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Brief • March 19, 2012
Van Dyke v Cca Co Protective Order Confidential Information Discoverable 2012 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO 11-cv-03145-CMA-KMT SHAUN VAN DYKE, Plaintiff, v. CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, and C.M. YBARRA, Case Manager, Bent County Correctional Facility, Defendants. ______________________________________________________________________________ PROTECTIVE ORDER ______________________________________________________________________________ Pursuant to the Joint …
Gevas v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2012 J, RECE IVED Case: 1:12-cv-01297 Document #: 63 Filed: 03/16/12 Page 1 of 37 PageID #:277 FILE01D 2 ~ UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS THOMASG BRUTON BRUTON URT . G S A M O EASTERN DIVISION H …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
How Victim Rights Shaped Spending, Laws and the Future of Punishment in Colorado by Alan Prendergast Newly elected as a Colorado state representative, Pete Lee hit the Capitol in January 2011 fired up with big ideas. The biggest of them all was the restorative justice bill he introduced shortly after …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
From the Editor by Paul Wright The rights of prisoners and victims are generally depicted as being antagonistic and contradictory, in that one comes at the expense of the other. The reason for this, of course, is that for the past 30 years “victim rights” has been a façade used …
Tenth Circuit Affirms Sentence in Excess of Federal Advisory Guidelines for Sex Offender Who Violated Terms of Supervised Release by In an unpublished opinion, the Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court's imposition of an 18-month prison term for a Utah man, Brian Olinger, who pled guilty to three violations of …
Article • March 15, 2012
Third Circuit Clarifies Federal Civil Procedure Rule 68 Concerning Attorney’s Fees by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a New Jersey federal district court’s ruling that a judgment/settlement included attorney’s fees under Rule 68 of the federal rules of civil procedure. The case arose when a photographer, working for …
United States District Court Grants Summary Judgment in Internet Libel Case by The United States District Court granted a Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit, claiming violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. This action arose out of Thomas Mink’s publication of an internet based …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Survey Shows College Courses for Prisoners Reduce Recidivism, but Few Exist by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Of the various kinds of rehabilitative programs offered to prisoners, only education has been shown to unequivocally correlate with a strong reduction in recidivism. The more education a prisoner receives, the greater the …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Georgia Jail Guards Charged in Prisoner Abuse Incident by Three guards at Georgia’s Dekalb County Jail (DCJ) were arrested and charged in connection with a May 15, 2011 altercation involving a pretrial detainee. The prisoner, whose name was not released, had been booked into the DCJ on a disorderly conduct …
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
Workers’ Comp Claims by Illinois Prison Guards Under Investigation by David Reutter Illinois taxpayers have shelled out over $10 million to settle workers’ compensation claims filed by employees at the Menard Correctional Center (MCC), mainly related to repetitive trauma injuries. However, a study concluded that the job duties guards are …
Offenders Cannot Sue Over Violations of Interstate Probation Transfer Compact by The Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision (“the Compact”) does not create a private right of action, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held on April 11, 2011. Plaintiff M.F. and his domestic partner sued New …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Exec with GEO Group, which Operates Immigration Detention Facilities, Intimidates Immigrant In-Law by Thomas M. Wierdsma is the Senior Vice President for Project Development at The GEO Group, Inc., a Boca Raton, Florida-based company that, according to its 2010 annual report, operates “a broad range of correctional and detention facilities …
31,000 Criminal Cases Under Review After Detroit Crime Lab Closes by After the police crime lab in Detroit, Michigan was found to have provided faulty firearm ballistics evidence in criminal cases, the lab was closed in 2008. A subsequent review of around 31,000 firearm-related prosecutions was deemed “admittedly impossible work,” …
CCA Objects to Shareholder Resolution Filed by Former CCA Prisoner, PLN Associate Editor by When PLN associate editor Alex Friedmann was released from prison in November 1999, he had served six of the ten years he spent behind bars at the South Central Correctional Center in Clifton, Tennessee, a private …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
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$125,000 Settlement in New Jersey Jail Delayed MRSA Treatment Case by New Jersey’s Cumberland County Board of Freeholders voted on July 26, 2011 to pay $125,000 to settle a prisoner’s claim related to denial of medical care. While confined at the Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) in September 2007, James E. …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Electronic Monitoring: Some Causes for Concern by James Kilgore Electronic monitoring (EM) looms high on the list of alternatives to incarceration for corrections officials seeking solutions to overcrowded prisons and budget deficits. First used in 1983, today some 200,000 people in the United States wear some sort of electronic monitor, …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Pennsylvania Jail Guard Accused of Stealing from 93-Year-Old Widow by Prosecutors have charged an Allegheny County, Pennsylvania jail guard with theft. Mark Hendrick, 46, was charged with access device fraud, theft and misapplication of entrusted property in April 2011 after it was discovered that he had taken more than $147,000 …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
U.S. Department of Justice Releases Statistics on Jail Prisoners at Midyear 2010 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In April 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice issued a statistical report on the nation’s city and county jail population for the twelve-month period ending …
Settlement in Alabama Prison Overcrowding and Violence Suit by David Reutter A class-action lawsuit that alleged conditions at Alabama’s Donaldson Correctional Facility (DCF) placed prisoners “at a substantial risk of injury due to violence, lack of security, understaffing, corruption, and severe overcrowding” has concluded with a settlement agreement designed to …
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