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Valdes Murder Witness Exiled, Muzzled by On the cover of the October 1999 PLN was an article describing the July 9, 1999 beating death of "X-Wing" prisoner Frank Valdes at the hands of Florida State Prison (FSP) guards. The day of the killing Valdes' partner and fellow X-Wing prisoner William …
Beaten Attica Prisoner Awarded $70,000 by After a two-week trial during July 1999, a jury ruled in favor of plaintiff Wayne Ford and awarded him $70,000 in a suit against Attica guards for using excessive force. Wayne, 32, who acted as his own attorney through much of the proceedings, said …
Maximum Security University, edited by Tom Quinn (Book and Video Review) by Paul Wright Video Review by Bob Fischer and Janet Stanton Maximum Security University is a 48 minute video production by California Prison Focus depicting the deaths of four prisoners shot by guards during the notorious gladiator fights at …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
CDC Settles Corcoran Shooting Suit for $2.2 Million by In May, 1999, the California Department of Corrections (CDC), announced it would pay $2.2 million to settle a shooting lawsuit by former prisoner Vincent Tulumis. Earlier this year the CDC settled the Corcoran shooting death lawsuit by the estate of Preston …
CSC Cancels Florida Juvenile Facility Contract by Correctional Services Corp. (CSC) announced Aug. 23, 1999 that it was withdrawing from an $8.7 million-a-year contract to operate the Pahokee Youth Development Center, a 350 bed Florida juvenile facility, 8 months before the contract is due to expire. The announcement came six …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
Virginia Juvenile Dies of Accidental Heart Attack by Dan Pens The state police were phoned and asked to send a trooper to formally charge Dandridge with assault. Meanwhile, Oak Ridge officials say, the youth was observed every five minutes through his cell door window. Nobody went into the cell to …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
Pelican Bay Guard Indicted in Shooting by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely For the second time in less than two years, a California prison has become the target of a U.S. Justice department investigation. In part of what is expected to be a wider civil rights prosecution, a federal grand …
New Jersey Jail Settles Chemical Burn Suit for $900,000 by On April 20, 1999, Atlantic County, New Jersey, paid $900,000 to settle a lawsuit involving extensive chemical burns suffered by a prisoner forced to do calisthenics in a pit filled with caustic chemicals. David Zamot was a non violent offender …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
Punitive Shackling Without a Hearing Okay by The court of appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that it does not violate the Eighth or Fourteenth amendment to chain and shackle a prisoner in his cell for 24 hours without first providing for a hearing or an opportunity to be heard. …
Trial Required in Jail Attack by A federal district court in New York held that a trial was required to resolve disputed issues of material fact where a jail guard was accused of assaulting a detainee. The court also held that the county could not be held liable for a …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Filed under: Excessive Force, Shootings
California Changes Shooting Policy by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely In the past ten years, California prison guards have shot and killed 39 prisoners, wounding over 200, with high powered rifles. Nearly all of the shootings involved attempts to break up unarmed fist fights--- a practice unique among all other …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
$7,000 Award to Prisoner Shoved by Guard while Praying by $7,000 Award to Prisoner Shoved by Guard While Praying A federal district court in New York has awarded $7,000 in damages to a muslim prisoner who, while he was praying, was shoved from behind by a guard. Generoso Arroyo Lopez, …
Corcoran Bad Apple Rehired by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely Bruce Farris, the former Corcoran State Prison associate warden fired for allowing guards to beat, kick, and stomp 36 black prisoners, was reinstated April 6, 1999, in a rare Personnel Board reversal of an earlier administrative judge's decision. Farris was …
Brief • November 15, 1999
Von Collin v. County of Ventura, CA, Order, Pro-Straint Chair, 1999 Page 1 189 F.R.D. 583, *; 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20956, ** KURT JOHN VON COLLN, JR., KEITH GEORGE STRINGER, ERIC PRATT, JEFFERY LLOYD, Consolidated Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY OF VENTURA, SHERIFF LARRY CARPENTER in his official and personal capacity, …
CDC Whistleblower Gets $1.7 Million by A former California Department of Corrections (CDC) guard who reported the Corcoran State Prison "gladiator fight" shootings to the FBI, resulting in the indictment of eight other Corcoran guards, has been paid $1.7 million by the state. Richard Caruso, 35, sued the CDC in …
Insanity, Brutality and Fatality: Florida's X-Wing Marks the End of the Line by Dan Pens Upon the ranks of such as we, They enforce their mastery. And yet we bleed the same as they, The tie that binds us day to day. The public interest uppermost, So some say while …
Death Row Eulogy by Van Poyck, William By William Van Poyck On July 17, 1999, my friend and co-defendant, Frank Valdes, was stomped and beaten to death in his X-Wing cell by a large group of Florida State Prison (FSP) guards. As FSP prisoners know only too well, this beating …
Concealment of Info Tolls Statute of Limitations by A federal district court in New York held that a prisoner could amend his complaint to add new defendants, and that the amendment relates back to the original complaint, overcoming an otherwise time-barred amendment. The court further held that official concealment of …
FBI Investigates CCA-Run INS Center in New Jersey by A Corrections Corporation of America operated immigrant detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey is under investigation due to alleged misconduct by company employees. Federal officials confirmed on April 13, 1999 that the U.S. Dept. of Justice had requested the probe, which …
Florida Jail Guard Found Guilty in Prisoner's Death by On December 22, 1998, former Osceola County, Florida jail guard Greg Wilson was convicted of manslaughter in connection with the March 1997 death of prisoner Daniel B. Sagers. Wilson and several other guards, including Wilson Santiago and Gail Edwards, were trying …
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