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Federal Court Continues To Enforce Decade-Old California Prison Guards’ “Code-Of-Silence” Ruling by Federal Court Continues To Enforce Decade-Old California Prison Guards' "Code-Of-Silence" Ruling The United States District Court (N.D. Cal.) reviewed progress on its 11-year-old federal court remedial action to eliminate a pernicious code-of-silence by prison guards (most notably at …
Illinois Administrative Remedies Exhausted When Prison Officials Lost Grievance by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that an Illinois prisoner ?took all steps necessary to exhaust? his administrative remedies when prison officials misplaced his timely grievance and did not instruct him to re-file an ?untimely grievance.? On March …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Appeal Brief, prison riot, 2007 Certification of Word Count: 9,474 COURT OF APPEALS, STATE OF COLORADO rd 2 East 14 th Avenue, 3 Floor Denver, CO 80203 Appeal from order entered by Judge Michael Schiferl, Crowley County District COUlt, 2005CV60 Plaintiffs-Appellants: Vance A. Adams,et. a1. Defendants-Appellees: …
Publication • June 27, 2007
Iowa Ombudsman's Report on Scott County Jail's Use of Force, 2007 Investigative Report STATE OF IOWA CITIZENS’ AIDE/OMBUDSMAN INVESTIGATION OF SCOTT COUNTY JAIL’S USE OF FORCE TO: Dennis Conrad Scott County Sheriff FROM: William P. Angrick II Citizens’ Aide/Ombudsman RE: Case File 0600421 Issued: June 27, 2007 Table of Contents …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
California Sheriff Criticized on Injury Non-Treatment After Use of Force by A highly critical May 2006 report by the Riverside County Grand Jury found that at the five county jail lockups, a disturbing pattern had emerged where prisoners who were injured while being subdued often were not provided medical aid. …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
South Carolina Prisoner Awarded $4,000 For Fall, Broken Ankle by On August 21, 2006, a South Carolina jury awarded $4,000 to a man who fell and broke his ankle while imprisoned in the Charleston County Detention Center. Plaintiff Clark Green, 40, claimed that while imprisoned in the two-story jail he …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Los Angeles County Jail Visitor’s Injury After Scuffle With Deputies Settles For $150,000 by Los Angeles County Jail Visitor's Injury After Scuffle With Deputies Settles For $150,000 The Los Angeles County Claims Board settled out an injury lawsuit for $150,000 in December 2006 that resulted from a jail visitor being …
Excessive Force And Medical Negligence Death In Youngstown, Ohio Arrest Settles For $350,000 From Police, $100,000 From PHS by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The death of a Youngstown, Ohio arrestee who was severely beaten by police and negligently treated by Prison Health Services? (PHS) contract jail medical staff …
$248,000 Jury Award for Inhumane D.C. Jail Conditions by Five prisoners in the D.C. Jail were awarded a total of $248,000 in damages On February 1, 2006, following a two day jury trial in federal district court over inhumane and unconstitutional conditions at the jail. Shannon J. Battle, Bernard Brown, …
Florida’s Broward County Jail: Abuse and Misconduct As Usual by David Reutter Florida's Broward County Jail: Abuse and Misconduct As Usual by David M. Reutter Despite Florida's Broward County jail (BCJ) being under the supervision of a court-appointed monitor, recent incidents reveal prisoners are still at danger. BCJ has been …
Brief • June 6, 2007
Jama et al v. Esmor Correctional Services, NJ, Plf Response to Def MoL in Opposition of Plf Mot to Preclude DeLand Testimony, immigration beating, 2007 Case 2:97-cv-03093-DRD-MAS Document 461 Filed 06/06/07 Page 1 of 18 PageID: 8817 Mary Beth Hogan, Esq. Justin Smith, Esq. Drew M. Dorman, Esq. Debevoise & …
Michigan Prisons: Another CMS Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Another state prison system that subjected itself to the experiment of privatized medical services has learned the same hard lesson suffered by other states: a trail of inadequate care that leaves prisoners dead …
Michigan's In-Cell Restraints Considered Torture; Injunction Issued by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Michigan federal district court has held that the use of in-cell restraints for punitive reasons constitutes torture. In reaching that conclusion, the Court reopened its previous judgment concerning mental health claims and issued a preliminary …
Article • May 15, 2007
Qualified Immunity to Prison Guard in Prisoner Shooting by Upholding decisions by the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a California state prison guard was not entitled to qualified immunity for shooting and killing a state prisoner but that the …
Rhode Island DOC May Be Liable for Virginia's Treatment of Prisoners by The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals held that Rhode Island corrections officials may be liable for unconstitutional treatment of Rhode Island prisoner held in Virginia prisons. Bernardo Figueroa is a prisoner in custody of the Rhode Island …
Article • May 15, 2007
CA Guard Granted Qualified Immunity for Shooting Prisoner in Yard Fight by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held a guard who shot a prisoner during a disturbance on the prison yard is entitled to qualified immunity. While at the California State Prison in Sacramento, the prisoner was standing three …
Federal Prisoner Possible Beneficiary in BOP/County Contract by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a prisoner's civil rights suit stated a claim; that the statute authorizing a contract between the Federal Bureau of Prisons and a county to house prisoners did not create a private …
Article • May 15, 2007
Nominal Damages Upheld in Excessive Force Case by The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury award of only nominal damages in a case involving excessive force by New York State prison guards. Vincent Van Ness, a prisoner in custody of the New York Department of Correctional Services …
Beating by Guards, Destroyed Eyeglasses May Toll AEDPA Time Limit by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a California federal district court's denial of a habeas corpus petition, holding that, if proven true, the prisoner's claim that prison officials failed to replace his broken eyeglasses for …
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