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Federal Court Seizes California Prisons' Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers by Federal Court Seizes California Prisons' Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is forcefully having its failed healthcare system both corrected and rehabilitated. Despite court-ordered healthcare …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Ten Deaths At San Quentin from Macabre" Healthcare by Ten Deaths At San Quentin from Macabre" Healthcare by Marvin Mentor San Quentin State Prison (SQ), a scant 25 miles from the San Francisco courtroom of Plata v. Schwarzenegger Judge Thelton E. Henderson, was high on the court's agenda for improved …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Filed under: Medical, Respiratory
California Prison Doctor Suspended Following Three Prisoner Deaths by by Marvin Mentor A San Quentin State Prison physician, Dr. Garen Vong, whose alleged negligence contributed to the deaths of three prisoner patients since 2002, was suspended with pay ($11,381 per month) on February 3, 2005 pending investigation. The three preventable" …
Los Angeles County Pays $900,000 to Parents of Murdered Informant in Jail by The County of Los Angeles (L.A.) agreed to pay $700,000 to the mother, and $200,000 to the father, of a 20 year old county jail prisoner murdered in his cell by a free-roaming prisoner against whom he …
Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of ADA Suit for Failure to Exhaust by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred in dismissing a California prisoners suit for failing to exhaust administrative remedies under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, (PLRA). Earl Butler, …
California Enacts Strong Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination" Act by California Enacts Strong Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination" Act by John E. Dannenberg To aid compliance with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003 (Public Law 108-79), California enacted Assembly Bill 550 (AB 550), the Sexual Abuse in …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Appointment Of Counsel Ordered To Determine California Prisoner's Request For Post-Appeal DNA Testin by Appointment Of Counsel Ordered To Determine California Prisoner's Request For Post-Appeal DNA Testing In a case of first impression, the California Court of Appeal strictly construed Penal Code § 1405 to require that the Superior Court …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
California DOC Watched Over by Toothless Bureau of Independent Review by While Californias $7.4 billion Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) continues to report solely to the Governors Secretary of Corrections, the CDCR is also being overseen by the Bureau of Independent Review (BIR), reporting to the Governor. The good …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
California Lifer's Understanding of Plea Agreement Does Not Create Entitlement to Parole by In 1984, Peter Honesto committed a murder in the course of kidnapping and robbery, exposing him to California's death penalty or life without parole. He accepted a plea agreement for 17-life for second degree murder. When later …
Los Angeles County Pays Prisoner $42,500 for Legal Malpractice by Public Defender by by John E. Dannenberg The County of Los Angeles paid $42,500 to settle a legal malpractice claim brought by a prisoner who suffered state prison plus felony disenfranchisement upon an unlawful conviction. In October 1992, Jose Castro, …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
California Pays Innocent Prisoner $328,000 for Nine Years in Prison by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg For only the twelfth time since 1981, California paid a wrongfully imprisoned person for his troubles. After serving nine years of a 27-life 1995 sentence for rape, a 38 year-old man was recently …
California and Connecticut Reinstate Jobs of Fired Guards by In a process fabled for reinstating 6070% of the jobs of fired prison guards, a unanimous California State Personnel Board (SPB) ordered the positions of six previously dismissed Youth Authority guards restored with full back pay. And in a strikingly similar …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
2005 Audit of California Parole Board Reveals Ongoing Deficiencies by The California Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the state's official watchdog" agency, conducted an audit of the Board of Prison Terms (BPT) in July 2005 to determine compliance with the OIG's prior recommendations to correct deficiencies and inefficiencies it …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Whistleblowers Nail Cheating California Corrections Employees by The California State Auditor detailed four investigations of California Department of Corrections (CDC) employee misconduct completed between July 1 and December 30, 2004, where the tip-offs of miscreance were reported through California's Whistleblower Protection Act (Government Code § 8547 et seq.). Reportable transgressions …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Private Prison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone Revenues Sues California DOC by Private Prison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone Revenues Sues California DOC A Bakersfield, California businessman, who lost a contract for his private prison housing California Department of Corrections (CDC) prisoners due to …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Court Halts Practice of California Prison Guards Getting Unlimited Paid Time to Conduct Union Busine by Court Halts Practice of California Prison Guards Getting Unlimited Paid Time to Conduct Union Business on the Job In a recent expose, the Sacramento Bee revealed that the California prison guards union (CCPOA) cut …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
U.S. Supreme Court: Faretta Does Not Establish Right Of Pro Se Defendant to Law Library Access by U.S. Supreme Court: Faretta Does Not Establish Right Of Pro Se Defendant to Law Library Access In a per curiam ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Circuit's grant of habeas relief …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Shackling of Women Prisoners During Labor and Delivery Ended In California by by John E. Dannenberg California's Governor Schwarzenegger improved health care for women prisoners by signing AB 478 into law, which makes it illegal to deny prenatal and postpartum care (to include basic dental cleaning) and bans shackling during …
Wilkins v. Oakland, CA, Response, Mot to Bifurcate, 2006 4 BRIAN T. DUNN (SBN 176502) COCHRAN, CHERRY, GIVENS, SMITH & STEWART 4929 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1010 Los Angeles, California 90010-3856 Telephone: (323) 931-6200 Facsimile: (323) 931-9521 5 Attorneys for all Plaintiffs 6 MICHAEL J. HADDAD (State Bar No. 189114) JULIA …
Federal Judge Enforces "Valdivia Remedial Plan" for California Parole Violators by Federal Judge Enforces "Valdivia Remedial Plan" for California Parole Violators On June 8, 2005, the United States District Court enforced its order in Valdivia v. Davis, 206 F.Supp.2d 1068 (E.D. Cal. 2002) [PLN, Jan.2003, p.16] and its March 9, …
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