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Lawyers Bilk Cornell for Millions, San Francisco Jail Scammed by In an attempt to recoup millions of dollars, private prison operator Cornell Companies, Inc., has filed lawsuits against lawyers entrusted to oversee the companys funds for land deals. Cornell, based in Huston filed the latest suit on August 26, 2005, …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
California DOC Bans Dying Parolee From His Familys Town by California DOC Bans Dying Parolee From His Familys Town A terminally ill prisoner, paroled in February 2005 from one of a small northeast California towns two state prisons, was denied his request to live out his remaining days with his …
California DOC Diverts $480,000 of Drug Treatment Money for Movie Studio by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), while overrunning its 2005 $6.4 billion state budget by $543 million, nonetheless diverted $480,000 of unspent drug treatment money to a private foundation to create a movie studio. The Amity …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Filed under: Medical, Medication, Staffing
Robots Package Medications for Jails by In a 21st Century move designed to both save $1 million per year and improve the accuracy of drug dispensing in county jails, Contra Costa County, California has hired robots to replace pharmacists and nurses in the packaging and dispensing of medications to prisoners …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Jury Awards $858,200 in California Jail Suicide by On February 22, 2006, a federal jury sitting in Sacramento found San Joaquin County, and Dr. Robert Hart, MD., liable for the death of Maurice Shaw in August of 2000. Shaw, who suffered from schizophrenia, was arrested on a minor drug charge …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Los Angeles County Jail Continues To Over-Incarcerate by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg After paying $27 million (up to $5,000 per plaintiff) to settle class action lawsuits in 1991 for failing to timely release prisoners from county jail (see PLN, Jan. 2003, p.14), Los Angeles (L.A.) County is still …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Reproductive Rights in Theory and Practice: The Meaning of Roe v. Wade for Women in Prison by Rachel Roth Reproductive Rights in Theory and Practice: The Meaning of Roe v. Wade for Women in Prison by Rachel Roth In 1973, when the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
Weary California Prison Gang Members Increasingly Opt Out for Solace of Sensitive Needs Yards by Weary California Prison Gang Members Increasingly Opt Out for Solace of Sensitive Needs Yards Imprisoned California gang members are increasingly tiring of doing hard time to satisfy gang leaders demands to enforce dogmatic, self-serving obeisance …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
Continued Reliance on Commitment Offense to Deny California Lifers Parole Denies Federal Due Proces by Marvin Mentor Continued Reliance on Commitment Offense to Deny California Lifers Parole Denies Federal Due Process by Marvin Mentor The U.S.D.C. (E.D. Cal.) granted habeas relief to a California lifer whose parole had been repeatedly …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
California DOC Settles Racially Determinative Housing Suit by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Upon remand from the U.S. Supreme Court (Johnson v. California, 125 S.Ct. 1141 (2005)), the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) entered into a settlement agreement with plaintiff prisoner Garrison Johnson wherein CDCR agreed to …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
L.A. County Jail Gets $20,000 from State for Pruno-Sniffing Dogs; Inmate Welfare Funds Tapped to Mai by L.A. County Jail Gets $20,000 from State for Pruno-Sniffing Dogs; Inmate Welfare Funds Tapped to Maintain Program On September 30, 2005, the Los Angeles (L.A.) County Board of Supervisors approved a Sheriffs funding …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
Severely Beaten L.A. County Jail Prisoner Wins Only $5,000 by A Los Angeles (L.A.) County, California jail prisoner who was severely beaten by three other prisoners on three occasions sued for deliberate indifference in failing to protect him. On August 3, 2005, after a five day trial and seven hours …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
Californias 2005 Prison Suicide Rate Doubles Over 2004 by John Dannenberg Californias 2005 Prison Suicide Rate Doubles Over 2004 by John E. Dannenberg By the time 2005 ended, 44 California state prisoners had committed suicide. A significant increase over the 26 suicides that occurred in 2004. The California Department of …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Any Reliance On AA or NA Participation During Parole Consideration Violates Establishment Clause by John Dannenberg Any Reliance On AA or NA Participation During Parole Consideration Violates Establishment Clause by John E. Dannenberg The United States District Court, E.D. Cal., ruled that requiring a California life prisoner to attend Narcotics …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
California Probationers and Parolees Not Similarly Situated As To Eligibility For Prop. 36 Drug Tr by John Dannenberg California Probationers and Parolees Not Similarly Situated As To Eligibility For Prop. 36 Drug Treatment by John E. Dannenberg The California State Supreme Court held that Equal Protection claims as to parolees …
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, …
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