Waterman v. McGuire, KS, Memorandum and Order, Mail Censorship, 2004 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS ) CRAIG E. WATERMAN, ) Plaintiff, v. COMMANDANT, United States Disciplinary Barracks, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) CIVIL ACTION No. 03-3415-CM ) ) ) ) …
$1.4 Million Awarded in Kansas Prisoner Death by In August, 2003 a State Jury in Leavenworth County, Kansas, awarded the son of a Kansas State prisoner who was killed after being stabbed by another prisoner on August 8, 2000, $1.4 million. Donald R. Grisham was stabbed on his 27th birthday …
Kansas Trial Courts Have Latitude in Setting Restitution Payments by The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that K.S.A.2002 Supp. 21-4603d allows state trial courts to order prisoners to pay restitution from their prison accounts, and to order that a portion of such accounts be exempt from collection. William Puckett was …
Kansas Good Time Regulations Enacted After Prisoner's Crime May Not Be Applied Retroactively by Kansas Good Time Regulations Enacted After Prisoner's Crime May Not Be Applied Retroactively The Kansas Supreme Court recently held that an amended version of the Department of Corrections (DOC) regulation governing the award of good time …
Beating Judgment for Jail Affirmed on Appeal; Costs Issue Remanded by The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court grant of judgment as a matter of law to a Kansas county in an excessive use of force claim brought against county jailers after a jury ruled against …
Kansas Grievance Procedures Inapplicable in Negligence Action by The Kansas Court of Appeals held that a state prisoner was not required to follow prison grievance procedures to exhaust administrative remedies before filing a negligence action. The court also held that the prisoner was not required to: file his claim with …
$252,000 Awarded in Kansas Prisoner's Suicide by The suicide of Scotty Ray Sisk, a prisoner at Kansas' Shawnee County Department of Corrections (KDOC) has resulted in an award of $252,000 to his parents. On July 6, 1999, Sharon Sisk called the prison and told guard Joel Manzanares that she thought …
Jails for Jesus by Samantha M. Shapiro Pastor Don Raymond isn't trained in corrections and is not employed by the government, but he runs a new 140-person wing of the Ellsworth, Kansas, medium-security prison that draws prisoners from throughout the state system. In the phylum of prison staff, Raymond defies …
Kansas Gift Subscription Ban Rejected by State Court But Upheld By Federal Court by John E Dannenberg Kansas Gift Subscription Ban Rejected by State Court But Upheld By Federal Court by John E. Dannenberg In two independent but inconsistent rulings, Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) policy IMPP 11-101 (banning gift …
Sovereign Immunity No Bar to BOP Prisoners' Eighth Amendment Mandamus Suit by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a federal prisoner's mandamus action alleging an Eighth Amendment violation is not barred by the doctrine of sovereign immunity. This action was brought by Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoner …
Kansas Prisoners Denied Credit for Time on Parole by The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that parolees sentenced for crimes committed while on parole cannot have the time on parole deducted from their new sentence pursuant to KSA § 21-4608 et seq and amendments thereto. In Kansas, crimes committed while on …
Waterman v. McGuire, KS, Complaint, Restriction of Mail Delivery, 2003 CRAIG E. WATERMAN (Name) . JFl1~~lQ) 76829 (Institutional Register No.) 6~~2 2003 1300 N. WAREHOUSE RD. FT. LEAVEN(Current Mailing Address) W RTH NSA [] UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS CASE NO. CRAIG E. WATERMAN ' Plaintiff …
Kansas Sheriff, Lawyer, Jailed for Sweetheart Jail Contract by Negotiating their way out of 21 felony bribery charges, a former Kansas sheriff and a lawyer-cum-executive for a private prison contractor each pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts of conflict of interest on December 18, 2002, getting only one year in …
Military Prisoners Cannot Sue Over Conditions of Confinement by In a landmark decision, the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the United States District Court of Kansas, has held that a military prisoner cannot sue over conditions of confinement in a military prison, even if the prisoner is …
Kansas Tobacco Smuggling Conviction Upheld by The Kansas Supreme Court upheld Audra Watson's conviction for smuggling tobacco into the county jail in Pratt County, Kansas. That court rejected Watson's argument that the statute under which she was convicted, KSA § 21-3826, was unconstitutionally vague and could not be applied to …
Wichita Kansas Pays $6.2 Million to Settle Detainees' Lawsuit by Wichita Kansas Pays $6.2 Million to Settle Detainees' Lawsuit On May 7, 2002, Wichita's City Council approved $6.2 million to be awarded to the 7,000 citizens who had their 14th Amendment rights violated. The suit filed by what the city …
"Atypical And Significant" Hardship Segregation Claim Cannot Be Dismissed Under §1915(e)(2) by "Atypical And Significant" Hardship Segregation Claim Cannot Be Dismissed Under §1915(e)(2) The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has found that a claim that 75 days in punitive segregation is atypical and significant cannot be dismissed by the district …
Supreme Court Upholds Forced Confessions in Kansas Sex Offender Treatment by Bob Williams In a 54 decision, the United States Supreme Court has decided that a convicted sex offender's Fifth Amendment privilege against compulsory selfincrimination is not violated by a treatment program that requires admitting to all past sexual behavior. …
Exhaustion Not Mandatory for Kansas Habeas Petitioners; Retained Counsel at Disciplinary Hearings is Discretionary by The Supreme Court of Kansas held that prisoners are not required to exhaust administrative remedies before petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus. The court also held that neither due process nor regulations of the …
Officials Netted in Kansas Jail Bribery by A private company, MgtGP Inc., was awarded a $1.5 Million contract in 1997, and a four-year renewal in January 1997 worth $615,000 for that year alone, to run Kansas's Reno County Jail Annex. In May 2001, Reno's Sheriff, Larry Leslie, pled innocent to …
