year-old unnamed accountant plaintiff was …
Johnson v. Johnson, TX, Complaint, Rape by Prisoner, 2002 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WICHITA FALLS DIVISION RODERICK KEITH JOHNSON (#623028), Michael Unit, Tennessee Colony, Texas, ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) GARY JOHNSON, Executive Director, Texas ) Department of …
California Prison Guards Protected in Criminal Investigation by A recent case before the First Appellate District of California demonstrates the political clout of the California Correctional Peace Officers' Association (CCPOA), and the sweetheart treatment that clout buys. That clout enabled CCPOA to win a preliminary injunction against the California Department …
$3.54 Million Paid For Falsely Imprisoning Unconvicted Mentally-Incapacitated California Man For Two Years In New York by John E Dannenberg A mentally incapacitated misdemeanant detainee at the Los Angeles County, California, jail was unlawfully extradited to New York, where he was imprisoned for two years in the Green Haven Correctional …
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