Global Tel Link v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, DC, Amicus Brief for States of MN, IL, MA, NM, NY, WA, and DC, Telephone Contact During Incarceration, 2016 USCA Case #15-1461 Document #1636355 Filed: 09/19/2016 Page 1 of 27 NOT YET SCHEDULED FOR ORAL ARGUMENT No. 15-1461 …
Michigan: Suit Against Prison Doctor for Sexual Abuse May Proceed by Lonnie Burton On June 22, 2016, United States District Court Judge Sean F. Cox of the Eastern District of Michigan issued an order adopting a magistrate's recommendation to deny a motion to dismiss filed by a prison doctor who …
Sixth Circuit Holds PLRA’s Physical Injury Rule Inapplicable to First Amendment Claims by On June 1, 2015, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held “that deprivations of First Amendment rights are themselves injuries, apart from any mental, emotional, or physical injury that might also arise from the deprivation, and that …
Michigan Courthouse Shooting Leaves 3 Dead, 2 Injured by Larry Darnell Gordon, 45, was being transported to a Berrien County court proceeding on July 11, 2016 when he overpowered a deputy, stole his gun and tried to take hostages during an escape attempt. Gordon fatally shot two bailiffs in the …
Family of Dead Registered Sex Offender Still Receiving Registry Letters by Matthew Clarke When 17-year-old Justin Fawcett admitted to having consensual sex with a 14-year-old student at the same West Bloomfield, Michigan high school he attended he probably never thought that he would die for his crime, but he did. …
Former Michigan AG Found Guilty of Stalking Gay Man by In August 2012, a federal jury in Detroit found Andrew Shirvell, a homophobic former Michigan assistant attorney general, guilty of stalking, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and invasion of privacy, in a civil suit brought by Chris Armstrong, the …
Sixth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity for Michigan DOC Officials by On February 6, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a denial of qualified immunity for three Michigan prison officials accused of violating the First Amendment and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalize Persons …
$2 Million Settlement in Detroit Prisoners Heart Attack Death by The city of Detroit paid $2 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed guards ignored pleas of James Stone as he complained for hours that he was experiencing chest pain. Stone, arrested for a parole violation, died in August 2005 …
Michigan’s Civil Rights Act Applies to Pretrial Detainees by In reversing a grant of summary judgment to jail officials, Michigan’s Court of Appeals held that the Michigan Civil Rights Act (CRA) does not exclude all people detained in a correctional facility. Rather, it only excludes those who are “serving a …
Foreign Nationals in Michigan Prisons - An Examination of the Costs, CAPPS, 2006 Foreign Nationals in Michigan Prisons: an examination of the costs Prepared by Citizens Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending April 2006 Foreign nationals in Michigan prisons: examining the costs Foreign nationals in Michigan prisons – an overview …
Ackerman v. Washington, MI, Amended Complaint, Kosher Meals in Prison, 2016 Case 4:13-cv-14137-LVP-MKM ECF No. 90-1 filed 08/15/16 PageID.1200 Page 1 of 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION MICHAEL ARNOLD, and Proposed CLASS MEMBERS, Plaintiffs, -v- Case No. 13-14137 Hon. LINDA V. PARKER …
Michigan Opens Prison Museum in Presently Operating Prison Facility by Christopher Zoukis The Michigan Department of Corrections has opened a prison museum -- at the still-in-operation State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson. Opened June 25, 2014, the Cell Block 7 Prison Museum charges $15.00 for adults, $10.00 for a …
Michigan Women’s Prison Investigated for Abusing Mentally Ill by A letter from the Michigan ACLU to the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) charged that mentally ill prisoners were being abused. One instance involved the hog tying of a prisoner as punishment. The July 2015 letter concerned prisoner treatment at the …
Michigan PLRA Requires Dismissal for Failure to Make Initial disclosure Statements; Prisons not a Public Service by A Michigan Court of Appeals held the state’s Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requires dismissal of a lawsuit when a prisoner-plaintiff fails to “disclose the number of civil actions and appeals that the …
DNA Keeps Overturning Convictions, But Spike in Exonerations Owed to Other Factors by Joe Watson Nicole Harris, Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown have lived through their own nightmares of injustice. All three were wrongfully convicted of the heinous murders of children. Combined, they spent nearly 70 years in prison …
Denying Parole at First Eligibility – How Much Public Safety Does It Actually Buy, CAPPS, 2009 Denying parole at first eligibility: How much public safety does it actually buy? A study of prisoner release and recidivism in Michigan August 2009 Denying parole at first eligibility: How much public safety does …
Semelbauer et al v. Muskegon Co, MI, Plf Reply BiS, jail gender discrimination 8th Am, 2016 Case 1:14-cv-01245-JTN ECF No. 105 filed 08/02/16 PageID.2008 Page 1 of 17 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION MICHELLE SEMELBAUER, PAULETTE BOSCH, DENISE VOS, CRISA BROWN, …
Dismissal of Some Defendants in Civil Case Not Final Order by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held it does not have jurisdiction over an appeal challenging the dismissal of some, but not all, defendants in a civil proceeding. Michigan prisoner Michael A. Kitchen filed a civil rights action against …
BOP Pays $80,000 in Slip and Fall Incident by The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $80,000 to settle a Federal Tort Claims Act action arising from a slip and fall incident at FCI Milan. Melinda Sexton was a business invitee at the prison on January 31, 1997, “when she slipped …
Fictitious Name Proceeding Test Presents ‘Heavy Burden’ by A Michigan federal district court denied a motion to proceed under a fictitious name in a challenge to the residency restrictions in Michigan’s Sex Offender Registration Act. The Court noted that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure each party must have his …
