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Article • August 15, 2013
Indiana Overcrowding Suit Certified as Class Action; Grievances Specific Enough to Satisfy PLRA by A federal court in Indiana certified a jail overcrowding case as a class action. It also found that Plaintiff adequately exhausted his claims. In January, 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana brought suit …
LA Prison Conditions Held Unconstitutional by In 1973, Hayes Williams and three other Louisiana state prisoners filed suit in federal district court claiming that the Angola prison was being run in violation of the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment in the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The allegations …
Article • August 15, 2013
Massachusetts Jail Subject to Department of Public Health Inspections and Regulations by Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court has held that the Department of Public Health has authority to implement regulations on isolation unit conditions, and the Attorney General can file a civil action to require a sheriff to comply with those …
Ninth Circuit Upholds BOP Boot Camp Termination by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) did not violate the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) or a prisoner’s constitutional rights when it terminated its boot camp program. Congress passed a law in 1990, authorizing BOP …
Article • August 15, 2013
California: Court Upholds Governor’s Authority to Contract with Out-of-State Private Prisons during Prison Overcrowding State of Emergency by The California Court of Appeal held in 2008 that Governor Schwarzenegger did not exceed his authority when, after invoking the Emergency Services Act (Gov. Code § 8550 et seq.) to issue a …
Article • August 15, 2013
Closure Proper Remedy if Court’s Order Balked by Officials by The First Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a district court has the authority to order a jail or prison closed if its order to correct constitutional violations is not complied with. This civil rights action was brought by …
Article • August 15, 2013
$5,001 Paid for Failing to Protect Florida Prisoner by While held at Florida’s Martin Correctional Institution in January 1992, the plaintiff prisoner was attacked by two prisoners, sustaining serious stab wounds to the head, face, shoulders, as well as multiple minor injuries, along with a broken dental plate. Plaintiff alleged …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Federal Court Orders California to Release 9,600 More Prisoners by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On June 20, 2013, a plainly frustrated three-judge federal court not only told California officials that they shall comply with the court's prior order to reduce the state's prison population to 137.5% of design …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Seventh Circuit: Health Hazard without Physical Injury Can State a Claim by On September 27, 2012, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a prisoner's lawsuit, but noted that seemingly de minimis harm from a vermin infestation may state a cognizable claim. Illinois prisoner Calvin Thomas filed …
Article • August 15, 2013
Comingling of Meanest and Greenest Prisoners Ordered to Cease in Maryland Prisons by A Maryland federal district court ordered prison officials at the Maryland State Penitentiary and the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center (MRDCC) to devise an efficient classification system to identify prisoners at risk of rape, and to …
Brief • August 9, 2013
Filed under: Overcrowding
Brown v. Plata, CA, S.Ct. Jurisdictional Statement, Prison System Overcrowding, 2013 QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the three-judge district court erred in applying this Court’s mandate in Brown v. Plata, 131 S. Ct. 1910 (2011), and the legal standards governing vacatur or modification of injunctive relief. 2. Whether changed circumstances require …
Brief • August 9, 2013
Gray v. County of Riverside, CA, Req for Prod of Docs, Jail Health Care, 2013 1 AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP SHAWN HANSON (SBN 109321) 2 AMIT KURLEKAR (SBN 244230) NICHOLAS GREGORY (SBN 275582) 3 KELSEY MORRIS (SBN 277859) SAURISH BHATTACHARJEE (SBN 286264) 4 580 California Street, Suite …
Kelly v. Wengler, ID, Dft's Hearing Brief Opposing Sanctions, CCA Failure to Protect, 2013 Case 1:11-cv-00185-EJL Case 1:11-cv-00185-EJL Document Document 41 *SEALED* 69 Filed 08/16/13 Filed 06/11/13 Page 1 Page of 8 1 of 8 STEPHEN L. PEVAR American Civil Libeliies Union Foundation 330 Main Street, First Floor Hartford, Connecticut …
Brief • August 1, 2013
Boyd v. Godinez, IL, Class Cert. Memo, Overcrowding and Inhumane Conditions, 2013 Case 3:12-cv-00704-JPG-PMF Document 34 Filed 08/01/13 Page 1 of 20 Page ID #155 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS BENTON DIVISION MICHAEL BOYD, PAUL LEE and KENDRICK PEARSON, on behalf of themselves …
Brief • August 1, 2013
Boyd v. Godinez, IL, Motion for Class Cert., Overcrowding and Inhumane Conditions, 2013 Case 3:12-cv-00704-JPG-PMF Document 33 Filed 08/01/13 Page 1 of 4 Page ID #151 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS BENTON DIVISION MICHAEL BOYD, PAUL LEE and KENDRICK PEARSON, on behalf of …
Jennings v. Fuller, MI, complaint, injuries from jail brutality, 2013 2:13-cv-13308-AC-RSW Doc # 1 Filed 08/01/13 Pg 1 ofCounty 9 inPg ID 1 which action arose _G_en_e_s_ee____ CIVIL COVER SHEET (Rev. 12/12) 12/12) JS 44 44 (Rev. County in which action arose Genesee The JS 44 civil civil cover sheet …
Kelly v. Wengler, ID, Order on Motion to Unseal, CCA Failure to Protect, 2013 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO JOSHUA KELLY, JOSE PIÑA, ANDREW IBARRA, RAY BARRIOS, RANDY ENZIMINGER, MICHAEL MIERA, PRISONER A, and PRISONER F, Individually and on behalf of a class of all other …
Cofer v. Bryan County, OK, Post Conviction Order - Convictions Vacated, Jail Abuse - Mental Illness, 2013 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF BRYAN COUNTY STATE OF OKLAHOMA FILED State of Oklahoma, Plaintiff/Respondent, vs. Thomas Cofer, Defendant/Petitioner. BRYAN COUNlr, OKLAHOMA. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) DISTRICT COURT CLERK JUL …
Saylor v. Nebraska, NE, 2nd Amended Complaint, PTSD Prisoner Sexual Assault, 2013 4:12-cv-03115-JFB-TDT Doc # 113 Filed: 07/18/13 Page 1 of 30 - Page ID # 750 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA JAMES SAYLOR, Plaintiff, vs. STATE OF NEBRASKA, NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, …
Third Circuit: Prison Officials Liable for Failing to Protect Informant by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held on September 24, 2012 that prison officials may be held liable for failing to protect an informant held in a Special Housing Unit (SHU). The appellate court affirmed in part and reversed …
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