No More Than 20 Percent Can Be Deducted To Pay Filing Fees by Brandon Sample The provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) authorizing monthly deductions from a prisoner’s account to satisfy the filing fee in a civil case does not permit prison officials to deduct more than 20 …
City Council Candidate Pays Juvenile Program for Campaign Work by A Virginia juvenile prison teacher agreed to pay the state for the services of youths in creating advertising materials for his city council campaign following scrutiny of his campaign contribution report. Virginia officials looked to restrict Virginia’s Youth Industries job-training …
Pre-SORNA Offenders Not Required to Register Until Attorney General’s Regulations Issued by Brandon Sample On March 13, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit joined in a growing circuit split over the applicability of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) to offenders who failed to …
Excessive Force Claim Against Virginia Jail Settled by DaVon Bell has settled a federal lawsuit in which he claimed that he was subjected to excessive force by guards at Virginia’s Roanoke City Jail. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Bell, who was 20 years old when he was taken …
Virginia Considers Privatizing State’s Civil Commitment Center by Joe Watson A November 2011 standoff between police and two sex offenders threatening suicide at the Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation (VCBR), the state’s civil commitment facility near Richmond, raised concerns about the safety and treatment of residents held at the center. …
Virginia Prison Policy Prohibiting Secular, Non-Religious CDs Held Unconstitutional by On February 7, 2012, a U.S. District Court held that a Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) policy prohibiting prisoners from purchasing or possessing secular spoken-word compact discs was unconstitutional. The court invalidated the policy but also granted qualified immunity to …
Garcia v. Daniel, VA, Motion in Limine, Excessive Force Elbow Strike, 2012 Case 1:11-cv-01226-LO-TCB Document 119 Filed 10/31/12 Page 1 of 34 PageID# 1002 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA (Alexandria Division) CARLOS GARCIA, Plaintiff, v. TERRY DANIEL, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) Case# l-11-cv-1226 (LOffCB) ) …
Prisoners and Families Connect with Video Visitation, for a Price by Since 2006, family members and friends of Virginia prisoners have been able to use modern videoconferencing equipment to enjoy visits with loved ones held in state prisons hundreds of miles away. The Video Visitation Program, operated by two Richmond-based …
Pro Se Virginia Prisoner Settles Religious Exercise Suit by Virginia state prisoner Rashid Qawi Al-Amin, proceeding pro se, reached a settlement with prison officials that requires them to purchase Islamic reading materials, CDs and DVDs for the prison chaplain’s library. The state also agreed to pay him $2,000. Al-Amin, a …
$2.4 Million Awarded for Wrongful Death of Virginia Prisoner by On September 13, 2011, a Virginia jury awarded the estate of a Richmond City Jail prisoner $2.4 million in a wrongful death suit. James D. Robinson, 46, was arrested and booked into the jail in 2008 after he suffered a …
Fourth Circuit Reverses Injunction Relating to Publication of Social Security Number on Virginia Land-Transfer Records by Derek Gilna By Derek Gilna The appeal arose from a First Amendment challenge to Virginia's Personal Information Privacy Act, Va. Code Sec. 59.1-442 to 444, part of which prohibits “[i]ntentionally communicat[ing] another individual's social …
Fourth Circuit Reverses Muslim Prisoner Mail Restrictions by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals remanded for an evidentiary hearing to determine if Muslim publications were a threat to prison security. Appellant/Plaintiff Richard X. Brown brought before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in October, 1970, his § 1983 claim for …
Virginia FOIA Inapplicable to State Corporation Commission by The Virginia Supreme Court held that the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) does not apply to the State Corporation Commission (SCC). On May 13, 2009, George H. Christian requested that the SCC produce documents pursuant to the VFOIA. On May 22, …
Bane v. Virginia DOC, VA, Complaint, Disabled Prisoner Injured in Handcuffs, 2012 CLERKS OFFICE U S. Case 7:12-cv-00159-JCT-RSB Document 1 Filed 04/05/12 Page 1 of 20 Pageid#: 1DISI.COURT AT ROM OKE,VA FlkFZD AF2 2 5 2212 JULIA C.DU E CLE IN TH E UN ITED STA TES D ISTRIC T …
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$115,000 Settlement in BOP Excessive Use of Restraints Suit by Brandon Sample The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has agreed to pay $115,000 to resolve an excessive force lawsuit against five BOP employees. While incarcerated at the U.S. Penitentiary (USP) in Lee, Virginia, Michael Montgomery was placed in four-point restraints …
Virginia Wrongful Death Jail Suit Against Correct Care Solutions Settled for $1 Million by A nurse employed by Correct Care Solutions (CCS), the company responsible for medical treatment at the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia, was fired for lying about the care she provided to a prisoner who later died. …
Virginia Prisoners Held in Segregation Over 10 Years for Violating DOC Grooming Policy by Justin Miller A number of prisoners in Virginia have been held in segregation for more than a decade because they refuse to cut their hair or beards on religious grounds. Since December 1999, the Virginia Department …
Dach v. City of Richmond, VA, Pltf's Case Summary, Police Taser Wrongful Death, 2011 5 MICHAEL J. HADDAD (State Bar No. 189114) JULIA SHERWIN (State Bar No. 189268) GINA ALTOMARE (State Bar No. 273099) HADDAD & SHERWIN 505 Seventeenth Street Oakland, California 94612 Telephone: (510) 452-5500 Fax: (510) 452-5510 6 …
Settlement Reverses Virginia DOC’s Ban on Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook by David Reutter A settlement agreement between the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and two civil rights organizations that publish the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook (JLH) overturned the VDOC’s ban on JLH and requires that five copies of that publication be placed …
