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California Parole Board Lax In Contracting For Foreign Language Interpreters by The watchdog California Office of Inspector General (OIG), when investigating the case of a foreign language interpreter who bilked the Board of Prison Terms (BPT) out of $11,862 in false claims, found the BPT's contracting and accountability procedures for …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
California's New Governor Has Paroled 102 Lifers, But Rejected Twice That Many by The good news is that as of September 30, 2005, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved 102 lifers for parole since taking office two years ago, a vast improvement over former Governor Gray Davis' record of paroling …
Private Prison Firms Stumble; Hire Former California Officials to Lobby for For-Profit Facilities by Private prison companies, which presently house only 2,550 of California's 165,000 prisoners, have hired a former county lawmaker, former CDC employees and the former state Finance Director in an attempt to expand into the $7 billion …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Los Angeles County Jail Tests Prisoner Radio ID Tags by by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles (L.A.) County Sheriff's Department will spend $1.5 million to install a computerized radio ID tag system in 2006 to monitor the location of 1,900 prisoners at the Pitchess Detention Center (county jail) in …
Suspicious Deaths And Beatings Allegations Still Plague Santa Clara County, California Jail by by Marvin Mentor Seven prisoner deaths and numerous reported police beatings between October 2004 and April 2005 at the Santa Clara County (SCC), California jail have local civil rights watchers calling for a grand jury investigation. Similar …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Federal Court Finds California Murder Paroles Blocked by Illegal No-Parole" Policy by Federal Court Finds California Murder Paroles Blocked by Illegal No-Parole" Policy by Marvin Mentor On May 19, 2005, the United States District Court (E.D. Cal.) ruled that the California Board of Prison Terms (BPT), between 1992 and 1998, …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Class Action Suit Filed Against L.A. County Jail After 4,000 MRSA Infections by by John E. Dannenberg A class action lawsuit against Los Angeles (L.A.) County and its Sheriff Leroy Baca was filed in 2004 in the United States District Court (C.D. Cal.) on behalf of an estimated 4,000 present …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
California's Preferential Bulk Price For Hepatitis-C Drugs Kept Secret by The good news is that California's Department of General Services (DGS) negotiated a bulk discount price for the large quantities of pegylated interferon it buys for the treatment of Hepatitis-C infected prisoners, and will save the state $1 million on …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Los Angeles County Pays $60,900 To Settle Jail Detainee Rape Claim by Los Angeles County Pays $60,900 To Settle Jail Detainee Rape Claim Los Angeles (L.A.) County, California, paid $60,900 to a female detainee who was raped in her Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF) cell by a male prisoner who …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Double-Celling Mentally Ill California Ad-Seg Prisoners Proves Fatal by When administratively segregated mentally ill prisoners were placed in the same cell at California State Prison, Los Angeles (LAC) in September, 2004, one strangled the other with a bed sheet. Upon investigating the death, the watchdog Office of the Inspector General …
Brief • December 23, 2005
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Plf Opp to Def MTD, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2006 JOHN BURTON, State Bar No. 86029 THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURTON 2 414 South Marengo Avenue Pasadena, California 91101 3 Tel: (626) 449-8300/ Fax: (626) 449-4417 1 PETER M. WILLIAMSON, State Bar …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Former California Warden Allegedly by Former California Warden Allegedly Assaults News Reporter The former warden of Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP), Anthony Lamarque, allegedly swung a cane at Sacramento News and Review reporter Stephen James and then pinned him against a wall, when Lamarque apparently objected to being photographed at …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Los Angeles County Settles Two Jail Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Suits For $325,000 by Los Angeles County settled two prisoner wrongful death suits for $325,000 that alleged negligent medical care during incarceration at the L.A. County jail. On May 8, 2002, 39 year-old county jail prisoner Crystal Baize was transferred …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
$200,000 Failure-To-Medicate Award Granted to California by Jail Detainee Who Lost Testicle by John E. Dannenberg On July 18, 2005, a Solano County, California jail pre-trial detainee, whose infected testicle was not promptly treated, won a $200,000 damage award in Solano County Superior Court after suffering necrosis and subsequent amputation …
California Tort Claim Dismissed For Failure to Fully by California Tort Claim Dismissed For Failure to Fully Exhaust Administrative Remedies by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeal held that a prisoner's tort claim must be dismissed without prejudice for failure to fully exhaust administrative remedies even though the …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
California Youth Prison Superintendent by California Youth Prison Superintendent Removed For Using Unreasonable Force The Superintendent of a California youth prison was permanently removed from his position for using unreasonable force against a ward, and then not reporting it. Steve Kruse, Superintendent at the N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility in …
Florida Awards Contracts Putting Sex Offenders on GPS Supervision; Other States to Follow by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has awarded three contracts for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite monitoring of sex offenders. The contracts come on the heels on legislation that allocated $3.9 million over a three-year period …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
85 Year-Old California Prison Doctor Wins $20 Million For Age Discrimination by The chief physician and surgeon at California State Prison, Lancaster, still practicing medicine at age 85, successfully sued the California Department of Corrections (CDC) for age discrimination when CDC forced him to retire. On July 18, 2005, a …
Brief • December 7, 2005
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Def Notice of MTD, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2006 Case 5:05-cv-03658-RS Document 8 Filed 12/07/2005 Page 1 of 18 Case 5:05-cv-03658-RS Document 8 Filed 12/07/2005 Page 2 of 18 Case 5:05-cv-03658-RS Document 8 Filed 12/07/2005 Page 3 of 18 Case 5:05-cv-03658-RS Document 8 …
Brief • December 6, 2005
Gallagher, et al. v. San Mateo County Sheriff ‘s Office, et al, CA, Order, 2006 FIDLER v. SAN MATEO COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, No. C-04-1404 SC. (N.D. Cal. Dec 06, 2005) United States District Court, N.D. California. FIDLER v. SAN MATEO COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE No. C-04-1404 SC. (N.D. Cal. Dec 06, …
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