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$140,000 Settlement in Death of Asthmatic Texas Prisoner by Michael Rigby The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will pay $140,000 to settle a federal lawsuit stemming from the needless asthma-related death of a prisoner at the McConnell prison unit in August 2004. At least six guards and a nurse were …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
$1.2 Million Compensation Package Approved For Wrongfully Convicted Georgia Man by Who can put a price on wrongful imprisonment? The Georgia legislature can. On March 19, 2007, the Georgia House of Representatives approved a $1.2 million compensation package for a man who spent 23 years in prison for a rape …
Monterey County Grand Jury Report Blasts Two California Prisons by Marvin Mentor In its 2006 report on Monterey County?s two state prisons (Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) and the Correctional Training Facility (CTF)), the Monterey County Grand Jury made 23 findings and 13 recommendations for SVSP plus 5 findings and …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Connecticut: Victims’ Privacy Protection Saves Some Sex Offenders From Public Registration by John Dannenberg Connecticut: Victims' Privacy Protection Saves Some Sex Offenders From Public Registration by John E. Dannenberg In Connecticut, some convicted sex offenders' names will not show up on the state's public online registry. Under penal statute Section …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
New Orleans Prisoners Work on Judge’s House by New Orleans Prisoners Work on Judge's House To facilitate learning construction skills, prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) participate in a government-funded private vocational program. That program, the Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater New Orleans, Inc. (OIC), a non-profit, is not …
United States Sues Georgia County Jail over Unconstitutional Medical and Living Conditions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Using its investigative powers under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) investigated conditions at the Terrell County, Georgia jail …
Civil Grand Jury Calls San Mateo County Women’s Jail a “Crowded Disgrace” by Civil Grand Jury Calls San Mateo County Women's Jail a "Crowded Disgrace" The San Mateo County (California) Civil Grand Jury found that the decades-old Women's Correctional Center in Redwood City was so deficient that it must be …
An Old Story: District of Columbia Continues Overdetaining and Strip Searching Prisoners by A federal district court for the District of Columbia has, once again, certified a class action in a complaint that District of Columbia is over-detaining persons ordered released and strip searching them without individualized suspicion. The Court …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Columbus, Ohio Jail’s Seclusion Turns Parole Into Death March by Columbus, Ohio Jail's Seclusion Turns Parole Into Death March Columbus, Ohio's main incarceration facility has a fatal flaw. It is located so remote from public transportation--requiring walking miles along a dangerous freeway -- that prisoners happily paroled, but unable to …
A Voice From Guantanamo’s Darkness by Jumah al-Dossari A Voice From Guantanamo's Darkness A current detainee speaks of the torture and humiliation he has experienced at Guantanamo since 2002 by Jumah al-Dossari JUMAH AL-DOSSARI is a 33-year-old citizen of Bahrain. This article was excerpted from letters he wrote to his …
Littles v. CCA, TN, Complaint, transport dental injury, 2007 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0071 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0072
Brooks et al v. Napoli et al, NY, Complaint, 2007 Case 1:07-cv-00497-JTC Document 1 Filed 07/30/07 Page 1 of 26 Case 1:07-cv-00497-JTC Document 1 Filed 07/30/07 Page 2 of 26 Case 1:07-cv-00497-JTC Document 1 Filed 07/30/07 Page 3 of 26 Case 1:07-cv-00497-JTC Document 1 Filed 07/30/07 Page 4 of 26 …
Brief • July 26, 2007
Limone v. USA, MA, Order, Damages for Wrongful Convictions by FBI, 2007 Case 1:02-cv-10890-NG Document 565 Filed 07/26/2007 Page 1 of 228 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS PETER J. LIMONE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant. ) ) ) ) Civ. Action No. …
Brief • July 19, 2007
Donahue v. Cook County, IL, Amended Complaint, Jail Beating, 2007 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DWOND DONAHUE, JEROME FOUNTAIN, BERNARDO GARCIA, DARRYL JOHNSON, ARCHIE MITCHELL, BERNARD RHONE, JARROD RODRIGUEZ, EDWARD SANDERS, ROBERTO SEGURA, JAMAAR TURNER, RAYMONT DAVIS, EDDIE MACON, ) ) ) ) …
Pratt v. Hofmann, VT, Settlement, extended solitary confinement, 2007 07/19/2007 13:43 FAX W/10/20 7 15: 50 2403742f MIHALICH IJ 002/002 PAGE 02 GENERAL REL E I, Leo Pratt, for and In consideration of the expungement of a Disciplinary Report issued against me arising from events of September 14, 2004 and …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
The New Asylum: Supermax as Warehouse for the Mentally Ill by David C Fathi by David C. Fathi1 The prison industry, like any other, has its fashions. And in the 1990s, "supermax" prisons were a raging fad. According to Chase Riveland, former secretary of corrections in Washington and Colorado, [t]hey …
Government Segregates Muslim Prisoners Restricts Phone Calls and Visits by Government Segregates Muslim Prisoners, Restricts Phone Calls and Visits By William Fisher Legal authorities are charging that racial profiling is responsible for low-risk Muslim prisoners convicted for crimes the Justice Department intimates are terror-related being held in a segregated unit, …
A RE-BIRTH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION: USING THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT TO OVERCOME SECTION 1983 HURDLES AND HOLD GOVERNMENT AND POLICE ACCOUNTABLE by A RE-BIRTH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION: USING THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT TO OVERCOME SECTION 1983 HURDLES AND HOLD GOVERNMENT AND POLICE ACCOUNTABLE A Review of …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Tennessee Parole Rules-Changes as Applied to Old Lifer May Violate Ex Post Facto by The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a double-murderer convicted in 1975, serving life in Tennessee, was entitled to the benefit of 1974 parole rules which conditionally provided that ?... such prisoner shall be …
Eighth Circuit Upholds Arkansas Sex Offender Registration/Residency Restrictions by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a civil rights challenge to provisions of the Arkansas Sex Offender Registration Act, Ark. Code Ann. § 12-12-901 et seq., and to a criminal statute …
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