Alabama Work Release Transportation, Medical and Drug Screen Costs Not “Incidental to Confinement” by David Reutter Alabama Work Release Transportation, Medical and Drug Screen Costs Not “Incidental to Confinement” by David M. Reutter Alabama’s Supreme Court has held that the plain language of § 14-8-6, Ala. Code 1975 does not …
Cabbil v. McKenzie, AL, Brief of Appellants, Home Search, 2014 No. 14-12661-A UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ____________________________________________________________ Chalanda Cabbil, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Kevin McKenzie, et al., Defendants-Appellees ___________________________________________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court Northern District of Alabama Honorable L. Scott Coogler, United …
Alabama Order Table of Contents Subject Paragraph BACKGROUND ICS SERVICES CenturyLink Trial JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES Applicability of Communications Reform Act Distinction between ICS and Prepaid Phone Card Service SITE COMMISSIONS FCC Order does not Preclude Site Commissions Inflated Site Commissions Relationships to Ancillary Charges Prepaid Inmate Calling Cards Equivalent to Commissions …
Visitors Fingerprinted at Alabama Prisons by Visitors Fingerprinted at Alabama Prisons Alabama’s prison system is the first – and currently only – in the nation to require visitors to be fingerprinted. In late 2012, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) implemented the new policy due to what officials claimed was …
SPLC - Cruel Confinement - Report on Medical and Mental Health Care in AL Prisons, 2014 Cruel Confinement Abuse, Discrimination and Death Within Alabama’s Prisons A Special Report from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program Montgomery, Alabama June 2014 Cruel Confinement Abuse, Discrimination and Death …
Mason v. Hale, AL, Settlement, Jail Overcrowding, 2014 Case 2:11-cv-03155-TMP Document 71-1 Filed 04/15/14 Page 1 of 7 FILED 2014 Apr-15 PM 01:32 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA Exhibit 1 Case 2:11-cv-03155-TMP Document 71-1 Filed 04/15/14 Page 2 of 7 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT Plaintiffs, by and through counsel, and Defendants, …
Alabama Sheriff Made Party on Counterclaim Alleging Prisoners Subjected to Sexual Abuse by The Alabama Supreme Court has held that a third party to a lawsuit may be made a party when a counterclaim is filed. The Court also held a sheriff named as a defendant was not entitled to …
DOJ Investigation of Sexual Abuse at AL Prison .S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division The Honorable Robe1i Bentley Govemor State Capitol 600 Dexter Avenue Montgomery, AL 36130 Re: JAN 1 7 2014 Investigation of the Julia Tutwiler P1ison for Women and Notice of Expanded Investigation Dear Govemor Bentley: The …
Widespread Sexual Abuse Alleged at Alabama Women’s Prison by On March 4, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division launched a formal inquiry into widespread sexual abuse of female prisoners by male guards at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. The investigation was opened following …
Bureaucracy Errors that Result in Overdetention Not Deliberate Indifference by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the overdetention of two prisoners was not due to deliberate indifference on the part of officials at Alabama’s Mobile County Jail. The Court’s ruling affirmed the grant of summary judgment to …
Federal Court Rules Against Alabama DOC in Class-action HIV Discrimination Suit by On December 21, 2012, an Alabama federal district court entered judgment in a class-action lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC), finding that the ADOC engaged in discrimination by segregating HIV+ prisoners in violation of the Americans …
Alabama Supreme Court Upholds Exemption for DOC Driver’s Liability by The Supreme Court of Alabama ruled in June 2006 for the state in a lawsuit that arose out of a state prisoner, Warren R. Robinson, on work-release and driving a Department of Corrections (DOC) van, backing into the vehicle of …
Anti-Immigrant Arizona Sheriff Outed by His Mexican Ex-Boyfriend by Paul Bebeu, Sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona and a former police officer, was a rising Republican star within the state in 2012 – crusading in support of the anti-immigrant legislation SB1070, co-chairing Arizona’s campaign for Mitt Romney’s presidential bid and espousing …
Alabama: District Court Certifies Class of HS Students Alleging Excessive Force by School Resource Officers by In August 2012, a U.S. District Court in Alabama granted a motion to certify a class of all current and future high school students in the Birmingham City Schools in a suit which alleges …
Alabama State Supreme Court Denies Mandamus for Payment of Defense Expenses by The Supreme Court of Alabama denied in June 2012 Defendant’s petition for writ of mandamus to compel the circuit court to enforce its orders to the Office of Indigent Services and the Comptroller’s Office to disburse interim payments …
Dismissal of §1983 Challenge to Alabama's Lethal Injection Procedure Reversed by Dismissal of §1983 Challenge to Alabama's Lethal Injection Procedure Reversed On March 21, 2012, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded with instructions a death row's prisoner's lethal injection procedure claim. Alabama State prisoner Thomas D. Arthur, …
Alabama: Deputy Sheriffs Immune from Suit for Damages by The Alabama Supreme Court has held that deputy sheriffs, like sheriffs, are constitutional officers who, by virtue of the doctrine of state immunity, cannot be sued for monetary damages in their individual capacity when the acts that form the basis of …
Alabama Law Meant to Ensure Transparency in Judicial Elections Not Enforced for 16 Years by Derek Gilna An Alabama law that became effective in 1996, designed to remove any appearance of impropriety in the funding of judicial election campaigns, has languished while all three branches of state government have failed …
ACLU Challenges “Jail or Church” Program in Alabama by On September 26, 2011 the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama (ACLU) sent a cease-and-desist letter to the City of Bay Minette, demanding that city officials “immediately end Operation Restore Our Community (ROC), which requires first-time, non-violent misdemeanor offenders to choose …
Alabama Prison Guards Charged in Prisoner’s Murder by Four Alabama state prison guards have been charged in connection with the brutal 2010 beating death of a prisoner at the Ventress Correctional Facility (VCF). The first guard, Lt. Michael Anthony Smith, 37, was indicted on October 17, 2011 by a Barbour …
