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Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Oklahoma Requires Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies For Ex-Prisoner Suits by The Oklahoma Legislature has enacted a law that prohibits former prisoners from bringing a civil action unless the prisoner has exhausted all administrative remedies. To PLNs knowledge, this is the first law of its kind. The legislation, which was signed …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by California: On July 20, 2006, about 100 prisoners at the California Institution for Men in Chino rioted in Borrego Hall in the Reception Center West. The fight was between white and Hispanic prisoners. No guards were injured and order was quickly restored using pepper spray. Canada: …
$470,000 Paid in Pennsylvania Jail Prisoners Seizure Related Death by $470,000 Paid in Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner's Seizure Related Death The Estate of a Pennsylvania prisoner has settled its civil rights action alleging Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment violations for the wrongful death of Virginia Brejcak, 42, at the Bucks County Correctional …
$500,000 CCA Escape/Hostage Damage Award Upheld by The Tennessee State Court of Appeals upheld a $500,000 compensatory damage award against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), to a woman who was taken hostage by an escaped CCA prisoner. Mike Settle was a prisoner at Hardeman County Correctional Facility (HCCF), a CCA …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Supreme Court: Banning Publications to Punish Recalcitrant Prisoners Trumps Their First Amendment Rights by John E Dannenberg Supreme Court: Banning Publications to Punish Recalcitrant Prisoners Trumps Their First Amendment Rights by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. Supreme Court held that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) policy of banning its …
CSC Alien Abuse Class Action Settled for $2.5 Million by On August 10, 2005, a federal court in New Jersey approved a settlement in Brown v. Esmor Correctional Services Inc., USDC No. 98-1282 (DNJ). Esmor Correctional Services Inc. (Esmor) later known as Correctional Services Corporation (CSC), agreed to pay the …
Supreme Court Says No to Trial by Military Commission for Gitmo Prisoners by Matthew T. Clarke On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court held that prisoners being held in the military concentration camp prisons at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo), could not be tried by the special military tribunals set up …
No Room in Prison? Ship Em Off Prisoners have become unwitting pawns in a lowest-bidder- gets-the-convict shuffle game by Silja JA Talvi No Room in Prison? Ship Em Off Prisoners have become unwitting pawns in a lowest-bidder- gets-the-convict shuffle game by Silja J.A. Talvi It has been an arduous, surreal …
U.S. Government Settles 9-11 Detainee Abuse Suit for $300,000 by Matthew T. Clarke In a document filed February 27, 2006, the U.S. government agreed to pay an Egyptian who was caught up in the post-9-11 sweep and detained for a year at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) $300,000 to …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ordered to Pay Prisoner $500 For Misconduct by Michael Rigby On April 6, 2005, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas levied a $500 sanction award against two Assistant U.S. Attorneys for their unethical, unprofessional, and dishonest conduct in a prisoner …
Nevada Summary Judgment for Non-Exhaustion Reversed by The Nevada Supreme Court reversed a lower court's grant of summary judgment on a former prisoner's suit for failing to exhaust administrative remedies. Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) prisoner George Simmons was brutally beaten by another prisoner on April 14, 1997. He sustained …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Widespread Prisoner Labor Abuse Requires Reform by Gary Hunter Lonoke Mayor Thomas Privett and police Chief Jay Campbell were caught abusing the state's prisoner work program. Arkansas Department of Corrections requested, in early August 2005, that the program be suspended after learning that state prisoners had been used to repair …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
New York Strip-Search Suit Settled for $1.7 Million by A federal class action suit, challenging a New York jail's blanket misdemeanor strip-search policy has been settled for $1,783,670.20. Timothy Maneely brought suit in federal court, challenging the City of Newburgh, New York policy of strip searching all arrestees without reasonable …
CCA Fineable in New Contracts With Colorado and Hawaii by Matthew T. Clarke Corrections Corporation of America has signed new contracts with Colorado and Hawaii which, for the first time, include the possibility of the states imposing liquidated damages if CCA fails to provide the contracted services. The provisions resulted …
Kentucky County Jail Settles Lawsuit Alleging Overcrowded Conditions by Michael Rigby On November 30, 2005, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky tentatively approved the settlement of a class action lawsuit alleging unconstitutionally overcrowded conditions at the Campbell County Jail in Newport, Kentucky. Built in 1991, the …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Virginia Sheriffs Pay for Christian Ministries by Michael Rigby Several Virginia sheriffs have used public money to pay for services from Christian groups that minister to prisoners, the Virginia-Pilot reported on March 2, 2006. The payments have drawn criticism from some watchdog groups that advocate for a strong separation of …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
$75,000 Settlement for Untreated Wisconsin Methadone Patient by Michael Rigby Outagamie County, Wisconsin, has agreed to pay $75,000 to a man whose withdrawal from methadone went untreated at the county jail. Richard Foelker was participating in a methadone treatment program for heroin addiction when he checked himself into the Outagamie …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Filed under: Mail, Publications/Books
Washington DOC Settles Mail Censorship Suit with PLN for $442,500 in Fees and Damages by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg As previously reported in PLN, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. District Court ruling (Prison Legal News v. Lehman, 272 F.Supp.2d 1151 (W.D. Wash. 2003); …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
Virginia Prisoners Challenge Grooming Policy Under RLUIPA by Get in a fight behind bars and in most states, youll serve somewhere between a few days or months in segregation. Refusal to cut your hair in Virginia and youll be segregated until you comply. In 1999 the Virginia Department of Corrections …
Sexually Abused Texas Prisoner Loses Federal Lawsuit, Returns To Prison by Michael Rigby Roderick Keith Johnson, a prisoner who garnered national attention with allegations that Texas prison officials allowed him to be bought and sold as a sex slave, has lost his federal lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal …
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