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Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Australia: In 2007 a law was passed making it illegal for anyone to provide erectile dysfunction drugs to prisoners or for prisoners to sell their artwork. The law was enacted after media disclosed that Bevan Spencer von Einem, a prisoner serving a life sentence for the …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
$700,000 Settlement in Minnesota Teen’s Wrongful Death Caused by Jail’s Indifference to Head Infection by Shortly after his arrest and booking into Minnesota’s Mille Lacs County Jail, 18-year-old Brandon Brown began Complaining of excruciating head pain. The result of jail personnel’s failure to treat him caused his death and a …
Article • June 15, 2008
The Torture Election: Fighting for the Soul of the American Psychological Association by Jeffrey S. Kaye By Jeffrey S. Kaye, AlterNet Posted on April 23, 2008 Printed on June 23, 2008 In a surprising turn of events, New York psychologist Steven Reisner won over 30% of the votes in the …
Article • June 15, 2008
Filed under: Food, News
Taste-Testing Nutraloaf: The prison food that just might be unconstitutionally bad by Arin Greenwood By Arin Greenwood Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 8:07 AM ET Nobody thinks prison food is haute cuisine, but could it be so bad it's unconstitutional? The question comes up more often than you might …
Article • June 15, 2008
Florida Prisoners Have No Right to “Free” Public Records by Florida’s First District Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner is not entitled to free copies of records in the custody of the state attorney and the clerk of the Court. The Court said that prisoners are “in the …
Article • June 15, 2008
Virginia Police Department Record of Criminal Case Disposition Not Subject to Public Record Request by The Attorney General of Virginia has opined that a city police department that maintains a record of all persons tried in municipal court of the city for whether the party was convicted or acquitted, and …
Article • June 15, 2008
Evidence Fails to Support Charges of Washington State Employee; Reinstatement Ordered by The Washington State Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that an employee merited dismissal for failing to report an arrest and for pulling …
Article • June 15, 2008
Exceptional Circumstances Required for Disclosure of Fla. Sunshine Law Exemption to Government or Law Enforcement by Florida’s Second District Court of Appeals has held that a lawsuit plaintiff failed to show “exceptional circumstances” or “exceptional necessity” to overcome the disclosure of information that is exempt under Florida’s Sunshine Law in …
Article • June 15, 2008
Failure to Comply in the Home Assignment Resulted in Washington Employee’s Termination by The Washington State Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held that dismissal of a Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) employee was appropriate where the employee neglected his duty, was insubordinate, engaged in gross misconduct, and willfully violated WDOC …
Article • June 15, 2008
Failure to Report Absences Merits Dismissal for Washington Prison Guard by The Washington State Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has denied the appeal of a Washington Department of Corrections guard who was suspended and dismissed for repeated failures to report to work and call in his absences. Clallam Bay Corrections Center …
Article • June 15, 2008
FBI Informant Sues for 110 Days False Imprisonment in Oregon Prison by An FBI informant is suing the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) for holding him 110 days past his release date. In the late 1970s, Jack Rowlands gained notoriety by planting a bomb at Portland International Airport, in a …
Article • June 15, 2008
Federal Courts Can't Dismiss Prisoners' Civil Rights Actions Simply Because They're Inartfully Pleaded by Walter Gordon, a South Carolina state prisoner, sued prison officials in federal district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 after he was assaulted and raped by other prisoners. Stephen Young, a Maryland state prisoner, filed his …
Federal FIOA Doesn’t Apply to OH State Agencies by Jan Becker, an Ohio state prisoner, petitioned for a Writ of Mandamus in state court to compel the state Highway Patrol to disclose documents under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 551(1) et seq. and the state …
Article • June 15, 2008
Florida DOC Can't Inspect Guards' Homes in Workers' Compensation Case by Numerous guards at the Volusia County (Florida) Department of Corrections (DOC) filed for Workers' Compensation in state court after being exposed to toxic molds while at work. The DOC moved for an order compelling inspection of the guards' homes …
Article • June 15, 2008
Filed under: Searches, Police Searches
Florida Man Wins $253,350 for Unlawful Search and Seizure by Raphael McKinon, a nurse in Sarasota, Florida, refused to allow his estranged, belligerent girlfriend to enter his home to collect her things. She was accompanied by Eric Bolden and Sue Woniya, both Sarasota cops, who arrested McKinon, allegedly pursuant to …
Article • June 15, 2008
Florida Citizen Awarded $10,000 in Police Brutality Suit by A Florida woman identified only as Rowland was stopped in a motel parking lot by police in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida. As she was answering one cop's questions, another one sneaked up behind her and kicked her feet from under her, …
Article • June 15, 2008
Florida’s Public Records Law Exempts Attorney Notes by Florida’s Supreme Court has affirmed a trial court’s order finding that certain documents in the State attorney’s file are exempt form disclosure under Florida’s Public Records Act. The trial court reviewed the documents in camera. If found the documents in question, which …
Georgia Suicide Claim Reinstated Against PHS by The Georgia Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a negligence claim against Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) stemming from a 17-year-old detainee’s suicide. The Court also concluded individual defendants were not entitled to official immunity, because they performed ministerial, rather than discretionary …
Article • June 15, 2008
Giving Prisoner Security Merits Dismissal of Washington Guard by The Washington State Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held that dismissal is the appropriate sanction for a guard’s willful act of giving a prisoner his state issued keys. Before the PAB was the appeal of Jevan Combs, a guard at Mc …
Article • June 15, 2008
Michigan Prisoner Properly Denied Free Documents Under FOIA by Ricky Williams, a Michigan state prisoner, sued in state court to compel disclosure of documents by the prison records manager (Manager) without having to pay for them, pursuant to the state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Mich. Comp. Laws § 15.231 …
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