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Massachusetts Jail Conditions Unconstitutional Says U.S. Department of Justice by Gary Hunter A report released by the U.S. Justice Department (USJD), on May 1, 2008, concluded ...
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
to protect the perverted guards and their supervisors, on February 1, 2008, winning a jury award of $15.5 million for the first group of ten victims (worth an estimated $30 million today with accumulated ...
Article • January 15, 2009
of an internal study that revealed most federal death sentences were handed down by just a few federal districts. In fact, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, as of July 1, 2004, 39 of the 32 ...
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Filed under: News, News in Brief
and was then sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to escape. Johnson was sentenced to an indeterminate 1-5 year sentence for her role in the escape. Wisconsin: On October 21, 2008, the Oshkosh ...
resources exclusively on local facilities. “SCOC officials stated that, under current arrangements, inspectors visit DOCS facilities only in certain special circumstances: (1) when a DOCS facility requests ...
. Schwarzenegger, 163 Cal.App.4th 802 (2008) [CCPOA]. The court’s five-part ruling was both terse and unswerving. Reviewing the facts in Part 1, it observed that in CCPOA, Governor Schwarzenegger had in 2006 ...
, the Herald was allowed to review century-old records and tour the campus of a facility formerly known as the Florida State Reform School (FSRS). Established in 1897 by Florida lawmakers and opened on Jan. 1 ...
Article • April 15, 2009
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
was "heard snoring very unusually loud" at 1 a.m. He was clad in socks, briefs, and jail-issue pants. Still, "Inspection of the cell did not reveal any signs of drug use or suspicious devices," the report ...
medical ne-glect, which is all too common in the Texas prison system. [See: PLN, May 2008, p.34; June 2003, p.18; Dec. 2002, p.1]. Years later Johnson managed to contact Cole’s mother, who got ...
States, U.S.D.C. (S.D. Fla.), Case No. 1:07-cv-20648-CMA; 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 89741 (S.D. Fla., Nov. 5, 2008). “On one hand, the federal prison system doesn’t have the proper mechanisms to report ...
. § 1983, alleging denial of due process because he was subjected to Condition X restrictions without notice. However, in his suit Jennings attacked only three provisions of Condition X: 1) that he enroll ...
-patient communication uncertain – if not extinguished – in a great number of cases. The appellate court held that Jaffee v. Redmond, 518 U.S. 1, 116 S.Ct. 1923 (1996) was controlling precedent. Jaffee ...
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Committee, and Rep. Madden, who chairs the House Corrections Committee. They requested assistance from the Justice Center, which identified three main causes of prison growth: 1) Probation revocations ...
Article • January 15, 2010
Filed under: Police, False Arrest
through the experience safely, and then, afterwards, proceed to take effective action to assert their rights. 1. When stopped by police, immediately assume a non-threatening stance. Keep your hands visible ...
he resigned in January 2008. When he took over the reins at FDOC almost two years earlier, McDonough accepted the helm of a state prison system that was rotten to its core [See: PLN, Dec. 2006, pg 1 ...
. of Corrections, 451 F.3d 274 (1st Cir. 2006). On remand, on August 1, 2007, the district court granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ motion for summary judgment. In regard to the sovereign immunity ...
; union officials. The purpose was to gather information on the effect of environmental factors, policies, practices and guard training on prison rape. BJA awarded grants of up to $1 million, requiring ...
requests, resulting in multiple motions to compel and for sanctions. On May 1, 2008 the district court granted fees and costs to plaintiffs’ counsel in the amount of $58,227.15 due to the JPB’s ...
. William Garrett, who is no longer a magistrate judge, are still pending. See: United States v. Garrett, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Ga.), Case No. 1:08-cr-00231-ODE-ECS. Sources: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Fulton ...
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
review of lifer Board decisions that comports with (1) the law [Penal Code § 3041], (2) bedrock rules of statutory construction [“shall” is mandatory] and (3) the true mission of lifer ...
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