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Cunningham v. AZ, AZ, Complaint, Suicide, 2012 Michael K. Jeanes, Cl rk of Court *** Electronically iled *** Charlotte Le ·ne Filing ID 1148 09 1/20/2012 4:49:00 M 4 AUGUSTINE B. JIMENEZ III State Bar# 012208 Mont9ya Jimenez, P.A. 3200 N. Central Avenu~ Suite 2550 Phoenix, Arizona 8501L-2490 Telephone: 602-263-7875 …
The Societal Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex, or Incarceration for Fun and Profit—Mostly Profit by Alex Friedmann At the beginning of the 1980s there were no privately-operated adult correctional facilities in the United States. As of 2009, more than 129,300 state and federal prisoners were housed in for-profit lock-ups. …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Filed under: Overcrowding, News
Budget Crisis Closes Oregon Prison for First Time in 159 Years by Oregon prison officials recently proved that desperate times truly do call for desperate measures, as the state closed a prison for the first time since opening its first correctional facility in 1851 – nine years before Oregon became …
Washington Prison Guard’s Murder Results in Demotions, Firings and $26,000 Fine by Mark Wilson An outside investigation has determined that the murder of a Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) guard was the result of poor staff management and training by prison officials. On January 29, 2011, prisoner Byron Scherf, 52, …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Audit Finds California Prison Employees Routinely Work Less Than 40 Hours a Week by In an April 2011 audit, the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that over a three-month period ending in August 2010, mental health and education employees at Mule Creek State Prison routinely worked less …
Cross v. Corrections Corporation of America, TN, Complaint, CCA guards allowed inmate assault, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0309 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0310 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0311
Gaines v. Contra Costa County, CA, Complaint, Failure to Protect - Hazardous Conditions, 2011 . ' ... , /,.-·- -----------~ .2.osqq_ _. 'ATTORNEY OR PARTYwmtoUT ATTORNEY {Nalr.e, Stats.. - ~i=~1-1~1r-,- ___,._ _ _ _ _ _P_L_D•_P_l-0_0__,1 - .,ntw. and address]: _. .. . . ______ . . _l\\oc-:tioe1- .Oe.i:f.otion_fac.i\{t'(-i- ___ …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Oregon Rethinking Criminal Justice Policies to Avoid Fiscal Crisis by Oregon is one of ten states in “financial peril,” according to a November 2009 report by The Pew Center on the States. Thanks in large part to the state’s criminal justice policies of the last 20 years, Oregon faces an …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
$96,000 Settlement in Massachusetts Conditions of Confinement Suit by Following a Massachusetts Superior Court’s award of nominal damages and attorney fees in a prison conditions case, and with an appeal pending, the parties entered into a settlement agreement. The settlement resulted from a lawsuit that sought damages for “disgusting and …
Prison Sexual Abuse Survivor Speaks Out by Alan Prendergast In January 2010, Scott Howard, a 39-year-old federal prisoner, made his way briskly into a hearing room in the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building in Washington, D.C. He was neatly dressed in blazer, slacks and tie, and quite nervous about what …
Tennessee: Incident Rates at CCA Facilities Higher Than at Public Prisons by According to an analysis of incidents involving assaults and disturbances at government-run and privately-managed prisons in Tennessee from January 2009 to June 2011, incident rates were consistently higher at the state’s three private prisons. Those were the findings …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
US EPA Takes Action Against Kansas Prison for Asbestos Violations by The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued orders against the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) for violations of federal law concerning asbestos removal. The violations stem from a renovation in 2005-2006 at the Topeka Correctional Facility (TCF). The …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Planned GEO Prison in Adelanto, California Faces Sewage Hurdles by In January 2011, the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board called for a cease and desist order to prevent the City of Adelanto, California from establishing any new sewer connections. The board said that Adelanto’s water utility authority had created …
Brief • December 7, 2011
Richardson v. Kane, PA, Complaint, Conditions of Confinement, 2011 Case 3:11-cv-02266-WJN-DB Document 1 Filed 12/07/11 Page 1 of 45 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA SEBASTIAN RICHARDSON, PLAINTIFF, CIVIL ACTION v. THOMAS R. KANE, JOSEPH NORWOOD, BRYAN A. BLEDSOE, DAVID YOUNG, D. HUDSON, B. …
Brief • December 2, 2011
Essex v. County of Livingston, MI, Order Granting Plts' Motion to Compel, Sexual Assault by Jail Transport Guard, 2011 2:09-cv-11095-AJT-PJK Doc # 132 Filed 12/02/11 Pg 1 of 6 Pg ID 1733 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION CUREN ESSEX, ALICIA BULKO, ELIZABETH ZUBOR, SUSAN COOK …
Publication • December 1, 2011
A System Master Plan for Massachusetts Corrections, MA Division of Capital Asset Management, 2011 STV Incorporated Carter Goble Lee FINAL REPORT A System Master Plan for Massachusetts Corrections MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT CORRECTONS MASTER PLAN The Corrections Master Plan The Final Report DOC 0801ST1 STV Incorporated in association …
Article • November 15, 2011
Traffic Tickets Lead to Kansas Jail Reform by The U.S. District Court of Kansas determined that the totality of conditions at the Sedgwick County Jail violated detainee’s Constitutional rights. Sedgwick County Jail was built in the early 1950s, and was designed to hold a maximum of 135 prisoners. The number …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
No Qualified Immunity for Guard Who Transported Prisoner in Dog Cage by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of qualified immunity to an Arkansas jail guard who transported a prisoner in a K-9 cage covered with feces, urine and dog hair. In …
Conditions at New York Juvenile Facilities Deficient; State and Federal Officials Settle Lawsuit by On July 14, 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the State of New York settled a three-year investigation into conditions of confinement at four New York juvenile facilities. The DOJ began investigating conditions of …
Eleventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of BOP Failure to Protect Suit by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the dismissal of a failure to protect suit filed by a federal prisoner who claimed that he was attacked by a guard for participating in a prison investigation. “John …
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