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Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
$10 Million Settlement in Suit Over Oklahoma Sheriff’s Sex Abuse Scandal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Members of the public typically have little concern over what happens in the jails and prisons in their communities. Taxpayers in Custer County, Oklahoma, however, are now very concerned following a $10 …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Death Sentence Reversed Due to “Accidental” Perjury by Texas Prison Investigator by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed a death sentence imposed on a state prisoner convicted of capital murder, because a prison investigator had falsely described the prisoner classification system in the Texas …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Forty Percent of Adult Offenders Return to Prison Within Three Years of Release by In April 2011, the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States issued a report concerning recidivism rates for released offenders. The report, which updates a similar though far less extensive 2002 study …
HRDC Files Suit on Behalf of Family of Hawaii Prisoner Murdered at CCA Facility by On February 15, 2012, the family of Bronson Nunuha, a 26-year-old Hawaii prisoner who was brutally murdered at a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) prison in Arizona in 2010, filed suit in circuit court in …
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
Texas Psychologist Who Approved Prisoners for Execution Receives Reprimand by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Texas psychologist who used questionable methods to examine over a dozen Texas death row prisoners prior to their trials, and found them intellectually competent to face the death penalty, has been fined for using …
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 …
Missouri Federal Court Enjoins Denial of Housing Assistance to Sex Offender by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 14, 2011, a federal court in Missouri temporarily enjoined the Housing Authority of St. Louis County (HASLC) from denying housing assistance to a seriously ill man who had been convicted of …
Haitian Prison Conditions Deteriorate in Aftermath of Massive Earthquake by Holly S. Cooper by Holly Cooper On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the island nation of Haiti. Well-known are the catastrophic numbers of victims left in its wake, leaving hundreds of thousands of people entombed in rubble …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Nebraska Judge Dismisses Charges Against Omaha Jailers by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Douglas County, Nebraska District Court Judge Peter Bataillon has dismissed official misconduct charges against jailers who allegedly let a prisoner bleed to death while he begged for his life. Bataillon interpreted Jail Standards Board regulations as putting …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In October 2011, Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely said he would not be rounding up sex offenders at Halloween to ensure they don’t hand out candy to children. He stated he didn’t have the authority and lacked the man-power to conduct such an operation, and …
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 …
Jury Awards $13,000 in Tennessee CCA False Imprisonment Suit by A Tennessee federal court awarded $13,000 to Samuel Key for civil rights violations resulting from his false imprisonment. The case began in 1987, when Key was convicted and sentenced to prison in Georgia. During that time, a phony escape charge …
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
Tenth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of § 1983 Complaint Which Fails to Specifically Connect Defendants to Alleged Violations by Tenth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of § 1983 Complaint Which Fails to Specifically Connect Defendants to Alleged Violations In an unpublished decision, the Tenth Circuit has affirmed the dismissal without prejudice of a …
New Prison HIV Medication Rules Subject of Massachusetts Suit by Cost reduction is the “real reason” behind a new policy in Massachusetts prisons that prohibits prisoners from receiving their HIV medication through the Keep On Person (KOP) program, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit. Under the policy, HIV-positive prisoners …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Federal Halfway House Director Embezzles $213,787 by Mark Wilson A former Oregon halfway house director who embezzled more than $213,000 from the federally-funded facility was arrested in Rhode Island after failing to appear, fleeing and attempting suicide. She later pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing. As previously reported in PLN, Laura …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Empty Jail Beds Bankrupting Minnesota Counties by According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, violent and property crime rates have dropped steadily across the nation since at least 1992. Yet some states stubbornly insist on building prisons and jails they cannot afford to operate. Minnesota is just one recent example …
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