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Ohio Prison Supervisors Possibly Liable for Employing Known Racist Guard by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment to Ohio prison officials and remanded for trial a case involving alleged official indifference to the actions of a known racist guard. The appeals …
U.S. Cited for Human Rights Violations by Gary Hunter ( On May 15, 2001, at a human rights conference in Geneva, the United States was denounced for its inhumane and discriminatory practices. Amnesty International and the U.N. Committee Against Torture cited the U.S. for oppressive tactics by both public law …
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
New York Assault and Medical Case Settled for $5,000 by On August 28, 2001, New York state prison officials agreed to pay $5,000.00 to settle a prisoner's lawsuit that he was beaten by prison guards and then denied medical care. In 1993, prisoner Easton Beckford, who is also wheelchair bound, …
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Oregon Jail Settles Taser Suit for $197,000 by In December 2000, the Clackamas county jail in Oregon settled a lawsuit with Stephen J. Thom for $197,000. On July 24, 2000, Thom, who suffered brain damage in a 1981 accident, was drunk and brought to the jail's booking section. While he …
$377,500 Awarded in Tennessee Jail Death by In September 2001, a federal jury in Memphis, Tennessee, awarded $377,500 in damages to the estate of a mentally ill jail prisoner killed by guards. In November 1996, Calvin Shaw, a paranoid schizophrenic, was arrested on sexual assault charges and imprisoned at the …
Former CCA Captain and Texas Probation Officer Pleads Guilty by On October 25, 2001, Jason Driskell, 27, a former captain at the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) operated Whiteville Correctional Facility (WCF) in Tennessee, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges in federal court. Driskell admitted that in 1999 he …
"Barbaric Conditions" At Wisconsin Supermax Result in Preliminary Injunction To Transfer Mentally Ill Prisoners by John E Dannenberg "Barbaric Conditions" At Wisconsin Supermax Result in Preliminary Injunction To Transfer Mentally Ill Prisoners by John Dannenberg Noting that the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause protects the mental health of …
Prison Guards Face Resentencing Dilemma in Beating Death of New York Jail Prisoner by Prison Guards Face Resentencing Dilemma In Beating Death Of New York Jail Prisoner by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the federal criminal civil rights sentences of the Nassau …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
Angola Prisoner Wins $1.5 Million Verdict Against Five Guards for Assault by Lonnie Burton In January 2001, pro se prisoner John Poullard won a $1.5 million judgment against five guards who beat him in retaliation for other lawsuits and complaints he had previously filed. Poullard, who is serving time at …
PLRA Protects Lawless Guards Accused in Prisoner Beating by A lawsuit filed by a federal prisoner in Colorado provides a clear example of how the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) protects lawless prison guards from the consequences of their blatantly illegal actions. William Vance Turner is a Federal Bureau of …
Death Toll Hits 87 as Turkish Prison Protest Strike Continues by Julia Lutsky On November 4, 2001, Turkish police used armored vehicles to batter down the barricades protesters had erected in Kucakarmutlu, an outlying district on the European side of Istanbul. The semi-official news agency Anatolia reported four protesters had …
Stun Gun, Four-Point Restraint Use Curtailed in Virginia Prisons by Because Connecticut's prisons were overfull, Lawrence Frazier was sent to Virginia to serve his time. He didn't go home alive. He died in a Richmond hospital of cardiac arrhythmia after prison guards repeatedly shocked him with an Ultron II stun …
BOP Settles Prisoner Beating/Restraint Lawsuit for $99,000 by BOP Settles Prisoner Beating/Restraint Lawsuit For $99,000 In the summer of 1997, Lealon Muldrow was incarcerated in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) of the United States Penitentiary (USP) at Atlanta .On July 1 of that year, Muldrow was threatened with being chained …
Hitching Post Unconstitutional by David Reutter The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has held that handcuffing a prisoner to a hitching post for prolonged periods violates the Eighth Amendment, but granted guards qualified immunity. Alabama prisoner Larry Hope was assigned to the chain gang at Limestone Correctional Facility …
Ohio Appeals Court Allows Prisoner's Request for Past Work Information on Guards by The Fourth District Court of Appeals of Ohio has reversed the decision of the Pickaway County Court of Common Pleas denying a prisoner's request for specific work information relating to two guards in the Department of Rehabilitation …
Allen v. Rouse, MA, Third Amended Complaint, Class Action Medical Neglect and Excessive Force, 2002 (Part 2) -, Case 1:00-cv-10981-RWZ Document 53 Filed 03/14/2002 Page 1 of 121 ~ , ' " "l I UNITED STATES DISTRICT COu;RT. IN THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS " . i ; :,.,; iii i:) …
Brief • February 20, 2002
Turner v. Schultz, CO, Opinion and Order, Guard Assault in Prison, 2002 187 F.Supp.2d 1288 (2002) William Vance TURNER, Plaintiff, v. Officer Roderick SCHULTZ, Officer Michael Lavallee, Officer James Bond, Lieutenant David D. Armstrong, Lieutenant FNU King, Captain M. Mooneyham, Assistant Warden Greco, Warden Joel H. Knowles, Lieutenant Rowe, Lieutenant …
PLRA Constitutional, Most of Ruiz Relief Terminated in Texas Suit by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the constitutionality of the termination provisions of the PLRA, 18 U.S.C. § 3626. On remand, the district court terminated most of the relief previously ordered in the Ruiz case. This involves …
No Qualified Immunity for Shackling Prisoner to Hospital Bed by Gregory May, a Cook County, Illinois, prisoner, filed a suit against the Sheriff and Sheriff's Department officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging their treatment of prisoners taken to Cook County Hospital is unconstitutional and violates the Americans with Disabilities …
Qualified Immunity Granted at Summary Judgment Stage in Prison Shooting Suit by John E Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that California prison guards who shot one prisoner in the neck during a yard riot, while allegedly aiming at another prisoner, were entitled to qualified immunity from …
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