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Problems Continue In Maryland Prisons and Jails by Michael Rigby A battle is raging in Maryland over how best to improve prison safety. Some advocate hiring more guards and medical personnel. Others want to expand prisoner rehabilitation services. Neither side seems to be considering the possibility that both are needed. …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Georgia Prisoner Beaten By Guard Awarded $22,000 by On October 19, 2005, a federal jury awarded $22,000 in damages to a Georgia prisoner who was beaten by a guard. Plaintiff Larry Hudson, 45, claimed that on March 7, 2002, while confined in disciplinary segregation, he became involved in a verbal …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
$365,000 Settlement For Restrained, Untreated Michigan Boot Camp Prisoner by On December 22, 2005, the state of Michigan agreed to pay $365,000 to a boot camp prisoner who was strapped in a restraint chair for six hours and later suffered kidney and liver failure. Craig Allen Cook II was arrested …
Youth Dies in Florida Boot Camp; Cause of Death Questioned by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For the fifth time in five years a juvenile has died in a Florida boot camp. A videotape of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson being counseled at a Bay County boot camp facility in …
Standing Up to Corruption by Stephen James Prison Systems co-workers Joe Reynoso and Dave Lewis both were called heroes by their peers. One was an investigator digging into prison crime, and one was accused of a crime. Guess which one was supported by the guards union. In her letter supporting …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Second Circuit Holds PLRA Fee Cap Inapplicable To So-ordered Stipulated Dismissals by Bob Williams Second Circuit Holds PLRA Fee Cap Inapplicable To So-ordered Stipulated Dismissals by Bob Williams In a case of first impression, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that the fee cap …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Gun-smuggling Prisoners Convicted in Shooting Scam by Gary Hunter Fraud takes many forms but few as bizarre as the one allegedly concocted by D.C. prisoners Shawn Gray, Jamal Jefferson, Leonard Johnson and Fredrick Robinson. On December 20, 2003 all four men were wounded by gunfire inside of the Southeast Washington …
$9 Million Jury Award In Arizona County Jail Death by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A federal jury awarded $9 million to the family of a Scottsdale, Arizona prisoner who suffocated in a restraint chair in the Maricopa County Jail (MCJ) in 2001. Found negligent and liable were Sheriff …
Brief • July 11, 2006
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Order denying Def MTD, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2006 Case 5:05-cv-03658-JW Document 36 Filed 07/11/2006 Page 1 of 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 For the Northern District of California United States District Court 9 10 IN THE UNITED STATES …
Torture in Maine Prison by Lance Tapley Torture in Maine Prison by Lance Tapley The mission of the Maine State Prison is to provide a safe, secure, and humane correctional environment for the incarcerated offender. Five hollering guards wearing helmets, face shields, and full body armor charge into a mentally …
California Prison Excessive Force Death Suit Settled For $850,000 by A Corcoran State Prison prisoner whose psychotropic medications had not been renewed for 20 days died from excessive force used to subdue him when he suffered withdrawal symptoms. On November 4, 2005, California settled his parents civil rights wrongful death …
PLRA Does Not Apply to Released Prisoner by In remanding for further proceedings, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the administrative exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) does not apply to persons not imprisoned when the suit is filed. Before the Tenth Circuit was the …
Hawaii Guard Given Probation for Prisoners Death by Gary Hunter Hawaii Guard Given Probation for Prisoners Death by Gary Hunter Brian Freitas, a former guard was sentenced to one year probation for his part in the death of Antonio Revera, a prisoner at Halawa prison in Hawaii. Revera was beaten …
Brief • June 7, 2006
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Plf Opp to Def Mot to Dismiss Amended Complaint, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2006 Case 5:05-cv-03658-JW Document 30 Filed 06/07/2006 Page 1 of 10 1 John Burton, State Bar No. 86029 THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURTON 2 414 South Marengo Avenue Pasadena, …
Scandal, Suicides, Corruption and Abuse Abound at New York Citys Rikers Island Jail by Gary Hunter Scandal, Suicides, Corruption and Abuse Abound at New York Citys Rikers Island Jail by Gary Hunter When Rikers Island was purchased in 1884 it was only 87 acres. The city of New York made …
New York Brutality Settlement Affecting Twenty Two Prisoners, Fourteen Units Settles for $2.2 Millio by Gary Hunter New York Brutality Settlement Affecting Twenty Two Prisoners, Fourteen Units Settles for $2.2 Million by Gary Hunter Settlement of a 4-year-old lawsuit, between brutalized prisoners and the guards who attacked them, was achieved …
New Yorks Top Cop Crumbles Under Personal Investigation by New Yorks Top Cop Crumbles Under Personal Investigation by Gary Hunter Given the controversy and corruption that currently surrounds virtually every aspect of the New York City penal process, its insightful to reflect on how one former New York top cop …
Abu Ghraib: Enduring Symbol of Hated Regimes by Matthew T. Clarke Abu Ghraib, a 280-acre prison complex located 20 miles west of Baghdad, is a well known symbol to the Iraqi people. Abu Ghraib holds about 3,500 of the approximately 10,500 prisoners held by American forces in Iraq. All prisoners …
Four CCA Guards Indicted in Murder of Nashville Prisoner by Matthew T. Clarke Four guards have been indicted for reckless homicide and aggravated assault in the July 2004 murder of a female prisoner at the Metro Detention Facility in Nashville, Tennessee, previously reported in PLN. [see PLN, Apr. 2005, p. …
Arizona Prisoners Mortality Report Confidentiality Not Federally Protected by John Dannenberg Arizona Prisoners Mortality Report Confidentiality Not Federally Protected by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals declined Maricopa County, Arizonas invitation to keep mortality reports on prisoners confidential. Charles Agster was arrested and booked into the …
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