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Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
California Communities Made Less Safe as Sex Offender Housing Restrictions More Strictly Enforced by Michael Brodheim A December 2008 report by the California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) has found that increased enforcement of laws adopted to protect communities from registered sex offenders has had the unintended effect of making …
Soft Porn, Bribery and Jailed Millionaire Make for a Dangerous Mix by Brandon Sample In April 2007, Joe Francis, 36, the multi-millionaire founder of the popular soft porn Girls Gone Wild videos – which consist of young women exposing themselves at parties, clubs and spring break – was charged with …
Former High-Ranking CIA Official Imprisoned for Corruption by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When the CIA wanted to build secret prisons outside the United States where terrorism suspects could be tortured with impunity, it turned to Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, who ran the agency’s main European supply base in Frankfurt, Germany. …
Texas Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Ex-Prisoner’s Religious Halfway House by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 19, 2009, the Texas Supreme Court held that a city zoning ordinance which effectively banned a religious halfway house in the City of Sinton violated the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act …
$2.4 Million Settlement in Children’s Death Caused by California Jail Guard’s Driving by A $2.4 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit involving three children being killed in an automobile accident caused by a California jail guard on the way to work. As Tulare County guard Joseph D. Armstrong …
$1.95 Million Awarded to New Hampshire Guards Falsely Accused of Assaulting Prisoner by David Reutter A New Hampshire jury awarded two former prison guards nearly $2 million upon finding that two of their co-workers had lied about a confrontation with a prisoner, which resulted in their firing. After guards Shawn …
Guantanamo’s Youngest Prisoner Can’t Be Tried, Won’t be Released by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke By July 2002, Omar Khadr, a skinny l5-year-old boy born in Toronto, Canada, had become a radical Muslim militant. He received his first training in an Al-Qaeda camp at the tender age of twelve. To …
Education for Persons in Detention—A Human Right by Jimmy Franks The positive correlation between increased education and lowered recidivism rates is a long-established fact. Even so, governments worldwide are not always willing or even able to insure that the men, women and children housed in various detention facilities are given …
Four Pennsylvania Jail Guards Fired, Two Resign Over Prisoner Beating by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Four Pennsylvania guards have been fired for beating a prisoner at the Westmoreland County Prison (WCP). The June 8, 2009 incident revealed a cover-up orchestrated by prison guards and their union leader. When …
District Court May Order Martinez Report, Ninth Circuit Holds by A federal district court has the discretion to order the preparation of a Martinez report, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decide. Robert Tuzon, an Arizona prisoner, sued various state prison officials alleging that (1) staff had …
Washington Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Parole for Sex Offender Who Refuses to Admit Guilt by In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of Washington state, sitting en banc, upheld the denial of parole for an untreated sex offender. Richard J. Dyer was convicted of abducting and repeatedly raping two …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
Filed under: Drug Testing, Sentencing, Bail
Washington Pretrial Release UAs Invalidated by In three consolidated criminal cases, the Court of Appeals for Washington state held that a standard pretrial release condition requiring weekly urinalysis (UA) tests was inappropriate. Washington residents Amber Dee Rose, Danielle Wilson and Kevin Wentz were charged with criminal offenses. The state recommended …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
Second Circuit Establishes Anonymous Pleading Standards by by Mark Wilson In a case of first impression, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals established standards governing the use of pseudonyms in civil litigation. The Court endorsed the Ninth Circuit’s test of balancing a plaintiff’s interest in anonymity against the public’s interest …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoner’s Failure-to-Protect Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s failure-to-protect suit, though the case lost at trial after remand. Ernesto R. Hinojosa, Sr., a Texas state prisoner, was housed in …
Reversal of Summary Judgment to BOP Doctor Accused of Deliberate Indifference by Brandon Sample The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reversed a grant of summary judgment to a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) doctor accused of denying a death row prisoner needed eye surgery. Arboleda Ortiz, a …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by California: On June 29, 2009, Richard Henry Kase, 41, was sentenced to 90 years to life for the first-degree murder of his cellmate, 28-year-old Randy James Rabelos, at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy. Kase repeatedly told Rabelos, a convicted child molester, to be quiet one …
Indeterminate Civil Commitment Provisions Do Not Apply Retroactively by The Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, has reversed and remanded with instructions to dismiss a Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) certification. Joseph Johnson, Jr., was convicted of rape and sentenced to 33 years in prison in 1980. In 2000, …
Inhumane Illinois Cell Conditions Defeat Summary Judgment by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that guards are not entitled to qualified immunity for confining a prisoner in inhumane conditions. That ruling came on the heels of a district court’s order granting summary judgment to two guards at Illinois’ …
Judge Rejects Privacy Suit By Former Prison Employee by Chief U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a former employee of the Utah Department of Corrections who had alleged that her privacy rights were violated. The lawsuit, filed by Lauren Barker, alleged that Kirk Dahl, a …
Los Angeles County Jail Agrees To Pay $900,000 to Settle Lawsuit over Inadequate Medical Care by Los Angeles County has agreed to pay $900,000 to a prisoner who lost his foot after staff at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) in California delayed processing a culture test that later …
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