Skip navigation

Search

40944 results
Page 1435 of 2048. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 1431 1432 1433 1434 1435 1436 1437 1438 1439 ... 2044 2045 2046 2047 2048 | Next »

Fulton County Jail Consents to Improve Dismal Conditions by David Reutter The Fulton County Jail (FCJ) has entered into an agreement to correct the “dismal environmental conditions and poor maintenance” at the facility. A Georgia federal district court approved a consent order on February 7, 2006 to solidify the badly …
Brief • September 12, 2007
M.P. v. Texas Youth Commission, TX, Petition, Pepper Spray, 2007 M.P., by and through his next friend, A.T., D.M., by and through his next friend, N.J., and E.B., by and through her next friend, E.R. Plaintiffs v. TEXAS YOUTH COMMISSION and DIMITRIA D. POPE, in her official capacity as Acting …
Moore v. NM Dept of Corrections, NM, Complaint, Wrongful Death - Excessive Force, 2007 0 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF TORRANCE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE DISTRICT COURT D-0722- CV - 2007 - 1 9 8 FARRlS P. MOORE, HELENE. MOORE, Individually and as Personal Representatives of the Estate …
Sanabria v. Hillsborough County, NH, Complaint, employee sex bias jail prisoner abuse, 2007 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ************************** * * Plaintiff * * v. * * Hillsborough County Department * of Corrections * * Defendants * ************************** Doris Sanabria Civil Action: 1:07-cv-284-JM COMPLAINT PARTIES …
Publication • September 1, 2007
Department of Economics, Prison Health Care Contracting Study, 2007 Prison Health Care: Is Contracting Out Healthy? Kelly Bedard Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara kelly@econ.ucsb.edu H.E. Frech III Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara frech@econ.ucsb.edu September 2007 Abstract U.S. Prison health care has recently been in …
Brief • September 1, 2007
Multi-ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network v. City of Los Angeles, CA, Guzman Class Rep Declaration, McArthur Park Excessive Force, 2007 1 2 DECLARATION OF NOEL GUZMAN RE: CLASS REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES 3 I, Noel Guzman, declare: 4 1. 5 following facts. 6 2. I am over the age of eighteen. I …
Brief • August 27, 2007
Barnes v. Sackman, WA, Response to Motion to Exclude Expert Testimony, Police Practices, 2007 Hon. Thomas S. Zilly 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 MAIKOIYO ALLEY-BARNES, Plaintiff, v. …
Brief • August 27, 2007
Barnes v. Sackman, WA, Motion to Exclude Expert Testimony, Police Practices, 2008 Hon. Thomas S. Zilly 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 MAIKOIYO ALLEY-BARNES, Plaintiff, v. GREG W. …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
BJS Report: The Price of Justice in 2003 by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby In 2003 the U.S. spent a staggering $185 billion to fund its burgeoning ?justice? system, according to a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics released in March 2006. That figure includes funds spent on prisons …
Prison A Major Factor In Spreading AIDS by Gary Hunter A recent study entitled African Americans, Health Disparities and HIV/AIDS has directly linked incarceration to the spread of AIDS in minority communities. Robert Fullilove ED.D., of Columbia University authored the study which was released on December 1, 2006 to coincide …
Wrongfully Imprisoned California Man Awarded $18 Million by On February 15, 2006, a federal jury in California awarded $18 million to a man who was wrongly charged with sexual assault of a child and imprisoned for 10 months. During his false imprisonment in the Los Angeles County Jail, Ramirez, 26, …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
New York Prisoner Awarded $190,000 For Improperly Treated Knee Injury by On June 6, 2006, a court of claims in White Plains, New York, awarded $190,000 to a state prisoner who claimed prison staff was medically negligent in their treatment of his knee injury, thus causing him to undergo an …
Six Florida Federal Prison Guards Convicted, Sentenced On Rape and Corruption Charges by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Five former prison guards convicted in federal court on criminal charges stemming from a sex-for-contraband scandal at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Tallahassee, Florida have been sentenced; four received prison …
Quadriplegic California Prisoner Baked to Death in Transport Van by A California state prisoner being transferred in 109-degree weather from a Central Valley prison to a remote desert facility baked to death in the back of a transport van after the air conditioning in the passenger section of the vehicle …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Shackling at California Jury Trial, Without Justifying Need, Is Reversible Error by A California state prisoner who was convicted of possessing drugs in his cell had his jury conviction reversed because the trial court had not determined the necessity of his being tried in chains and prison garb. Melvin Simmons, …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Texas Prison System Faces Critical Guard Shortage by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is understaffed by 3,152 guards, a 12% deficit compared to full staffing. The shortage has grown each year from an average of 8.5% in 2004. Some prison units have …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Illinois Jail Prisoner Dies from Dental Infection by A 25-year-old prisoner at the Peoria County Jail died from an infection in his gums that spread throughout his body, causing multiple-organ failure. Jeremy L. Baksai had been in the Peoria jail since November 2006, awaiting an April 30, 2007 trial on …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Torture vs Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment -- Is the Distinction Real or Apparent?, by Metin Basoglu, MD, PhD et al., by John Dannenberg Arch Gen Psychiatry Vol. 64, pp.277-284, March 2007 Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Motivated by recent reports of U.S. human rights abuses in military prisons, …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
U.S. Surgeon General Pressured to Avoid Addressing Prison Health Care by On July 10, 2007, The New York Times reported that former U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, had testified that he was pressured by administration officials to suppress public health …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Tuberculosis
TB Prevention and Control In Prisons and Jails: New CDC Guidelines by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The National Center for Disease Control (CDC) updated its 1996 standard guidelines for effective prevention and control of tuberculosis (TB) in detention facilities by issuing fifteen new recommendations in 2006. These were …
Page 1435 of 2048. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 1431 1432 1433 1434 1435 1436 1437 1438 1439 ... 2044 2045 2046 2047 2048 | Next »