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Brief • May 21, 2008
Peralez v Wa Doc Wa Order Granting Attorney Fees Re Ada Disabled Inmates Participation in Work Release 2008 Case 3:06-cv-05625-JKA Document 66 Filed 05/21/2008 Page 1 of 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 10 11 12 …
Brief • May 21, 2008
Peralez v Wa Doc Wa Judgment Attorney Fees and Costs Re Ada Disabled Inmates Participation in Work Release Program 2008 Case 3:06-cv-05625-JKA AO 450 (Rev. 5/85) Judgment in a Civil Case r Document 67 Filed 05/21/2008 Page 1 of 1 United States District Court WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON RICKEY PERALEZ …
Brief • May 16, 2008
Grant v Angelo Il Attorney Response to Motion Deprivation of Property Dog 2008 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, ILLINOIS JONATHAN M. GRANT and HEATHER N. CHILDERS, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, vs. CHELSEA ANGELO, STEPHANIE JOOS, …
Brief • May 16, 2008
Reuther v. Chapman, MI, Discovery Order, Jail Guard Brutality, 2008 2:07-cv-12249-GER-MKM Doc # 53 Filed 05/16/08 Pg 1 of 8 Pg ID 533 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION ROBERT REUTHER, Plaintiff, CIVIL ACTION NO. 07-CV-12249-DT VS. DISTRICT JUDGE GERALD E. ROSEN LONNIE CHAPMAN, et al., …
Brief • May 16, 2008
Texas Border Coalition v Chertoff Dc Complaint Re Property Rights Along the Mexican Us Border 2008 Peter A. Schey (Cal Bar #58232) Carlos Holguin (Cal Bar # 90754) Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law 256 S. Occidental Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90057 Telephone: (213) 388-8693, ext. 304 Facsimile: (213) …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issues marks PLN?s 19th anniversary of continuous publishing and we have now published 219 consecutive issues of PLN. Few magazines even publish ten issues, much less a hundred. Moreso considering the obstacles PLN has faced since it?s inception of being published behind bars, …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
When Courts Get it Wrong: Clark v. Beard by Mumia Abu-Jamal by Mumia Abu Jamal When courts decide cases, the most important elements are the law, the facts and how to apply the relevant law to the facts. When courts err in any of these elements the result is usually …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
NY Court Dismisses Prisoner’s Assault Claim, Voids $500,000 Jury Award by NY Court Dismisses Prisoner's Assault Claim, Voids $500,000 Jury Award On March 15, 2007, a New York Civil Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Riker's Island prisoner George Craig, who alleged that the City was liable for injuries he …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Deadly Staph Infection 'Superbug' Has a Dangerous Foothold in U.S. Jails by Silja JA Talvi by Silja J.A. Talvi Dr. Jeff Duchin, the communicable diseases chief for Seattle/King County Department of Public Health holds his soap-lathered hands in an attention-grabbing newspaper cover photo. Above his dignified image is a highly …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
$100,000 Damage Award Vacated for Seven-Year Service Delay by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a $100,000 excessive force judgment, and ordered dismissal of the action due to a seven-year delay in service on the defendants. On August 9, 1995, Robert Efaw was confined in the Navajo County Jail …
Summer of Discontent by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Underlying the purported societal goal of prisoner rehabilitation lurks the reality of what impedes it: systemic violence that defines the adversarial relationship between all men and women behind bars, prisoners and guards alike. Driven by racial animus, drugs, anger, gang …
Congress Must Act to Protect Young Detainees from Abuse by Marian Edelman by Marian Wright Edelman Posted May 19, 2008 In recent years, the Children's Defense Fund has received horrifying reports of the physical and sexual abuse of children and teens in juvenile correctional facilities. There are accounts of children …
Prison Doctors, Tainted by Regulatory Board Discipline, Administer Wisconsin Prisoner Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Whenever prisoners complain about inept healthcare, prison officials accuse them of being manipulating whiners, or assert they are being administered the ?community standard of care? by competent medical professionals. A review by …
My Space Becomes “No Space” for Online Sex Offenders by David Reutter My Space Becomes "No Space" for Online Sex Offenders by David M. Reutter After online social networking giant MySpace.com, under pressure, disclosed on July 24, 2007 that it had purged 29,000 sex offender profiles from its website, state …
$2 Million Confidential Settlement In CCA Prisoner’s 2004 Beating Death Revealed by Alex Friedmann $2 Million Confidential Settlement In CCA Prisoner's 2004 Beating Death Revealed by Alex Friedmann PLN has previously reported on the death of Estelle Richardson, a mentally ill prisoner who died at the CCA-operated Metro-Davidson County Detention …
Washington DOC Pays PLN $541,000 for Illegally Withholding Records by Michael Rigby The Washington Department of Corrections will pay Prison Legal News $541,000 for illegally withholding public records. It is the largest records-related settlement in Washington state history, and it brings the total amount PLN has won against the state …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Habeas Hints: Amending Petitions by Kent A. Russell This column is intended to provide ?Habeas Hints? to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys (?in pro per?). The focus of the column is on habeas corpus practice under AEDPA, the 1996 habeas corpus law …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Crazy In America: The Hidden Tragedy Of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill, by Mary Beth Pfieffer (Carroll & Graf, 2007, 280 pp. $15.95) by David Preston Reviewed by David Preston Imagine how tough your life would be if you were trying to cope with schizophrenia or severe depression. Plenty tough, right? …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Georgia Prisoner Assaulted By Jailer Awarded $5,300 by On June 21, 2007, a federal jury in Georgia awarded $5,300 to a prisoner who claimed he was assaulted by a jailer while imprisoned in the Dougherty County Jail. Plaintiff Kelvin Boyd alleged that in 2000 jailer Santos Ruiz-Gonzalez hit him on …
Ongoing Incompetence by Disciplined Doctor Doesn't Establish Indifference by The plaintiff fell and broke his hip. A nurse concluded that he was merely bruised and didn't need to see a doctor. Three days later he saw a doctor at regular sick call who gave him an ace bandage for his …
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