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Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law by Sam Rutherford by Stephen Elias and Susan Levinkind Legal Research does exactly what its title indicates; it explains how to find and understand the law. The book is written in easy to understand language, while imparting a vast amount of …
Summary Judgment Denied on BOP Excessive Force Claims by The Federal District Court in Kansas has denied summary judgment on a prisoner's claims of excessive force. The Court also held guards were not entitled to qualified immunity on these claims. In 1997, Felmon Laury was placed in the Special Housing …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Denial of Religious Diet Violates First Amendment by The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that prison officials' denial of a religious diet violated the First Amendment by substantially burdening a state prisoner's religious beliefs. Arkansas state prisoner Kelvin Love is a self-proclaimed adherent of the "Hebrew religion." …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Virginia Excessive Force Claim Set for Trial by A federal district court in Virginia denied Deputy Sheriff F.C. Bruce's motion to dismiss a claim brought by Kelvin Watford in which Watford complained that Bruce assaulted him, resulting in "bruising, scarring, and swelling." The Court discussed " de minimis injury" and …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State by Hans Sherrer by Jim Redden, Feral House, 2001, 235 pages Snitch Culture is a timely examination of how personal and technological snitching is used by the state and by private organizations, in conjunction with informational …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Rhode Island Prison Strip Searches Struck Down by The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has held that two Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) policies routinely subjecting all males committed to the state prison to strip searches and visual body cavity searches are not reasonable under Bell v …
Failure to Protect Confidential Informant Not Deliberate Indifference by The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the conduct of a county, when housing a prisoner with another prisoner against whom he had acted as a confidential informant, did not rise to the level of an Eighth Amendment …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Suits Claiming Racial Discrimination Plague Florida Prisons by Gary Hunter Citing incidents dating back to 1993, over 100 current and past employees are suing the Florida DOC for perpetuating a "long standing custom or policy of racial discrimination." What began as two law suits in December 1999 increased to four …
Private Prison Woes in Ohio by Gary Hunter Less than two years after it opened, the second privately operated prison in the state of Ohio is already in trouble. CiviGenics, a private prison company out of Massachusetts, has succumbed to pressure applied by the state employees union. On January 10, …
BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm by In October, 2000, federal prison guards Troy Kemmerer and Todd Swineford were arrested and indicted for accepting money to help smuggle cryogenic sperm kits to a New York City fertility clinic. The investigation began over two years ago when convicted hit man Kevin Granato sat …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
'Invisible' Prisoner Gets $36,200 for Wrongful Imprisonment by A Mississippi man who was improperly jailed for nearly 10 months because of a "bureaucratic snafu" was awarded just $36,200 by a federal jury in Jackson, Mississippi in October 2000. Joseph Jones, a Jackson mechanic, was stopped by a state patrol officer …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Oklahoma Governor Takes Entrepreneur's Bribe by Oklahoma officials are investigating the propriety of $240,000 in cash gifts given to that State's governor, Frank Keating. Jack Dreyfus, an entrepreneur who hopes to convince Oklahoma prison officials to use Dilantin (a seizure medication) to control violent prisoners, made the gifts. After receiving …
FPI Has Sovereign Immunity in Fraud Action by The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI) is entitled to sovereign immunity in a qui tam suit brought under the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq. Gilbert W. Galvan, a federal …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Washington Supreme Court Upholds 35% Seizure Law by Roger Smith Washington Supreme Court Upholds 35% Seizure Law; But Prisoners Entitled To Interest From Mandatory Savings Accounts The Washington Supreme Court has declared RCW § 72.09.480 to be constitutional. The statute directs the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) to seize 35% …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
No Workers' Compensation for Ohio Slave Laborers by Gary Hunter An attempt by Ohio prisons to manufacture items for retail business had to be cancelled because it could not provide Workers' Compensation insurance for prisoners. State Inspector General Thomas P. Charles says the state is not at fault. Rather, the …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Former BOP Prisoner Settles Medical Suit for $355,000 by Lonnie Burton The federal government wrote Terry Dean Scearce a check for $355,000 in November, 2000, to settle his claim that he suffered a stroke in 1998 because prison officials did not give him the medicine prescribed to treat his high …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
New York Prisoners Prosecuted by Gary Hunter The prosecution of prisoners in Greene County New York is a high priority for District Attorney Terry Wilhelm. In the first nine months of his tenure, Wilhelm secured 23 indictments from the Greene and Coxsackie Correctional Facilities. His predecessor, Ed Cloke, prosecuted only …
Brief • September 6, 2001
Filed under: Jail Specific
Bassil v. District of Columbia, DC, Judgment, Class Action, Bacteria Outbreak, 2001 ~ ..... ,. , .~ " I . . I ... UNITED s:.r-ATES DISI-RleT.COURT- -. FILEr . .--. SEP (; ··if.·OO·l FOR THEDISTRICTOFCOLUMBIA -tJANCYMAYER WHITTINGTON CI U.S. V1STRICT COURT' ROBERT BASSIL, et al., Plaintiffs v. Civil Action No. …
Brief • August 27, 2001
Filed under: Medical
Wood v. US, FL, Complaint, Deficient Medical Care, 2001
Brief • August 24, 2001
Meeks v. District of Columbia, DC, Release, Prisoner Assault, 2001 RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Darnell Meeks, DCDC No 260-177 (SSN: ..... DOB 02/14/69 residing at Central Facility P.O. Box 25, Lorton, VA 22199, for consideration of the sum of Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00), lawful money …
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