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Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Texas Prisoners Face Mandatory Testing For HIV by Gary Hunter From January to May 2006, 480 Texas prisoners tested HIV-positive upon their release from prison. Testing for the virus has now become mandatory in Texas before a prisoner can be released. The bill for mandatory testing, passed in May 2005, …
Brief • March 15, 2007
Cristini v. Warren, MI, Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2007 2:07-cv-11141-DML-VMM Doc # 1 Filed 03/15/07 Pg 1 of 44 Pg ID 1 llNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN MICHAEL LOUIS CRISTINI, Plaintiff, vs. THE CITY OF WARREN, 'I'IIE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF WARREN, 'I'IIE COUNTY OF MACOMB …
Brief • March 13, 2007
U.S. v. Lake Worth Police Department, FL, Memo of Agreement, Failure to Provide Language Assistance, 2007 MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT (MOA) BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND LAKE WORTH, FLORIDA POLICE DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE NUMBER 171-18-16 A. SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION This matter was initiated by a complaint filed …
Brief • March 11, 2007
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Madrid v Tilton, CA, Guard Discipline Attachment, 2007
Galloway v TYC, TX, 3rd Amended Complaint, juveniles disabilities legal aid assault, 2007 EXHIBIT “A” UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS JOSEPH GALLOWAY, individually, § § DANA BROCKWAY, as next friend of her § minor child, A.B., on behalf of all those similarly § situated, § § GLORIA …
Brief • March 4, 2007
Collins v. City of Chicago, IL, Complaint, False Arrest & Excessive Force, 2006 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, LAW DIVISION JOHN COLLINS, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, vs. CITY OF CHICAGO, MICHAEL GARZA, and JEFFREY MAYER, Defendants. No. …
Publication • March 1, 2007
Legal Medicine - Restraint Asphyxia in In-custody Deaths Legal Medicine 9 (2007) 88–93 www.elsevier.com/locate/legalmed Restraint asphyxia in in-custody deaths Medical examiner’s role in prevention of deaths Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran a a,* , Christopher Rogers a, Thomas T. Noguchi b Office of Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, County of Los Angeles, Department of Coroner, …
Osterback v. McDonough, FL, Def's Findings of Fact, 8th Am segregation, 2007 Case 3:04-cv-00210-HLA-MCR Document 841 Filed 02/27/2007 Page 1 of 71 U.S. DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Jacksonville Division MARK OSTERBACK, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Case no. 3:04-CV-210-J-25MCR JAMES MCDONOUGH , et al., Defendants. ________________________________/ DEFENDANTS’ PROPOSED FINDINGS …
No Qualified Immunity for Michigan Prisoner’s Heat-Dehydration Death by No Qualified Immunity for Michigan Prisoner's Heat-Dehydration Death The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to eleven prison officials in the isolation, dehydration and death of a Michigan prisoner. A "heat alert" was issued for Ionia …
Still More Murder and Mayhem in Maryland by Michael Rigby "Lock them up and throw away the key." Like the rest of the nation, this overriding penal philosophy in Maryland has led to a criminal justice system that is defunct at every level. The state's adult prisons are "in crisis." …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month's cover story is by long time PLN contributing writer Mike Rigby. I am pleased to announce that in December, 2006, Mike was released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after 13 years of imprisonment. He will continue contributing articles to PLN …
Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America’s Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. by John Dannenberg Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America's Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's …
Sacramento Jail Rampant with Excessive Force and Brutality by Gary Hunter Imagine six million candles of light and the noise level of a jet plane taking off inside an average 6'x10' jail cell. That's what Courtney Countee, Jessie Kerwin, Daniel Lucas, Jason Morrison, Cladius Jefferson and Michael Toro endured at …
Bureau of Prisons Begins Certifying Sexually Dangerous Persons by David Beneman BOP has a new tool authorized this summer as part of the Adam Walsh Act. BOP may now ?certify? prisoners as ?sexually dangerous persons? (SDP). Certification can occur prior to sentencing, or at any time after the commencement of …
New York’s Prison System Infested With Drugs by David Reutter New York's Prison System Infested With Drugs by David M. Reutter The most glaring result of America's war on drugs has been the explosion of the nation?s prison population. Over 75 percent of all prisoners are either doing time for …
High Ranking Louisiana Prison Official Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges by Gary Hunter On June 29, 2006, Louisiana prison administrator James H. Leslie, 55, was formally indicted on federal charges of tampering with a witness. The indictment was returned on February 16, 2006 but remained sealed so as not to …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
5-Point Restraints = Excessive Force + Due Process Violation Results in $25,000 Virginia Damage Award by A federal court in Virginia held that subjecting a prisoner to five-point restraints for 46-48 hours on five occasions was cruel and unusual punishment. It also found the lack of procedural protections deprived the …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
California Habeas Handbook, Expanded 5th Edition, by Attorney Kent Russell, Sept. 2006, 114 pages plus appendix, soft cover by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Three years after publishing his 67 page 4th Edition of the California Habeas Handbook (CHH) [see: PLN, Jan. 2004, p.18], Attorney Kent Russell has …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Correct Rx a New Major Player in the Prison Drug Industry by Gary Hunter Pharmaceutical drug distributors have found a future and a fortune in our nation?s prison system. Record rates of incarceration equal record profits for drug companies. One enterprising pharmacist has made herself a major player in the …
The Warehousing of New Hampshire’s Mentally Ill by David Reutter The Warehousing of New Hampshire's Mentally Ill by David M. Reutter Despite over 30 years of litigation, mentally ill prisoners at the New Hampshire State Prison (NHSP) are still not receiving care to treat their conditions. In fact, with NHSP …
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