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Article • January 15, 2009
ACLU Says Federal Death Penalty Prosecutions Racially Biased by Bob Williams By: Bob Williams The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleged that racial disparities exist surrounding the implementation of the federal death penalty (FDP). They claim that United States Attorney Generals (AG) Reno, Ashcroft and Gonzales seek the FDP for …
Violence at Oklahoma Prisons Leaves Two Dead, Twenty-Five Injured by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 19, 2008, at approximately 12:30 p.m., a fight broke out between Native American and black prisoners at the Oklahoma State Reformatory (OSR) in Granite. When the skirmish ended five minutes later, two prisoners …
Article • January 15, 2009
Illegal Alien Not Required to Submit Dual Parole Plans in California by California's First District Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner is not required to prepare a parole plan for both California and a country he will be deported to if there is a conclusive presumption that he …
Texas: $232,000 Settlement, $82,000 Award in Prison Employees' Discrimination Suits by In 2003 and 2004, plaintiffs in two separate lawsuits prevailed on their claims of racial discrimination against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). In the most recent lawsuit, four auditors in the Community Justice Assistance Division of TDCJ …
NIC Report: Wisconsin Jails Racist and Dangerous by Gary Hunter On January 31, 2008, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) issued a 139-page report detailing numerous flaws in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin jail system. The Milwaukee House of Correction (HOC), the Community Corrections Center (CCC) and the County Jail Facility (CJF) …
California DOC Settles Sadistic, Hate-Motivated, Three-Year Starvation Death Of Sikh Prisoner For $1 Million by Marvin Mentor California DOC Settles Sadistic, Hate-Motivated, Three-Year Starvation Death Of Sikh Prisoner For $1 Million by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled a lawsuit brought by the survivors of …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Oregon Guards Wrongly Fired Win $1,000,000 by Russell Rice and Larry Lytle, both career employees of the Oregon state Department of Corrections, were fired by Superintendent Frank Thomas of the Santiam Correctional Institute in early 2004. Both had long histories of exemplary performance. But they formally complained that Thomas, who …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Arkansas Woman Left in Cell for Four Days Without Food or Water by Arkansas Woman Left in Cell for Four Days Without Food or Water In March 2008, a woman was locked in a small courthouse holding cell without food or water for four days after an Arkansas bailiff forgot …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Iowa Imprisons Blacks at Alarming Rate by Gary Hunter Extreme racial disparities in Iowa’s sentencing patterns have put the state under scrutiny once again. Iowa has a population of about 3 million people. Only 2.3 percent, about 20,000, are black. Yet the incarceration for black Iowans is six times greater …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
U.S. Pardon Attorney Replaced After Investigation Reveals Racial Comments, Retaliation and Mismanagement by Brandon Sample U.S. Pardon Attorney Replaced After Investigation Reveals Racial Comments, Retaliation and Mismanagement by Brandon Sample The federal attorney responsible for recommending presidential pardons and commutations has been replaced following an investigation by the Office of …
Alabama Jail Guard Fired, Convicted, Held Civilly Liable in Prisoner’s Assault by David Reutter Alabama Jail Guard Fired, Convicted, Held Civilly Liable in Prisoner’s Assault by David M. Reutter In a rare conclusion to a guard’s violent attack on a prisoner, a Jefferson County, Alabama jail guard was fired, prosecuted, …
$1.95 Million for 18 Years Wrongful Imprisonment in North Carolina by On February 16, 2007, a North Carolina man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit settled with the State and the City of Winston-Salem for $1,958,454. Darryl Hunt, a black man, was imprisoned in …
Prison Strip and Pat Searches Upheld by The plaintiff's conclusory claim of retaliation for filing grievances and lawsuits are dismissed. Prison officials may not retaliate against prisoners for exercising their constitutional rights, but such claims must be viewed with skepticism and care because they are prone to abuse and can …
Article • August 15, 2008
Black Prisoner Jailed With Violent White Supremacist: $40,000 Settlement by Reginald Swisher was a prisoner in the Travis County Jail in Austin, Texas. He was allegedly celled with another prisoner whom jail officials knew was a white supremacist who had assaulted, injured and maimed several other black prisoners and was …
Article • August 15, 2008
Fifth Circuit: Suit Cannot be Dismissed for Following Form’s Instructions; Allegations of Retroactive Negative Changes in Texas Parole Law States Claim by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On December 12, 2006, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prisoner’s lawsuit could not be dismissed for failing to …
Article • August 15, 2008
$185,000 Settlement In Ohio Deceased's Estate For Racial Discrimination And Retaliatory Termination by Ohio State Resident Sheila Smoot, acting as administratrix of her deceased husband Robert's estate, brought suit for racial discrimination and retaliatory termination in 2006 against the Hillcrest Training Center (HTC) juvenile facility. The suit settled for $185,000. …
$800,000 Awarded to Former California Guard for Racial Discrimination by Diane D. Epps, a former guard at a California Youth Authority (CYA) facility in Norwalk, settled her racial discrimination suit against the state for $800,000. She claimed she was denied promotions and was verbally abused by her supervisors. Epps was …
Kentucky Jail Guards Win $872,000 in Discrimination, Retaliation Suit After Appellate Remand by Kelvin Brooks, a guard at the jail in Jefferson County, Kentucky, was black and had a race-related skin disease (PFB) that was irritated by shaving, so he wore a beard. Ron Bishop, the jail director, fired Brooks …
Not the Usual Suspects: The Politics of the Prison Boom by Marie Gottschalk Throughout American history, politicians and public officials have exploited public anxieties about crime and disorder for political gain. The difference today is that these political strategies and public anxieties have come together in the perfect storm. They …
Article • July 15, 2008
Washington Guard Wins $72,000 in Race Discrimination Suit by Geronimo Subia, a guard at the Washington state women's prison at Purdy, sued in state court after he was placed on administrative leave for allegedly having sex with a female prisoner. Evidence that Caucasian guards pressured the prisoner to make the …
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