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California DOC Federal Health Care Receiver Replaced by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Robert Sillen, the scrappy Receiver appointed by a U.S. District Court to fix California’s ailing prison healthcare system, was replaced on January 23, 2008 by J. Clark Kelso, former Chief Information Officer for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
$100,000 Settlement in Illinois Jail Guard’s Forced Oral Sex of Female Prisoner by To settle a prisoner’s equal protection claim based upon sexual harassment, Illinois’ Tazewell County has agreed to pay the prisoner $100,000. The same prisoner also had consensual sex with another off-duty guard, resulting in his firing. The …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
California Juvenile Parolees Entitled to Two-Step Revocation Process by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California has held that the rights of California juvenile parolees were violated by the single-hearing revocation process used by the Juvenile Parole Board (JPB). Nevertheless, the …
California: Few Sex Predators Civilly Committed To Mental Hospitals, Despite Expanded Qualification Criteria by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Even though California widely expanded the potential pool of violent sex predator (SVP) prisoners who could be forced into mental hospitals after completing their criminal sentences, and despite spending $27 …
CCA Fined $140,000 for Early Release of Prisoners at FL Jail; Quits Contract by The nation’s largest private prison firm, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), has once again upset county officials by repeatedly failing to control vital jail operations. The company responded by discontinuing its contract to operate the facility. …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
Filed under: Medical, Injury -- Misc.
Infected Hand Mistreatment At Sacramento County Jail Settled For $100,000 by The County of Sacramento, California settled a federal civil rights lawsuit brought against county jail staff for failure to properly treat the injured hand of a prisoner. While the $100,000 settlement was less than the prisoner’s $156,000 in medical …
Grand Jury Report, Four Nebraska Jail Guards Indicted in Prisoner’s Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Finding there was probable cause that four guards at Nebraska’s Omaha Police Detention Unit (OPDU) failed to render medical care to a prisoner which contributed to his death, a Douglas County grand …
Georgia Sheriff, Judges, Other Officials Face Misconduct, Criminal Charges by David Reutter In November 2007 a federal grand jury issued an indictment charging Clinch County, Georgia Sheriff Winston C. Peterson, 62, with perjury, using forced prisoner labor and extorting former jail prisoners. Peterson’s indictment marked the second time in the …
No Safety or Security for Maryland Prisoners by Michael Rigby Twenty-five guards have been fired amid allegations that they beat prisoners at two Maryland prisons. The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) initially terminated the employment of eight guards on April 4, 2008. Another nine were fired …
California DOC Stipulates to Removal of Visitor X-Ray Ma-chines, but Damages Appeal Dismissed by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On November 20, 2007, the California Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal filed by a group of Lancaster State Prison visitors who sought damages for being subjected to Secure 1000 …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
Ohio Prisoner Wins $4,525 Award For Assault By Guard by On May 12, 2007, the Court of Claims of Ohio issued a judgment in favor of an Ohio state prisoner awarding him $4,525 for an assault by a guard. Daniel Booth, an Ohio state prisoner, was working in the kitchen …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
$150,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County Correctional Facility (LCCF) has agreed to pay the family of a prisoner who committed suicide $150,000. The family contended LCCF was deliberatively indifferent to the risk that prisoner Luke Blumer, 19, posed to himself. Blumer was known to be …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
$35,00 Settlement in Sexual Assault of Pennsylvania Female Prisoner by Guard by The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) has settled a female prisoner’s federal lawsuit that claimed she was sexually assaulted by two male guards and videotaped naked by a female guard for $35,000. The settlement came in the case …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
Washington State Sex Offender Vigilante Dies In Prison by On April 15, 2007, Michael Mullen, 36, the Washington State prisoner convicted of having committed vigilante murders of two registered sex offenders, was found dead in his cell at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center near Aberdeen, Washington. Mullens was alone in …
Ninth Circuit: Prisoner’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Classification Claims Fail Sandin Test by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, applying the “atypical and significant hardship” test of Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1995), affirmed a U.S. District Court’s (N.D. Cal.) ruling that …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
Change in Texas Parole Law May Be Ex Post Facto Violation by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a change in Texas parole laws requiring a two-thirds majority vote of the entire board for certain prisoners may violate the Ex Post …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Alabama: On September 26, 2007, Leigh Cochran, 33, a guard at the Houston County Jail was sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty to felony custodial sexual misconduct and two misdemeanor counts of promoting prison contraband. California: On February 23, 2008, 21 prisoners were injured, …
Ninth Circuit: Vested Retirement Benefits May Be Garnished to Pay Criminal Fines by The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, held that the federal Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 (MVRA) trumps the anti-alienation provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), so as …
Montana Public Defender's Deposition Subject to Public Scrutiny by The Billings Gazette, a Montana newspaper, sued in state court to compel disclosure of a deposition given by Yellowstone County's chief public defender, Sanford Selvey in connection with a civil action which resulted in Selvey's resignation as public defender. The trial …
Article • July 15, 2008
Nevada Board of Commissioners' Phone Records Subject to Disclosure under State PRA by DR Partners (newspaper) sued the Clark County (Nevada) Board of Commissioners in state court under the state Public Records Act (PRA) Nev. Rev. Stat. § 239.010 at seq., to compel disclosure of the Board's phone records. The …
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