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Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Filed under: Classification
California Prisoner Permitted to Challenge Oppressive Prison Conditions Absent Physical Injury; Ruling Later Voided by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) ruling that had misinterpreted 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e) to require physical injury in order to …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
California Ban On Hardcover Books Held Unconstitutional by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) held that the policy by California?s Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) Security Housing Unit of banning prisoners? possession of hardcover books violated their First Amendment rights. During the course of …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Prisoner’s Death Following Failure To Give Intake Medical Examination Settled By Los Angeles County For $700,000 by John Dannenberg Prisoner's Death Following Failure To Give Intake Medical Examination Settled By Los Angeles County For $700,000 by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles County Claims Board settled a wrongful death lawsuit …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
California Lifers’ Parole Reversals Tossed by Two State Appellate Courts by Marvin Mentor California Lifers' Parole Reversals Tossed by Two State Appellate Courts by Marvin Mentor An infirm, 82-year-old lifer's reversal by Governor Schwarzenegger of the Board of Parole Hearing's (BPH) grant of parole was itself overturned by the California …
San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Cites Continuing Jail Deficiencies by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In November 2005, the jurors of the San Francisco Grand Jury inspected city and county jails and found longstanding unremediated problems of inadequate budgets, staffing shortages, overcrowding and high (40%) recidivism rates. The Jury …
Three Failures To Segregate Vulnerable Jail Prisoner Costs Los Angeles County $44,000 by On November 21, 2006, Los Angeles County paid a thrice-injured jail prisoner $44,000 to settle a tort claim for the injuries he sustained on three occasions when he was placed in general population housing and beaten by …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Los Angeles County Pays Informant $80,000 For Failed Witness Protection by The County of Los Angeles (L.A.), California paid $80,000 in January 2007 to a prisoner for the injuries he suffered when attacked in a supposedly witness-protected section of the L.A. County Jail. Shane Wilson was housed in the K-10 …
California DOC Chief Health Care Official Ousted by The top California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) health-care official, a gubernatorial appointee, was forced to resign by the federal court appointed healthcare Receiver, Robert Sillen. Dr. Peter Farber-Szekrenyi, who was hired in November 2005 to head CDCR?s Division of Health …
Brief • July 13, 2007
Filed under: Exercise
Norwood v. Alameida, CA, Order, Denial of Exercise, 2007 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 GREGORY LYNN NORWOOD, 11 12 13 Plaintiff, No. CIV S-03-2554 GEB GGH P vs. EDWARD ALAMEIDA, Jr., et al., …
Brief • July 6, 2007
Filed under: Medical
Cordero v. California DOC, Medical Claim Settlements and Releases, 2007
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
California Sheriff Criticized on Injury Non-Treatment After Use of Force by A highly critical May 2006 report by the Riverside County Grand Jury found that at the five county jail lockups, a disturbing pattern had emerged where prisoners who were injured while being subdued often were not provided medical aid. …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
California Governor’s Parole Veto Reversed by Federal Court by John Dannenberg California Governor's Parole Veto Reversed by Federal Court by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court granted a California second degree murderer's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition and ordered that he be released on parole unless the …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Federal Prisoner’s Criminal Assault Conviction Reversed; Entitled to Raise Self-Defense by Federal Prisoner's Criminal Assault Conviction Reversed; Entitled to Raise Self-Defense The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a California federal district court failed to properly define the elements of a claim of self-defense when a prisoner was …
Ninth Circuit: Prisoner is Protected by Legal Privilege but Not Marriage Privilege When Writing His Lawyer-Wife by A California state prisoner who was being tried in United States District Court for federal conspiracy, racketeering and murder offenses committed from state prison, and whose wife was his lawyer, was permitted to …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Los Angeles County Jail Visitor’s Injury After Scuffle With Deputies Settles For $150,000 by Los Angeles County Jail Visitor's Injury After Scuffle With Deputies Settles For $150,000 The Los Angeles County Claims Board settled out an injury lawsuit for $150,000 in December 2006 that resulted from a jail visitor being …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Supreme Court: California’s Law Permitting Suspicionless Police Search of Parolees Does Not Violate Fourth Amendment by Marvin Mentor Supreme Court: California's Law Permitting Suspicionless Police Search of Parolees Does Not Violate Fourth Amendment by Marvin Mentor A divided U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a unique California statutory …
Increasingly Repressive Sex Offender Residency Restrictions Have Doubtful Benefits by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg While politicians trample each other in their rush to enact increasingly onerous post-release residency restrictions on all manner of sex offenders, the California Legislature took pause to commission a study to measure the effectiveness …
Coleman v. Schwarzenegger, CA., Discovery Hearing Order Prison Inspections, Medical Class Action, 2007 Case 3:01-cv-01351-TEH Document 906 Filed 10/30/2007 Page 1 of 7 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS 2 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 AND THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT COMPOSED …
State of California - Corrections Corporation of America Contract, 2007 STATE orQAUFORN,!\ STANB~"1!I.6.GREEMENT AME~ STD.213 A (Rev 6i'Y2t... D .IENT . CH}:CK HERE IF ADDITIONAL PAGES ARE ATTACHED 3 Pages I [AGREEMENTNUMBER C06.298 AMENDMENT NUMBER REGISTRATION NUMBER L 1. This Agreement is entered into between the State Agency and Contractor …
Brief • May 30, 2007
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Padilla v. City of Alhambra, CA, SJ Order, Positional Asphyxia Death, 2007 -. 1....., r t ...., _ Priority -ICSend 1 2 3 FILED· WESTERN DIVISION CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT _ MAY 302007 _Clsd _ Enter _ _ JS-5/JS-6 JS-2/JS-3 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFO BY D (J DOCKETED ON CM …
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