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Article • May 15, 2007
Transfer for Law Library Access by A Washington state prisoner was imprisoned in a minimum security prison which did not have a prison law library which negatively impacted his pending litigation. To provide court access prison officials transferred plaintiff to a maximum security prison with an extensive law library. Plaintiff …
Article • May 15, 2007
Jail Ban on Hardcover Books Struck Down by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit affirmed a lower court ruling striking down as unconstitutional a Cook county jail (Chicago, IL) policy banning hardcover books sent to prisoners from any source, including publishers. The appeals court also affirmed the denial …
Article • May 15, 2007
WA Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Release by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that a Washington state prisoner had a due process liberty interest in being released from prison on his good time release date. The plaintiff in this section 1983 case was held 20 days …
Article • May 15, 2007
Beating States Claim by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that a district court erred in dismissing a Hawaii prisoner's lawsuit for failing to state a claim. The plaintiff claimed he was beaten by guards and then denied medical care for injuries he sustained in the beating. …
Censorship of Religious Mail Reversed by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed, for failure to state a claim, a Missouri prisoner's lawsuit that mail sent by the Moorish Science Temple was wrongly censored. The appeals court held that while …
Article • May 15, 2007
Failure to File Disciplinary Rules with Correct Agency Does Not Violate Due Process by Failure to File Disciplinary Rules With Correct Agency Does Not Violate Due Process The court of appeals for the Second circuit held that the failure by New York prison officials to file prison disciplinary rules with …
FL Jail Pays $500,000 in Medical Neglect Suit by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit upheld a jury verdict against the Escambia county Road Prison in Florida for $500,000 in favor of a prisoner denied medical care. The plaintiff fractured his hip ball socket and was repeatedly denied …
Retaliation for Filing Grievances Violates First Amendment by The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit held that an injunction against Tennessee prison officials was improper, but that retaliation against prisoners who were fired from their jobs as disciplinary hearing advisers after they filed grievances against the prison hearing officer …
Disciplinary Hearing Officer Cannot Be Related to Infracting Guard by Disciplinary Hearing Officer Cannot be Related to Infracting Guard A federal district court in Pennsylvania granted summary judgment to a Pennsylvania state prisoner holding that a prison disciplinary hearing officer cannot be the father of the guard who wrote the …
Due Process Required for Disciplinary Segregation by A federal district court in Nevada granted partial summary judgment to a Nevada state prisoner holding that the plaintiff's right to due process was violated when he was placed in disciplinary segregation from administrative segregation without notice of the charges or a hearing …
Puerto Rican Prison System Unconstitutional by In two separate orders published as one case, a federal district court in Puerto Rico found the entire island's prison system to be unconstitutional and found prison officials to be "not credible." Overcrowding was 3-5 times rated capacity, with prisoners sleeping in closets, covering …
Puerto Rican Prisons' Attempt to Evade Injunction Denied by Court by A federal district court in Puerto Rico held that Puerto Rican prison officials were attempted to avoid complying with injunctive relief previously ordered by the court, see 497 F. Supp. 14 (D PR 1980) and 672 F. Supp. 591 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Puerto Rican Prison Officials in Contempt of Overcrowding Order by A federal district court in Puerto Rico held that the governor of Puerto Rico and island prison officials were in contempt of court for violating an injunction requiring that prisoners be given first 35 square feet, then 50 ft. then …
Article • May 15, 2007
Puerto Rican Jail Ordered Closed by A federal district court in Puerto Rico ordered a jail closed within 20 days. The jail was a former military fort built in 1848 and was used as a county jail. The jail was a leaking fire trap with leaking plumbing and roofs, exposed …
MO Jury Awards $781,000 in BOP Suicide by On July 7, 1998 a federal jury in Missouri awarded the estate of a federal prisoner $781,000. William Chilton was serving a 30 month sentence for bank fraud. When he entered the federal prison system he was taking Desryl and Xanax to …
Retaliatory Transfer Illegal by A federal district court in New Hampshire held that New Hampshire prisoners have no state created liberty interest in avoiding transfers to federal custody. However, such transfers violate the First amendment if done in retaliation for the prisoner's exercise of the right to court access. The …
Prevailing Party in Disciplinary Suit Awarded Fees by Prevailing Party In Disciplinary Suit Awarded Fees The court of appeals for the First Circuit upheld an award of $37,123.85 in attorney fees to a Massachusetts state prisoner who was awarded $1 in nominal damages at trial for due process violations at …
No Qualified Immunity in Prison Murder by The Tenth circuit affirmed an Oklahoma district court order denying summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds, and a stay of discovery, to Oklahoma prison officials. The appeals court held that the prisoner's stabbing and strangulation death by other prisoners created a genuine issue …
Article • May 15, 2007
Political Beliefs Merit Control Unit Placement by The court of appeals for the District of Columbia reversed and remanded a lower court's injunction against the Bureau of Prisons that had prohibited the placement of political prisoners in a special control unit for women prisoners based solely on their political beliefs …
$7,000 Award in MD Jail Strip Search; Fees Remanded by The Fourth circuit court of appeals upheld the denial of a Baltimore, Maryland police officer's JNOV motion and objections to jury instructions. Plaintiff, a police officer, was arrested for disorderly conduct and strip searched as part of the arrest. At …
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