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Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
$17.5 Million Verdict for Diabetic Prisoner in New York by A diabetic prisoner who was denied insulin by officers with the New York Police Department (NYPD) was awarded $17.5 million by a Brooklyn jury on October 19, 2010. For nearly 58 hours after Jose Vargas’ arrest on drug charges in …
Insider Trading Charges Against Private Prison Consultant Rejected by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Florida federal district court has rejected insider trading charges brought against a consultant for Correctional Services Corporation (CSC). The civil complaint, filed in September 2008 by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), charged Dr. …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Louisiana Attorney Permanently Disbarred but Not Criminally Charged for Pimping Child to Jail Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An attorney’s failure to respect the authority of the Louisiana Supreme Court, “as well as his use of his position as an attorney to obtain sexual gratification at the …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Voting Rights Must Be “Earned” Back, Says Iowa Governor by Brandon Sample Regaining voting rights for former felons in Iowa just got harder. Making good on a campaign promise, the newly-elected governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad, a Republican, has rescinded a July 4, 2005 executive order that allowed felons to …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Hawaii State Auditor Blasts Private Prison Contracting; State Renews Contract Anyway by On December 29, 2010, the State Auditor of Hawaii released a report highly critical of the way the Hawaii Department of Public Safety (DPS) contracts for private prison beds on the U.S. mainland. The report found that the …
Article • August 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit: California DOC's 15-Day Administrative Appeal Filing-Time-Limit Applies to Initial Instance of Grievance - Not To Ongoing Recurrence by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, following remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, held that a California prisoner had not exhausted his administrative …
Article • August 15, 2011
Federal BOP Discharges Severely Disabled Prisoner To Closed Homeless Shelter by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On August 8, 2008, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) discharged prisoner Michael McHone from its Edgefield, South Carolina prison to spend his first night in a motel. The next day, a Saturday, …
Federal Guard Convicted, Facing Life for Conspiracy Leading to Prisoner's Death by Michael Brodheim Michael Brodheim In a rare prosecution of a corrections officer, a Florida federal jury convicted 33-year-old Erin Sharma of conspiring with fellow guard Michael Kennedy to deprive prisoner Richard Delano, 40, of his civil rights by …
Ohio Legislature Cannot Increase Sex Offender Registration Requirements Imposed By Court by Michael Brodheim By Michael Brodheim A divided Ohio Court of Appeals has held that changes to the state's Sex Offender Registration and Notification (SORN) Act, increasing its registration and notification requirements, violate the constitutional separation of powers doctrine …
Article • August 15, 2011
Alabama Sheriff Jailed For Starving Prisoners: States Cut Prisoner Meals by Gary Hunter By Gary Hunter Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett was arrested by federal authorities on January 8, 2009, after he admitted to pocketing $200,000 designated for prisoners' meals in the Alabama jail. Johnny Maynor and Anthony Murphree, prisoners …
Article • August 15, 2011
Filed under: Classification, Transfers, Food
Judge Orders Marshals to Transfer Prisoner Due to Inadequate Diet at Jail by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample United States Magistrate Judge Todd Campbell has ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to transfer a pre-trial detainee from a county jail after determining the jail failed to provide a nutritionally adequate diet. …
Article • August 15, 2011
States Start Meth Offender Registries: by Gary Hunter By Gary Hunter Several states have started websites listing the names of convicted methamphetamine manufacturers. Tennessee started the first online registry in 2005 with a list of about 400 names. Georgia, Oklahoma, Washington and West Virginia followed shortly after. Oregon has gone …
Article • August 15, 2011
California’s Death Row: More Suicides Than Executions by Since California’s death penalty was reestablished in 1978, only 13 condemned prisoners have been executed. But in that same period, 38 have died of natural causes while another 14 have committed suicide. In spite of updated suicide prevention procedures, on June 10, …
Article • August 15, 2011
$3 Million Settlement in Kentucky Strip Search Class Action by By David M. Reutter A $3 million fund has been established to settle a class action lawsuit against Kentucky’s Hopkins County Detention Center (HCDC) for strip-searching the class members. The class consisted of an “Entry” class and a “Release” class. …
Article • August 15, 2011
Three Connecticut Prisoner Deaths in Four Days by The deaths of three Connecticut prisoners in a four-day period has state officials examining what went wrong. The undetermined death of 20-year-old Dayna Ashley Charette has resulted in dissension between the Connecticut Department of Corrections (CDOC) and judicial marshals. While in a …
New Allegations of Widespread Prisoner Abuse in Iraq Emerge As Abu Ghraib Soldiers Sentenced; Abu Ghraib General Writes Book by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke PLN has previously reported the abuse of prisoners in American military prisons in Iraq. [PLN June 2004, p. 1; Nov. 2004, p. 36; Dec. …
Article • August 15, 2011
Texas Prisoner Not Entitled to Counsel until Adversarial Proceedings Are Commenced by Walter Rothgery, a Texas state prisoner, was arrested as a felon in possession of a firearm based on a background check which showed a felony conviction in California. He was taken before a magistrate the next morning, who …
Article • August 15, 2011
Texas DOC & Nurse not Liable for Prisoner's Death by Texas DOC & Nurse not Liable for Prisoner's Death Damon Hollimon, a Texas state prisoner, was repeatedly tear-gassed at Huntsville prison after refusing to come out of his cell. When he was removed from his cell, a nurse noted that …
Article • August 15, 2011
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches
Summary Judgment Granted Against Cook County in Challenge to Strip Search Policy by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample On July 30, 2008, U.S. District Judge Elaine E. Buchlo granted a motion for summary judgment filed by the plaintiffs in a class action suit challenging the Cook County Department of Corrections’ …
Article • August 15, 2011
Illinois Governor’s Failure to act on Clemency Petition Actionable by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample Persons seeking executive clemency in Illinois have a protected liberty interest in having their petitions decided within a reasonable time by the governor, U.S. District Judge Joan B. Gottschal so held March 11, 2008. Stephanie …
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