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Maine Prison in Turmoil by Lance Tapley By the time Warden Jeffrey Merrill revealed on June 3 that three Maine State Prison employees had been put on paid leave as a result of a state police investigation of an inmate’s death in April, probes of corruption and other issues at …
Problems at Washington’s Civil Commitment Center Continue by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 30, 2008, Paepaega Matautia, Jr., 39, a mail room guard at the Special Commitment Center (SCC) for sex offenders on McNeil Island in Washington state, was arrested on federal charges of attempting to possess and …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Texas Parole Board’s Hearing on Imposition of Sex Offender Conditions Inadequate by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 24, 2009, a U.S. District Court ruled that hearings held by the Texas parole board before imposing sex offender parole conditions on prisoners not convicted of sex offenses were constitutionally inadequate. …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Injunction Against Missouri Sex Offender Halloween Restrictions Issued, Then Vacated by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Missouri federal judge issued an injunction against enforcement of a new Missouri law imposing Halloween-related restrictions on registered sex offenders. However, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction on October 30, …
Texas’ Parole Condition X Violates Due Process by Gary Hunter Texas’ parole Condition X has come under scrutiny in a federal court case. On December 12, 2008, a U.S. magistrate judge issued a 30-page order granting partial summary judgment in favor of parolee David Brian Jennings, after concluding that the …
Former Oklahoma Sheriff Convicted of Sex Crimes Now Where to Put Him? by by Gary Hunter Oklahoma officials are trying to decide the best way to incarcerate ex-sheriff Mike Burgess, 56, now that he is a convicted sex offender. On January 9, 2009 the former Custer County lawman was convicted …
$3.75 Million Settlement for Orange County, California, Jail Detainee Severely Beaten by Prisoners by After suffering severe brain damage while confined at an Orange County Jail in California, Fernando Ramirez, represented by attorneys Mark W. Eisenberg of Newport Beach and Jerry N. Gans of Santa Ana, sued the County, the …
Ohio Supreme Court Rules Sex Offender Residency Restrictions Not Retroactive by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Supreme Court of Ohio held that a state statute restricting sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of a school (R.C. 2950.031) did not apply to sex offenders whose home purchase and offense …
Ninth Circuit Flip-Flops: Denial of Washington Sex Offender’s Community Custody Release Held Unconstitutional, Then Constitutional by Mark Wilson Ninth Circuit Flip-Flops: Denial of Washington Sex Offender’s Community Custody Release Held Unconstitutional, Then Constitutional by Mark Wilson Illustrating the axiom that the law means whatever a judge decides it means, in …
Texas Posthumously Exonerates Man Who Died in Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 6, 2009, Travis County District Judge Charlie Baird did what no other Texas judge had done before – he exonerated a dead man. Timothy Brian Cole, who died of asthma due to medical neglect …
FBI Arrests Former Prisoner Indicted for Hacking Massachusetts Jail Computer by On November 5, 2008, the FBI arrested Francis G. Janosko, 42, for hacking into a computer at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility (PCCF) while he was incarcerated at the Massachusetts jail. A previously-sealed indictment was handed down a week …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
Miami’s Sex Offender Bridge Encampment Continues to Grow by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Population: 52. That’s how many sex offenders have been forced to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami, Florida as of March 2009. In late 2007, the population was only 19. [See: PLN, June …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
Postal Service Panics Over Sex Offender Participant in Christmas Program by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 18, 2008, just a week before Christmas, the U.S. Postal Service abruptly suspended its decades-old Operation Santa Claus, a holiday program in which volunteers sift through children’s letters addressed to Santa, “adopt” …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
California: Waiver of Private Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege an Unreasonable Condition of Parole by The California Court of Appeal (2nd District) agreed with a superior court that it was unreasonable for a parole officer to insist that a parolee must, as a condition of parole, waive his confidential privacy privilege with his …
Michigan Sex Offender Freezes to Death on Street As Housing Crisis Continues by Jimmy Franks Michigan Sex Offender Freezes to Death on Street As Housing Crisis Continues by Jimmy Franks On January 26, 2009, Thomas Pauli, 52, was found dead on the cold streets of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Pauli, a …
CA Jail Deputies Allegedly Provoke Murder of Misidentified Child Molester by Other Prisoners; Wrongful Death Suit Settled for $600,000 by CA Jail Deputies Allegedly Provoke Murder of Misidentified Child Molester by Other Prisoners; Wrongful Death Suit Settled for $600,000 A prisoner booked into the Theo Lacy jail in Orange County, …
Due Process Required Before Imposition of Sex Offender Parole Conditions by On June 20, 2008, a Texas federal court held that a parolee’s right to receive due process before onerous sex offender conditions were imposed was clearly established in the Fifth Circuit. Ray Curtis Graham, a Texas state parolee, was …
New Jersey Judge Denied Sex Offender a Fair Hearing, Appellate Court Finds by New Jersey Judge Denied Sex Offender a Fair Hearing, Appellate Court Finds Questioning a lower court’s ability to conduct a fair hearing, a New Jersey appellate court ordered a new hearing before a different judge for a …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
Second Prisoner Unconditionally Released from Washington State Civil Commitment Center by Washington State, for only the second time ever, has unconditionally released a prisoner from the Special Commitment Center (SCC), a facility for civilly-committed sex offenders located on McNeil Island near Tacoma. John Henry Mathers, 56, was civilly-committed in July …
Article • April 15, 2009
Proof of “Overt Act” not Required in Washington to Civilly Commit Incarcerated Sexually Violent Predator by David James Lewis challenged a Washington Court of Appeals decision that held the state was not required to prove a recent overt act during civil commitment proceedings. Lewis was convicted in 1992 of two …
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