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Hawaii Guard One of Four Convicted in Smuggling Scheme at Honolulu Prison
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Cell Searches, Drugs - Determination of
Hawaii Guard One of Four Convicted in Smuggling Scheme at Honolulu Prison by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A guard and a prisoner at Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu were among four people convicted on federal conspiracy charges in a drug-and-gun-smuggling scheme at the lockup. All but the guard …
Hawaii Supreme Court Rules That Time Served for Concurrent Sentences Can Be Counted Only Once for Sentence Credit
Article • April 24, 2023
Filed under: Credits, Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences
Hawaii Supreme Court Rules That Time Served for Concurrent Sentences Can Be Counted Only Once for Sentence Credit by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On March 15, 2023, the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruled that Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) §706-671 (2014) does not entitle a defendant to count time earned …
News in Brief
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: WBAM in Birmingham reported that a guard at the Blount County Jail was taken into custody and fired on January 31, 2023. Joseph Snow, 43, was charged with second-degree assault for injuring a detainee during an incident captured on surveillance video. Sheriff Mike Moon called …
Circuit Court Orders Hawaii to Release Names of Prisoners Who Die in State’s Jails and Prisons
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Official Report
Circuit Court Orders Hawaii to Release Names of Prisoners Who Die in State’s Jails and Prisons by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On November 14, 2022, a Hawaiian court ordered the state Department of Public Safety (DPS), the agency that runs state prisons and jails, to reveal the names of …
HI Correctional System Oversight Commission-OCCC Site Tour Observations-March 2023
Publication • March 7, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19, Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Showers, Prison Tourism/Consumerism
HI Correctional System Oversight Commission-OCCC Site Tour Observations-March 2023 JOSH GREEN, M.D. MARK PATTERSON GOVERNOR CHAIR CHRISTIN M. JOHNSON OVERSIGHT COORDINATOR STATE OF HAWAII HAWAII CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM OVERSIGHT COMMISSION 235 S. Beretania Street, 16 Floor th COMMISSIONERS HON. MICHAEL A. TOWN (ret.) HON. RONALD IBARRA (ret.) TED SAKAI MARTHA TORNEY …
Ninth Circuit Says Statements Relayed at Criminal Trial By Nurse and Doctor Are Admissible, Not Hearsay
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Filed under: Statements for Medical Diagnosis
Ninth Circuit Says Statements Relayed at Criminal Trial By Nurse and Doctor Are Admissible, Not Hearsay by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When is hearsay evidence not hearsay? On August 31, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit provided its answer. Affirming the conviction of a …
News in Brief
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: WHNT in Huntsville reported on December 16, 2022, that a Morgan County Jail detainee was charged with assaulting a guard. Ashley Nicole Taymon, 36, had gotten into an altercation at the Community Corrections Office five days earlier and was taken to a hospital. There she …
News in Brief
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On November 2, 2022, a former state prison guard at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility near Birmingham pleaded guilty to federal contraband smuggling charges. The Birmingham News reported that Wilson Brian Clemons, 32, was arrested on November 23, 2021, on state counts of marijuana …
Hawaii Inmate Deaths Are The Highest In 10 Years. But The State Can’t Say Why Corrections officials still aren’t providing a cause of death for 20 of the 23 prisoners who died in Hawaii prisons and j...
