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Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Political Patronage Scandal Rocks Massachusetts Probation Department by Derek Gilna A May 2010 investigative report in the Boston Globe took the Massachusetts Probation Department to task for bypassing qualified candidates for available job positions, instead employing at least 250 friends, relatives and financial backers of politicians and top court officials. …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Indiana DOC Hires Convicted Former Legislator for Re-Entry Job by A former Indiana democratic state representative convicted of impersonating a public servant was hired by the Indiana Department of Corrections to run its re-entry program at the Branchville Correctional Facility. In June 2009, Dennie Oxley II attempted to avoid arrest …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Probation Officers Working in Los Angeles Juvenile Facilities Engage in Misconduct, Avoid Disciplinary Action by Michael Brodheim According to a report released in June 2010 by the Los Angeles County Office of Independent Review (OIR), a civilian oversight agency, lax internal investigations in the county’s Probation Department have allowed sworn …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
Michigan Prison System Exceeds Budget, Again by In two of the last three years, the Michigan Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) budget has “blown through its caps,” according to state Rep. John Proos. A May 27, 2010 letter from Robert Emeron, director of the state budget office, informed lawmakers that the …
Pryor v. Wayne County, MI, Affidavit - Eiser, MDOC jail inmate assault, 2010 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION 2 3 4 EDWARD PRYOR, 5 6 7 8 Plaintiff, vs. WAYNE COUNTY, and WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFF’S COMMANDER JEROME PANACKIA, et al. …
Crime Labs in Crisis: Shoddy Forensics Used to Secure Convictions by Matthew Clarke To millions of people whose knowledge of crime labs comes from television shows such as CSI, Bones, Crossing Jordan and the venerable Quincy M.E., the forensic experts who work at such labs seem to be infallible scientists …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
New York Prisons Avoid Budget Axe by David Reutter by David M. Reutter With the State of New York having 5,000 empty prison beds and a large budget deficit, it would seem the logical decision would be to save taxpayer dollars by closing some prisons. That, however, is not the …
14 Years of Litigation Fails to Remedy Deficient Jail Medical Care; Herrera Saga Continues in Washington State by by Mark Wilson In 1996, Tacoma, Washington officials settled a class-action federal lawsuit over unconstitutional conditions and insufficient health care at the Pierce County Jail (PCJ). Fourteen years later, however, prisoners continue …
Everything Revolves Around Overcrowding: The State of California’s Prisons by Donald Specter by Donald Specter, Director, Prison Law Office I. Introduction California has the nation’s largest and the world’s third-largest prison system.1 In two separate class action lawsuits, filed a decade apart, California prisoners sued the governor and corrections officials …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
California Official Resigns from State Post, Hired by Federal Receiver by Kathleen Webb, the California official who, as deputy director of the state’s Department of General Services, oversaw the questionable purchase of $1.2 million worth of vehicles that remained unused for months, and who resigned in October 2009, just two …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
California Prison Health Care System Plagued by Understaffing, Overtime by Michael Brodheim The rampant use of overtime to fill gaps in medical staffing in California’s prison system has resulted in windfalls for some of the state’s prison health care workers, fatigue for others, and lapses of judgment that endanger the …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
$140,000 Settlement in Washington Jail Detainee’s Suicide by Pierce County, Washington has paid $120,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed its policies were deliberately indifferent to the risk of suicide by pretrial detainees at the Pierce County Detention and Corrections Center (PCDCC). The City of Lakewood paid an additional …
Article • July 15, 2010 • from PLN July, 2010
California Uses $1.08 Billion in Federal Stimulus Funds to Pay Prison Guard Salaries by Michael Brodheim In a November 2009 letter to Governor Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders, California State Auditor Elaine Howle reported that corrections officials had greatly overstated the number of jobs they saved using $1.08 billion in federal …
Article • July 15, 2010 • from PLN July, 2010
New Medical Director at Texas Jail Previously Sanctioned by In December 2009, McLennan County, Texas commissioners Lester Gibson, Kelly Snell and Joe Mashek admitted that a candidate for the medical director’s position at the McLennan County Jail had previously been sanctioned by the Texas Medical Board. That didn’t stop them …
Florida Prison Psychiatrist Resigns; License Revoked Over Sex with Patient by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Prisoners often believe that prison health care personnel are second-rate and incompetent, and likely couldn’t find work in non-correctional settings. The December 2, 2009 resignation of a Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) psychiatrist …
Canyon County Jail in Idaho Settles Conditions Suit With Consent Decree and $190,000 in Attorney’s Fees by Brandon Sample On November 12, 2009, Canyon County, Idaho agreed to settle a federal class-action suit against the Canyon County Jail (CCJ) that raised a myriad of claims related to unconstitutional conditions. Filed …
Dying in Cell 40: Vermont’s Flawed Contract and Prison Health Service’s Drive for Profit Lead to Prisoner’s Death by Terry J. Allen Ashley Ellis’ misdemeanor arrest turned into a death sentence. Her crime was careless and negligent operation of a motor vehicle. On Aug. 16, 2009, less than two days …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
Shortcomings Cited at Virginia’s Civil Commitment Facility by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The almost two-year-old, $62-million maximum-security Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation (VCBR) is still having start-up problems. Located in rural Nottoway County on 28 acres and opened in February 2008, VCBR is unable to retain staff and offers …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoner’s Failure-to-Protect Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s failure-to-protect suit, though the case lost at trial after remand. Ernesto R. Hinojosa, Sr., a Texas state prisoner, was housed in …
Article • January 15, 2010
State Did Not Err In Laying Off Guards by The Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, has reversed a decision by the Illinois Labor Relations Board (ILRB) holding that the State of Illinois failed to bargain in good faith before laying off numerous Illinois prison guards. The decision to lay …
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