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Article • May 15, 2007
Fifth Circuits Upholds Pugh v. Loch Injunction by The Fifth Circuit upheld the district court's ranting of relief to ensure Alabama state prisoners reasonably adequate food, clothing, shelter, sanitation, necessary medical attention, personal safety, and recreational opportunities. The Fifth Circuit vacated the district court's instructions that all prisoners be single …
Overcrowding, Bad Prison Conditions Enjoined by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed a suit against a an Arkansas county jail. The court held the plaintiffs had presented sufficient evidence of a deficient diet, overcrowding, inadequate excercise, and forced exposure …
Aliens May Sue Private Detention Companies Under ATCA by A federal court in New Jersey became the first court to hold that corporations which operate privatized immigration detention facilities may be sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA). The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) contracted with Esmor Correctional Services, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Denial of Class Certification Reversed by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal held that a district court used the wrong standard in denying class certification and remanded for consideration of the detainees' First Amendment claim. This action was filed by pretrial detainees at Tennessee's Warren County Jail, alleging constitutional violations …
Individual Class Action Settlement Notice Not Required by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that individual notice to each prisoner in a class action is not required and a district court's unexplained failure to set forth reasons or evidence to show the settlement was fair did not render …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Modification of Mental Hospital Consent Decree by The defendants wanted to get out of a consent judgment governing a mental health facility, and the court doesn't let them, because even though the facility is closed, it is not established that the discharged patients have been treated consistently with the …
El Paso County Jail Conditions Unconstitutional by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed a district court's order that found conditions at Texas' El Paso County Jail were unconstitutional and ordered injunctive relief to correct the violations. The district court ordered that exercise and recreational areas be installed; prisoner diets …
Hawaii Settles DOJ Suit Over Unconstitutional Juvenile Facility by The State of Hawaii settled a suit brought by the United States government, resolving a suit over unconstitutional conditions of confinement at the Hawaii Youth Corrections Facility (HYCF) in Kailua, Hawaii. On August 16, 2004, the United States Department of Justice …
Wyoming Federal Court Awards Attorney $18,000 for Compliance Monitoring by Michael Rigby On March 9, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming awarded $16,200.50 in enhanced fees plus $2,105.28 in costs to an attorney for time spent monitoring compliance with remedial measures at the Carbon County (Wyoming) …
Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America’s Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. by John Dannenberg Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America's Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's …
Sacramento Jail Rampant with Excessive Force and Brutality by Gary Hunter Imagine six million candles of light and the noise level of a jet plane taking off inside an average 6'x10' jail cell. That's what Courtney Countee, Jessie Kerwin, Daniel Lucas, Jason Morrison, Cladius Jefferson and Michael Toro endured at …
Virginia Jail Disgraceful by Gary Hunter Richmond City Jail is in such bad shape newly elected Sheriff C.T. Woody called it a ...disaster. I knew it was bad, but I had no idea it was that bad, he said. On January 4, 2006 a report was issued detailing the deficiencies …
CSC Alien Abuse Class Action Settled for $2.5 Million by On August 10, 2005, a federal court in New Jersey approved a settlement in Brown v. Esmor Correctional Services Inc., USDC No. 98-1282 (DNJ). Esmor Correctional Services Inc. (Esmor) later known as Correctional Services Corporation (CSC), agreed to pay the …
Texas Jails Troubled by Deaths, Negligence and Failed Inspections by Gary Hunter For decades Texas jails have been cesspool's of misery, medical neglect, brutality and over crowding. Class action litigation in the 1970's alleviated some of the worst aspects of the Texas jail system and led to modest improvements. By …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Illinois Jail Conditions Suit Nets $150,000 Attorney Fee Award by An Illinois Federal District Court has awarded attorneys representing prisoners at the Winnebago County Jail (WCJ) $150,000 in attorney fees and costs. This class action suit alleged the conditions at WCJ were unconstitutionally deficient in numerous respects. The suit alleged …
New Zealand Court of Appeals Upholds Prisoner's Conditions-of-Confinement Award by On September 11, 2005, the New Zealand Court of Appeals upheld and increased the award of compensation to a prisoner for having been held in unlawful conditions of confinement. Christopher Taunoa, a New Zealand prisoner who is serving a life …
Sexual and Physical Abuse at Florida Girl's Prison Under Investigation by By David Reutter In June, 2003, The State Attorney for Florida's Palm Beach County initiated a grand jury investigation into sexual assaults and physical abuse at the State's only maximum security prison for girls. In April, 2000, the Florida …
What's Wrong With the ACA? by Elizabeth Alexander The American Correctional Association (ACA) is the largest and best-known organization of prison and jail staff in the country. It offers higher education programs designed to train prison industry professionals and, like a traditional professional association, it certifies persons as members in …
Settlements Reached In Alabama Women Prisoners' Class-Action Suit by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 23, 2004, U. S. District Judge Myron Thompson signed a settlement order in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit brought by prisoners at three Alabama Department of Corrections women's prisons challenging their conditions of confinement. The suit …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
National Prison Reform Commission Started by Margo Schlanger Chaired by former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and former U.S. Circuit Judge John Gibbons, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons opened shop in March, 2005 and has held two of four scheduled public hearings -- the first in April …
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