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Medical Neglect/Malpractice
Hawaii Inmate Deaths Are The Highest In 10 Years. But The State Can’t Say Why Corrections officials still aren’t providing a cause of death for 20 of the 23 prisoners who died in Hawaii prisons and jails last year. by Kevin Dayton by Kevin Dayton Hawaii had more inmates die …
Fatai v. City and County of Honolulu, HI, Memorandum Response in Opposition to Dft's Partial MSJ, Fabrication of Evidence, 2022
Brief • December 12, 2022
Filed under: Evidence - Destruction/Fabrication/Manipulation of
Fatai v. City and County of Honolulu, HI, Memorandum Response in Opposition to Dft's Partial MSJ, Fabrication of Evidence, 2022 Case 1:19-cv-00603-DKW-WRP Document 293 Filed 12/12/22 Page 1 of 33 PageID.4958 JENNIFER BROWN, #10885 P.O. Box 8415 Honolulu, HI 96830 (808) 554-5576 jenlbrownlaw@gmail.com DAVID B. OWENS* LOEVY & LOEVY (312) …
Reyes v. Tanaka, HI, Verdict, Sexual Assualt, 2022
Brief • November 16, 2022
Filed under: Sexual Assault
Reyes v. Tanaka, HI, Verdict, Sexual Assualt, 2022 Case 1:17-cv-00143-JAO-KJM Document 699 Filed 11/16/22 Page 1 of 8 ORIGINAL PageID.19743 FILEOINTHE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF HAWAII NOV 16 2022 at.1o'clock andflllmin/¼.M IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COUR), FOR THE DISTRICT OF HAWAll John A. Mannie, Clertc CIVIL NO. …
Hawaii Governor Finally Appoints Coordinator for State DOC Oversight Commission
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Central Monitoring
Hawaii Governor Finally Appoints Coordinator for State DOC Oversight Commission by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney It took him three years to do it, but Hawaii Gov. David Ige (D) finally appointed a director for the state Correctional Systems Oversight Commission (CSOC). On April 4, 2022, former New York City …
News in Brief
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A jail guard in Chilton County, Alabama, was arrested on July 21, 2022, and charged with promoting contraband, the Clanton Advertiser reported. The guard, Tyler Ryan Couch, is accused of organizing an effort to smuggle drugs to detainees. Though jail policy forbids guards from transmitting …
$1.375 Million Award in Hawaii Prisoner’s Suicide
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides, Emotional Distress
$1.375 Million Award in Hawaii Prisoner’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 29, 2022, the First Circuit Court of Hawaii awarded $1.375 million to the estate of Joseph O’Malley, who committed suicide while incarcerated at the Halawa Correctional Facility (HCF) in July 2017. O’Malley, 28, was …
News in Brief
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A federal prisoner in Birmingham was gunned down outside a privately-operated reentry facility on July 16, 2022. The Associated Press reported that the prisoner, Larry Taylor, 47, had just been released from the facility, which is operated under contract from the federal Bureau of Prisons …
Three Former Hawaii Jail Guards Convicted in Assault on Prisoner and Cover-Up
Article • August 18, 2022
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Official Report
Three Former Hawaii Jail Guards Convicted in Assault on Prisoner and Cover-Up by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On July 8, 2022, a federal jury convicted three former guards from the Hawaii Community Correctional Center for a vicious assault on a prisoner in June 2015. The three, Jason …
News in Brief
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A former Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was indicted on April 22, 2022, for assaulting three prisoners and then filing a false report to cover it up, the Associated Press reported. The guard, Lorenzo Mills, 55, was charged with beating three male prisoners with a wooden baton at Draper Correctional …
Hawaii Supreme Court Orders New Parole Hearing for Prisoner Held Since 1979
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Restitution, Conditions of, Ability to Pay
Hawaii Supreme Court Orders New Parole Hearing for Prisoner Held Since 1979 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Over 42 years after he was sentenced to Life with Possibility of Parole (LWPP), a pro se Hawaii prisoner took a step closer to the promise contained in his sentence on October …
Chief of Training for Hawaii Prison and Jail Guards Charged with Falsifying Educational Credentials, Out on Paid Leave
Article • May 1, 2022
Filed under: BOP Litigation Reports, Staff Training, False Statements/Perjury
Chief of Training for Hawaii Prison and Jail Guards Charged with Falsifying Educational Credentials, Out on Paid Leave by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Hawaii Department of Public Safety (DPS) Public Training Officer J. Marte Martinez, who oversaw the training of thousands of state prison guards and deputy …
O'Malley v. State of Hawaii, HI, Finding of Facts, Wrongful Death, 2022
Brief • March 29, 2022
Filed under: Medical Neglect/Malpractice
O'Malley v. State of Hawaii, HI, Finding of Facts, Wrongful Death, 2022 Electronically Filed FIRST CIRCUIT 1CC191001021 29-MAR-2022 01:46 PM Dkt. 168 FOF IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT STATE OF HAWAIʻI MICHAEL J. O’MALLEY, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of JOSEPH P. O’MALLEY, Deceased, …
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