Incarceration Not Grounds for Termination of Parental Rights in Nevada by In two separate parental rights cases, the Nevada Supreme Court held that imprisonment alone is not sufficient grounds for termination of parental rights. In 1997, the minor child Q.L.R. was born to Roger R. and his wife, Dina M. …
CSC: More Misery and Misfortune by C.C. Simmons Page 1 of the August 2002 issue of Prison Legal News carried a story about Correctional Services Corporation (CSC), the scandal-ridden private prison outfit beset with self-inflicted troubles. Since that story appeared, CSC's troubles have multiplied. Consider the following: Ø In August …
Trial Required in Death of Mentally Ilil Nevada Detainee, 9th Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that summary judgment was improperly granted on the question of whether a County was deliberately indifferent to a pretrial detainee's mental illness while he was in custody at …
PLRA Requires More Than De Minimus Physical Injury by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that 42 U.S.C. §1997e(e) requires a prisoner demonstrate more than de minimus physical injury to receive compensatory damages for mental and emotional claims. Pre-trial detainee Eric Oliver filed a civil rights action alleging …
EMSA and Nevada Jail Pay $40,000 Settlement to Quadriplegic by In April, 2002, Robert Cornwall, 30, a quadriplegic, settled a lawsuit against the Washoe county jail in Nevada for $40,000. The lawsuit stemmed from Cornwall being arrested on domestic violence charges against his wife on July 25, 2000. Cornwall spent …
Boot Camp or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel Boot Camp Or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel On February 15, 2002, Charles Long II was arrested on murder and child abuse charges growing from the …
9-11 Prompts New Regulations for Prisoner Airline Transports by Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) transferred its rulemaking authority regarding civil aviation security to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The TSA subsequently promulgated new rules regarding the transportation of prisoners on civilian airlines. The …
News in Brief by Roger Hummel Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor …
Nevada Juvenile Road Accident Kills Six, Settles for $3.5 Million by Six Nevada teenagers in a juvenile offender program working to pay off fees and restitution in lieu of doing time in a detention center were struck and killed in March 2000 as they picked up trash on a freeway …
Prison Guard Sentenced in Escape Plot by Willie Wisely Erik Jacobs, 31, a former guard at Ely State Prison in Nevada was sentenced to one year in jail and fined $2,000 for helping a prisoner plan an escape. Jacobs was sentenced in March, 2001, by White Pine District Judge Dan …
PLN Wins Nevada Censorship Suit by Beginning in January 2000, the Nevada Division of Prisons (DOP) began censoring Prison Legal News in all of its prisons, affecting 21 Nevada prisoners who subscribed to PLN .Prison Legal News was never afforded any notice of the censorship nor given an opportunity to …
Attorney Fees Awarded in Challenge to Nevada Shooting Policy by A federal district court in Nevada warded prisoners attorneys' fees and costs totaling $374,370.17 in an action challenging prison practices concerning the use of force and mental health services. Following the decisions, the Nevada Attorney General's office negotiated the award …
Prison Legal News v. Crawford, NV, Settlement and Memo, NV DOC Censorship, 2000 NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT Elizabeth Alexander David C. Fathi su.eoun$tli (202) 234·4830 , 875 Connecticut Avenue. NW. Suite 410 Washington. DC 20009 Fax (202) 234-4890 BY FACSIMILE AND FIRST-CLASS MAIL October 4, 2000 Joe Ward, Jr., Esq. Senior …
PLN Sues Nevada DOP by On June 11, 2000, PLN filed suit against the Nevada Department of Prisons for censoring PLN at all Nevada prisons. Beginning in September, 1999, Nevada prison officials have banned PLN from all Nevada prisons claiming that "inmate correspondence" and "inmate newsletters" are not allowed. Efforts …
Testing Testing: Sweat Patch Under Scrutiny by Lara A. Bazelon Sheryl Woodhall a California woman in her late 30s, first lost custody of her four children in 1995, when her youngest tested positive for methamphetamine at birth. The state's Child Protective Services intervened and sent her two older children to …
Nevada Religious Group Gets Federal Money to Help Prisoners, Delivers Nothing by Nevada Religious Group Gets Federal Money to Help Prisoners, Delivers Nothing by Matthew T. Clarke Alliance Collegiums Association of Southern Nevada (ACASN), a faith-based organization led by black ministers with the stated mission of providing prisoners with support …
Nevada Guards Party with Inmate Welfare Fund by The Nevada state legislature made a bold move to "end inmate welfare as we know it" when it passed a bill (AB289) in 1999 stating that revenue from state prisons' Inmate Welfare Fund (IWF) can be used for employee perks. But the …
