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FTCA Does Not Apply to Prisoner's Property Mailed Outside Prison by Affirming the District Court of Kansas, the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) does not apply to a federal prisoner's personal property mailed outside of prison. Samuel Haywood Myles, a prisoner …
Brief • April 19, 2007
Hopkins v. Flores, CA, Settlement Exhibits, Mismanagement of Inmate Welfare Fund, 2007 ~927MO; SENT BY: CnUNTYCOUNSELj APA-19-07 OffiCE OFTHE COUN'l'\' COU~SKL COUNTY OF SANTA CLAM 1:04PM; PME 1 Ann Mliler Ravel COUNTY COUNSEL 10 West Hedding Stred 9" Floor, Ba~t Wing S!In Jose, California. 95110-1770 WInifred Botha Robert C, Campb"lJ …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Pennsylvania Work-Release Program Criticized by Gary Hunter Some citizens of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania feel that county work-release prisoners are forfeiting too much of their salary to a greedy judicial system. Businessman Lewis Knepp employs work-release prisoners. He tells how one of his employees, who earns $10 an hour and takes …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Seizure of Washington Prisoners’ Cash at Jail Booking Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby Seizure of Washington Prisoners' Cash at Jail Booking Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby On August 29, 2006, a, federal district court in Washington held that a state law allowing jails to confiscate money from prisoners during booking without notice …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Michigan Jail Prisoners Pay For Incarceration by Gary Hunter Under a law passed by Michigan legislators prisoners can now be required to pay up to $60 per day for the cost of their incarceration in city jails. Proposed by State Sen. Laura M. Toy, R-Livonia the law was signed into …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Garnishment of Ohio Prisoner’s Account Permitted to Pay Court Costs by Garnishment of Ohio Prisoner's Account Permitted to Pay Court Costs The Ohio Supreme Court has held that the state may collect court costs from an indigent criminal defendant, including collection from a prisoner's account. Before the Court was the …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Oklahoma Regulation Confiscating Money Order From Other Prisoner’s Family Upheld by Oklahoma Regulation Confiscating Money Order From Other Prisoner's Family Upheld The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP) regulation that allows money sent to prisoners by a person on another prisoner's visitation list to …
Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006
New York Prisoner Wins Brutality Suit, Loses Award to Son-of-Sam Law by A New York prisoner won $15,000 in a suit over having been beaten by prison guards only to have a jury return a $42 million adverse verdict under New Yorks Son-of-Sam law. Abdul Majid, 57, a New York …
BOP Must Let Prisoners Control Their Outside Assets; Pays $10,500 To Settle Grievances by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In a convoluted pro per suit, two federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoners, who had been retaliated against after they grieved the BOP's having infracted them for controlling their legitimately-acquired …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Settlement Agreement Evicts Room and Board Fees From Georgia Jail by Michael Rigby The Sheriff of Clinch County, Georgia, has agreed to end a decades-long practice of charging pretrial detainees for room and board and to return $27,000 to those who paid the fees over a 4-year period. Also pursuant …
New Yorks Son of Sam Law Constitutional, Damages Seized by New York's Son of Sam Law Constitutional, Damages Seized The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, has held that the state's Son of Sam law, which allows a victim to seek restitution from crime perpetrators, is constitutional. Ibn Kenyatta was …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Female Missouri Prisoners Make $291,000 as Sexy Pen Pals, AG Wants His Cut by Some Missouri prisoners have been making money by soliciting donations from pen pals found using internet web sites. Attorney General Jay Nixon says Missouri wants a piece of the action. Well, actually, the state wants all …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
North Carolina Prisoner Taps Jails Bank Account for $120,000 by A former prisoner of North Carolinas Durham County Jail (DCJ) managed to bilk the jails prisoner account for over $120,000. After serving 69 days at DCJ, Keith Edward Wright, 34, was issued a check for the balance of the money …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Missouri Seizes Prisoner Assets Worth $748,682 In 2005 by A more accurate motto for the show me state may be the show me the money state. In 2005 Attorney General Jay Nixon confiscated $748,682 from Missouris most oppressed residents--state prisoners. The money was seized under the 1988 Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement …
Alabama Work-Release Prisoners Working But Not Getting Paid by Gary Hunter Prisoners in an Alabama work-release program have been working without getting paid. Problems have come mostly from prison employees who have hired prison workers then defaulted on their debt. Prisons located in Decatur, Birmingham and Loxley posed the greatest …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
Texas Counties Set To Raid State Prisoners Trust Fund Accounts by Texas Counties Set To Raid State Prisoners Trust Fund Accounts by Matthew T. Clarke Partially in response to legislation making it mandatory by 2007 for Texas counties to establish programs to collect fines, costs, restitution and fees from Texas …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
L.A. County Jail Gets $20,000 from State for Pruno-Sniffing Dogs; Inmate Welfare Funds Tapped to Mai by L.A. County Jail Gets $20,000 from State for Pruno-Sniffing Dogs; Inmate Welfare Funds Tapped to Maintain Program On September 30, 2005, the Los Angeles (L.A.) County Board of Supervisors approved a Sheriffs funding …
Brief • April 14, 2006
Williams v. Clinch County, GA, Consent Decree, Jail Reimbursement Fees, 2006 Case 7:04-cv-00124-HL Document 71 Filed 04/14/2006 Page 1 of 11 FILED U.S. IJISTR!CT COURT IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURtpDLt: GEORGIA FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEO~PR 14 PH 2: ~ I VALDOSTA DIVISION (1 <~ DEPUTY CLERK • …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Auditors Uncover Hidden Cash Accounts at Chester County, Pennsylvania, Prison by An audit of the Chester County, Pennsylvania, Prison's finances uncovered hidden cash accounts used to collect $18,000 from prisoners between 1984 and 2003. All but $4,000 of the money had already been spent at management's discretion over the years," …
Article • October 15, 2005
California Restitution Fine Collection Rate Raised to 33% by California Restitution Fine Collection Rate Raised To 33% The California Department of Corrections (CDC) increased the percentage it collects from deposits to prisoner trust accounts to pay unpaid restitution fines from 22% to 33%, effective July 1, 2003. Deductions will further …
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