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Article • July 15, 2011
Pierce County, Washington Pays $1,500 for Vehicle Damage by Washington State’s Pierce County paid $1,500 for vehicle damage caused by a county prisoner transport vehicle. On April 8, 2008 Robert B. Smith IV was stopped with traffic in the city of Tacoma. Guard Mitchell Andreasen, who was driving a Peirce …
Article • July 15, 2011
Pierce County, Washington Personal Injury Results in $1,200 Settlement by Washington State’s Pierce County paid $1,200 to settle a prisoner’s personal injury claim. In October 2001, prisoner James E. Thomas had a grand mal seizure, which caused him to have a spinal injury, while in court at the Pierce County …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Vermont Parole Law Change Violates Ex Post Facto Clause by On November 2, 2010, a Vermont state court held that changes to Vermont’s parole laws requiring certain prisoners to serve 70% of their maximum sentences violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution when applied to prisoners whose …
Tenth Circuit Vacates Class Certification in Jail Conditions Suit; Case Settles Following Remand by Mark Wilson On February 4, 2009, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a Colorado sheriff’s interlocutory appeal challenging a class certification order and remanded the case for further proceedings, where it eventually settled in April …
Ninth Circuit: Despite Award of Only Nominal Damages, Attorney Fees Appropriate in § 1983 Wrongful Death Suit by Ninth Circuit: Despite Award of Only Nominal Damages, Attorney Fees Appropriate in § 1983 Wrongful Death Suit Despite a jury’s award of only nominal damages, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the award of …
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Clarifies Erroneous Conviction Claims by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 23, 2010, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a pair of opinions that clarify the requirements for suing the state for compensation following an erroneous conviction. Specifically, the Court clarified the requirement that the …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Fourth Circuit Upholds Federal Civil Commitment Statute Against Constitutional Challenge by The procedures for civil commitment of “sexually dangerous” federal offenders do not violate due process, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held on December 6, 2010. In 2006, the United States initiated civil commitment proceedings against …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Ninth Circuit Holds PLRA Fee Cap for Court-Appointed Counsel Also Applies to Paralegal Fees by In a January 13, 2011 ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the cap on attorney’s fees established by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) also applies to separately billed paralegal fees, notwithstanding …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Third Circuit Holds Blanket Policy of Strip Searching Arrestees, Absent Reasonable Suspicion, is Constitutional; Cert Granted by Michael Brodheim In a class-action suit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a federal district court in New Jersey held that a blanket policy of strip searching arrestees charged with non-indictable offenses, absent …
Six New Jersey Jail Guards Arrested for Assaulting Prisoners by On December 21, 2010, prosecutors charged six guards at New Jersey’s Essex County Correctional Facility with assaulting prisoners. The charges involve unprovoked attacks on three different prisoners in separate incidents. Four of the guards were also charged with falsifying records. …
Washington: Eye Gouging Assault Severely Injures Airway Heights Prisoner by Derek Gilna A prisoner who killed his cellmate six years ago has assaulted and severely injured another prisoner at the Airway Heights Corrections Center near Spokane, Washington, according to police. The victim, Chad Bolstad, was attacked by his cellmate, Michael …
Inmate Accident Compensation Act Does Not Preclude Bivens Remedy by The Inmate Accident Compensation Act (IACA), 18 U.S.C. § 4126, does not preclude a federal prisoner from bringing a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971) for work-related injuries that …
U.S. Supreme Court Holds California’s Prison Overcrowding Violates Eighth Amendment, Must be Remediated by Population Reduction by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In a landmark ruling upholding provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) that permit specially convened three-judge federal court panels to order reductions in state prison …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
California: Controversy Surrounds Governor’s Grant of Clemency to Son of Political Friend by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim In one of his last official acts before leaving office in January 2011, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger exercised his right under the state constitution to grant clemency to Esteban Nuñez, the son …
$5.25 Million Paid to Former Ohio Prisoner for Wrongful Murder Conviction by The City of Barberton, Ohio has paid $5.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man wrongfully convicted of murder. Clarence Elkins spent almost eight years in prison before being exonerated by DNA evidence in 2005. Elkins …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the past 20 years PLN has reported the various conditions class-action lawsuits in California concerning the lethal health care administered to prisoners. After decades of non-compliance with dozens of court orders the prison system’s health care was put into a federal receivership, yet …
Deaths of Three North Carolina Prisoners Raise Suspicions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke and David M. Reutter The deaths of two prisoners at the Maury Correctional Institution (MCI), a 1,000-bed close-security prison for men located in Greene County, North Carolina, have raised suspicions due to questionable circumstances surrounding those …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Washington DOC Agrees to Change Sexual Abuse Policies by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) has agreed to change its policies that relate to preventing, reporting and investigating sexual abuse of prisoners by staff members. The changes resulted from a settlement in a class-action …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
San Francisco Blanket Jail Strip Search Policy Upheld in Ninth Circuit En Banc Ruling by Michael Brodheim In a class action § 1983 suit brought by pre-arraignment jail detainees, a divided Ninth Circuit panel held that San Francisco’s blanket policy of strip searching all arrestees classified for the jail’s general …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
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Why I Care About Prisoner Rights by David Hudson by David L. Hudson, Jr. A friend recently asked: “Why do you care and write so much about prisoner rights? After all, they’re convicted criminals.” The question came after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Plata that dealt with …
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