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Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Filed under: Excessive Force, Burning
Heat Ray Device, Rejected by Military, to be Tested on Los Angeles County Jail Prisoners by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim In August 2010, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced plans to deploy a high-tech heat ray device, originally developed by Raytheon Company for use by the U.S. military …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Minnesota DOC Releases Study on Impact of Prison-Based Sex Offender Treatment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In March 2010 the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) released a report on the impact of in-prison sex offender treatment programs on recidivism rates. The results of the study “suggest that prison-based treatment …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
GEO Group Acquires Electronic Monitoring Firm for $415 Million by David Reutter by David M. Ruetter The GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison company, announced on December 21, 2010 that it will pay $415 million in an all-cash deal to acquire Behavioral Interventions, Inc. (BI). The purchase allows GEO …
Federal Court Rejects California’s Attempt to Terminate Clark Remedial Plan, Grants $2.3 Million in Attorney’s Fees by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim On August 26, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law after conducting a hearing to …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Massachusetts Strip Search Class-Action Nets $1,162,468 by Mark Wilson Massachusetts has agreed to pay $1,162,468 to settle a class-action suit on behalf of 486 detainees who were strip searched without cause at the Franklin County Jail. The sheriff maintained a policy of routinely strip searching all detainees who were admitted …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Facebook Lands Prison Guards, Prisoners in Hot Water by Michael Rigby by Mike Rigby One downside of the information age is that both prison guards and prisoners have found themselves in trouble due to their accounts on Facebook, the Internet’s premier social networking site. Three Nebraska prison guards were fired …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Billing Medicaid Would Save NC $11.5 Million in Prison Medical Care Costs by Mark Wilson The North Carolina Department of Corrections (NCDOC) “could save about $11.5 million a year by requiring hospitals and other medical service providers to bill Medicaid for eligible inmate inpatient hospital and professional services,” according to …
U.K. Terrorism Suspects May Challenge Extradition Based on U.S. Prison Conditions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 8, 2010, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France held that four suspects being detained in the United Kingdom pending extradition to the United States on terrorism charges …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Twelve Indiana Prison Employees Suspended for Positive Drug Tests, Contraband by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2010, Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) officials announced the suspension of a dozen employees at the Pendleton Correctional Facility following a crackdown on contraband smuggling. [See: PLN, Oct. 2010, p.50]. Pendleton houses …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Texas Legislator Who Helped Prisoners’ Families Indicted, Convicted, Sentenced by Gary Hunter For 14 years, Texas State Rep. Terri Hodge (D-Dallas) was a staunch defender of minorities and prisoners’ rights in the Texas legislature. On October 1, 2007, federal prosecutors indicted Hodge on 14 counts of corruption including bribery, fraud …
Questionable New Jersey Halfway House Funding Benefits CEC by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie insisted on budget cuts in 2010, except when it came to funding treatment centers, formerly called halfway houses. Gov. Christie wanted to increase funding for treatment centers by $3.1 million, …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Wisconsin Prisoner Pleads No Contest to Helping Cellmate Commit Suicide by On June 1, 2010, a Wisconsin prisoner entered a no-contest plea to charges that he helped his cellmate hang himself. Adam Peterson, 20, and Joshua Walters, 21, were unlikely acquaintances. Peterson, never in trouble with the law before, was …
$85,000 Settlement in South Carolina Prison Murder Suit by The South Carolina Department of Corrections agreed to pay $85,000 to settle a wrongful death case and survival action in the murder of a prisoner by his cellmate. Perry Correctional Institution prisoner Charles D. Martin was serving a five-year non-violent sentence. …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News In Brief: by Arkansas: Garland County deputy Garvin Todd Reid, 27, was fired in February 2011, then arrested on charges that he raped a female trustee in a supply room at the county jail. “There were no actual witnesses. There was a detention deputy who had come in as …
Article • April 15, 2011
Nebraska Prison Employee’s Termination for Failed Urinalysis Reversed by The Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed a district court’s holding that the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) violated a labor agreement when it fired a prison employee for failing a drug test. NDCS contended in its appeal that the district court …
Article • April 15, 2011
Judge Holds Arizona Grievance Procedures “unavailable” under PLRA. by The Arizona Department of Corrections’ (ADOC) grievance procedures were “unavailable” to a prisoner who could not file within the required ten days due to his hospitalization and traumatic brain damage, U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Martone decided November 22, 2010. The …
Article • April 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Habeas Petition That Sought to Ensure Reduction In Supervised Release Term Based on Arrington Decision by A Federal District court properly dismissed a federal habeas petition as moot that sought additional relief based on the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Arrington v. Daniels, 516 F. 3d …
Article • April 15, 2011
Non-Parties Can’t Get Discovery that was Never Filed with Court by Non-parties do not have standing to seek disclosure of discovery that was never filed with the court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decided November 10, 2009. Jamie Kalven, an independent journalist, sought to lift a …
Article • April 15, 2011
Ohio Sheriff Agrees to Pay $100,000 After Illegal Immigration Raid by Richard Jones, the Sherriff of Butler County, Ohio has agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit surrounding an immigration raid conducted by his deputies in 2007. Luis Roberto Rodriguez Trevino, an undocumented Mexican national, was doing construction work in …
Article • April 15, 2011
Florida: Woman Settles Lawsuit Against Sheriff’s Officers for $67,500 after Arrest While in Premature Labor by Derek Gilna In June 2010, Melanie Dawn Williams, who had been arrested by officers after allegedly running a red light on her way to the St. Vincent’s Medical Center emergency room in Jacksonville, Florida …
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