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New York Retaliation Suit Nets $100,000 in Damages by On April 28, 1999 a federal jury awarded $25,000 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages to New York prisoner Ronald Maurer. Three years earlier Maurer filed a pro se complaint claiming that he had been subjected to retaliation for …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Brazil: In early August four men armed with automatic weapons overpowered guards and broke into the Tremembe jail near Sao Paulo, and stole money that jail prisoners were planning to send home. CA: In 1998 15 state prisoners were killed. Three were shot to death by …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
From the Editor by Dan Pens Greetings and welcome to another edition of PLN. Five years ago my first editorial appeared in the October 1994 issue. Sadly, this will be my last. I am stepping down as co-editor, but will remain active with the PLN collective as a contributing writer. …
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, …
Brief • November 10, 1999
Prideaux v. WA DOC, WA, Judgment, Sexual Harassment Case, 1999 : ,! . • FILED NOV t 0 1999 THOMASA F SPOKANE C6U~~~~~~A, 2 3 4 5 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 6 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SPOKANE 7 JOANNA PRlDEAUX, NO. 99-2-03447-8 8 …
Brief • November 5, 1999
Avery v. District of Columbia, DC, Complaint, Inmate Assault, 1999 \. ANTONIO AVERY DCDC #248-092 District of Columbia Department of Corrections Plaintiff, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT Municipal Corporation For The Intentional and Negligent Acts and Omissions of its Agents and Agencies D.C. Department of Corrections and D.C. General Hospital, Serve: …
Brief • October 29, 1999
Garcia v. Evans, WA, Complaint, Mail Room Dispute, 1999 . -:31 DS-r'6S? ... FII.ED !H ThE U.J. n:STR:CT (()LiRT ~';:~'Ej1~j " : ..' '.• -' '_).\..I. . .,.I,·t.• . . "'9 v'" ,JAi~,IES A. L'\RSEN, , ., . :1ISTRICT CJF 'I/A!1HtNGTON CLERK ....,.....---= DEPUn SPOKANE. WASHI~~GTON UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT …
Brief • October 22, 1999
Starr v. District of Columbia, DC, Complaint, Prisoner Stabbing, 1999 SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Civil Division ) ) Keith Starr #260-582 Maximum Security Facility P.O. Box 5200 Lorton, VA 22199 < '" "'%7' . ) "'-"', I Y.\ :(_~'&"---j . __ """.--",.,).-. , '~"';=J':':'.":';_'::~, .. _.....,."_..... , …
Brief • October 22, 1999
Avery v. DC, Complaint, Prison Assault, 1999 t. SUPERIOR COURT ~;,"~~~TIU~j~~ C~~~IA \ . t\Qj·~ ANTONIO AVERY DCDC #248-092 District of Columbia Department of Corrections " I,' " ".," ! ""'f ! -".-- }~f Jury Demand c.A. NO. Plaintiff, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT Municipal Corporation For The Intentional and Negligent …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Feds Not Obligated to Accept State-Ordered Concurrent Sentence by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that a California state court's designation of a prisoner's sentence as concurrent with his prior federal sentence created no obligation on the U.S. Attorney General to provide …
Alabama Prison Officials Held in Contempt Again by A federal district court held Alabama prison officials in contempt for violating a 12-year-old Consent Decree. The court also awarded attorney's fees against the state and dissolved the decree pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act, (PLRA). In 1983, prisoners in an …
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 …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
BOP Sentence Reduction Exclusion Based on INS Detainer Upheld by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that the Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) regulation conditioning a sentence on completion of a community-based treatment program was a reasonable and permissible construction of the statute …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
Perp Walks Unconstitutional According to New York Federal Court by A federal district court in New York has ruled that "perp walks" staged by the police at the behest of the media are unconstitutional. John Lauro, Jr. was the doorman at a building In Manhattan. Matthew Eberhart was a building …
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 …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
Worst of the Worst? by Prison officials have attempted to justify the cruel and inhumane conditions of confinement in control units by claiming that only the "worst of the worst" are confined in them. PLN editor Paul Wright has made the rounds of Washington state's control units. At the Intensive …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
Florida Jail Workers Busted in Bribery Investigation by On Dec. 4, 1998, fourteen Miami-Dade County jail employees were indicted on state bribery charges and federal marijuana and cocaine trafficking conspiracy charges. Five other jail workers were suspended pending the outcome of internal investigations. The indictments followed a year-long probe by …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
Pro Se Tips and Tactics (Discovery) by John Midgley In my last column, I discussed discovery generally and introduced the tools of discovery. In this column I provide more detail on some specific discovery topics: how "mandatory disclosure" rules in effect in many federal district courts can be used to …
$90,000 Settlement in Utah Jail Suicide by On May 28, 1999, Salt Lake county, Utah, paid $90,000 to the family of a detainee who committed suicide in the county jail. Henry Delgado was arrested on Jul 16, 1997, on charges of assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and carrying a …
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