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Brief • January 25, 2006
Filed under: Settlements
Bynum v. District of Columbia, DA, Order, Settlement, 2006 Case 1:02-cv-00956-RCL Document 138 Filed 01/25/2006 Page 1 of 26 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _____________________________ MARCUS BYNUM, et. al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 02-956 (RCL) ) DISTRICT OF …
Texas Jails Troubled by Deaths, Negligence and Failed Inspections by Gary Hunter For decades Texas jails have been cesspool's of misery, medical neglect, brutality and over crowding. Class action litigation in the 1970's alleviated some of the worst aspects of the Texas jail system and led to modest improvements. By …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
From the Editor by Paul Wright By now all subscribers should have received PLN's bi annual reader survey and fundraiser letter. We have not received that many responses back to the survey which may mean everyone is happy with PLN's content the way it is. If you have not yet …
Federal Judge Enforces "Valdivia Remedial Plan" for California Parole Violators by Federal Judge Enforces "Valdivia Remedial Plan" for California Parole Violators On June 8, 2005, the United States District Court enforced its order in Valdivia v. Davis, 206 F.Supp.2d 1068 (E.D. Cal. 2002) [PLN, Jan.2003, p.16] and its March 9, …
California Parole Board Lax In Contracting For Foreign Language Interpreters by The watchdog California Office of Inspector General (OIG), when investigating the case of a foreign language interpreter who bilked the Board of Prison Terms (BPT) out of $11,862 in false claims, found the BPT's contracting and accountability procedures for …
Indiana State Courts Have Jurisdiction In Prisoner Phone Contract Case by Bob Williams In a suit challenging excessive collect call rates charged to prisoners' families, friends and attorneys, the Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Chanelle Alexander and others (the …
Michigan's Dirty Little Secret: Sexual Abuse of Female Prisoners Pervasive, Ongoing by by Michael Rigby Despite reports of sexual abuse dating back 20 years ... despite a tumultuous decade of lawsuits that cost millions of taxpayer dollars ... and despite a promise by state officials to implement sweeping reforms, the …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
President Bush Orders Compliance With World Court Order, Withdraws From Optional Protocol by by Matthew T. Clarke President Bush has ordered the states to comply with a March 2004 decision of the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court. In that decision the World Court ruled that …
North Carolina Pays $43,500 to Women Strip-Searched By Prisoners by by Michael Rigby The North Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) has paid $43,500 to four women who were subjected to strip and body-cavity searches performed by other prisoners and to a fifth who was beaten when she refused to undress. …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
California's New Governor Has Paroled 102 Lifers, But Rejected Twice That Many by The good news is that as of September 30, 2005, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved 102 lifers for parole since taking office two years ago, a vast improvement over former Governor Gray Davis' record of paroling …
Private Prison Firms Stumble; Hire Former California Officials to Lobby for For-Profit Facilities by Private prison companies, which presently house only 2,550 of California's 165,000 prisoners, have hired a former county lawmaker, former CDC employees and the former state Finance Director in an attempt to expand into the $7 billion …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Texas State Auditor Questions Necessity of Prison Health Care Oversight Board by by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas State Auditor's Office has released a report which scathingly criticized the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee (Committee) for failing to perform its contractual duties and having several conflicts of interest with the …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries, Food
Death Penalty for Texas Prison Horses Stirs Controversy by Between February 2003 and November 2004, the Texas prison system sold 53 horses to the Dallas Crown slaughterhouse in Kaufmann, Texas, for processing into meat for human consumption. This violates § 149.003 of the Texas Agriculture Code. The first offense is …
New York's Sex Offender Treatment Program Enjoined; Stay Issued Pending Appeal by by Bob Williams The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that New York's program for treating convicted state sex offenders violates the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against compulsory self-incrimination and issued a preliminary …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Ex-Prisoners Barred From Nursing in Texas by by Matthew T. Clarke Recently, the Dallas Morning News (DMN) generated articles decrying the presence of convicted drug and sex offenders in the nursing profession. Texas, like many states, has statutes denying ex-prisoners licensing in many state-licensed professions. In some professions, being convicted …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Los Angeles County Jail Tests Prisoner Radio ID Tags by by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles (L.A.) County Sheriff's Department will spend $1.5 million to install a computerized radio ID tag system in 2006 to monitor the location of 1,900 prisoners at the Pitchess Detention Center (county jail) in …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Texas Enacts Life Without Parole Law by On June 17, 2005, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law legislation that allows Texas juries to sentence defendants to life without the possibility of parole in capital cases. Senate Bill 60 replaces the previous non-death-penalty option of 40 years without the possibility …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole, Probation
Court Invalidates Mental Health Supervised Release Condition; Condition Impermissibly Delegates Judicial Authority to PO by Court Invalidates Mental Health Supervised Release Condition; Condition Impermissibly Delegates Judicial Authority to PO The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Delaware district court improperly imposed a supervised release condition requiring mental health …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Lethal Injection Painful, Study Suggests; U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Issue by by Michael Rigby Hundreds of prisoners killed by lethal injectionthe preferred method of execution in 37 states and the federal Bureau of Prisonsmay have suffered agonizing deaths due to a routine failure to administer enough anesthesia, according to …
New York Jail Doctor Put on Probation After Wrong Prescription Kills Detainee by by John E. Dannenberg The former medical director for Rensselear (New York) County Jail was put on probation for three years by state health authorities for improper treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome that caused the death of …
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