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Parisi v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011
Brief • June 16, 2011
Filed under: Wexford Health Services, Systemic Medical Neglect, Pain, Cancer, Failure to Treat, Deliberate Indifference
Parisi v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011 Case: 1:11-cv-00013 Document #: 12 Filed: 06/16/11 Page 1 of 13 PageID #:99 PBP 56426-57 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION PAUL MATHEW PARISI, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., ) DR. …
Controversy Involving North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution, Sentencing, Wrongful Conviction
Controversy Involving North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Crime lab analysts and agents with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) have been accused of pushing the limits of accepted science and police procedures to provide pro-prosecution results. The accusations appeared …
Ninth Circuit Rejects Challenge to BOP’s Implementation of Second Chance Act
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Classification, Work Release, Federal Legislation
Ninth Circuit Rejects Challenge to BOP’s Implementation of Second Chance Act by On December 6, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against federal prisoners who argued that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was not properly implementing the Second Chance Act (SCA), a law designed …
Federal Cell Phone Ban Becomes Law; California Bill Vetoed, then Re-Introduced
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Federal Legislation
Federal Cell Phone Ban Becomes Law; California Bill Vetoed, then Re-Introduced by Brandon Sample Legislation barring the possession or use of cell phones by federal prisoners, the Cell Phone Contraband Act (S.1749), was signed into law by President Obama in August 2010. The legislation comes in response to a rising …
Sanctions Against Prisoner for Alleged “Frivolous” Habeas Petition Improper, Tenth Circuit Decides
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Frivolous Litigation, Sanctions, Habeas Corpus
Sanctions Against Prisoner for Alleged “Frivolous” Habeas Petition Improper, Tenth Circuit Decides by Sanctions imposed by an Oklahoma trial court on a state prisoner who filed a “frivolous” habeas petition were improper, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held in an unpublished opinion. Alvin Parker is a …
Ohio: Mixed Verdicts Against Guards Involved in Prisoner’s Death
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Excessive Force
Ohio: Mixed Verdicts Against Guards Involved in Prisoner’s Death by Brandon Sample On December 3, 2010, Lucas County, Ohio Sheriff James Telb was acquitted of all criminal charges related to the death of a prisoner. Telb and three sheriff’s employees were indicted after Lucas County jail prisoner Carlton Benton, 25, …
Texas Prison System Must Accommodate Hearing-Impaired Visitors
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Disabled Prisoners, Federal Statutory Law, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act
Texas Prison System Must Accommodate Hearing-Impaired Visitors by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 2, 2010, a Texas federal court entered summary judgment in favor of a visitor to a state prisoner who had sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) for failing to adequately accommodate his disability. …
Wisconsin County Jail Administrator Charged with Stealing Jail Funds
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution
Wisconsin County Jail Administrator Charged with Stealing Jail Funds by The administrator of the jail in Washburn County, Wisconsin was charged in November 2010 in connection with a scheme to defraud public funds. Bruk L. Sweeney, 37, was arrested on four counts of misconduct in office and two counts of …
Tenth Circuit Reverses Lawsuit on Hygiene Versus Court Access for Second Time
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Hygiene Supplies, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Immunity/Liability, Qualified Immunity, Sovereign Immunity
Tenth Circuit Reverses Lawsuit on Hygiene Versus Court Access for Second Time by Bob Williams For the second time, the Tenth Circuit has reversed the dismissal of a pro se prisoner’s lawsuit alleging he was denied basic hygiene items when his available money was spent on court-related expenses. Colorado state …
Remembering the High Point of Prisoner Rights
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Mail Regulations, Due Process
Remembering the High Point of Prisoner Rights by David Hudson by David L. Hudson, Jr. Thirty-seven years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Procunier v. Martinez, 416 U.S. 396 (1974), a ruling that has since proven to be the high-water mark for prisoner rights. On April 29, 1974, the high …
Department of Justice Reports on Sexual Victimization in U.S. Prisons and Jails
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Statistics/Trends
Department of Justice Reports on Sexual Victimization in U.S. Prisons and Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In August 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report on the most recent national survey of prisoners on the topic of sexual victimization in prisons …
Uncollected Court Debts Piling Up in Tennessee
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Costs
Uncollected Court Debts Piling Up in Tennessee by Over the past several years, counties in Middle Tennessee have had a difficult time collecting court fees and fines. The outstanding debts, from both civil and criminal cases, amount to hundreds of millions of dollars. Davidson County (with Nashville as the county …
Savings from North Carolina Prisoner Slave Labor Result in Additional Prison Beds
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Prison Labor, Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding
Savings from North Carolina Prisoner Slave Labor Result in Additional Prison Beds by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Touting its 140-year history of using prisoner slave labor, the North Carolina Department of Correction (NDOC) announced in January 2011 that it will save taxpayers $27 million when building more than …
Ninth Circuit Upholds Washington’s “Two Strikes Law” for Repeat Sex Offenders
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Discrimination, Sex Offenders (Discrimination)
Ninth Circuit Upholds Washington’s “Two Strikes Law” for Repeat Sex Offenders by On September 23, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the State of Washington’s “two strikes” law for repeat sex offenders, which results in a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole, …
New York Jury Awards Wrongfully Convicted Man $18.5 Million, but Court Grants Motion to Set Aside Verdict
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Searches, DNA Testing/Samples, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
New York Jury Awards Wrongfully Convicted Man $18.5 Million, but Court Grants Motion to Set Aside Verdict by On November 2, 2010, a New York federal jury awarded $18.5 million to a man who was cleared of a rape conviction after serving more than two decades in prison. At the …
Washington Prisoner Discovers Good Time Error; County Officials Admit and Correct Mistake
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
Washington Prisoner Discovers Good Time Error; County Officials Admit and Correct Mistake by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Washington State’s Kitsap County Jail (KCJ) has corrected an error in how it calculates and awards “good time” to prisoners, after a former prisoner discovered the mistake and brought it to …
PHS and NY Jail Employees Have Conflict of Interest with Legal Representation
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Prison Health Services, Appointment of Counsel, Mental Health, Suicides
PHS and NY Jail Employees Have Conflict of Interest with Legal Representation by A federal district court found that a conflict of interest existed with the Corporate Counsel of the City of New York (Corporate Counsel) representing individual employees of Prison Health Services (PHS), because they had conflicting defenses. The …
Louisiana Sheriff Cages Suicidal Prisoners in Space Smaller than Required for Dogs
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Jail Misconduct, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides
Louisiana Sheriff Cages Suicidal Prisoners in Space Smaller than Required for Dogs by “These people need to be locked up,” said Louisiana’s St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain, Jr., referring to prisoners at his jail. “They performed like animals in our society and they need to be caged like animals.” …
$149,500 Settlement for Hawaiian Prisoner Denied Medical Care After Transport Accident
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Medical, Skeletal Injury, Transportation
$149,500 Settlement for Hawaiian Prisoner Denied Medical Care After Transport Accident by A $149,500 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by a Hawaiian prisoner who was denied medical care for injuries suffered after a prison transport van was involved in an accident. Scott Tenney and six other prisoners …
Federal Courts Reject Leniency Pleas from Politically-Connected Defendants
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Tax Law
Federal Courts Reject Leniency Pleas from Politically-Connected Defendants by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Despite a prosecutor’s request for a probationary sentence, a Massachusetts federal judge sentenced Patrice Tierney, 60, the wife of U.S. Representative John F. Tierney, to 30 days in prison followed by five months on house …
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