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Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoners’ Challenge to Extended Lockdown by Michael Rigby Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoners' Challenge to Extended Lockdown by Michael Rigby The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a prisoner lawsuit challenging the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's practice of indefinite segregation without due process. C. …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Oklahoma Regulation Confiscating Money Order From Other Prisoner’s Family Upheld by Oklahoma Regulation Confiscating Money Order From Other Prisoner's Family Upheld The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP) regulation that allows money sent to prisoners by a person on another prisoner's visitation list to …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by California: On November 17, 2006, Orange county jail prisoners Garrett Aguilar, 23; Stephen Carlstrom, 38; Michael Garten, 21; Eric Miller, 21; Jared Petrovich, 22 and Christopher Teague, 30, were charged with the murder of jail prisoner John Chamberlain, 41, who was beaten to death on October …
Tenth Circuit Reinstates Colorado Ad Seg Conditions Claims by Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has reversed a Colorado state prisoner?s administrative segregation (Ad Seg) conditions of confinement claims which were dismissed as frivolous by the United States District Court for the District of …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2007. With this issue, PLN now enters it?s 17th year of publishing. We have several important goals for the coming year so we can better serve our readers. Among them are expanding the size of the …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Maryland Sentence Reduction Rule Violates Ex Post Facto Clause by The Maryland Court of Appeals has struck down an administrative regulation amending another regulation to deny previously authorized sentence reduction credits for certain categories of prisoners. In January of 2002, Quinton Demby, Jesse Baltimore, Kenneth Woodall, Daniel Falcone, and Earl …
Violence from Racial Tension and Overcrowding Pervades California Jails, Spreads to Prisons by Marvin Mentor by Marvin Mentor Los Angeles (L.A.) County jail prisoners have been locked in interracial gang-controlled violence for the past year, and the unrest has spread to other jails and into California state prisons as prisoners …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Lawsuit Filed Over Health Care at Wisconsin Women’s Prison, More Possible by Michael Rigby Lawsuit Filed Over Health Care at Wisconsin Women's Prison, More Possible by Michael Rigby The medical, dental, and mental health care provided to female prisoners at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fon du Lac, Wisconsin, is …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Vermont DOC Agrees To Stop Punishing Self-Harming Prisoners by Michael Rigby On May 18, 2006, the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) settled a class-action lawsuit by agreeing to stop punishing prisoners who harm themselves. The VDOC further agreed to implement training, retain consultants, and document the mental health assessments of …
California’s “High-Risk” Sex Offender Parolees Ostracized; Parole Official Fired by John Dannenberg California's "High-Risk" Sex Offender Parolees Ostracized; Parole Official Fired by John E. Dannenberg California's 2,000 "high-risk" sex offenders (HRSOs) currently on parole are increasingly being ostracized following relentless publicity as to their whereabouts, forcing parole officials to continuously …
Washington Women’s Prison Healthcare Violations Continue by Washington Women?s Prison Healthcare Violations Continue As we've reported extensively, health care at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), has been woefully inadequate for decades. Reform efforts have been underway since 1993, but the more things change, the more they stay the …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
The Prison and Jail Industry—Who Will Run It by Gary Hunter The Prison and Jail Industry--Who Will Run It by Gary Hunter With the huge growth in American prisons between 1980 and 1990, the American Correctional. Association (ACA) went looking in the past to solve both foreseeable and current problems. …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Washington Prisoners Must Pre-Pay for Record Inspection by The Washington Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court?s refusal to require the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) to allow prisoners to inspect records without pre-payment of copy and postage expenses. WDOC Policy No. 280.510 grants prisoners a right of access …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Illinois Parole Violators Enforce Revocation Due Process Rights with Consent Decree by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The class of all Cook County, Illinois parole violators was granted a preliminary injunction by the U.S. District Court, Northern District, Eastern Division, ordering the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) to conduct …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
California Lifer Hearing Backlog Increases Despite Court Order To Catch Up by Marvin Mentor The Marin County Superior Court, which had directed the California Board of Parole Hearings (Board) to take the necessary steps to cut its lifer hearing backlog in 2001 when it was 2,058 hearings behind (and would …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Vienna Convention Creates Individually Enforceable Rights by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In a ground-breaking decision the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Vienna Convention) created individual rights to consular notification that may be enforced in a civil action. Thus, …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Washington Prisoner Sues Over Bogus Disciplinary Actions; State Settles for $1,500 by The Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) has paid one of its prisoners $1,500 to dismiss a civil rights action he filed after disciplinary actions taken against him were vacated for being unlawful. Lonnie Burton is a Washington …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Settlement Revamps Grant County, Washington Indigent Defense System; County Agrees to $1.1 Million in Attorney Fees by Grant County, Washington entered into a sweeping settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that its indigent defense system was constitutionally deficient. Prior to February 12, 2004, Grant County ?maintained a contract system …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
$214,000 Award for Injuries Caused by Dilantin Deprivation to Michigan Jail Prisoner by A Michigan federal jury awarded a former prisoner $214,000 in damages for injuries caused by policies at the Grand Traverse County Jail that failed to assure she received her Dilantin. The plaintiff in this case, Amy Lynn …
Illegal Strip Searches Cost MTC, New Mexico County $8.5 Million by Michael Rigby Management and Training Corporation (MTC) and Santa Fe County, New Mexico, will pay $8.5 million to settle with an estimated 13,000 former prisoners who were unconstitutionally strip searched at the Santa. Fe County Detention Facility between January …
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