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Article • May 15, 2010
TDCJ Settles Racial Discrimination Case for $10,000 by In March 2004, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) settled a racial discrimination suit for $10,000. John Spears was employed as a Food Service Manager III at the Lopez State Jail when he allegedly suffered racial discrimination from his supervisor. He …
California: San Jose Agrees to settle Police Brutality Claim for $97,500 by Michael Brodheim By Michael Brodheim Yet again, San Jose officials have agreed to settle a major civil rights lawsuit arising from the alleged use of excessive police force after a relatively minor offense involving residents from immigrant communities. …
Less Than Equal: State officials, including prejudiced human-rights commissioners, block Prisoner complaints by Lance Tapley This story has a bias. It’s in favor of human rights for all people. So if you think it’s proper for prison guards to call African-American prisoners “niggers” and gay prisoners “fags,” then this story …
Unprovoked Texas Cattle Prod Shocking More Than De Minimis Injury, Case Settles for $20,000 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 5, 2007, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a guard who used a cattle prod to shock a prisoner without any provocation caused more than a …
Brief • January 28, 2010
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Davis v. City of New York, NY, Complaint, Public Housing Racial Profiling, 2010 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK KELTON DAVIS, WILLIAM TURNER, ALTAGRACIA HERNANDEZ, EDWIN LARREGUI, ROMAN JACKSON, KRISTIN JOHNSON, ELEANOR BRITT, ANTHONY ANDERSON, LASHAUN SMITH, SHAWNE JONES, HECTOR SUAREZ, ADAM COOPER, …
Sweat Lodges in American Prisons (2005) by Significance of the Sweat Lodge Sweat lodges are salient features of a remarkable number of native traditions across North America from the Great Lakes to the Southwest. From Minnesota's Mille Lacs Ojibwe to Plains communities like the Lakota to Southwestern peoples like the …
TDCJ Pays $45,000 to Settle Discrimination Complaint by On June 30, 2005, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice entered into a settlement agreement with employee Gary Walls. The settlement is the result of discrimination complaints filed by Walls with the Texas Workforce Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. To …
TDCJ Pays $267,000 to Settle Discrimination Claim by On September 15, 2005, the TDCJ agreed to pay a total of $267,500 to Melissa Roberts to settle a complaint she filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Represented by …
TDCJ Settles Race Discrimination Suit Following Denial of Sovereign Immunity by On May 20, 2004, a Texas appellate court denied an appeal filed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) after a district court denied a motion for summary judgment and another for sovereign immunity in a race discrimination …
$150,000 Settlement in Tennessee Jail Beating by Sullivan County, Tennessee has paid $150,000 to settle the claim of a former prisoner who was beaten at the county’s jail. The suit alleged the sheriff’s department failed to properly train and supervise jail guards, deliberately placed the prisoner in a dangerous situation, …
$58,333 Settlement for Transgendered Woman’s Sacramento Jail Assault and Sexual Harassment by California’s County of Sacramento has paid $58,333.33 to settle the lawsuit of Richardo Medina-Tejada, who claimed that as a post-operative transgender male-to-female pretrial detainee at the Sacramento County Jail, she was placed in housing with male prisoners who …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Violence Against Blacks Decreases In The U.S. by Gary Hunter Violence against blacks in the U.S. has dropped dramatically over the last decade. The Bureau of Statistics for the U.S. Justice Department showed that, between 1993 and 2001, violent victimization of blacks decreased by nearly 57% and remained stable through …
New Mexico County Immigrant Neighborhood Searches Enjoined by A New Mexico federal district court has issued a preliminary injunction that prohibits the County of Otero from engaging in “unconstitutional stops, searches, seizures, and discrimination pursuant to ‘operation Stonegarden,’” which seeks to round up illegal immigrants. Before the Court was the …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Human Rights Study Shows That Decades Later Blacks Still Incarcerated More by Gary Hunter In March 2009 a report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization indicated that blacks continue to be arrested at disproportionately high rates in this country’s war on drugs. The study spanned almost three decades and …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Perpetrators and Enablers of Torture in the US by Corey Weinstein by Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP During the past 25 years I’ve spent a lot of time with survivors of torture, men and women enduring long term solitary confinement in California’s prisons. They are the most urgent victims of US …
$25,000 Award to Utah Muslim Prisoner Attacked by Death Row Prisoner Following 9/11 by A Utah federal jury awarded $25,000 to a Muslim prisoner who claimed guards set him up for a beating following the 9/11 guerrilla attacks. The oddest part of the situation is the prisoner was beat by …
Article • September 15, 2009
$150,000 Settlement in Racial Discrimination Termination by Washington’s King County has paid $150,000 to settle the lawsuit of Cleveland King, which alleged that while working at the Department of Youth Services in 1999 he was subject to a hostile work environment, resulting in his discipline and termination for opposing racial …
$30,000 Settlement in Ohio Jail Sexual and Racial Harassment by Ohio’s Richland County paid $30,000 to settle the sexual and racial harassment claim of Angela Pitts, whose claims occurred while employed as a guard by Richland County Sheriff Department (RCSD). Pitts, a white female, began working for the RCSD in …
Article • September 15, 2009
$80,000 Settlement in Seattle Jail Employment Discrimination by Washington State’s King County paid $80,436.71 to settle the lawsuit of Orlando Panelli, who claimed that while working at the Department of Adult Detention from October 1, 1999 through April 16, 2003 he was subjected to discrimination based upon his race and …
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
Report Concludes Hispanics Receiving a Greater Share of Federal Sentences by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Hispanics are comprising a higher percentage of federal sentences, concludes a February 2009 report issued by the Pew Hispanic Center. The rise is attributed to a heightened focus on immigration enforcement. The findings …
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