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Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
$365,000 Settlement For Restrained, Untreated Michigan Boot Camp Prisoner by On December 22, 2005, the state of Michigan agreed to pay $365,000 to a boot camp prisoner who was strapped in a restraint chair for six hours and later suffered kidney and liver failure. Craig Allen Cook II was arrested …
Transgender Wisconsin Prisoners Continue Hormone Treatment Despite Law by Michael Rigby On January 25, 2006, a federal court in Wisconsin issued an emergency injunction to prevent the state from discontinuing hormone therapy for three transgender prisoners, despite a new state law banning the therapy. In January 2006 the Wisconsin legislature …
Armor Correctional Health Services: A New Company Blossoming with Political Payback by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A recently-formed Florida prison healthcare corporation is blossoming with new contracts from county sheriffs who decided to change bidding requirements and in one case eliminate cost as a consideration. The company, Coconut …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Ohio Awards $662,000 to Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Rape by The State of Ohio has agreed to pay Nathaniel Lewis, 28, $662,000 for the five years he spent in prison before his conviction was overturned by a federal appeals court in 2002. While a freshman at the University of Akron …
California DOC Drug Program Funds Squandered by Marvin Mentor Five California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) employees, testifying under subpoena at a February 27, 2006 State Senate Government Oversight Committee hearing, revealed the use-it-or-lose-it practice of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars allotted to prisoner drug treatment programs on …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
North Carolina Prisoner Taps Jails Bank Account for $120,000 by A former prisoner of North Carolinas Durham County Jail (DCJ) managed to bilk the jails prisoner account for over $120,000. After serving 69 days at DCJ, Keith Edward Wright, 34, was issued a check for the balance of the money …
Survivors of Texas Jail Suicidee Win $516,000 Against Phone Provider by Matthew T. Clarke The mother and son of a prisoner who committed suicide by hanging himself from a telephone in his jail cell won a lawsuit against the phone provider. On appeal, the award was upheld, but some of …
Muslim Prisoner Attacked by Other Muslims May Sue Prison for Failure to Protect by Marvin Mentor The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a California Muslim prisoner who was attacked by fellow Muslims stated two Eighth Amendment claims against prison officials by alleging that (1) they failed to …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Alabama Sheriff Charged With Raiding Jail Food Fund by Mobile County, Alabama, Sheriff Jack Tilman has been charged with theft and violation of the public officials ethical laws for allegedly taking for personal use funds allocated by the state to feed jail prisoners. Alabama paid Tilman $1.75 per day to …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
EMSA Negligent In Florida Jail Prisoners Death, County Pays $65,000 by Michael Rigby EMSA Negligent In Florida Jail Prisoners Death, County Pays $65,000 by Michael Rigby On April 1, 2005, a jury in the 19th Circuit Court of St. Lucie County, Florida, found EMSA Correctional Care negligent but not liable …
$790,000 Settlement In Ulcer Death of Georgia Jail Prisoner by In November 2005, Dekalb County, Georgia, a private medical provider, and a local hospital agreed to pay a combined total of $790,000 to settle with the widow of a prisoner who died from a perforated ulcer. While imprisoned in the …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Tolling Provision Appeals to NY Personal Injury Action by The New York Court Of Appeals held that the year-and-90-day period contained in General Municipal Law § 50-; is a statute of limitations (to which the tolling provision of CPLR § 205[a] applies) rather than a condition precedent to suit. On …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
No Qualified Immunity for Failure to Perform Timely Liver Biopsy by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling by the U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) that the failure of a prison health care manager to provide a Hepatitis-C positive (HCV+) …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Florida District Court Awards Federal Prisoner $829.65 for Lost Property by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, has awarded a federal prisoner $829.65 for lost property. Plaintiff Iris Pereira sued the United States seeking compensation for several items of personal property lost during her …
Offender Rulebook, MO DOC, 2006 OFFENDER RULEBOOK MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Larry Crawford, Department Director MISSION STATEMENT -h e mission of the Missouri Department of :.or~c:·: ll o ns with victims, communities, the state ::.::K beat governments is to improve public safety through secure confinement and …
Brief • July 31, 2006
McCoy v. TDCJ, TX, Response Motion Summary Judgement, Asthma Death, 2006 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI DIVISION L.J. MCCOY, et al. Plaintiffs v. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, et al. Defendants ' ' ' ' ' ' ' CIVIL ACTION NO. 05-CV-370 PLAINTIFFS’ RESPONSE TO …
Brief • July 18, 2006
Gallagher, et al. v. San Mateo County Sheriff ‘s Office, et al, CA, Amended Complaint, 2006 Case 4:04-cv-00448-SBA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Document 48-1 Filed 07/18/2006 Page 1 of 13 Andrew C. Schwartz (State Bar No. 64578) Thom Seaton (State Bar No. 62713) CASPER, MEADOWS, SCHWARTZ …
CCA Florida Jail Operations: An Experiment in Mismanagement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After being in business for twenty-three years, one would think that Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) would have refined the art of running prisons and jails. Yet an examination of CCA's three jails in Florida …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
From the Editor by Paul Wright With this issue of PLN we are back on our regular publishing schedule of sending each issue to the printer around the end of the month. We got behind last summer due to switching over to a new layout program and a trial in …
Youth Dies in Florida Boot Camp; Cause of Death Questioned by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For the fifth time in five years a juvenile has died in a Florida boot camp. A videotape of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson being counseled at a Bay County boot camp facility in …
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