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Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Bait and Snitch: The High Cost of Snitching for Law Enforcement by by Alexandra Natapoff The t-shirts scream Stop Snitchin'! From Baltimore to Boston to New York; in Pittsburgh, Denver, and Milwaukee, kids are sporting the ominous fashion statement, prompting local fear, outrage, and fierce arguments over crime. Several trials …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Chicago Settles Another Jail Brutality Suit for $362,500 by On December 17, 2004, the Cook County Board's Litigation Sub-Committee approved a settlement of $362,000, including attorneys' fees, in a case involving brutality against a Cook County jail prisoner by the jail's infamous Special Operations and Response Team (SORT). We have …
Nebraska Native American Prisoners' Religious Program Reinstated by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Native American prisoners and Nebraska's then Director of Corrections, Harold Clarke, reached a settlement agreement on March 15, 2005 in U.S. District Court (D. Neb.) to reinstate the Native American prisoners' club (Native American Spiritual and …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Federal District Court Awards Missouri Prisoner $2,500 For Excessive Force by On January 25, 2005, a Missouri prisoner was awarded $2,500 for pain and suffering incurred when guards kicked him in the groin. Lance A. Cole, 24, was arrested for violating his probation by possessing a gun. A day earlier …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Filed under: Family, Mothers in Prison
All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated by By Nell Bernstein, The New Press; 303 Pages; $25.95 Reviewed by Sheerly Avni In part because of the war on drugs, in part because of mandatory sentencing laws such as California's three strikes" law, and in part because we have …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Court Halts Practice of California Prison Guards Getting Unlimited Paid Time to Conduct Union Busine by Court Halts Practice of California Prison Guards Getting Unlimited Paid Time to Conduct Union Business on the Job In a recent expose, the Sacramento Bee revealed that the California prison guards union (CCPOA) cut …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Kentucky Prisoner Injured In Transport Vehicle Awarded $9,000 by On June 3, 2005, a Kentucky jury awarded $9,000 to a prisoner who was injured while riding in a jail transport vehicle. Plaintiff Steven Jarmon was imprisoned in a Louisville jail on robbery charges. On February 15, 2000, Jarmon, 38, and …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
American Bar Association Recommends Expanded Prisoner Telephone Access by by John E. Dannenberg The Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) made a formal recommendation in its Report to the House of Delegates" (August 2005) (Report) that the ABA go on record as urging all federal and state …
Florida Jury Awards $225,000 in False Arrest/Malicious Prosecution Claim by A Florida jury has awarded $225,000 in a case against the City of Clearwater and an individual detective on a claim of false arrest, malicious prosecution, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The Plaintiff claimed he was falsely arrested on …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Massachusetts Prisoner Awarded $250,000 for Assault During Strip Search by On March 25, 2005, a federal jury awarded a Massachusetts prisoner $250,000 in damages for injuries sustained when he was assaulted by a guard during a strip search. Guards William Shugrue and a Jeffrey Padula were members all the Inner …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
U.S. Supreme Court: Faretta Does Not Establish Right Of Pro Se Defendant to Law Library Access by U.S. Supreme Court: Faretta Does Not Establish Right Of Pro Se Defendant to Law Library Access In a per curiam ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Circuit's grant of habeas relief …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Poor Substance Abusers Imprisoned En Masse Without Treatment by Michael Rigby More than two-thirds of U.S. jail, prisoners in 2002 were found to be dependent on drugs or alcohol or to abuse them. But many never get the help they need, a study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Shackling of Women Prisoners During Labor and Delivery Ended In California by by John E. Dannenberg California's Governor Schwarzenegger improved health care for women prisoners by signing AB 478 into law, which makes it illegal to deny prenatal and postpartum care (to include basic dental cleaning) and bans shackling during …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Filed under: Work Release, Work, Prison Labor
Prisoners Labor at Wisconsin Wal-Mart Site by by Michael Rigby Wal-Mart is using prison labor to build a new distribution center in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Local residents have expressed safety concerns and also worry that lower paid prisoners are siphoning jobs away from the community. Prisoners working at the Wal-Mart …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Utah DOC Settles Wrongful-Death Suit Involving Exonerated Suspect For $150,000 by by Michael Rigby On September 29, 2004, the widow of a one-time suspect in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping settled her wrongful-death lawsuit against the Utah Department of Corrections (DOC) for $150,000. When 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her …
Georgia DOC Settles Failure-To-Protect Suit for $15,000 by Michael Rigby In September 2004, the Georgia Department of Corrections (CDOC) settled for $15,000 a prisoner lawsuit alleging that understaffing at the maximum-security Georgia State Prison (GSP) compromised prisoner safety. The GDOC also agreed to increase staffing levels in prisoner housing areas …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Company Uses Prison Slave Labor for $100 Million Military Contract by The prison and military industrial complexes have collided, with a private military contractor poised to make millions off the sweaty backs of prisoners. Pennsylvania-based Woolrich Inc. plans to use the labor of federal prisoners to fulfill two multi-million-dollar contracts …
Registered Sex Offenders Murdered By Vigilante in Washington by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 27, 2005, two registered sex offenders were murdered in Bellingham, Washington, by a vigilante posing as an FBI agent. The killer got the victims' names, address and photographs from the Whatcom County Sheriff's Sex Offender …
Wilkins v. Oakland, CA, Response, Mot to Bifurcate, 2006 4 BRIAN T. DUNN (SBN 176502) COCHRAN, CHERRY, GIVENS, SMITH & STEWART 4929 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1010 Los Angeles, California 90010-3856 Telephone: (323) 931-6200 Facsimile: (323) 931-9521 5 Attorneys for all Plaintiffs 6 MICHAEL J. HADDAD (State Bar No. 189114) JULIA …
Brief • February 7, 2006
Westefer v. Snyder, IL, Class Action Memo, ad seg condition of confinement, 2010 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ROBERT WESTEFER, et al., No. 00-162-GPM Plaintiffs, v. DONALD SNYDER, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS' MOTION TO CERTIFY THE PLAINTIFF CLASS INTRODUCTION …
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