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Maine Prison Warden’s Purchase of State Property Voided by Maine’s Attorney General has declared a real estate deal between the state and Maine State Prison Warden Patricia Barnhart and her partner, Sheehan Gallagher, void. The transaction involved three houses and about five acres of land near the prison. Barnhart was …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
$105,000 Settlement for Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner Assaulted by Tobacco Gang by Pennsylvania’s Northampton County agreed to pay $105,000 to a former prisoner on July 25, 2011 to settle a lawsuit alleging guards failed to protect him from other prisoners, some of whom were dealing tobacco with a guard’s help. Aristotle …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Report Says Reentry Agencies Should Hire Former Prisoners by Joe Watson When released prisoners meet throngs of otherwise upstanding, Ivy League WASPs offering transitional assistance, it’s like getting a tune-up from a mechanic with clean fingernails. It simply doesn’t inspire much confidence in the work being done. Thus, a recent …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
South Carolina Crime Stoppers Snitch Line Scammed by Brandon Sample Most people are familiar with Crime Stoppers, the “snitch line” for individuals with information about crimes. Successful tips can result in benefits to the tipster – which can take the form of cash, leniency with a new case or a …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Former Oregon Prison Nurse Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges by On May 3, 2011, a registered nurse formerly employed by the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) was arrested on misconduct and drug-related charges, according to the Oregon State Police (OSP). The previous month, a Washington County grand jury returned an …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Two Charged with Scamming $2.6 Million from Prisoners and Prisoners’ Families by Two Michigan men have been charged with defrauding thousands of prisoners and their families nationwide out of an estimated $2.6 million. Their scheme targeted black and Hispanic prisoners with direct mailings that offered to provide legal and appellate …
$500,000 Jury Award for Rape of New York Pretrial Detainee Reinstated on Appeal by On August 18, 2011, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a New York federal district court’s entry of judgment for the defendants. The district court had thrown out a $500,000 jury verdict in favor of …
Supreme Court Boots Challenge to SORNA by The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed an Ex Post Facto Clause challenge to the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). In a per curium opinion handed down on June 27, 2011, the Court found that an unnamed Montana juvenile’s claims were …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Florida Jail to Discontinue Providing Underwear by David Reutter As a cost-cutting measure, Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd has decided his jail will no longer provide underwear to prisoners. “There’s no state law, there’s no federal law that says we have to provide underwear in the county jail,” he …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Indiana Cuts Prison College Courses by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After the Indiana General Assembly passed a budget for FY 2012-2013 that eliminated $9 million in financial aid for college programs for prisoners, the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC) is shifting such programs away from liberal arts studies and …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Report Criticizes Ohio Prison Doctor Who Resigned by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An August 2011 performance report by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) found that a prison doctor failed to properly follow-up with his patients, and improperly discontinued medications and treatment without meeting with patients. …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Texas Prisoners Serve Average of 58% of Their Sentences by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to a recent report by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), during fiscal year (FY) 2010, Texas state prisoners served an average of 58% of their sentences before being released. That percentage is …
Texas Prison Employees Accused of Improper Relationships with Sex Offenders by Three Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) employees have been accused of engaging in improper relationships with prisoners in sex offender evaluation or treatment programs at the Goree Unit in Huntsville. Two of the employees were counselors in the …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Idaho Jail Institutes Pay-to-Stay-Out Program by A jail in Canyon County, Idaho has taken the concept of pay-to-stay one step further by charging certain convicted prisoners to stay out of jail. First-time offenders with a non-violent crime who are compliant may have the opportunity to pay up to $15 a …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
California Court of Appeal Upholds Attorney’s Fee Award in Excessive Force Case by On June 23, 2011, the California Court of Appeal upheld an award of over $311,000 in attorney’s fees in a case involving excessive use of force by a Los Angeles County deputy sheriff. In March 2006, after …
$1 Million Settlement in Oklahoma Jail Prisoner Wrongful Death Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In May 2011, Oklahoma County approved a $1 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit involving a prisoner who was first denied his anti-seizure medication and then fatally beaten by guards after he had …
Los Angeles ADA Agrees to Pay $1.2 Million to Settle DUI Suit by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim On July 19, 2011, Marilyn Seymour, an Assistant District Attorney for Los Angeles County, agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two women who suffered injuries when Seymour, …
Brief • March 15, 2012
Millington v. CCA, OK, 2nd Mot for Sanctions Withheld Documents, Beating, 2012 Case 5:10-cv-00650-L Document 72 Filed 03/15/12 Page 1 of 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA (1) GLENDA MILLINGTON, as mother and next friend of Carl Stuckey, an incapacitated person, Plaintiff, v. …
Brief • March 13, 2012
Miller v Loftis Sc Pltf Memo K9 Mauling Unarmed Arrestee 2012 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA William Todd Miller, Plaintiff, -vSteven Loftis, individually and in his capacity for the Office of Greenville County Sheriff, Alton Cannon, Craig Hawkins, and John Doe, Sam Snow, Defendants, ) …
Brief • March 13, 2012
Kirkland v. DiLeo, NJ, Complaint, Judicial Misconduct, 2012 03/13/2012 08:47 AM 5C8EB 97697 Min t D4c166 e riEtied B26.21802228Piltje agel 8 difatje gt6B947 12aw021X246- Michael P. Rubas, Esq. (MPR8484) DI MAGGIO & RUBAS, LLC 100 Morris Avenue, Suite 103 Springfield, New Jersey 07081 (973) 258-9100 M ichael@Dimaggio-Ruhas.corn Attorneys for Plaintiffs …
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