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California’s Behavior Modification Programs – Abuse of Prisoners, Racism and Cover-Ups by Ill-conceived experiments in behavior modification by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) have led to allegations of racism, abuse of prisoners, retaliation and cover-ups, plus a state Senate inquiry. In 2005 and 2006, the CDCR initiated …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Massachusetts Prisoners Receive Expired Food Rejected by Schools by According to an April 2011 news report, the Massachusetts Department of Education set aside 11,000 cases of expired cheese, blueberries, frozen chicken and other food items for use in prison kitchens after an investigation discovered the out-of-date food was being served …
California Inspector General Expresses Concerns About Out-of-State Private Prisons by In December 2010, California Inspector General David Shaw sent a letter to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), informing CDCR officials about concerns related to housing California prisoners in out-of-state privately-operated facilities. The concerns arose when the Office …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Fugitive Oregon DOC Food Manager Getting Homesick in Iran by “I would love to come back to my country ... but unfortunately they want to fry me for my mistake,” wrote international fugitive and former Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) Food Service Administrator Farhad (“Fred”) Monem, in emails sent to …
Booker v. Denver, CO, Complaint, Excessive Force Jail, 2011 Case 1:11-cv-00645-RBJ-KMT Document 36 Filed 10/04/11 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 54 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 11-cv-00645-WYD-KMT ESTATE OF MARVIN L. BOOKER, REVEREND B.R. BOOKER, SR., and ROXEY A. WALTON, as …
Lippert v. Godinez, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011 Case: 1:10-cv-04603 Document #: 39 Filed: 10/07/11 Page 1 of 33 PageID #:113 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DON LIPPERT, Plaintiff, v. SALVADOR GODINEZ, PARTHA GHOSH, M.D., WILLARD ELYEA, JOSEPH SSENFUMA, LOUIS SHICKER, QUENTIN TANNER, ADRIAN BACOT, …
Oates et al v. Dorsey et al, NM, 3rd Amended Complaint, guard brutality threat humiliation nuts to butts, 2011 Case 1:11-cv-00254-MCA -GBW Document 43 Filed 09/29/11 Page 1 of 13 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO JOHN OATES, and MICHAEL CROHAN on behalf of …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Testimony Transcript - Wojtalewicz, prison riot, 2011 Transcript of the Testimony of Randal Floyd Wojtalewicz Date: September 23, 2011 Volume: Case: Vance A. Adams, et al v. Corrections Corporation of America Printed On: January 17, 2013 Ak/Ret Reporting, Records & Video, Inc. Phone:361-882-9037 Fax:361-882-3355 Email:akretinc@aol.com Internet: …
Article • September 15, 2011
Texas Prisoner States Arguable 1983 Claim by Asserting That He Was Forced to Walk to Shower Undressed in Winter by John Michael Withrow, a Texas state prisoner was forced to walk 400 feet to the shower, wearing only his underwear during the winter months. He filed suit in federal district …
Article • September 15, 2011
Ohio DOC Guard Liable For Prisoner's Slip and Fall Exiting Transport Van by On March 19, 2007, Court of Claims of Ohio magistrate recommended that a state prison guard be found liable for allowing a mobility-impaired prisoner to receive injuries by slipping and falling while exiting a transport van. Edward …
Record of Previous Violence Gives Jail Officials Constructive Notice of Attack on Prisoner by On March 20, 2007, a New York state court of appeals held that a prisoner’s previous propensity for attacking other prisoners without provocation or warning and his housing in segregation served as sufficient constructive notice of …
Federal Court Continues Oversight of Wyoming State Penitentiary by A Wyoming federal district court had entered an order that continues its supervision of the Wyoming State Penitentiary. That supervision began in October 2003 as the result of a class action civil rights action, alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement that failed …
The Sun Never Sets On Torture in American Military Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke PLN has reported extensively on some of the issues surrounding the treatment of prisoners in the American military prisons which were set up to hold people suspected of committing or supporting terrorism. This …
Article • September 15, 2011
Death Penalty Scrutinized: Court Halts Missouri Physician-Overseen Lethal Drug Execution; Ten States Suspend Executions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The death penalty has come under renewed scrutiny nationwide with nine states suspending executions by lethal injection. Serious questions have been raised both as to Eighth Amendment concerns of …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
New Mexico Spends $20 Million in Federal Stimulus Money to Fund Prison Jobs by Like most other states, New Mexico received a large amount of federal money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Of the billions of dollars in stimulus funds, $260 million was earmarked as a “state fiscal …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Canadian Prison Guards Hold Prisoners at Gunpoint for 10 Days by In January 2010, a Canadian prison tactical unit held prisoners at gunpoint during a search of British Columbia’s Kent Institution. “For 10 days, this team followed its own rules of engagement with almost complete impunity,” stated a report by …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Smoke ’Em if You Got ’Em, Says Oklahoma DOC by The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) has partially reversed its six-year-old smoking ban. Citing increased prisoner health care costs caused by smoking, the DOC banned cigarettes in all its facilities in 2004. Since then, predictably, a black market for tobacco …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
Michigan Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Case Settles for $100,000 by The State of Michigan has agreed to pay a prisoner $100,000 to settle a failure to protect lawsuit filed in federal court. In 2007, Joseph Lyons, 42, was serving a larceny sentence at a Jackson, Michigan prison. He was forced …
Female Prisoners Removed from CCA Facility in Kentucky by Five years of staff-on-prisoner sexual abuse, inadequate medical care, security lapses and other problems finally forced Kentucky and Hawaiian officials to remove about 600 female prisoners from a privately-operated prison. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private-prison company, runs …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf Mot for PO, Disclosure of Medical Requests, 2011 DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CROWLEY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: Sixteenth Judicial District Court Crowley County Courthouse 110 E. 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, Colorado 81063 Telephone 719-267-4468 Plaintiffs: VANCE A. ADAMS et. al. Defendants: CORRECTIONS CORPORATION …
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