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Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Notes From the Unrepenitentiary: Transcending Hell by Marilyn Buck Notes From The Unrepenitentiary: Transcending Hell By Marilyn Buck Nuh Albert Washington was a friend, brother and comrade to me and many others. He died this Spring. He was a Black Panther, a Muslim and a soldier of the revolutionary Black …
SC Prisoners Settle Rape Suits by On October 16, 1999, an unidentified former woman prisoner settled a lawsuit for $115,000. The woman claimed that in 1995 while she was imprisoned at the Women's Correctional Center in Broad River, South Carolina, prison guard Anthony Green raped her and South Carolina prison …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
$2 Million Awarded in IL Medical Neglect Suit by On February 2, 2000, a federal jury in Illinois awarded $2 million in damages to a prisoner blinded through medical neglect by prison officials. The damage award is believed to be the highest in a prisoner civil rights case in Illinois. …
$1.75 Million in Oregon Excessive Force Jail Settlement by On March 29, 2000, the Klamath County Jail in Medford, Oregon, paid $1.75 million to settle an excessive force lawsuit filed by a former jail detainee. In 1997 Dana Lecomte was in the Klamath county jail on charges of driving with …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Attorney Fee Award Against Prisoner Reduced by A federal court in Virginia reduced an attorney fees award against a prisoner who filed a factually frivolous suit from $28,719 to $900. John McGlothin, a Virginia state prisoner, filed a civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the warden and …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
California Statute of Limitations Tolled by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held that; (1) amended California tolling statute could be retroactively applied to former prisoner's claim; and (2) former prisoner was not entitled to equitable tolling. David Fink, a former California prisoner, filed a civil …
Sweeping ADA/RA Jail Settlement Benefits Hearing Impaired Prisoners by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in California has approved a sweeping settlement of hearing impaired prisoners' claims in a civil rights, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Rehabilitation Act (RA) class-action suit against the Santa Clara County (California) …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
BOP Settles Medical Death Suit for $700,000 by In February, 1999, the federal Bu reau of Prisons settled a medical neglect suit for $700,000. David Deen, a BOP prisoner, was 30 years old and confined at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for five months. He was prescribed nitroglycerin for …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
$14,950 Awarded in NY Window Frame Suit by On September 17, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded the estate of Carmine Tarantino $14,950 for injuries Tarantino suffered at the Attica Correctional Facility when a window frame came loose and struck him on the head. Tarantino died of unrelated …
DOJ Sues Wackenhut Juvenile Prison by Gary Hunter In March, 2000, six teenage boys, brutalized by guards in a Wackenhut prison in Jena, Louisiana, were removed by the judge who sentenced them. State Judge Mark Doherty of Orleans Parish Louisiana was so appalled by their treatment that he made a …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
VA Warden Fired in Foodbank Theft by On October 13, 1999, Vanessa Crawford was fired as warden of the Pocahontas Correctional Unit. Two other unidentified Virginia DOC employees were also fired. The firings stemmed From the theft of food at the Central Virginia Foodbank (CVF). CVF was started in 1995 …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Sixth Circuit Terminates Glover v. Johnson by In 1977, two groups of female prisoners of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) brought two separate §1983 civil complaints against the MDOC and various staff alleging Equal Protection and First Amendment violations with regard to educational and vocational programming (female prisoners sought …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
WA Class B Felonies Entitled to 1/3 Good Time Credits by The Washington State Supreme Court has held: (1) a former statute placing cap on early release good time credits at 15% rather than 33% of total sentence for those "convicted of a serious violent offense or a sex offense …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Filed under: Organizing
Prison Protesters Arrested in DC by In a reprise of the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests, thousands of activists gathered in Washington DC on April 9-17 to oppose annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the prison-industrial complex, and neoliberal economic policies. Estimates of the …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Washington Ends Prison Telemarketing by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On May 13, 1999, the Washington Department of Corrections ended its last remaining prison telemarketing program. As reported in the August, 1998, issue of PLN, prison telemarketing has had a controversial history in Washington prisons. In 1998 the Washington DOC …
PLN Sues to Uncover Telemarketing Closure by The accompanying story on the closure of the Washington Marketing Group (WMG) operation at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, Washington, occured in May, 1999. Shortly after it occurred PLN editor Paul Wright filed a Public Disclosure Act (PDA) request with the Department …
Wackenhut Wracked by Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ronald Young Wackenhut Wracked By Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ron Young After a decade as a leading operator of corporate-owned prisons, Wackenhut Corrections has become a prisoner of its own problems. In New Mexico, a 500-page legislative report written by five consultants calls …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
$7,500 Award in NY Window Injury by On November 8, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded $15,000 in damages to a New York state prisoner who cut his arm while opening a malfunctioning window. In 1990, Neil Henry, a prisoner at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in New York, …
Rockwall, TX Jailers Indicted in Sex-For-Contraband Case by Rockwall, TX Jailers Indicted In Sex-For-Contraband Case Three Rockwall County, Texas jailers were indicted and all plead guilty after allegations that jailers gave drugs and alcohol to female prisoners in exchange for sex. A jail captain also resigned in lieu of prosecution. …
Exhaustion Requirement Discussed, $86,250 Beating Award Upheld by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the term prison conditions, as used in the Prison Litigation Reform Act at §1997e(a), includes claims of excessive force, thereby subjecting prisoner claims to the Act's administrative exhaustion requirement. The court also held that …
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