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Brief • June 18, 2007
Brown v. District of Columbia, DC, Amicus Brief - ACLU, CCA Liability, 2007 ORAL ARGUMENT NOT YET SCHEDULED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT NO. 05-5320 HERBERT BROWN, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Appellees. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Alaska DOC Liable for Rape of Federal Prisoner by Prison Doctor by Alaska?s Supreme Court has held that the intentional-tort immunity law does not prevent a suit against the state when it breaches a duty separate from its role as an employer. B.R., a federal prisoner housed at the state …
Corporate Prison Boom, Immigration, And The Law by By Tilda Sosaya Prison construction is booming in the USA, and New Mexico has been the guinea pig for the largest of the private prison corporations like Corrections Corporation of America, Cornell, GEO Corp. (aka, Wackenhut, Group 4 Falk) and MTC. In …
Article • June 15, 2007
Prison Food Law by By Cyrus Naim This paper examines the history and current framework of prison food law. Whereas food law generally is the result of a complex maze of national, state, and local statutory and regulatory law, prison food is primarily regulated by the courts through adjudication of …
Article • June 15, 2007
$225,000 Settlement in Rape of Female New York Prisoner by Guard by A female prisoner at a New York Prison was told by a male guard that she either comply with his request that she have sexual intercourse with him or he would file a complaint that she assaulted him. …
Article • June 15, 2007
Massachussetts Pre-Trial Detainee Injured While Housed With Convicted Felons States Colorable Claim by William Smith, a pre-trial detainee in Berkshire County, Massachusetts was housed in a section of the jail where only those convicted of felonies were supposed to be kept, in violation of G.L. c. 127, Sec. 22. He …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Disallowing Printed E-Mail Responses To Wisconsin Prisoner’s Web Page Raised Triable Issues of Fact by John Dannenberg Disallowing Printed E-Mail Responses To Wisconsin Prisoner's Web Page Raised Triable Issues of Fact by John E. Dannenberg The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that the Wisconsin Department of Corrections? (WDOC) …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Guards Convicted of Stealing, Bringing Drugs into Washington State Private Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Security Specialists Plus (SSP) is a 60-employee firm operating out of Bellingham, Washington?s Irongate industrial area. It provides animal control services to unincorporated parts of Whatcom County, hires out private security guards, …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
BOP Cancels Solicitation of Proposal for Single-Faith Program by On October 26, 2006, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced that it was canceling its solicitation of proposals for single-faith, faith-based residential re-entry programs. The move came after a lawsuit was filed by the Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Lifetime Supervision or Lifetime Incarceration for Colorado Sex Offenders? by by G.A. Bowers Colorado has one of the toughest sex offender laws in the nation, according to University of Denver law professor Karen Steinhauser. Under the 1998 Lifetime Supervision of Sex Offenders Act (Act), over 800 sex offenders have been …
Louisiana Prisoner Denied Religious Materials Under “Approved Vendor” Policy Settles Suit for $21, 786.13 in Damages and Fees by Louisiana Prisoner Denied Religious Materials Under "Approved Vendor" Policy Settles Suit for $21, 786.13 in Damages and Fees The State of Louisiana has settled with a prisoner who was denied religious …
$2.25 Million Award for Virginia Man Falsely Sent to Death Row by A federal jury awarded a Virginia man $2.25 million for being falsely convicted of a rape/murder based on evidence fabricated by a cop and spending ten years on death row. Earl Washington, then 23, was convicted of a …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Study: Supermax Prisons Achieve Control While Inflicting Debilitating Side Effects, But Don’t Reduce Recidivism by John Dannenberg Study: Supermax Prisons Achieve Control While Inflicting Debilitating Side Effects, But Don't Reduce Recidivism by John E. Dannenberg The Justice Policy Center of the Urban Institute (UI) issued a research report, Evaluating the …
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
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, STDs
Human Rights Watch Urges Access to Condoms in U.S. Prisons and Jails by by Megan McLemore Incarcerated individuals bear a disproportionate burden of infectious diseases, including Hepatitis B virus (HBV), Hepatitis C virus (HCV), and HIV/AIDS. The HIV prevalence in state and federal prisons is more than 3 times higher …
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
California Prison Guards Awarded $440 Million Retroactive Pay Increase by California?s 30,000 prison guards, some 6,000 of whom pulled down over $100,000 last year, won an arbitration award on January 19, 2007 for retroactive pay increases totaling $440 million. Funding for this liability was not included in the California Department …
Second Hawaii Sex Assault Case Settled for $25,000 by The state of Hawaii has agreed to settle with a second prisoner who claimed she was sexually assaulted by a former warden while imprisoned at the Maui Community Correctional Center, as reported in a February 9, 2007 article in the Honolulu …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
$2.5 Million Settlement in Schenectady County Strip Search Suit by On July 31, 2006, Schenectady County, New York, agreed to settle a suit over its county jail strip search policy for $2.5 million. This is a class-action civil rights lawsuit brought in federal district court pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
California Governor’s Parole Veto Reversed by Federal Court by John Dannenberg California Governor's Parole Veto Reversed by Federal Court by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court granted a California second degree murderer's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition and ordered that he be released on parole unless the …
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