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Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, News
Washington State Closes McNeil Island Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Citing $12 million in annual savings, the Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) has closed the 1,200-bed McNeil Island Corrections Center. A 2009 audit, however, found there would be no actual savings because it would cost the …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Canadian Prison Guards Hold Prisoners at Gunpoint for 10 Days by In January 2010, a Canadian prison tactical unit held prisoners at gunpoint during a search of British Columbia’s Kent Institution. “For 10 days, this team followed its own rules of engagement with almost complete impunity,” stated a report by …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Smoke ’Em if You Got ’Em, Says Oklahoma DOC by The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) has partially reversed its six-year-old smoking ban. Citing increased prisoner health care costs caused by smoking, the DOC banned cigarettes in all its facilities in 2004. Since then, predictably, a black market for tobacco …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Oregon Settles Prisoner’s Heart Failure Medical Mistreatment Case for $390,000 by Mark Wilson “This poor woman had two valves diseased, both of them stressing her heart out, giving her heart failure,” said Dr. Sanjiv Kaul, head of cardiovascular medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), speaking of Katherine Anderson, a …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
California: Orange County Jail System Ordered to Remedy ADA Violations by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim Following remand from the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in Pierce v. County of Orange, 525 F.3d 1190 (9th Cir. 2008) [PLN, Feb. 2009, p.34], U.S. District Court Judge Audrey B. Collins held on January 7, …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Arizona County to Pay Ex-Prisoner $325,000 in Jail Guard Beating by The Board of Supervisors for Pima County, Arizona has agreed to pay $325,000 to a former prisoner for injuries he received in a beating by jail guards that resulted in blood clots and a heart attack. Clifford Linebarger, 29, …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
UNICOR Wins $20 Million No-Bid Body Armor Contract by On March 9, 2011, the U.S. Army announced that it had awarded a $20 million no-bid contract to Federal Prison Industries, also known as UNICOR, to fulfill an order for body armor. The U.S. military is one of UNICOR’s top customers; …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country, by Susan Rosenberg (Kensington Publishing Corp. 2011), 400 pages, $14.95 paperback by Book review by Bruce Reilly Susan Rosenberg was raised on the 1950s anti-segregation movement, became an activist within the 1960s anti-war movement, and believed in armed resistance throughout the …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Federal Stimulus Money Not Spent as Intended by San Diego County Probation Department by According to an internal audit disclosed in November 2010, the San Diego County Probation Department did not allocate federal stimulus funds for the purposes intended under the terms of the stimulus program. The good news is …
Texas Chaplain Who Complained of Jail Conditions Reinstated, Suit Settled by In January 2011, Gail Hanson was reinstated as a volunteer chaplain at the Cameron County Jail in Brownsville, Texas. She had been banned from the facility after she publicly criticized conditions at the jail, and her reinstatement was part …
Protective Order Denied in Privately Run Florida Juvenile Facility Class-Action Suit by David Reutter A Florida federal district court has denied a motion for a protective order filed by the defendants in a class-action lawsuit brought by five current or former residents of Thompson Academy, a juvenile facility managed by …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
$4.5 Million Settlement in Texas County Jail Strip Search Suit by On January 12, 2011, a Texas federal court approved a $4.5 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit involving suspicionless strip searches of people booked into the Bexar County Detention Center (BCDC) in San Antonio, Texas for minor offenses. …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Florida’s House Speaker Wants to Quicken Executions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Speeding up Florida’s execution machinery is a top priority for state House Speaker Dean Cannon. Cannon’s efforts to achieve that goal have included abolishing a commission that oversees death penalty cases and trying to reorganize the …
Third Circuit Upholds Pennsylvania Sex Offender Treatment Parole Requirement by Mark Wilson The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that a sex offender treatment requirement did not violate a Pennsylvania prisoner’s constitutional rights. In 1987, Clifford Newman was convicted of several sex offenses and sentenced to 20 years in prison. …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Michigan Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Case Settles for $100,000 by The State of Michigan has agreed to pay a prisoner $100,000 to settle a failure to protect lawsuit filed in federal court. In 2007, Joseph Lyons, 42, was serving a larceny sentence at a Jackson, Michigan prison. He was forced …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
North Carolina Prisoner’s First-Degree Murder Conviction is Valid Basis to Deny Awarding Good Time Credits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 27, 2010, North Carolina’s Supreme Court reversed a grant of habeas corpus relief to a prisoner serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, holding that prison …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Florida Courts Criticize Indefinite Detention While Awaiting Civil Commitment Trials by Florida sex offenders who have completed their prison sentences may face a legal morass that leaves them stuck in indefinite detention while awaiting trial on whether they should be civilly committed. During such pre-trial detention they receive little to …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Parole Violator Leaps to Death at Alaskan Jail by Just hours after being arrested, an Alaskan parole violator jumped to his death inside an Anchorage jail. Ralph Kosbruk, 44, was convicted of sexually abusing a minor in 2005, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety’s sex offender registry. On …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
North Carolina Jail Prisoner Housed with TB Infected Cellmate Receives $2,250 Settlement by The defendants in a lawsuit related to a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak at North Carolina’s Brunswick County jail have agreed to settle the case for $2,250. The suit was filed in June 2010 by former prisoner Frank Baldwin, …
EEOC Files Suit Against GEO Group for Sexual Harassment at Arizona Prisons by On September 29, 2010, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit against private prison firm GEO Group, alleging that the company and some of its male supervisors permitted a “sexual and sex-based hostile work environment” …
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