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Wilkins v. City of Oakland, 9th Cir, Appeal, Brief 4th Am police shot by police unjustified deadly force, 2005 No. _________ IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT _____________________ KELY WILKINS, Individually, as Successor in Interest to Decedent WILLIAM ALBERTO WILKINS, and as Guardian Ad Litem …
Brief • January 20, 2005
Downey v. CCA, VT, Complaint, guard prisoner assault, 2005 01/20/2005 11:21 FAX 616 306 7333 II II =1"),.. ...u.lb STATE OF VE ONT ADDISON COUNTY, SS. ADDISON SUPERIOR COURT DO. T NO. BARRETT C. DOWNEY V. I: CORRECTIONS CORPORATION ;1 OF AMERICA CO LAINT NOW COMES Plaintiff Barrett C. Downey, …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Florida's Private Prison Industry Corporation Under Siege by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As early as 1980, drugstore mogul Jack Eckerd was convinced a private company could provide higher profits to Florida if it ran the state's Prison Industries. After Eckerd's lobbying of the Florida Legislature, that Legislature enacted …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Is There A Winning Argument Against Excessive Rates For Collect Calls From Prisoners? by John E Dannenberg by Madeline Severin, 25 Cardozo Law Review 1469, March, 2004 Review by John E. Dannenberg We all know about how prisons and jails conspire with telephone companies to bilk recipients of prisoner phone …
Texas "Gang Expert" Indicted for Sex Assaults by On June 17, 2004, top Texas prison administrator Salvador "Sammy" Buentello was indicted on felony charges that he sexually assaulted three female employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). A week earlier Buentello had been indicted on four misdemeanor charges …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of 2005. The year is starting pretty much the way it ended in terms of political progress for prisoners' rights: not very good at all. The ongoing, simmering outrage of the abuse of Iraqi and Afghan prisoners by the …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Ex-Rikers Island Chief Indicted by Anthony Serra, formerly the second in command at the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC), has been indicted for felony grand larceny and 145 counts of misdemeanor violations of the Conflict of Interest Law. He faces up to 15 years in prison for the …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Massachusetts Court Enjoins Sheriff from Charging Jail Prisoners Assorted Fees by Michael Rigby Massachusetts Court Enjoins Sheriff from Charging Jail Prisoners Assorted Fees by Michael Rigby The sheriff of Bristol County, Massachusetts, has been enjoined from gouging prisoners and their families on jail service fees in accordance with his Inmate …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Misidentification Requires Washington Jail Officials Take Reasonable Steps to Confirm Identity by The Washington State Supreme Court has held jail personnel have a duty to take steps to promptly release a detainee once they know or should know, based on information provided to them that the person they are holding …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Texas Supreme Court clarifies Procedures For Civil Court Prisoner Appearances by Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Procedures For Civil Court Prisoner Appearances by Matthew T. Clarke The Supreme Court of Texas recently clarified the procedures a prisoner must follow to secure the right to personally appear in a civil court proceeding. …
Uprisings at CCA Prisons Reveal Weaknesses in Out-of-State Imprisonment Policies by by Matthew T. Clarke States strapped by tight budgets and pressed by a swell of prisoners are faced with the Hobson's choice of releasing prisoners early to ease overcrowding or building prisons they can ill afford to construct and …
Colorado DOC Report: CCA At Fault for Crowley Uprising by by Matthew T. Clarke On October 12, 2004, the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) issued an extensive, 179-page After Action Report on the July 20, 2004, riot at the Crowley County Correctional Facility (CCCF) which is run by Corrections Corporation …
City Settles In Death of Prisoner at CCA-Operated Tulsa Jail by The City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has agreed to settle its part in a federal lawsuit over the death of a Native American prisoner in the Tulsa Jail. According to the November 7, 2003 settlement, the city will pay the …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Gift Subscription Ban by The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the Kansas Department of Corrections' (KDOC) rule IMPP 11-101, which prohibits prisoners from receiving gift subscriptions to magazines and newspapers, does not violate the prisoners' constitutional rights under the First Amendment. Reversing the Kansas Court of …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Non-Contact Visits for Pennsylvania Sex Offenders Upheld by The Pennsylvania Court of Appeals held that a convicted sex offender confined at the State Correctional Institution at Waymart (SCI-Waymart) did not have a right to contact visits with minor children. Jeffrey Garber, a prisoner of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
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Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison by David C Fathi Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison by Lorna A. Rhodes, University of California Press, 2004 (329 pages, $19.95). Reviewed by David C. Fathi Like chain gangs and boot camps before them, "supermax" …
Gang Validation in Retaliation for Filing Grievances Is Actionable by Marvin Mentor The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a state prisoner stated a valid claim under the First Amendment when he claimed that in retaliation for his having filed several grievances, prison officials revisited previously rejected gang …
Verdict for Other Defendants Cannot Negate Jury Question of Warden's Liability in Transsexual's Assault by John E Dannenberg Section 1983 May Be Used To Challenge Disciplinary Hearings Not Affecting Total Length of Confinement by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals joined four other circuits in holding …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Don't Build It Here - The Hype Versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment by Clayton Mosher Don't Build it Here - The Hype Versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment by Clayton Mosher, Gregory Hooks, and Peter Wood Fueled by the war on drugs, Draconian sentencing policies, …
Washington Jail Settles Wrongful Death Suit For $1.6 Million by Michael Rigby On October 12, 2004, Jefferson County, Washington, agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit arising from the wrongful death of Kevin Bledsoe in the Jefferson County Jail. The settlement is one of the largest ever for …
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