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Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
New York City Settles False Imprisonment Suit For $1.25 Million by On September 23, 2004, New York City agreed to pay $1.25 million to a man who was falsely arrested and imprisoned for 15 months. Bernie Pollard, a 28-year-old construction worker, was arrested at his Brooklyn home on July 22, …
$12,003.74 in Fees/Costs Awarded in Excessive Force Use; PLRA Fee Cap Inapplicable to Stipulated Set by $12,003.74 in Fees/Costs Awarded in Excessive Force Use; PLRA Fee Cap Inapplicable to Stipulated Settlements A federal court in New York awarded attorneys' fees of $10,858 and costs of $1,144.95 for a total of …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Texas: Prison-Rape Capital Of The Country by Michael Rigby Texas: Prison-Rape Capital Of The Country by Michael Rigby Despite reputed efforts by officials in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to curb prison rapes, the number of reported sexual assaults has increased 160% in the past 4 years, from …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Michigan Prisoner Awarded $376,525 For Back Injury Sustained In Crash by A Michigan prisoner has been awarded $376,525 for back injuries sustained in a prison van crash. Lorenzo Johnson, a 40-year-old state prisoner, was being transferred from one prison to another when the van he was riding in hit a …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Vermont DOC Settles PLN Writer's Suicide Suit for $750,000 by David Reutter On October 14, 2004,the estate of PLN contributing writer James Quigley sued the Vermont Department of Corrections (V.D.O.C.) and several V.D.O.C. employees, alleging their mistreatment of Quigley resulted in his suicide death. Four months later the state settled …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Qualified Immunity Granted to Doctor Who Failed to Order Interferon Treatments for HCV+ Prisoner by The Eight Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a doctor was not deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's medical condition by failing to order interferon treatments for his Hepatitis C virus (HCV). While imprisoned within …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Vermont DOC Settles PLN Writer's Suicide Suit for $750,000 by On October 14, 2004,the estate of PLN contributing writer James Quigley sued the Vermont Department of Corrections (V.D.O.C.) and several V.D.O.C. employees, alleging their mistreatment of Quigley resulted in his suicide death. Four months later the state settled the suit …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons, By Mark Dow University Of California Press, 413 pages, $27.50 by Ashley Makar American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons, By Mark Dow University Of California Press, 413 pages, $27.50 Reviewed by Ashley Makar Mark Dow's American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons is an articulate …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief: Arkansas: In April, 2005, an unidentified sergeant was fired by the state DOC after the February, 2005, death of Wrightsville Unit prisoner Victor Wright, 28, while on a work detail. Wright complained to the sergeant that he was not feeling well while on …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Los Angeles County Pays $300,000 To Settle Public Defender's Legal Malpractice by by John E. Dannenberg On October 4, 2004, the Los Angeles County, California Claims Board granted authority of $300,000 to settle a claim by a prisoner for legal malpractice on the part of the Public Defender, wherein the …
Florida Jury Awards $3,000,000 for Medical Negligence Causing Prisoner's Death by After a seven-day trial, a Florida jury awarded $3,006,200 to the plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming medical negligence, causing the death of a Florida prisoner. This was brought by the estate of prisoner Clifford E. Jones, Jr., 35, against …
Texas: "Prison-Rape Capital Of The Country" by Michael Rigby Texas: "Prison-Rape Capital Of The Country" by Michael Rigby Despite reputed efforts by officials in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to curb prison rapes, the number of reported sexual assaults has increased 160% in the past 4 years, from …
Michigan's Restrictive Placement Of HIV+ Prisoners Enjoined; $2 Million Damages Awarded by by John E. Dannenberg Winning a fifteen year state court battle, Michigan prisoners who tested positive for HIV (AIDS virus), and who were otherwise eligible to serve their time in community residential programs, camps or farms, gained the …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Texas Prisoner Kills Prison Employee and Himself by On October 21, 2004, a prisoner at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s 2,800-bed, maximum-security Connely Unit in Kenedy, Texas, killed a prison employee, then committed suicide. Gary Laskowski, 38, a Texas state prisoner, had been serving a life sentence in TDCJ …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
Concentration Of Paroled Illinois Sex Offenders Stirs Controversy by Michael Rigby Following news that a disproportionate number of paroled sex offenders were concentrated on Chicago’s South Side, Illinois officials instituted more rigid oversight of transitional group homes and returned 55 parolees to prison. The Chicago Tribune reported on January 3l, …
Publication • May 13, 2005
Incident Review of Suicide Death by Inmate, FL Correctional Program Manager Bay Count Jail, 2005 --·- ·· ------- ---·- - ------ May 13, 2005 Kevin Watson CCA Bay County Jail/Annex Facility Administrator 314 ½ Harmon Avenue Panama City, Florida 32401 SUBJ: UNUSUAL INCIDENT REVIEW - - SUICIDE DEATH OF INMATE …
Brief • April 20, 2005
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment
Corley v Davis, CA, Complaint, wrongful imprisonment, 2005 Case 2:03-cv-01447-LKK-DAD Document 51 Filed 04/20/2005 Page 1 of 19 ERIC GRANT (Bar No. 151064) Attorney at Law 2 800 I Folsom Boulevard, Suite 100 Sacramento, California 95826 3 Telephone: (916) 388-0833 Facsimile: (916) 691-3261 4 E-Mail: grant@eric-grant.com 5 Attorney for Plaintiff …
Abu Ghraib's Stain on Military Medicine by Steven Miles by Steven H. Miles, MD This article examines the relationship of military medical personnel to abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. It is based on testimony before the US Senate and …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
From the Editor by by Paul Wright With last month's issue of PLN we reached an all time circulation high of 4,051 subscribers. This is the most subscribers PLN has ever had. Considering we started with 75 subscribers in 1990, that is a lot of growth. But considering there are …
PLN's ADX Censorship Suit Partially Survives Motion to Dismiss by PLN's ADX Censorship Suit Partially Survives Motion to Dismiss by Bob Williams On November 12, 2004, Colorado Federal District Court Judge Wiley Daniel dismissed all official capacity claims, one defendant, and one substantive claim in PLN's suit over ADX censorship …
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