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New Jersey Comptroller Criticizes, Questions Halfway House Contracts by Derek Gilna In a June 15, 2011 letter and separate audit report, the New Jersey State Comptroller’s office sharply criticized a number of issues related to the Department of Corrections’ (DOC) contracts with private halfway houses. Singled out for special attention …
Missouri Court Finds Prisoner Phone Contract Bidding Process Unfair by On November 30, 2011, a Missouri circuit court held that adding optional services to the state’s prisoner telephone contract without putting those services out for competitive bidding would render the contract void. The court found the current contract was valid, …
Bacote v. FBOP, CO, Complaint, Treatment Inmates with Mental Illness, 2012 Case 1:12-cv-01570 Document 1 Filed 06/18/12 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 108 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. MICHAEL BACOTE, HAROLD CUNNINGHAM, JOHN W. NARDUCCI, JR., JEREMY PINSON, and ERNEST NORMAN …
Pennsylvania County Prisons Not Reporting Critical Incidents by The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) requires county prisons to submit monthly “extraordinary occurrence” reports as part of the department’s duty to inspect local lock-ups and identify deficiencies. However, the accuracy of the self-reported data has been faulty in some cases and …
PLN Public Records Suit Reveals Litigation Payouts for District of Columbia DOC by Alex Friedmann As the result of a Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News, litigation payouts in cases involving the District of Columbia’s prison system have been publicly disclosed. In January …
UNICOR Fraudsters Plead Guilty, Sentenced by A former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee and a former contractor were indicted and have pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud UNICOR, the prison industries arm of the BOP. The indictment, handed down by a grand jury in the Northern District of Florida, …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
New Director of Tennessee Corrections Institute Faces Conflict of Interest by The new executive director of the Tennessee Corrections Institute (TCI), an agency that oversees standards, inspections and certification of the state’s jails, faces an inherent conflict of interest in certifying the Wilson County Jail, as that county’s sheriff is …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Washington State Corrections Secretary Resigns Due to Affair with Subordinate by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Eldon Vail, the Secretary for the Washington Department of Corrections, submitted a letter of resignation on July 1, 2011 when it was publicly revealed that he had been having an affair with a subordinate. …
Alaska Supreme Court Resolves Jail Funding Fight by The Alaska Supreme Court held that the State's duty to house prisoners in the Kotzebue Regional Jail ceased when the contract between the City and State expired, but it owed a continuing duty to transport prisoners to court. "Built in 1988, the …
Vega v. Davis, CO, Complaint, Inmate Suicide, 2012 Case 1:12-cv-01144-RPM Document 1 Filed 05/01/12 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 12 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. RAYMOND VEGA, on behalf of Jose Martin Vega, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. BLAKE R. DAVIS and certain …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Mississippi Oversight Committee Finds Fault in Operation of Prison Canteens by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In June 2011, the Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review (PEER) issued a report to the Mississippi legislature concerning the state’s prison canteen contract, the operation and oversight of that …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
New York City DOC Jail Official Resigns Amid Corruption Probe by An alleged abuse of authority, in the form of favoritism, has led to the resignation of the second-highest ranked jail official with the New York City Department of Corrections (NYCDOC), Chief Larry Davis, Sr. An investigation into Davis resulted …
Maine Prison Warden’s Purchase of State Property Voided by Maine’s Attorney General has declared a real estate deal between the state and Maine State Prison Warden Patricia Barnhart and her partner, Sheehan Gallagher, void. The transaction involved three houses and about five acres of land near the prison. Barnhart was …
Former Oregon Prison Official Faces Ethics Probe by In March 2011, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,000-a-year job as an assistant administrator for the Health Services Division of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). Three days earlier he had been hired by Correctional Health Partners (CHP), a private medical …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Washington DOC Employee Faces Ethics Complaint for Running Non-Profits on State Time Using State Resources by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2005, Washington Department of Corrections Secretary Harold Clarke reprimanded DOC employee Belinda D. Stewart for selling Avon products to her co-workers at the Purdy women’s prison after she …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
North Carolina Warden Charged With Obstruction in Beating Coverup by Richard L. Neely, the former warden at Lanesboro Correctional Institution, was charged in April 2011 with obstruction of justice, a Class H felony, for withholding or ordering the destruction of evidence relevant to an investigation at the prison. Neely became …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
BOP Evidence-Handling “Grave Miscarriage of Justice”; Charges Dismissed by Federal Judge by On March 18, 2011, a federal judge in Oregon dismissed criminal charges against a federal prisoner due to mishandling of evidence by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In August 2009, BOP prisoner Jose Sanchez-Arce, 32, and another …
Article • November 15, 2011
$7.25 Million Settlement over New York DOC Guard's Suicide Attempt by The City of New York Department of Corrections (CNYDC) reached a $7.25 million settlement with a former guard who alleged she was negligently allowed to retain the department issued firearm that she used for an attempted suicide. Both parties …
Brief • September 24, 2011
Johnson v. Stapp, FL, Interrogatories to Defendant William Churchwell, DOC Misconduct, 2011 Plaintiff’s First Interrogatories to Defendant William Churchwell Defendant William Churchwell will be referred to herein as “Defendant or “you.” Department of Corrections is “Department” and Northwest Florida Reception Center is “Prison.” The date of the matter sued upon …
Brief • September 24, 2011
Johnson v. Stapp, FL, Interrogatories to Defendant John Hassett, DOC Misconduct, 2011 Plaintiff’s First Interrogatories to Defendant William Churchwell Defendant William Churchwell will be referred to herein as “Defendant or “you.” Department of Corrections is “Department” and Northwest Florida Reception Center is “Prison.” The date of the matter sued upon …
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