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Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons, Advocacy
No Private Prisons in King County, Washington by On August 14, 2017, the King County Council in Washington State voted 8-1 to pass an ordinance prohibiting the county from contracting ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
, that “Congress intended to exclude IRAs from ERISA’s anti-alienation protection in section 1056(d)(1).” Therefore, as the pre-emption language in ERISA did not apply, “MIRA is not pre ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
at the end of 2015, though the number of parolees grew from 857,700 to 870,500 – an increase of 1.5%. According to the BJS, “Approximately 1 in 53 adults in the United States was under community ...
Article • August 29, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
in the conviction of former sheriff Lee Baca and other jail officials. [See: PLN, June 2017, p.42; March 2013, p.1]. HRDC accused the Los Angeles County Jail of violating state and federal free speech and due process ...
Article • August 29, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Filed under: Habeas Corpus
of Amador County, 1 Cal. App. 5th 855, 205 Cal.Rptr.3d 188 (Cal. App. 3d Dist. 2016).  ...
Article • December 26, 2017
for leave to deposit Harmon’s funds with the court. After a hearing, the petition was granted. On appeal, Harmon argued (1) he was constitutionally entitled to a pre-deprivation hearing before ADC ...
Article • December 21, 2017
. See: Courtney v. State of Texas, U.S.D.C.-N.D.Tex., Case No. 1:97-CV-0149-C. Additional sources: The Blue Sheet of West Texas; VerdictSearch Texas ...
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
; not those who wanted to attend secular events. Sam Grover, an attorney with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, sent a letter to Sheriff Rowland on September 1, 2017 in which he warned “a government ...
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
to determine whether the proposition violated the state constitution by 1) embracing more than one subject, 2) interfering with the jurisdiction of California courts to hear original habeas corpus petitions, 3 ...
ACC. Apparently, a decision by state officials to lower the per diem payments to GEO from $31.52 to $24.49 per prisoner made it unprofitable to continue running the facility. Effective September 1, 2017 ...
Article • April 17, 2018
in a cell strapped to a restraint chair for 2 1/2 hours. Carter sued the four jail guards in federal court for violating her civil rights by using excessive force. She claimed to have suffered bruising ...
Article • April 17, 2018
. The court levied $5,000 in punitive damages against Hunnings, $6,000 against James, and $1 against James for malicious prosecution. See: Baucham v. James, et al., United States District Court for the Northern ...
Article • September 10, 2018
rights, asking for compensation of $25 million. The defendants settled out of court for $280,000 and a non-admission of liability. See: Riley v. New Jersey, USDC, District of New Jersey, Case No. 1:14-cv ...
negligence, and the settlement amount was inclusive of all costs and fees. Wilson filed the lawsuit and represented herself without a lawyer. See: Wilson v. United States of America, Case No. 1:95-0447 ...
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
, Inc., U.S.D.C. (E.D. NY), Case No. 1:15-cv-06261-CBA-SMG.   Additional sources: www.prnewswire.com, www.esrcheck.com ...
Federal Judge Clears Way for Civil Rights Suit in Oklahoma Jail Death by Medical Cell #1 became a “burial crypt” inside the David L. Moss Detention Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma when ...
Article • September 8, 2016
to timely respond to the DEA's motion. Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(c)(1) allows a court to get relief for failure to timely file if he can show that he has "a meritorious claim or defense to the motion upon which ...
of the settlement were made available. Ruff's family was represented in the case by attorney Michael A. Cole of Atlanta. See: Federick, et al., v. United States of America, et al., Case No. 1:02-CV-406 (U.S.D.C. N.D ...
complaint was filed, the Department of Justice agreed to a settlement that provided as follows: (1) Coffee was to receive a lump sum payment of $58,325, inclusive of all costs, expenses and attorney's fees ...
. It also provides for the award of attorney fees and costs. See:  Disability Rights of Florida v. Jones, 1:14-cv-23323 (USDC S.D. Florida, 2015).   Additional source: Miami Herald ...
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