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Brief • March 23, 2007
Turay, et al. v. Richards, et al., WA, Civil Commitment Case, Order Ending Injunction, 2007 Case 2:91-cv-00664-RSM Document 2120 Filed 03/23/2007 Page 1 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 6 7 RICHARD TURAY, et al., 8 9 10 11 …
“To Get Stuff and Sell It for As Much As We Can Get”: Federal Prison Industries and Electronics Recycling by Aaron Shuman "To Get Stuff and Sell It for As Much As We Can Get": Federal Prison Industries and Electronics Recycling by Aaron Shuman In recent months, UNICOR Recycling has …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
ARE YOU IN A PRISON WORK PROGRAM HANDLING TOXIC ELECTRONICS? by At Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and the Prison Activist Resource Center we have been working to end the exposure to toxics of people working in electronic recycling programs in prison, particularly in UNICOR work programs within the Federal Prison …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright This editorial is being written in Wichita, Kansas on February 14, 2007. For the past two days PLN?s executive director, Don Miniken, and I have been attending the bench trial before USDC Judge Monte Belot in Prison Legal News v. Werholtz. PLN filed the …
Maryland Man Awarded $6.4 Million For False Imprisonment, Police Misconduct by Michael Rigby On August 30, 2006, a jury in Prince George?s County, Maryland, awarded $6.4 million to a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for the brutal rape and murder of his wife. During trial the jury heard compelling evidence …
Joe Arpaio: America’s Toughest Sheriff or Most Corrupt? by Alex Friedmann Joe Arpaio: America?s Toughest Sheriff or Most Corrupt? by Alex Friedmann Joe M. Arpaio, the head lawman over Maricopa County, Arizona, bills himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff." While "toughest" may be subject to debate (literally -- in September, 2006 …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
California DOC Wage Audit: Guards Overcharged State $12 Million for Union Business Leave by Marvin Mentor California?s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the state Legislature?s watchdog over prison operations, reviewed guards? use of leave for union-related business and found that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) accounting controls …
Florida Warden Susceptible to Liability in Valdes’ Murder; Suit Settles for $1,169,923.42 by David Reutter Florida Warden Susceptible to Liability in Valdes' Murder; Suit Settles for $1,169,923.42 by David M. Reutter While former Florida Department of Corrections director James Crosby was never charged in the murder of Florida death row …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Filed under: Prisoner Privileges, Art
Prisoners Sell Art Through Prison Art Gallery by Nancy Hochman Creating art can expand our human experience and help us grow. For prisoners, having contact with the outside world is crucial because many are in a place where educational programs, letters or visits are rare or non-existent. The Prisons Foundation …
Hawaii Settles DOJ Suit Over Unconstitutional Juvenile Facility by The State of Hawaii settled a suit brought by the United States government, resolving a suit over unconstitutional conditions of confinement at the Hawaii Youth Corrections Facility (HYCF) in Kailua, Hawaii. On August 16, 2004, the United States Department of Justice …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Juries
Cunningham v. California: Who’s Covered and Who’s Not? by Kent A. Russell Cunningham v. California: Who's Covered and Who's Not? by Kent Russell On January 22, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Cunningham v. California, __ S.Ct. __, 2007 WL 135687 (No. 05-6551), holding that California?s determinate sentencing law, which …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
HIV in Prison Is Lower Than Believed by Gary Hunter The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study showing that the spread of HIV in prison is extremely low. Of 856 males in Georgia?s prisons who tested positive for HIV in 2005, only 76 acquired the virus …
Sheriff’s Deputies Charged in Prisoner’s Death; Both Get Prison Time by Gary Hunter Sheriff's Deputies Charged in Prisoner's Death; Both Get Prison Time by Gary Hunter Jail guards Ronald Eugene Parker and Brandon Gray Huie were charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a prisoner in North …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Ninth Circuit: California Lifers Have A Liberty Interest In Parole by Marvin Mentor The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals crushed a determined attempt by the California Board of Prison Terms (BPT-- now called the Board of Parole Hearings) to transmogrify the California Supreme Court?s decision in In re Dannenberg, …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
California DOC Federal Receiver Is Granted First Waiver of State Law by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The federal court Receiver for healthcare in California state prisons (see: PLN, Mar. 2006, p.1, Federal Court Seizes California Prisons? Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers) surmounted his first statutory bureaucratic …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
North Carolina Enacts Innocence Inquiry Commission by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On August 3, 2006, North Carolina Governor Mike Easley signed into law H-1323, a bill creating an eight-member Innocence Commission wherein prisoners who have exhausted their court appeals but still claim they were wrongly convicted may reopen …
$275,000 Paid In Excessive-Force Michigan Jail Death Lawsuit by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On May 25, 2006, Kent County, Michigan agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit for $275,000 brought by the family of a Grand Rapids man who died of a heart attack suffered after struggling with …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Colorado Prisoners Caging Prisoners by Gary Hunter Colorado State Penitentiary II (CSP-IT) is slated for construction in early 2007. It will hold the state?s most dangerous prisoners locked down for 23 hours per day. Ironically, the 948 pre-fab cells will be built by prisoners in the Freemont prison facility located …
Grievances Must Identify Defendants Later Sued by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed in part and reversed in part an Ohio federal district court?s dismissal of a prisoner?s complaint for failure to comply with the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). Christopher Bell, a prisoner …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Arizona: On December 22, 2006, Yuma state prison captain Wiliam Kangas, 52, was sentenced to 100 years in state prison after a jury convicted him of possessing child pornography. The crime was reported to police by a fellow Arizona Department of Corrections guard who was repairing …
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