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Tennessee Prison’s Body Scanner Mothballed Due to Violations by After a spat of bad publicity from contraband cellphones becoming prolific inside its prisons, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) spent $118,750 on a body scanner to use at its Riverbend prison. However, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) …
Illinois Man Falsely Convicted of Rape Released After 20 Years by Matthew Clarke On March 9, 2015, the rape and kidnapping charges against Angel Gonzalez that had held him in prison for nearly 20 years were dismissed. He had been exonerated by DNA evidence. However, he was not immediately released …
“Demons” Push Chris Conover to Suicide 12 Years after Release by Release from prison is a great relief, and that is especially so for wrongfully convicted persons. The future, however, is wrought with difficulties, obstacles, and prejudice. For Chris Conover, it was a burden that overwhelmed him, pushing him to …
Brief • October 11, 2016
Filed under: Strip Searches, Bail
Fonder v. Sheriff of Kankakee County, IL, Amended Complaint, Strip Search, 2016 2:12-cv-02115-CSB-EIL # 99 Page 1 of 9 E-FILED Tuesday, 11 October, 2016 03:27:35 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS URBANA DIVISION Darnell Fonder, Theresa Dietz, Steven …
Brief • October 5, 2016
Lipford v. City of Chicago, IL, Settlement, Illegal Police Search, 2016 lJNITED STATES DISTHICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF lLLINOIS EASTERN DlVISION 'vlichacl Lipford. ) ) Plaintiff. ) 15 c 6988 ) \'S. ) ) City ofChieago. Ci.W. Dniky (ill 7280), 1..F. Goff(#l 1111). B.T. Veleta (1!16457). R.E. Yates (f.117939), R.ll. …
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
Sixth Circuit Vacates Denial of Qualified Immunity; Each Defendant’s Conduct Must be Individually Evaluated by Mark Wilson The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a district court’s denial of qualified immunity because an individualized inquiry into the defendants’ role during an illegal body cavity search was not conducted. Felix …
Exonerated Prisoner Appointed to Connecticut’s Parole Board by Christopher Zoukis In an unusual turn of events, a former prisoner was appointed to Connecticut’s Parole Board. While ex-prisoners are typically not considered as parole board members, state officials decided that Kenneth F. Ireland was a qualified candidate. In 1989, when he …
Wisconsin: Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner Receives $6.5 Million by Chaunte D. Ott received a $6.5 million settlement from the City of Milwaukee for spending over 12 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction, after being cleared by DNA evidence that connected the crime to a serial killer. Ott, now …
Article • September 6, 2016
Supreme Court: No Warrantless Blood Tests for DUI Stops by The Supreme Court has held that warrantless breath tests may be conducted incident to arrests for drunk driving, but warrantless blood tests may not. The Court stated: Blood tests are a different matter. They “require piercing the skin” and extract …
Kushner v. Lieutenant Buhta, MN, Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Trespass Warning, 2016 CASE 0:16-cv-02646-RHK-SER Document 16 Filed 08/28/16 Page 1 of 30 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA FOURTH DIVISION JORDAN S. KUSHNER, Case File 16 CV 2646 RHK/SER Plaintiff, v. LIEUTENANT TROY BUHTA, OFFICER ASHLEE LANGE, OFFICER KATHLEEN …
Article • August 25, 2016
Illinois Woman Wins Suit Over Illegal Strip Search by On June 8, 2012, a federal jury found that an Illinois woman had been strip searched by Edgar County Jail staff without probable cause. According to court documents, Angelina Cianfaglione was in her vehicle with her minor son at a McDonald's …
Article • August 25, 2016
Federal Bureau of Prisons claims DNA backlog no longer exists by Derek Gilna A recent announcement by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) stated that it had eliminated a previous backlog of over 90,000 prisoners DNA test results. However, a Florida congressman who had drawn attention to the backlog, while …
Article • August 25, 2016
NY Prisoner’s Sanction for Not Providing Urine Sample for Drug Screening Affirmed by Camilo Infante, a New York state prisoner, failed to provide a urine sample within three hours of a guard’s order to do so for purposes of drug screening. He claimed at his disciplinary hearing that a groin …
Article • August 25, 2016
Filed under: Strip Searches
Mass Pennsylvania Prisoner Strip Search Nets Each Prisoner $1,000 by Pennsylvania prison officials have agreed to pay twenty prisoners $1,000 each to settle a claim that they were illegally strip-searched. The complaint in the action concerned an incident that occurred on September 14, 2000, at State Correctional Institution at Albion. …
Article • August 25, 2016
Marshal Liable for Social Worker's Cavity Search by A Puerto Rican federal court granted a social worker summary judgment for a strip and cavity search after a civil contempt arrest. Carmen Figueroa-Flores, 61, is a social worker who has no criminal record and had never been arrested. She has had …
Illinois District Court strip-search case survives summary judgment attack by Derek Gilna Plaintiff Angelina Cianfaglione's Fourth Amendment claim alleging an illegal seizure and arrest, excessive force, and an illegal strip and body cavity search that occurred incident to a traffic stop in Edgar County, Illinois has survived a summary judgment …
Article • August 23, 2016
N.Y. Ex-Con Goes Back to Jail for Going Back to Jail by One day, Matthew Matagrano, 36, was a corrections investigator, waving around a shiny, gold badge to gain entry into any of New York City's jails. The next, they wouldn't let him leave. On March 2, 2013, Matagrano, of …
Article • August 22, 2016
Florida: DNA Mix-Up Calls Rapist's Conviction Into Question by When the FBI informed the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) that it had a recent "hit" on the DNA of convicted rapist Andrew Lingard, the FDLE realized that something was amiss, because Lingard has been in prison for the last …
Article • August 22, 2016
$300,000 Settlement in California Officers’ Planting of Gun on Parolee by The city of Oakland, California paid $300,000 to a man who spent nearly two years in jail after a police officer planted a gun on him. The settlement follows a jury verdict in the case. Among local audiences, Lorenzo …
Federal Probation Officer Sexually Abuses Five Women by A 22-year veteran federal probation officer faces indictment and suit for sexually abusing five women under his supervision, from late 2006 until retiring in mid-2009. Gaillynn Monica Abbott filed a July 20, 2010, federal lawsuit against her federal probation officer, Mark John …
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