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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 …
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 …
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