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Brief • May 15, 2013
Mitchell v Cate, CA, Declaration in Support of Plt Mot, race-based lockdown, 2013 Case 2:08-cv-01196-TLN-EFB Document 189 Filed 05/15/13 Page 1 of 70 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PRISON LAW OFFICE DONALD SPECTER (SBN 83925) WARREN E. GEORGE (SBN 53588) REBEKAH EVENSON (SBN 207825) 1917 Fifth Street Berkeley, …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Native Americans Overrepresented in Prison; Problems with Tribal Police Cited by The Trail of Tears lives on. It still winds its way through dilapidated Native American villages on reservations across the United States that are impoverished, starved of resources and pockmarked by dysfunction and discrimination. Almost two centuries after indigenous …
Article • March 15, 2013
Martin Luther King: Letter from the Birmingham Jail 1963 by April 16, 1963 MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
The Color of Corporate Corrections: Overrepresentation of People of Color in the Private Prison Industry by Christopher Petrella by Christopher Petrella and Josh Begley While data generated by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and state departments of corrections (DOCs) have long demonstrated persistent racial disparities in rates of incarceration, …
North Carolina Governor Pardons Wilmington 10 by In 1971, during a time of racial unrest in Wilmington, North Carolina, shortly after schools were integrated and amid protests and race-based violence, a white-owned business, Mike’s Grocery, was firebombed. Responding firefighters claimed they were targeted by gunfire from unknown shooters at a …
California: Jail Nurse Receives $703,957 in Retaliation Suit Against County, PHS by On December 15, 2011, following a three-week trial, a federal jury in San Francisco awarded Freddie M. Davis, formerly employed at Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail, $528,957 in damages stemming from retaliation she experienced after she and other …
US v. MCSO, AZ, Order, sheriff Arpaio racial discrimination, 2012 Case 2:12-cv-00981-ROS Document 56 Filed 12/12/12 Page 1 of 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Plaintiff, 10 11 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Rojsza v. City of Ferndale, WA, Amended Complaint, false arrest 14th Am ethnic bias unlawful detention, 2012 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Fifth Circuit Holds Louisiana Prisons Can’t Ban Nation of Islam Newspaper by In 2005, Louisiana prison officials instituted a statewide ban on The Final Call, a newspaper published by the Nation of Islam. The ban was based solely on the content of a statement of beliefs called “The Muslim Program,” …
Washington Cop Retaliation Nets $1.65 Million by On September 4, 2008, Vancouver, Washington officials agreed to pay a nationally decorated police officer $1,650,000 to settle racial discrimination and retaliation claims. In 2000, Officer Navin Sharma of the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) filed a racial discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment …
Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow by James Forman, Jr. by James Forman, Jr.* In the last decade, a number of scholars have called the American criminal justice system a new form of Jim Crow. These writers have effectively drawn attention to the injustices created by …
Background Checks that Bar Employment of Ex-offenders May Violate Civil Rights by A report by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) released in March 2011 concluded that the growth in background checks by employers, combined with a lack of enforcement of civil rights and consumer protections for an estimated 65 …
Gupta v. Cate, CA, Complaint, Race-Based Lockdown, 2012 l 2 3 4 RAJ CHRISTOPHER GUPTA AE9278 CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA North Fork Correctional Facility Building GA, Cell 120 1605 East Main Sayre, Oklahoma 73662 PLAINTIFF, In Propria Persona 5 UNITED STATES DISTRIC' 6 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 (Sacramento Division) …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Dramatic Increase in Number of Hispanics Sentenced to Federal Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Tougher immigration enforcement efforts coupled with fast-track procedures in immigration cases have combined to dramatically increase the number of Hispanics entering the federal prison system. Statistics released in June 2011 indicate that Hispanics, who …
Maricopa County Settles Illegal Immigration Detention Suit for $200,000 by On February 11, 2009, Julian Mora, 68, a legal permanent U.S. resident, and his son Julio, 28, a U.S. citizen, were stopped on a public street in Phoenix, AZ, pulled from their truck, handcuffed with zip-ties and taken to an …
California Settles Prison Nurse's Employment Discrimination Suit for $15,000 by Jadesloa O. Atomre was a Registered Nurse working at Folsom Prison when the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation took adverse employment action against her. Atomre, a 51-year-old black female naturalized citizen from Nigeria, filed suit in state court alleging …
Article • May 15, 2012
Prison Guard's Racial Demotion Nets $18,000; Court Approves $82,000 Attorney Fee Award by A federal jury found that an African-American Wisconsin prison guard was demoted on the basis of race. The parties stipulated to damages of $18,000 and the court awarded attorney's fees of $82,000. In 1997, Mr. Davis was …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Fourth Circuit Remands Prisoner’s Equal Protection Claim by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim On March 17, 2011, in an unpublished per curiam decision, the Fourth Circuit remanded a prisoner’s equal protection claim that alleged black prisoners were routinely ordered to perform more degrading tasks than their white counterparts, and that …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case that Shook the Texas Prison System, by Michael Berryhill (University of Texas Press, 2011). 244 pages, $29.95 by Mel Motel Book review by Mel Motel The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case that Shook the Texas Prison System opens with a …
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