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Brief • April 17, 2012
Filed under: Prison Gangs
Young v. The People ex rel. Russo, CA, Petition for Certiorari, Oakland Gang Injunction, 2011 No. 11IN THE Supreme Court of the United States YANCIE YOUNG, et al., Petitioners, v. THE PEOPLE ex rel. JOHN A. RUSSO, as City Attorney, etc., Respondent. ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Court Grants Preliminary Injunction to PLN in Sacramento County Jail Censorship Suit by On March 8, 2012, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Mendez entered a preliminary injunction against the County of Sacramento, California in a lawsuit that alleges unconstitutional censorship of publications sent to prisoners at the county’s jail. …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Filed under: Military, Veterans
Incarcerated Veterans Help Other Incarcerated Vets Obtain Disability Benefits by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim Ed Munis and Michael “Doc” Piper, two Vietnam vets incarcerated at the Correctional Training Facility (CTF) in Soledad, California, have quietly been working over the past six years to ensure that other imprisoned veterans, now …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
California: State Settles Prisoner’s Lawsuit for $10,000, then Delays Payment by In June 2010, Cion Adonis Peralta signed a Full Release of All Claims in a federal lawsuit he filed in 2005, alleging that officials at CSP-Lancaster had violated his rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. In exchange for …
Thousands Referred but Very Few Qualify for Commitment as Sexually Violent Predators in California by Responding to a legislative request, California’s Bureau of State Audits reviewed the process used by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to refer sex offenders to the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and, …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Ninth Circuit Holds Prisoners May be Compelled to Provide Blood Samples Under California DNA Act by The Ninth Circuit has held that prison officials may forcibly extract a blood sample from a California prisoner for purposes of compliance with California’s DNA and Forensic Identification and Data Bank Act of 1998 …
California Prison Doctors Accused of Misconduct Get Paid to Shuffle Paperwork, Deliver Mail by Unable to take decisive action due to state civil service protections, California’s prison system is saddled with the expense of paying the salaries of dozens of physicians who have been deemed unfit to treat patients. Such …
Victoria v. NYPD DETF et al, NY, 2nd Am Complaint, false arrest overdetention, 2012 Case 1:11-cv-00937-LAK Document 13 Filed 04/13/12 Page 1 of 13 Case 1:11-cv-00937-LAK Document 13 Filed 04/13/12 Page 2 of 13 Case 1:11-cv-00937-LAK Document 13 Filed 04/13/12 Page 3 of 13 Case 1:11-cv-00937-LAK Document 13 Filed 04/13/12 …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Medical Parole Law Costs California Taxpayers Millions of Dollars by Responding to concerns that prisoners who are granted compassionate release due to terminal medical conditions may “cheat” the system by outliving a doctor’s prognosis, the California legislature enacted a medical parole law in 2010 that allows prisoners to be re-incarcerated …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Filed under: News
Prisons in California, Indiana and New Mexico Go Solar by While solar-powered prisons may be a thing of the future, they have already arrived in California, Indiana and New Mexico, at least at a few facilities. In California the move to go solar is part of a larger effort to …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
California’s Race-Based Prison Lockdowns Targeted in Class-Action Lawsuit by The Prison Law Office (PLO) has teamed up with the San Francisco-based law firm of Bingham McCutchen, LLP to challenge the official policy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to impose blanket race-based lockdowns in response to potential …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
California: Orange County Settles Suit Over Jail Detainee’s Death for $2.1 Million by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim In April 2011, the family of a detainee who died while being restrained by Orange County jail guards agreed to settle a lawsuit against the county for $2.1 million. The April 1, …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
California: CDCR Releases 2011 Recidivism Report by On November 23, 2011, in the second in a series of annual reports designed to provide new insights to policy-makers and correctional stakeholders with respect to recidivism rates, the Office of Research of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) released its …
California Prison System Settles Employee Lawsuit for $775,000; Second Suit Pending by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) employees Edna Miller and Frances Mackey filed a civil lawsuit in state district court relating to alleged sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace in violation of the Fair Employment and …
California Syndicalism Statute Not an Act of Congress; Appeals Court Injunction Reversed by The U.S. Supreme Court determined that California Criminal Syndicalism statute stands short of an Act of Congress. John Harris was indicted in a California state court of violating California’s Criminal Syndicalism statute (see Cal. Penal code § …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
California Court of Appeal Upholds Attorney’s Fee Award in Excessive Force Case by On June 23, 2011, the California Court of Appeal upheld an award of over $311,000 in attorney’s fees in a case involving excessive use of force by a Los Angeles County deputy sheriff. In March 2006, after …
Los Angeles ADA Agrees to Pay $1.2 Million to Settle DUI Suit by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim On July 19, 2011, Marilyn Seymour, an Assistant District Attorney for Los Angeles County, agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two women who suffered injuries when Seymour, …
Brief • February 27, 2012
Sunnergren v. Cate, CA, Complaint, CDCR medical neglect, 2012
Brief • February 23, 2012
Duenez v. City of Manteca, CA, Order on Motion to Dismiss, Police Shoot Unarmed Person, 2012 Case 2:11-cv-01820-LKK -KJN Document 35 Filed 02/23/12 Page 1 of 34 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 11 12 13 …
Folsom Prison Officials Settle Prisoner Retaliation Suit for $325 by In May 2009, Folsom Prison officials agreed to a settlement of a federal suit filed by prisoner Norman Gregory, alleging that in 2004 they had engaged in a series of retaliatory actions against Gregory. The suit settled for $325 with …
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