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, serving 4 1/2 years on drug charges, was killed during a riot at the medium security Three Rivers Federal Correctional Institution. Twenty-two other prisoners were injured during the brawl, which reportedly ...
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
to be wrongfully incarcerated for 4 1/2 months as a result. The damage award was later reduced by almost half, but still represents an impressive outcome. Torry Smith, 22, and his girlfriend Patricia Gray lived ...
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
funds owing are not thus protected. The agreement provides that attorney fees of 33 1/3% of the $937,000 may be deducted from the prisoners’ settlement. In addition, the court awarded $325,000 ...
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
a business decision meant to avoid the potentially enormous costs of trials and appeals.” But how good a business decision is it to throw away $1 million of the taxpayers’ money when, if the county were ...
of Corrections’ supermax prison at Boscobel. [See, e.g., PLN, April 2002, p.1, Barbaric Conditions at Wisconsin Supermax Result in PI to Transfer Mentally Ill Prisoners]. The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ...
against unreasonable searches and seizures. See: Doe v. Prosecutor, Marion County, U.S.D.C., SD Ind., Case No. 1:08-cv-0436-DFH-TAB; 2008 WL 2600177. As states continue to enact more intrusive ...
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
.), Case No. 1:03-cv-21072-AJ. Townsend’s lawsuit against Broward County remains. That suit cites a “pattern and/or practice of misconduct” that dates back to the 1970s. Despite Townsend ...
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
. On October 1, 2008 the Supreme Court denied a petition for rehearing, and ordered only that a footnote be added to the original ruling relative to the penalty for rape under military law. See: Kennedy v ...
involving powder cocaine. The 100-to-1 statutory ratio between power and crack cocaine that results in disparate sentences for crack offenders has been hotly debated, including the racial element: Over 80 ...
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
McDonough was facing a system that was corrupt from the top down. [See: PLN, December 2006, pg 1]. Nearly half of FDOC’s 12,292 guards have less than five year’s experience. Many are sons ...
.” The best-behaved condemned prisoners (Grade A) may schedule 2 1/2 hour contact visits with friends and family; Grade B prisoners are restricted to non-contact visits. Since San Quentin’s ...
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
against Cook County, $1 million against the sheriff’s office, and $150,000 each against jail guards Jesus Facundo, Alex Sanchez and Terrance Toomey. U.S. District Court Judge Ruben Castillo told ...
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
for summary judgment. The Tenth Circuit found Roberts’ 3-year-and-one-day filing was timely under New Mexico’s controlling tolling statute, § 37-1-8, which provides three years to file suit ...
Article • January 15, 2009
with the question of “some evidence.” The court relied upon Superintendent v. Hill, 472 U.S. 1 (1979) for the proposition that because “some evidence” was the proper judicial review standard for prison disciplinary ...
are required to wait 1 to 2 hours to see detainees, guards will barge into a room, and detainees are often moved to other centers without notice to lawyers. The detainees consistently say ...
. A June 1, 2002 article indicated, however, that Stephens had been on parole since his December 1996 release from prison. On July 28, 2002, The Oregonian reported that Stephens had failed polygraph tests ...
to prison officials were not grievance appeals. The Sixth Circuit noted that Tennessee has two separate avenues for a prisoner’s grievance or complaint: (1) the grievance process and (2) the classification ...
Article • January 15, 2009
, the Court of Appeals affirmed the superior court’s ruling releasing Marquez from custody. See: In re Marquez, 153 Cal.App.4th 1 (Cal.App. 6th Dist. 2007), as modified, 2007 Cal. App. LEXIS 1298 (Cal.App. 6th ...
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
action are to be awarded $1,000 each. See: Hopkins v. Flores, Santa Clara County Superior Court Case No. 1-05-CV035647 (January 2008). Other source: San Jose Mercury News ...
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
levels or communication that are essential to suicide prevention: “1) between the sending institution/transporting officer and correctional staff; 2) between and among staff (including mental health ...
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