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$235,000 Awarded to CCA Prisoner in Medical Suit by On March 23, 2001, a federal jury in Memphis, Tennessee, awarded Tennessee state prisoner Charles Degan $235,000 in damages in a medical neglect suit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the world's largest private, for profit, prison company. In 1998 Degan's …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Escapes
BOP Imposter Scheme Discovered by For more than a year, the BOP had an imposter in its midst officials discover last October. One man paid another to do his time and the BOP remained clueless until the imposter escaped. After pleading guilty to a charge of receiving proceeds from a …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Book Review: Capital Crimes by Allen N Huxley by George Winslow, Monthly Review Press (1999), 360 pages Review by Allen N. Huxley Crime dominates the news, arouses fear and anger among the mass media-consuming public, and oils the rhetorical machinery of opportunistic politicians. Yet for all of the moralizing, finger …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Washington Prisoners' Out-of-State Transfer Upheld by The Washington Supreme Court held that the Department of Corrections (DOC) possessed statutory authority to transfer nearly 400 prisoners to an outofstate, private prison. In March of 1999, DOC transferred 254 prisoners to the Correctional Services Corporation run Crowley County Correctional Facility in Olney …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Defendants' Attorney Fee Award Must Be Supported by Record by The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit held that district courts who award civil rights defendants attorney fees must explain the basis for the award. G. Sam Houston is a Colorado prisoner convicted of assorted sex crimes against children. …
PLRA Physical Injury Rule Applies to ADA Claims by The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) rule of requiring physical injury applies to damage claims brought under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Richard …
New Jersey Detainees Entitled to Medical Care by A federal district court in New Jersey held that material issues of fact precluded summary judgment on a former prisoner's claim that he was denied adequate medical care. The court also rejected defendants' claim of qualified immunity. Dana Andrews, a former prisoner …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Massachusetts Disenfranchises its Prisoners by Massachusetts Disenfranchises Its Prisoners by Peter Wagner On November 7, 2000, by a 2 to 1 margin, Massachusetts disenfranchised its prisoners with a constitutional amendment called Question 2. Question 2 marked the first time that the Massachusetts constitution had been amended to take away rights …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Lack of "Volitional Control" Required for Civil Commitment of Kansas Sex Offenders; S.Ct. Grants Review by Lack of "Volitional Control" Required for Civil Commitment of Kansas Sex Offenders; S.Ct. Grants Review The Kansas Supreme Court has held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires proof of a …
Arkansas Guards Indicted for Shocking Prisoners by Arkansas Guards Indicted For Shocking Prisoners On February 7, 2001, criminal charges were filed in a federal District Court in Arkansas against 6 former guards who beat handcuffed prisoners and shocked them with a stungun and a cattle prod. On January 7, 1998, …
Texas Prisoner Takes Hostages by On January 5th at approximately 10:30 pm a Texas prisoner used a fake gun to back down an armed guard and hold an entire SWAT team at bay for over an hour. Dekenya Nelson used a hairbrush, soap, a deodorant bottle, and pages from the …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Filed under: Furloughs, Medical, Dental Care
Detainee Entitled to Dental Care by Detainee Entitled To Dental Care A New York federal district Court ruled the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) must provide detainee Melvin Lloyd Richards immediate dental care or release him. Richards was remanded to custody after convicted by a jury on January 17, 2000. Thereafter, …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Filed under: Work, Workplace Injury, Damages
New York Prisoner Wins $7,200 in Negligence Suit by New York Prisoner Wins $7,200 In Negligence Suit On January 31, 2000, the Court of Claims in Binghamton, New York awarded $7,200 in damages to Kenneth Edmonds, who was injured in an accident while he was working on a prison work …
Court to Determine if Louisiana Must Treat Male and Female Prisoners Equally by The court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that the issue of whether Louisiana violated the Equal Protection Clause by treating female prisoners more favorable than male prisoners cannot be resolved at the motion to …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
$9.5 Million Awarded in Prisoner Van Fire Death by $9.5 Million Awarded In Prisoner Van Fire Death In late February 2001, Kathryn Catalano received a $9.5 million jury award in a Tennessee U.S. District Court. She sued after her father died in an extradition van fire. Federal Extradition Agency (FEA) …
Trial Required in Arizona Uprising Suit by The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court decision granting summary judgment to prison officials in a case involving the treatment of prisoners following a prison uprising. In 1995 the Graham Unit of the Arizona State Prison in Safford, …
New York City Settles Black Panther Frame Up Suit for $890,000 by Roger Smith On December 5, 2000, New York City officials agreed to settle Dhoruba alMujahid bin Wahad's wrongful imprisonment suit for $490,000 in damages, costs, and attorney fees. Wahad, a former Black Panther leader, was convicted of attempted …
$1.4 Million Awarded to Raped Alaska Women Prisoners by $1.4 Million Awarded To Raped Alaska Women Prisoners On January 22, 2001 an Anchorage, Alaska superior court jury awarded nearly $1.4 million to five women in a civil action arising from their being sexually assaulted by a guard at an Anchorage …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Kansas Conditional Release Is Mandatory by Kansas Conditional Release is Mandatory The Kansas state court of appeals held that the parole hoard could not rescind parole revocation and convert it to a conditional release revocation. The court also held that the retroactive application of a rule governing withholding of good …
Brief • July 10, 2001
Filed under: Medical
Mitchell v. US, MO, Complaint, Deficient Medical Care, 2001
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