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Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
BOP Transfers Unescorted Prisoners On Civilian Buses, Some Escape by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In a little-known program, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has been allowing unescorted prisoners to transfer between prisons using Greyhound and other civilian buses. Not surprisingly, some never show up at their destination. …
Standing Up to Corruption by Stephen James Prison Systems co-workers Joe Reynoso and Dave Lewis both were called heroes by their peers. One was an investigator digging into prison crime, and one was accused of a crime. Guess which one was supported by the guards union. In her letter supporting …
Legal Research Prohibition Upon Contract Attorney Denies Adequate Court Access by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Iowa federal district court has held that the legal assistance program at Iowas Anamosa State Penitentiary (ASP) was an unconstitutional impediment to a prisoners access to the court because it did not …
Federal Judge Strikes Down Iowa Prisons Faith-Based Rehabilitation Program by Michael Rigby Federal Judge Strikes Down Iowa Prisons Faith-Based Rehabilitation Program by Michael Rigby A federal judge in Iowa has ruled that the states partial funding of a Christian rehabilitation program is unconstitutional. In a 140-page opinion issued on June …
Crimes of the Heart: Incarceration Collusion by Bob Williams by Bob Williams & G.A.Bowers What would a woman do for her man? Run a frontend loader through a jail wall? Drive her lover out of prison in a food service truck? Murder witnesses? Smuggle in guns and drugs? Melt her …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Second Circuit Holds PLRA Fee Cap Inapplicable To So-ordered Stipulated Dismissals by Bob Williams Second Circuit Holds PLRA Fee Cap Inapplicable To So-ordered Stipulated Dismissals by Bob Williams In a case of first impression, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that the fee cap …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Settlement Permits Free and Gift Publications to Connecticut Prisoners by Prisoners in the Connecticut Department of Corrections (CDOC) can now receive free and gift publications that were previously banned under Administrative Directive 10.7, according to the terms of a March 18, 2004, settlement agreement. A.D. 10.7 prohibited prisoners from receiving …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Texas Prison Slaves No Savings for Direct Marketing Firm; Data Mining Results in $ 15 Million Settle by Michael Rigby Texas Prison Slaves No Savings for Direct Marketing Firm; Data Mining Results in $ 15 Million Settlement Fund by Michael Rigby A class action lawsuit involving thousands of women who …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
New York Prisoner Awarded $4,000 For Assault by On May 23, 2005, a New York court of claims awarded $4,000 to a state prisoner who suffered a head injury when another prisoner attacked him. While imprisoned by the State Department of Correctional Services in Elmira, New York, William Crenshaw was …
Forced Masturbation States Privacy Claim by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has remanded for further proceedings a prisoners civil rights complaint that alleged he was forced to strip and masturbate by a female guard, and was then retaliated against for reporting her nefarious activities. Boxer X, a prisoner at …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Illinois Prisoner Raped By Guard Settles For $15,000 by On July 2, 2005, a prisoner who was raped by a guard settled her lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) for $15,000. While imprisoned at the Dixon Correctional Center on May 26, 2000, the plaintiff, Rose Marie Smith 51, …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
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News in Brief: by Afghanistan: On July 10, 2005, four captured Arab guerrillas escaped from the Bagram Air Base where they were being held and tortured by United States military forces. They were the first political prisoners to escape from the torture camp since it was opened in 2001 shortly …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
The Warehouse Prison, by Dr. John Irwin, 318 pp., softback, Roxbury Publishing Company, 2005 by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Taking Californias Solano State Prison as a model, author John Irwin exposes the warehouse concept of Californias prisons and its debilitating effect on prisoners and their struggle for …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
U.S. Corrections Corporation Suit Settled for $13.2 Million by The former owners of U.S. Correctional Corporation (USCC) have agreed to settle a lawsuit over misuse of the employee stock-ownership plan for $13.2 million. Prior to 1998, when it was purchased by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for $225 million, USCC …
Audit: California Private Prison Contracting Tainted by Conflicts of Interest by The California State Auditor reported in September 2005 that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), when contracting with private prison contractors for two minimum security Community Correctional Facilities (CCF), issued no-bid awards to companies who had hired …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Hurricane Threat Forces Texas Prison Evacuations, Damage Worsens Overcrowding by Michael Rigby As Rita churned westward through the Gulf of Mexico, at times a monstrous Category 5 hurricane with wind speeds of 175 mph, officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) ordered the evacuation of entire prisons in …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Gun-smuggling Prisoners Convicted in Shooting Scam by Gary Hunter Fraud takes many forms but few as bizarre as the one allegedly concocted by D.C. prisoners Shawn Gray, Jamal Jefferson, Leonard Johnson and Fredrick Robinson. On December 20, 2003 all four men were wounded by gunfire inside of the Southeast Washington …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Alleged Attacks Plotted By New Folsom Prisoners Uncovered by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke A federal grand jury has indicted four men--two of whom have been prisoners at the California State Prison-Sacramento (New Folsom Prison)--with conspiracy to levy war against the United States, to possess and use firearms in …
$9 Million Jury Award In Arizona County Jail Death by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A federal jury awarded $9 million to the family of a Scottsdale, Arizona prisoner who suffocated in a restraint chair in the Maricopa County Jail (MCJ) in 2001. Found negligent and liable were Sheriff …
Non-Sex-Offender Parolee Entitled to Due Process Before Being Treated As Sex Offender by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that a parolee who has never been convicted of a sex offense is entitled to a due process hearing prior to being required to …
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