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Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Ninth Circuit Applies Turner Test to Evaluate First Amendment Interest in Prisoners’ Receipt of Unsolicited Publications by Michael Brodheim Ninth Circuit Applies Turner Test to Evaluate First Amendment Interest in Prisoners’ Receipt of Unsolicited Publications by Mike Brodheim On January 31, 2011, a divided Ninth Circuit panel reversed the grant …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Arizona Ranchers Use Prison Labor to Construct Erosion-Prevention Dams by Whitewater Draw near McNeal, Arizona is a unique desert wetland with a shallow lake that hosts thousands of Sandhill Cranes and other water fowl. Water comes to the 600-acre wildlife area from the mountains that ring Sulfur Springs Valley. However, …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Study Reports on Undiagnosed HIV Infections in New York City Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke An article in the May 2011 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome reported that the HIV infection rate among people being booked into New York City jails was much higher …
Former Oregon Prison Official Faces Ethics Probe by In March 2011, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,000-a-year job as an assistant administrator for the Health Services Division of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). Three days earlier he had been hired by Correctional Health Partners (CHP), a private medical …
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Rules Against Parole Board on Imposition of Sex Offender Restrictions on Non-Sex Offenders by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles was required to provide due process in the form of a …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
California: Prison Visitor Settles Slip-and-Fall Suit for $175,000 by Richard Allen Barton, Sr. has settled a lawsuit he filed against the State of California and officials at Avenal State Prison, agreeing to accept $175,000 in exchange for dismissal of the suit. On July 11, 2008, while visiting a prisoner at …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Alabama: Jonathan Windham, 24, was acquitted of manslaughter on October 4, 2011 in connection with the January 2009 death of Northwest Florida Reception Center prison guard Timothy Fowler. Fowler had an altercation with Windham over a card game, and Windham hit him in self-defense. Medical evidence …
Article • February 15, 2012
Politics as Unusual: Senate President Crosses the Line by Randy Berg Politics as Unusual: Florida Senate President Crosses the Line by Randall C. Berg, Jr. On February 1, Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos (R- Melbourne) removed Senator Mike Fasano (R-New Port Richey) from his position as chairman of the Budget …
Article • February 15, 2012
$1,800 Settlement in Clerical Error Resulting in Jail Time by California’s County of Sacramento paid $1,800 to settle the claim of Stephen L. Stucker, who was held in jail for two days due to a clerical error. His July 17, 2002 jailing resulted in the denial of his psychiatric medication. …
Article • February 15, 2012
$880,000 Settlement in Federal Prisoner’s Death in Washington State by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An $880,000 settlement has been reached in the death of a prisoner at the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in SeaTac, Washington. The lawsuit alleged that the prisoner died due to negligent medical care. When …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
CDCR Pays $12,000 to Settle California Prisoner’s Pro Se Caging Suit by As part of a settlement agreement, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) agreed to pay $12,000 to prisoner Bobby James Williams to settle a lawsuit Williams filed in 2005. Williams claimed that the CDCR had violated …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Settlement in New York City Jail Mental Health Services Case Still Alive by On June 28, 2011, the New York Court of Appeals held that a motion to extend the obligations of New York City officials to provide mental health services to jail prisoners was timely because it was filed …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Filed under: Organizing, Elections
Texas Prisoner on Idaho Presidential Primary Ballot in 2008 by Mark Wilson During the 2008 Democratic primary election, Idaho voters had three choices for president: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Keith Russell Judd. At the time, Judd was serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas on a …
Audit Recommends Cost-Saving Measures for Minnesota Sex Offender Program by A March 2011 report by Minnesota’s Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) found that while civilly committing sex offenders increases public safety, the prohibitive costs associated with administering the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) could be reduced by, among other …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Washington DOC Employee Faces Ethics Complaint for Running Non-Profits on State Time Using State Resources by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2005, Washington Department of Corrections Secretary Harold Clarke reprimanded DOC employee Belinda D. Stewart for selling Avon products to her co-workers at the Purdy women’s prison after she …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
BOP Settles Prisoner Rape Suit for $625,000 by Brandon Sample The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has agreed to pay $625,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a prisoner who was raped by a guard at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York. In the early hours of …
Videotaped Assault at Idaho CCA Prison Sparks FBI Investigation by Mark Wilson Guards at a private prison in Idaho looked on, but did not intervene, as a prisoner was beaten into a coma. Video footage of the January 2010 incident has sparked an FBI investigation into civil rights violations at …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Texas Towns Saddled with Empty, Expensive Privatized Prisons and Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In July 2011, anyone with at least $5 million to spare was invited to bid on a 373-bed, state-of-the-art, turn-key minimum-security prison on 30 acres of land in the cotton-farming town of Littlefield, Texas. …
Homeless New Mexico Sex Offender Arrested for Moving Out of Dumpster by Charles Mader, a registered sex offender, was homeless when he was released from jail, so he listed a dumpster at an intersection in Albuquerque, New Mexico as his residence. That was fine with authorities. However, after Mader moved …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Massachusetts: Guards Suspended, Accused of Threatening to Kill Escaped Prisoner in Scheme to Generate Overtime by Two Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) officers were suspended in May 2011, one with pay, in connection with anonymous, threatening phone calls made to a hospital where a critically wounded prisoner was being held, …
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