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Separate and Unequal Justice for Prisoners by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi S.Z., a resident in a juvenile detention facility, was raped and repeatedly beaten by other detainees over a period of months. Some staff encouraged the beatings and would arrange fights between detainees. But when S.Z. filed …
Article • March 15, 2009
32 Years on Death Row by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi When William Lee Thompson committed the murder that landed him on Florida's death row, Gerald Ford was president. Thompson has now been incarcerated for almost 33 years, most of it under sentence of death. He has spent …
Article • March 15, 2009
Obama Administration Contends Prisoner Has No Right to DNA Testing by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi DNA testing is a uniquely powerful crime-solving tool. Testing crime scene evidence using new and advanced techniques has solved many previously unsolved crimes, leading to the arrest and conviction of rapists and …
Article • March 15, 2009
Executing the Innocent? by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi At 7 p.m. on September 23, the state of Georgia plans to execute Troy Anthony Davis. That by itself is unremarkable; Georgia has carried out 42 executions since 1983, including two since May of this year. What makes this …
Selling Segregation by Josh Rushing US high-security prisons are a big export, but critics doubt their success. Conflict has long been a source of misery for innocent people around the world. But it has equally long been a source of profit for big business. The Sofex exposition in Amman, Jordan, …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
California Appellate Court Grants Writ, Reverses Governor, Reinstates PLN Writer’s Grant of Parole by Marvin Mentor California Appellate Court Grants Writ, Reverses Governor, Reinstates PLN Writer’s Grant of Parole by Marvin Mentor The California Court of Appeal, 6th District, has twice granted the habeas petition of PLN contributing writer John …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Reverend Sues, Wins Right to Register Alabama Prisoners to Vote by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Alabama Dept. of Corrections (ADOC) has agreed to let Reverend Kenneth Glasgow enter state prisons to register prisoners to vote. The settlement agreement came after the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed …
Texas Parole Officials Caught Lying to Federal Court With Impunity by A Texas federal court has dismissed as moot a parolee’s challenge to parole restrictions which prevented him from having unsupervised contact with his son. During the course of the litigation, parole officials repeatedly misled the court. Gerald Grant, a …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Report Finds Increase in Michigan Prison Population Attributable to Political Policy Changes, Not Crime Increase by David Reutter Report Finds Increase in Michigan Prison Population Attributable to Political Policy Changes, Not Crime Increase by David M. Reutter A report issued by the Citizens Research Council of Michigan (CRC) concludes that …
Maryland Prison Employees Strip Searched After False Alert by Drug Scanning Machine by Derick Limberg Maryland Prison Employees Strip Searched After False Alert by Drug Scanning Machine by Derek Limburg Nine prison employees at the Maryland Correctional Training Center (MCTC) received the same treatment as prisoners upon their arrival at …
Georgia Judges, Other Officials Indicted on Corruption and Human Trafficking Charges by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Federal authorities have been investigating Georgia state court judges and county officials for the past several years. The result thus far is numerous indictments and three guilty pleas on charges ranging from …
Former Illinois Prison Director Convicted and Fined by Former Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections Donald Snyder was sentenced, on July 30, 2008, to two years in federal prison for accepting $50,000 in bribes from lobbyists. Snyder tried to minimize the damage by admitting his guilt and turning state’s …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Arizona: On December 19, 2008, Damon Rossi, 38, a criminal defense attorney, was arrested at home for allegedly giving his client a piece of candy during a trial in Yavapai superior court. His client was a jail prisoner in shackles. Sheriff’s spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn said the …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
Washington Jury Awards $202,500 to Ex-Prisoner for Injuries from Top Bunk Fall by Washington Jury Awards $202,500 to Ex-Prisoner for Injuries from Top Bunk Fall A Washington state jury awarded a former prisoner and his wife $202,500 for injuries incurred after he fell from a top bunk at the Washington …
Article • March 15, 2009
Oxford Federal Facility Sticks Company For Two Thirds Of Recycling Bill by Wisconsin state recycling company, Bickford, Inc., filed suit in 1997 against the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Oxford for the non payment of a $1,800 invoice for the disposal of lighting ballasts. The suit settled for $660 in …
Pennsylvania Private Prison Construction Halted For Environmental Assessment by The Pennsylvania based Citizens Advisory Committee on Private Prisons, Inc. (CACOPP), filed a complaint against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for bypassing environmental and administrative policies in the contracting of a private prison's construction. The construction was halted pending the …
$678,505.67 Settlement After Federal Prisoner Dies From Misdiagnosed Cancer by Illinois State resident and executor of her deceased husband's estate, Mary Norton, brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1996. She claimed that her husband James Norton, died due to negligence and medical malpractice. The court awarded …
Article • March 15, 2009
$1,375 Settlement For 11 Days Excessive Federal Imprisonment by Ex federal prisoner and Washington, D.C., resident Isaac McKelvin filed an administrative tort claim with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), for being incarcerated 11 days past his mandatory release date. He was paid $1,375 …
Ted Stevens' Charges Dropped: A Tale of Two Justice Systems by Joshua Holland By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Posted on April 1, 2009, Printed on April 1, 2009 Editor's note: this originally appeared on AlterNet's blog, PEEK. It's immaterial that former Alaska senator Ted Stevens was a loathsome, quasi-corrupt slug of …
$1.8 Million Award After Illinois Federal Prisoner's Suicide; Award Reversed On Appeal by Illinois State resident Karen Johnson brought a federal tort and 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983 action against the United States in 1996 after her husband Robert committed suicide in a federal prison. The court awarded her $1.8 million. …
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