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Concubine and Children Cannot Sue for Wrongful Death of Federal Prisoner by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a concubine and her children could not sue for damages resulting from the cancer death of federal prisoner Jose Miguel Ruiz. This action was brought under the Federal Tort …
New York Legislator Pays For CSC-Chauffeured Rides by A New York State Assemblyman has been sentenced to three years probation and ordered to pay $5,000 in fines and restitution for unlawfully billing the state for rides he got for free from Correctional Services Corporation (CSC). The sentence was imposed after …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
California Awards MCI WorldCom Another Sole-Source Prisoner Phone Contract by by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections (CDC) awarded a sole-source contract to MCI WorldCom (MCI) for all CDC prisoner phones. The October 29, 2004 agreement covers four years, with options for up to two one-year extensions. Significantly, CDC …
California Youth Authority Fires Six For Pummeling Prisoners And Filing False Reports by On September 10, 2004, six California Youth Authority (CYA) Correctional Counselors (guards) were fired for using excessive force" in beating two prisoners at a Stockton, California youth prison on January 20, 2004, and then falsifying the reports. …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Louisiana Jail Settles Suicide Suit For $3 Million by On June 10, 2004, the City of Shreveport, Louisiana, agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit arising from the suicide death of a prisoner in. the city's jail. Frances Loggins, 48, was arrested for public drunkenness and taken to …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Court Holds Florida's Administrative Processing Fee is Constitutional by by David M. Reutter On December 21, 2004, Florida's Leon County Circuit Court held that a 2004 law that imposed an administrative processing fee on monies deposited into prisoner accounts does not violate the Florida Constitution's single-subject rule. The December 2004 …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Florida's Faith-Based Programs Under Watchful Eyes by David Reutter by David M. Reutter With budget cuts eliminating its substance abuse programs and most educational programs in its prisons, the State of Florida is turning to religious groups to rehabilitate its prisoners. Since 1995, Florida's prison population has exploded from 62,000 …
$40,000 To Settle Excessive Force Claim At Los Angeles County Jail by In September, 2004, the Los Angeles County Claims Board (Board) agreed to pay $40,000 to settle an excessive force claim brought by a prisoner injured at the L.A. County Main Jail. On March 17, 2002, prisoner Joseph Amezola …
CCA Pays House Majority Leader’s Personal Charity $100,000 by By Matthew T. Clarke In August, 2004, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) gave House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, (R) Sugar Land, Texas, a check for $100,000 for his DeLay Foundation for Kids during a Lexington, Kentucky, political fund raiser for DeLay’s …
Texas State Equipment and Employees Used for Private Prison Labor Lobbying by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Republican State Representative Ray Allen of Grand Prairie, Texas, Chairman of the Texas House Corrections Committee, has been using his state employees and state equipment to operate a private firm that specializes …
Rhode Island Prisoner Awarded $3,900 for False Imprisonment by A Rhode Island jury awarded a prisoner $3,900 for false imprisonment on April 21, 2004. In August 1994, William Ross was incarcerated and held by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) on a minor larceny charge. During his incarceration, the …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Georgia Prison Official Immune, Prison Nurse Not, in Prisoner's Suicide by by Robert H. Woodman The Court of Appeals of Georgia, Second Division, affirmed in part and reversed in part the judgment of the Gwinnett Superior Court in a case brought against a prison official, a prison nurse, and other …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Race-Based California Prison Job Lockout May Violate Equal Protection by by John E. Dannenberg A divided panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that during a California prison partial lockdown limited to two ethnic populations, prison officials' exclusion from early return-to-work of pre-screened critical" prisoner workers solely …
Illinois Appeals Court Reinstates Prisoner's Disciplinary Mandamus Petition by The Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, held that prisoner in the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) had adequately stated causes of action for mandamus relief pertaining to disciplinary sanctions imposed against him. On September 11, 2002, William Cannon, Jr., a …
New Jersey DOC Liable for Prisoner Death Caused by CMS by Robert Woodman by Robert H. Woodman The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, partly affirming a New Jersey prisoner's estate's suit, held that the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) could be held liable for the negligence of …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
No Miranda Error During FBI Office Interrogation Where Parolee Knew He Was Free To Leave by by John E. Dannenberg An en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that no Miranda violation occurred in failing to suppress an interrogee's statement taken in the office of …
Fifth Circuit Allows Sexual-Orientation Discrimination in Texas Prisoner Rape Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that a homosexual prisoner who prison officials allegedly allowed to be repeatedly sexually assaulted and made a sex slave may sue the prison officials for both …
Brief • March 28, 2005
Filed under: Snitch Jacketing, Discovery
USA vs. Mills, CA, Discovery Order, Snitch Factory, 2005 H. Dean Steward SBN 85317 107 Avenida Miramar 2 Ste. C San Clemente, CA 92672 3 949-481-4900 fax-949-496-6753 4 Mark Fleming SBN 165770 5 433 G. St. #202 San Diego, CA 92101 6 619-652-9970 fax 619-652-9964 1 7 Attorneys for Defendant …
Brief • March 28, 2005
Noren v. Washington State Department of Corrections, Settlement, 2005 ECIMIEn MAR 2g.zoo5 ' RELEASE OFCLAIM CLAM RELEASE OF Claim No : 31053590 DBPTCPTIWePCRI"A1lON MA'AM:01010N parrot RISK PANAMINT OFFICE RI8KMANAGEM&NT OFFIce OLYMPJA WABMINGTQN OLYMPIA WASHINGTON M8-7148 • ;FORAND CONSIDBRATION.ofthe FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION of thesumofTBREE sum of THREEmOUSAND THOUSAND AND AND …
Baker v State of California, CA, Complaint,youth guard beating, 2005 FEB-18-2005 FRI 02:09 PM CYA LEGAL OFFICE .. '---C;-'se 2:05-cv-00589-GEB-KJM Document 1-2 4 Laurence E. Drivon, S.B.N 46660 THE DRIVON LAW FIRM Davey L. Turner, SBN #196886 215 North San Joaquin Street Stockton, CA 95202 Telephone: (209) 644-1234 Fax: (209) …
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