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PLRA’s Mental and Emotional Damage Award Ban Unconstitutional in $219,000 First Amendment Claim by PLRA's Mental and Emotional Damage Award Ban Unconstitutional in $219,000 First Amendment Claim A Michigan federal district court has held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act?s (PLRA) prohibition of mental or emotional damages without physical injury …
Michigan Prisoner Assaulted By Jailers Awarded $2,000 by Michael Rigby On June 9, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan awarded $2,000 to a prisoner who was beaten by jailers in the Macomb County Jail. While imprisoned at the jail on October 27, 2004, plaintiff William …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Florida DOC’s Policy Prohibiting Release of Sex Offenders Without Address Unconstitutional by David Reutter Florida DOC's Policy Prohibiting Release of Sex Offenders Without Address Unconstitutional by David M. Reutter In October, 2005, a Florida Circuit Court has held that a Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) policy that requires a sex …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Wisconsin “Boondoggled” Into Buying Broken Down New Private Prison by Wisconsin "Boondoggled" Into Buying Broken Down New Private Prison After buying a private prison for $87.1 million, the Wisconsin Legislature is crying foul upon discovering the Stanley prison violates electrical, plumbing, and safety codes that will cost $5 million to …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
New York Prison Worker Not Kidnapped/Raped Long Enough For Compensation by Gary Hunter On December 28, 2004, a 52-year old female employee at New York?s Camp Cass juvenile facility was accosted by 16-year old Michael Elston who choked her, banged her head against a wall and raped her at knife-point. …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Mississippi Beating Suit Nets $348,960 — Upheld on Appeal by Mississippi Beating Suit Nets $348,960 -- Upheld on Appeal The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Mississippi district court's award of damages after a bench trial. The civil rights action was brought by Mississippi prisoner Stephen Michael Combs …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
5th Circuit Reverses Texas Prisoner’s Disciplinary Conviction For “Non-Existent” Offense by Michael Rigby 5th Circuit Reverses Texas Prisoner's Disciplinary Conviction For "Non-Existent" Offense by Michael Rigby The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held there was no evidence to sustain a Texas prisoner's disciplinary conviction for assaulting a guard and …
Maryland Disciplinary Rules Violate APA by The Maryland Supreme Court invalidated prison disciplinary ?directives? because they were not adopted in conformity with the State Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Under the Maryland APA, all state agencies must follow certain procedures when adopting ?regulations? as defined by the APA. The APA excludes …
Texas Supreme Court: Non-Suit Deprives Appeals Court of Jurisdiction by The Supreme Court of Texas held that a plaintiff?s filing non-suit while an appeal was pending deprived the court of appeals of jurisdiction and any authority to enter an order, holding or opinion. Darla Blackmon, a Texas state prisoner, died …
Virginia Guard Hazed By Coworkers Awarded $25,001 by Michael Rigby On March 1, 2006, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia awarded $25,001 to a prison guard who was subjected to a humiliating hazing ritual by his coworkers. Guard Terry Givens was promoted to …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Fourth Circuit Holds FTCA Applies to BOP Property Claims by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals joined the Sixth, Seventh and District of Columbia Circuits in holding that Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guards are not ?law enforcement officers? for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2680(c). The Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, …
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Damage Award in Psychiatrist’s Strangling Death by Eleventh Circuit Affirms Damage Award in Psychiatrist's Strangling Death The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a jury's verdict awarding a psychiatrist's widow $1.3 million judgment against Florida's Collier County Sheriff. PLN previously reported this verdict, which was predicated …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Missouri Prison Ordered to Provide Immediate Abortion by A federal court in Missouri granted an injunction to a female prisoner, requiring the Women?s Diagnostic and Correctional Center (WERDCC) to transport her for an immediate abortion. Prisoner Roe was approximately 16-17 weeks pregnant and had been requesting an abortion while confined …
Publication • January 1, 2007
Filed under: Attorneys, Mental Health
Secondary Trauma and Burnout in Attorneys - Effects of Work with Clients Who are Victims of Domestic Violence and Abuse, Levin, 2007 Secondary Trauma and Burnout in Attorneys: Effects of Work with Clients Who are Victims of Domestic Violence and Abuse Andrew P. Levin, MD Dr. Levin is Assistant Clinical …
Publication • January 1, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Shelter
Supportive Housing, Bazelon Center, 2007 SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: The Most Effective and Integrated Housing for People with Mental Disabilities 1 Introduction People with mental disabilities can successfully live in the community like everyone else, as envisioned by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Supportive housing makes this possible. Supportive housing gives them …
Florida's Department of Corruption by David Reutter Florida's Department of Corruption by David M. Reutter An underlying principle of our penal system is to instill respect for the laws and rules that govern our society. As such, those charged with running our nation's jails and prisons have an ethical obligation …
Florida Prison Canteen Operators Offices Raided by David Reutter Florida Prison Canteen Operator's Offices Raided by David M. Reutter Agents from the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement raided the office of American Institutional Services (AIS) on June 7, 2006 and seized the companys business records. AIS ran weekend …
Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006
From the Editor by Paul Wright As the year 2006 closes we have reported a lot of news and major developments, some of it good, some of it not so good. The main thing though is we accomplished a lot as far as getting back on our regular publishing schedule, …
Violent Oregon Prisoner Murders Cellmate; County Points Fingers; Family Sues by By all accounts, 22-year-old Thomas Allen Tommy Gordon is an extremely dangerous man. In 2001 he fatally shot his friend, Dylan Beck, in the back of the head while they were driving in Vancouver, Washington. While awaiting trial Gordon …
Aramark: Prison Food Service with a Bad Aftertaste by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Aramark, Inc. is a Philadelphia-based $10 billion/yr. Fortune 500 company providing diverse institutional food services. Its Illinois-based subsidiary, Aramark Correctional Services, Inc., (ACSI), which bought out Wackenhut's Correctional Foodservice Management division in 2000, contracts with …
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