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New York Jail Guards Charged with Raping Prisoners by New York Jail Guards Charged With Raping Prisoners On January 26, 2000, Westchester county, New York, jail guards Carlos Aldarondo, 33, Javier Corona, 31, Michael Downey, 39 and Robert Escalera, 39, were charged in Westchester county court with assorted felony charges …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
$200,000 Awarded in Michigan Jail Wrongful Medication Suit by On June 22, 1999, a Macomb county jury in Michigan awarded $200,000 in damages to David Dempsey after he was wrongly medicated in the Macomb county jail. Dempsey suffers from bipolar disorder. While imprisoned on the psychiatric floor of the Macomb …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Washington Restitution Orders Are Invalid After 10 Years by The Washington state Supreme Court, sitting En Banc, held that the 10 year life of restitution orders begins to run upon release from confinement and is not tolled by any subsequent imprisonment on unrelated charges. In 1986, Brandt Sappenfield was convicted …
Exhaustion Not Required for Claims of Assault by A federal district court held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) exhaustion requirement does not apply to assault claims. It also held that a cause of action under the Violence Against Women Act, (VAWA), is analogous to a cause of action …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Oregon Execution Viewing Rules Invalidated by The Oregon Supreme Court invalidated several administrative rules of the Oregon Department of Corrections, (ODOC), regarding the witnessing of executions. The Court held that the challenged rules exceeded the ODOC's rulemaking authority. The Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and several other members of the media …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Prison Psychologist Pleads Guilty to Aiding Escape by Elizabeth Feil, 43, a former psychologist at the Patuxent Institution in Baltimore, MD has pled guilty to accessory to escape for her role in helping her lover, Byron Smoot, 29, escape from a medium security prison in Jessup, Maryland. Smoot had been …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
U.S. Parole Commission Bound by Own Rules by The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that the U.S. Parole Commission (USPC) was bound by its own rules and erred in calculating a prisoner's parole eligibility date. Former CIA agent Edwin Wilson was convicted in 1982 of transporting firearms …
Brief • June 12, 2000
Teklu v. District of Columbia, DC, Release, Prisoner Assault, 2000 RELEASE KNOW ALL ME E PRESENTS, That I, Eyassu Teklu aIkIa Mellese Hable mCDC 246-529 SS# ,residing at the Maximum Security Facility, LortQn, VA, for consideration o e sum of three iliousand dollars and 00/100 ($3000.00), lawful money of the …
Police Code of Silence Facts Revealed, National Institute of Ethics, 2000 Police Code of Silence Facts Revealed Page 1 of 7 2000 Conference materials Legal Officers Section International Assn. of Chiefs of Police Back to List of Conference Papers POLICE CODE OF SILENCE FACTS REVEALED Legal Officers Section Annual Conference …
Publication • 2000
Asphyxial Death During Prone Restraint Revisited, O'Halloran and Frank, 2000 The American J ournal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology ©2000 Lippincott W illiams & Wilkins , Inc., Philadelphia 21(1):39- 52, 2000. Asp:Q.yxial Death During Prone Restraint Revisited A Report of 21 Cases Ronald L. O'Halloran. M.D .• and Janice G. …
Brief • May 31, 2000
Filed under: Censorship
Dehut v. Evans, WA, Tort Complaint, Censorship, 2000 . MAY-31-00 WED 10:43 AM FAX NO. P. 09 - ..... I r""'''-.~~" ... '.:. t ~HE SUPERIOR 2 ~ THE COUNTY Of SEOKANE 3 JEFFERY MICHAEL DeBUT, ,:-·.1 COU~T OF WASHINGTON ~ ~.:::.. ,-_, ":.' .. - J O:::C -9 99 …
Brief • May 23, 2000
Billen v. Snohomish County, WA, Complaint, ADA Violation, 2000 • ", . '- '\, 1 RECEIVED 2 2000 MAY 23 PM 2: 26 3 BOB TERWILLIGER AUDITOR Sr-JOHOriiSH COUNTY. WASH. 4 fEPUTY£ 5 _ 6 7 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by CA: Dept. of Corrections sergeant Richard Selio murdered his estranged wife on Sept. 26, 1999, then shot and killed himself after a SWAT team stormed his house following an eight hour standoff. Selio was a transport officer at the California Institute for Men. His wife, Teresa, …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Testing Testing: Sweat Patch Under Scrutiny by Lara A. Bazelon Sheryl Woodhall a California woman in her late 30s, first lost custody of her four children in 1995, when her youngest tested positive for methamphetamine at birth. The state's Child Protective Services intervened and sent her two older children to …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Texas Prison Dentist Settles Dentures Suit for $3,150 by Jon Michael Withrow In April, 2003, a state prison dentist settled for $3,150 a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit brought by a prisoner in the federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that the dentist refused to provide …
DOJ Investigates CMS Health Care at Missouri Prison by Michael Rigby DOJ Investigates CMS Health Care At Missouri Prison by Michael Rigby Allegations of improper medical treat-ment, lack of medical treatment, and several suspicious deaths at the Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center, a state women's prison in Vandalia, …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright By now the observant reader will have noticed that this issue of Prison Legal News is 48 pages in length rather than 40. PLN recently switched printers which offered a variety of services, including higher quality newsprint and also allows us to expand in …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Louisiana Prosecutors Have "Ties" to Murder by Gary Hunter Lawrence Jacobs Jr. was on trial for first degree murder in Jefferson Parish Louisiana when an assistant district attorney approached him and whispered "We're going to hang you boy." Lawrence Jacobs Sr., who was only in the courtroom to support his …
CCA Prison Under Gang Control: Death and Injury Suits Filed by Gary Hunter Two suits were filed against Corrections Corp. of America (CCA) in less than a week. On April 15, 2003 the family of Iulai Amani sued CCA and the state of Hawaii for "wrongful conduct" resulting in Amani's …
Black Prison and Jail Employees Win Discrimination Lawsuits by Kentucky In October 2002, a federal jury awarded a former Fayette County Jail guard $196,000. James Young Sr., an African American, was fired from the jail in 1993 after complaining for over a year that black workers at the jail were …
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