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Videotaped Assault at Idaho CCA Prison Sparks FBI Investigation by Mark Wilson Guards at a private prison in Idaho looked on, but did not intervene, as a prisoner was beaten into a coma. Video footage of the January 2010 incident has sparked an FBI investigation into civil rights violations at …
Article • February 15, 2012
Qualified Immunity Denied to Guard Who Failed to Provide Safe Transport by by David M. Reutter The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held on March 4, 2008 that a guard was not entitled to qualified immunity concerning a prisoner’s claim that the guard failed to provide safe transport, violating the …
Article • February 15, 2012
California: Guard Union Members Not Entitled to Back Pay for Furloughed Days by The California Court of Appeal has reversed an order by the Superior Court of Alameda County that would have resulted in back pay for approximately 30,000-35,000 state civil service employees working at correctional facilities operated by the …
Florida Provides Lesson in How Not to Privatize State Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When Florida lawmakers used a backdoor approach to try to privatize almost 30 state detention facilities in 2011, they likely did not anticipate the outcome. By the time the political dust had settled, …
Colorado CCA Prison Uprising: New Details of Unheeded Warnings Emerge in Epic Lawsuit by Alan Prendergast Seven years ago prisoners at a private prison in southeastern Colorado went on an all-night rampage, chasing the shorthanded staff from the premises, attacking suspected snitches, setting fires and causing millions of dollars in …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
New York City Jail Considered Serving Spoiled Meat by David Reutter After Rikers Island officials discovered 65,000 pounds of spoiled meat at the jail, at least one official suggested that it be served to prisoners. The meat, valued at $130,816, was found rotting on July 11, 2011 when nauseating smells …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Rikers Island Guards File Suit Alleging Cancer-Causing Toxin Exposure by Mark Wilson The Rikers Island jail in New York City was built atop a toxic landfill that is causing cancer, according to lawsuits filed by seven cancer-stricken Rikers employees. “That island is toxic and it’s killing people,” said guard Vanessa …
Head of Missouri Jail Sentenced for Beating, Arranging Attacks on Prisoners by The former head jailer at Missouri’s Washington County Jail (WCJ), about 60 miles from St. Louis, has been convicted of violating the civil rights of four prisoners and obstruction of justice. His daughter, a guard at the jail, …
Brief • February 9, 2012
Sexton v. Richards, AZ, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2012 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT A~D lmLEASE ("Settlement Agreement") is made and entered into this _ _ _ _ day of _ _ _ _ _ _ _~_, 2012, by and between: "Plaintiff' Jeremy Sexton "Defendants" State of Arizona, …
Brief • January 31, 2012
Mack v. Howard, NY, Appellate Opinion, Records Request for Video of Guards Beating Jail Prisoner, 2012 Evaluation Only. Created with Aspose.Words. Copyright 2003-2010 Aspose Pty Ltd. Matter of Matter of Mack v Howard 2012 NY Slip Op 00584 Decided on January 31, 2012 Appellate Division, Fourth Department Published by New …
Brief • January 25, 2012
Hall v Mims, CA, Amended Complaint, dangerous conditions, 2012 Case 1:11-cv-02047-LJO-BAM Document 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Filed 01/25/12 Page 1 of 39 DONALD SPECTER (SBN 83925) KELLY KNAPP (SBN 252013) PRISON LAW OFFICE 1917 Fifth Street Berkeley, California 94710 Telephone: (510) 280-2704 Fax: (510) 280-2704 MAUREEN …
Cunningham v. AZ, AZ, Complaint, Suicide, 2012 Michael K. Jeanes, Cl rk of Court *** Electronically iled *** Charlotte Le ·ne Filing ID 1148 09 1/20/2012 4:49:00 M 4 AUGUSTINE B. JIMENEZ III State Bar# 012208 Mont9ya Jimenez, P.A. 3200 N. Central Avenu~ Suite 2550 Phoenix, Arizona 8501L-2490 Telephone: 602-263-7875 …
The Societal Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex, or Incarceration for Fun and Profit—Mostly Profit by Alex Friedmann At the beginning of the 1980s there were no privately-operated adult correctional facilities in the United States. As of 2009, more than 129,300 state and federal prisoners were housed in for-profit lock-ups. …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
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Budget Crisis Closes Oregon Prison for First Time in 159 Years by Oregon prison officials recently proved that desperate times truly do call for desperate measures, as the state closed a prison for the first time since opening its first correctional facility in 1851 – nine years before Oregon became …
Washington Prison Guard’s Murder Results in Demotions, Firings and $26,000 Fine by Mark Wilson An outside investigation has determined that the murder of a Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) guard was the result of poor staff management and training by prison officials. On January 29, 2011, prisoner Byron Scherf, 52, …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Audit Finds California Prison Employees Routinely Work Less Than 40 Hours a Week by In an April 2011 audit, the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that over a three-month period ending in August 2010, mental health and education employees at Mule Creek State Prison routinely worked less …
Cross v. Corrections Corporation of America, TN, Complaint, CCA guards allowed inmate assault, 2011 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0309 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0310 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0311
Gaines v. Contra Costa County, CA, Complaint, Failure to Protect - Hazardous Conditions, 2011 . ' ... , /,.-·- -----------~ .2.osqq_ _. 'ATTORNEY OR PARTYwmtoUT ATTORNEY {Nalr.e, Stats.. - ~i=~1-1~1r-,- ___,._ _ _ _ _ _P_L_D•_P_l-0_0__,1 - .,ntw. and address]: _. .. . . ______ . . _l\\oc-:tioe1- .Oe.i:f.otion_fac.i\{t'(-i- ___ …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Oregon Rethinking Criminal Justice Policies to Avoid Fiscal Crisis by Oregon is one of ten states in “financial peril,” according to a November 2009 report by The Pew Center on the States. Thanks in large part to the state’s criminal justice policies of the last 20 years, Oregon faces an …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
$96,000 Settlement in Massachusetts Conditions of Confinement Suit by Following a Massachusetts Superior Court’s award of nominal damages and attorney fees in a prison conditions case, and with an appeal pending, the parties entered into a settlement agreement. The settlement resulted from a lawsuit that sought damages for “disgusting and …
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