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California DOC Federal Healthcare Receiver Issues Master Remedial Plan by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg "Good care is less costly than bad care." This maxim, from prison healthcare Receiver Robert Sillen, set the tone when he announced his master plan on May 10, 2007 to constitutionally repair the California …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Study on Barriers to Employment of Ex-Prisoners in Milwaukee Released by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In early 2007, the Employment Training Institute (ETI) of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee released a study assessing the legal and employment needs of ex-prisoners residing in Milwaukee County. The study of 26,772 adults released …
California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program “A Complete Waste Of Money” by Marvin Mentor California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program "A Complete Waste Of Money" by Marvin Mentor California's Inspector General Matthew Cate issued a scathing 52-page report in February 2007 which …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
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News in Brief: by California: On January 12, 2007, prisoners at Folsom State Prison gave 192 phone cards to the California National Guard which was purchased with money raised during a pizza fund raiser at the prison. Each card had 200 minutes on it and will be distributed to soldiers …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Connecticut Strip Search Suit Settles For $2.5 Million by The State of Connecticut will pay $2.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged the state maintained an unconstitutional practice of strip searching all incoming prisoners at the New Haven Community Correction Center (NHCCC). Plaintiff Charles Campbell claimed that …
Article • November 15, 2007
An Unprecedented Crime: Mass Torture in America. And How to Stop It by Lance Tapley By: LANCE TAPLEY 11/14/2007 1:49:18 PM Editor's Note: This is an edited version of a speech given by Phoenix contributing writer Lance Tapley to a seminar at the National Lawyers Guild 70th Anniversary Convention in …
MDC Brooklyn: Sex Scandal and 11 Staff Indicted for Beating Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 12, 2007, eleven guards at the federal Bureau of Prison's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York " including a captain and three lieutenants" were indicted for abusing prisoners. At …
PHS Fails Benchmarks In NYC Jail Medical Contract; Fined $250,000 by Prison Health Services (PHS), nearing the end of its three-year $359.6 million contract to provide medical, dental, mental health and pharmaceutical services to ten of the eleven New York City jails, was audited by the State Comptroller's Office in …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Indiana DOC Agrees to Remove Mentally Ill Prisoners from Control Units by The Indiana Department of Corrections (IDC) settled a class action lawsuit brought by mentally ill prisoners whose Eighth Amendment rights had been trampled since 1993 by IDC policy that placed them in long-term disciplinary housing instead of treating …
March Madness in Georgia Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke March 2007 was an unusually bloody month in Georgia prisons, with three murders of prisoners by other prisoners and one severe beating of a mentally ill, handcuffed prisoner by guards. Since 2005 there have been five homicides in the …
Rikers Island Diapered Mentally Ill in Segregation by Prison officials in New York City have been charged in a lawsuit filed upon behalf of four mentally ill prisoners with depriving those prisoners of their basic human rights and placing them in diapers while in isolated segregation. The prisoners, who were …
Prisoners Died By the Thousands Between 2001 and 2004 by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby Elderly prisoners are more than twice as likely to die behind bars as those who are not in prison, a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) on prison mortality rates reveals. White and …
Reformed Dental Care Will Have Ohio Prisoners Smiling by Michael Rigby The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) will hire dozens of dental health care providers, revise policies and procedures governing prisoner dental care, and implement oral health care education programs as part of a settlement agreed to in …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
U.S. Prison and Jail Population Continues Meteoric Rise by Michael Rigby It?s beginning to sound a bit repetitive, but the nation?s prison population continues to grow exponentially. At midyear 2006, U.S. prisons and jails held 2,245,189 persons?a 2.8% increase over the previous year, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics …
Inadequate Medical Care Alleged at Alameda County, CA Jail – Four Prisoners Dead by Inadequate Medical Care Alleged at Alameda County, CA Jail - Four Prisoners Dead Family members of prisoners who became sick or died at the Santa Rita jail in Alameda County, California have alleged inadequate health care …
Corruption in Awarding California DOC Medical Contract Exposed by Marvin Mentor More details have surfaced in a conflict-of-interest scandal involving two California gubernatorial appointees involved in a $26 million no-bid contract awarded by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for medical scheduling services. PLN previously reported that the …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
State Auditor Flunks California DOC For Failure To Make Prison Population Projections by Marvin Mentor In a March 2007 Letter Report to California's Governor and Legislature, State Auditor Elaine Howell reported that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) had failed to make meaningful progress in devising accurate prisoner …
Texas Jail Pays $200,000 to Settle Rape/Suicide Suit by Val Verde County, Texas and its contract Del Rio jail operator, GEO Group, Inc., agreed in March 2007 to pay $200,000 to the surviving family of a 23-year-old woman prisoner who, upon becoming depressed after being raped in the jail, hung …
California DOC Guards Win Injunction to Stop Prisoner Transfers Out-Of-State; Transfers Continue While State Appeals by The Superior Court of Sacramento County has granted a writ of mandate prohibiting the transfer of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners to out-of-state facilities to alleviate the prison system's chronic overcrowding …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
California DOC Pays PLN’s Attorneys $320,000 In Fees/Costs Related To Mail Censorship Settlement by John Dannenberg California DOC Pays PLN's Attorneys $320,000 In Fees/Costs Related To Mail Censorship Settlement by John E. Dannenberg In June, 2007, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and Prison Legal News (PLN) stipulated …
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