Class-Action Suit Claiming Inadequate Medical Care at Virginia Prison Set for Trial by Class-Action Suit Claiming Inadequate Medical Care at Virginia Prison Set for Trial A December 2014 trial date has been scheduled in a class-action federal lawsuit that could determine the future of health care for prisoners at the …
$350,000 Settlement in Immigrant Detainee’s Death Caused by Medical Neglect by $350,000 Settlement in Immigrant Detainee’s Death Caused by Medical Neglect A wrongful death lawsuit against Virginia’s Piedmont Regional Jail (PRJ) has been settled for $350,000. The death involved an immigration detainee who died from complications of an untreated …
Harsher Stance by Virginia Parole Board Fails to Demonstrate Actionable Claim by Harsher Stance by Virginia Parole Board Fails to Demonstrate Actionable Claim The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that eleven prisoners failed to allege facts demonstrating a plausible case to support that the Virginia Parole Board (the …
U.S. v. Price, VA, Information, Mail Theft, 2014 Case 4:14-cr-00018-JLK Document 1 Filed 09/23/14 FI Page 1 of LED IN W 1 Pageid#: C kRT 1 DATE M BY =Ol ' X * 1IDEPDl Uvlsl CLoN ERKW .D.ofVA IN TH E U N ITED STA TES D ISTR ICT FOR …
12-375 09-03-2014 Virginia Association of Counties 7521827417 Virginia Association of Counties Connecting County Governments since 1934 President Harrison A. Moody Dinwiddie County President-EIect Penelope A. Gross Fairfax County First Vice President David V. Hutchins Carroll County September 3, 2014 The Honorable Tom Wheeler Chairman Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, …
Scott v. Clarke, VA, Atty Fees for Discovery Compulsion, Systemic Medical Neglect, 2014 Case 3:12-cv-00036-NKM Document 109 Filed 04/15/14 Page 1 of 11 Pageid#: 1240 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE DIVISION CYNTHIA B. SCOTT , ET AL., CIVIL ACTION NO . 3:12-CV …
PLN Files Federal Lawsuit Over Censorship at Virginia Jail by On July 30, 2013, Prison Legal News filed a lawsuit in federal court against Virginia Beach Sheriff Kenneth Stolle and other sheriff’s office officials due to the censorship of books, magazines and correspondence mailed to prisoners at the Virginia Beach …
PLRA Administrative Exhaustion an Affirmative Defense by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (4th Circuit) has reversed a District Court dismissal of a prisoner civil rights action for not showing that available administrative remedies were exhausted before suit was filed. In 1999, Rodney Anderson began serving time …
Fourth Circuit: Sex Offender Registration Not "Custody" for Section 2254 Jurisdiction by Fourth Circuit: Sex Offender Registration Not "Custody" for Section 2254 Jurisdiction On August 15, 2012, the Fourth Circuit held that sex offender registration requirements do not amount to being "in custody" for purposes of invoking federal habeas corpus …
Prison Legal News v. Sheriff Ken Stolle, Virginia Beach, Complaint 2013 Case 2:13-cv-00424-MSD-DEM Document 1 Filed 07/30/13 Page 1 of 8 PageID# 1 FILED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUL 3 0 2013 ^ FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA NORFOLK DIVISION C! I RK, U S. DIS7RIC1 COURT MORI OLK, …
Fourth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Case Challenging Virginia DOC Grooming Policy by Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor joined a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, by designation, in finding that a district court had erred in upholding a Virginia prison grooming policy that prohibited prisoners from …
Virginia 2012 Jail Cost Report VA Compensation Board 2013 Commonwealth of Virginia COMPENSATION BOARD Report to the General Assembly Courtesy of Meherrin River Regional Jail – Alberta, Virginia FY 2012 JAIL COST REPORT ANNUAL JAIL REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES REPORT (INCLUDING CANTEEN & OTHER AUXILIARY FUNDS) November 1, 2013 PREFACE The …
Virginia's Justice System Report Justice Policy Inst. 2013 VIRGINIA’S JUSTICE SYSTEM: Expensive, Ineffective and Unfair NOVEMBER 2013 Virginia’s justice system is expensive, ineffective and inequitable. Despite some recent small progress in the areas of post‐incarceration reentry, particularly felony disenfranchisement, the state continues to suffer under misguided policies and practices of …
Plata v. Brown, VA, Depo of Black-Dennis, ACA Accreditation, 2013 KATHY BLACK-DENNIS· PLATA vs. BROWN May 21, 2013 1 ·1· · · · · · · ·UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ·2· · · · · ·FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ·3· -----------------------------x ·4· MARCIANO PLATA,· · · · · …
Virginia Prisoner Pardoned After Accuser Admits She Lied by Everyone in Virginia's criminal justice system knew that Johnathan Christopher Montgomery was innocent of the crimes for which he’d been convicted. His accuser had recanted her testimony and admitted she lied to police about being molested by Montgomery more than a …
Ex-prisoners' Petition for Restoration of Firearm Rights Denial Reversed by On September 14, 2012, Supreme Court of Virginia considered two separately granted and briefed appeals as one because they represented the same question of law. Scott A. Gallagher and George Junior Vanover had both received orders from the governor's office …
4th Circuit: Prisoner Alleges Sufficient Facts to Establish Imminent Danger, Permitted to Proceed Despite Three Prior “Strikes” by In an unpublished per curiam opinion decided September 2006, the Fourth Circuit vacated a district court order dismissing a prisoner’s civil rights complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1915(g) on the ground that …
US Court of Appeals Reverses Federal Employee Assault Claim Against Coworker by The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed in March 2012 the sovereign immunity finding of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, and remanded for further proceedings the cause of contract security officer …
Virginia's FOIA Ruled to Not Violate Some Constitutional Guarantees by Derek Gilna In a case brought under 42 U.S.C. 1983, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled that the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA), Section 2.2-3700 et seq. (2011), "does not violate the Appellants' rights …
