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Article • October 15, 2007
Sheriff Joe's Real Estate Game - Phoenix New Times article about Sheriff Arpaio's questionable real estate holdings by John Dougherty Sheriff Joe's Real Estate Game Arpaio's invested $690,000 in cash in two commercial properties since 1995. Some other investment records are sealed. By John Dougherty Published: July 1, 2004 How's …
Article • October 15, 2007
Filed under: International, Immigration
63,000 and Counting: Mass Deportations Mostly Go Unnoticed by By TOM REEVES Many people are talking about President Bush's "guest worker" proposal for undocumented immigrants. Right-wingers rebuke it as an 'amnesty.' Most immigration and advocates view it as a way to flush out illegals, keeping them at the mercy of …
False Positive - Phoenix New Times article on retaliation at Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson False Positive Is Joe Arpaio up to his same old dirty tricks? This time, a man's life may be at stake. By Robert Nelson Published: February 19, 2004 Jim Cozzolino wasn't afraid of serving …
Jailhouse Justice: Phoenix New Times article on failure to protect at Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson Jailhouse Justice: New evidence suggests Sheriff Joe's running his empire as if it were a Mexican prison By Robert Nelson Published: January 23, 2003 If new information in an inmate-beating case is any …
$14 Million Verdict Against Louisiana DA’s Office for Wrongful Death Sentence by $14 Million Verdict Against Louisiana DA's Office for Wrongful Death Sentence The New Orleans Parish, Louisiana, District Attorney's Office should pay $14 million to a man who was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to the state's death …
Fortress Of Solitude: The Bureau Of Prisons Is As Good At Keeping Prisoners In As It Is At Keeping Reporters Out by Alan Prendergast A hundred miles southwest of Denver, the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum houses a killer lineup of mobsters (Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano), gang leaders (Barry "The …
South Carolina Prisoner Assaulted By Guards Awarded $600,000 by In May 2007 a South Carolina jury awarded $600,000 to a state prisoner who alleged that guards beat him and sprayed him with mace in an unprovoked attack. Alonzo Brinkley, 32, claimed in his lawsuit, filed in the Marlboro County Court …
San Mateo County, California, Settles Strip-Search Suit for $1.9 Million by On February 5, 2007, San Mateo County, California, agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that an estimated 1,200 women were illegally strip-searched at the county jail between February 3, 2002, and December 2, …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: CMS, Medical, Diabetes, Amputations
Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner’s Loss of Foot by Matthew Clarke Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner's Loss of Foot by Matthew T. Clarke In June 2006, CMS, the State of Wyoming and a prison doctor settled a lawsuit involving a prisoner who had to …
Tenth Circuit Upholds BOP Guard’s Abuse Convictions by Tenth Circuit Upholds BOP Guard's Abuse Convictions The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions and sentences of three former prison guards for beating prisoners at the United States Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, (USP-Florence). As we've previously reported, in 1997, the …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: Searches, Drug Testing, Parole
Texas Parole Board Revamps Urinalysis Procedures by The Texas Parole Board is replacing its old, error-prone drug testing procedure with a new method it says will reduce mistakes and provide for independent confirmation of positive test results?something that has been unavailable in the past. Some aspects of the testing procedure …
GAO Audit: Alien Detention Facilities Suffer Continuing Deficiencies by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg An often overlooked segment of the nation's prison population, alien detainees, was the subject of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit between May 2006 and May 2007. While the largest problem noted was limited access …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Los Angeles County Pays $475,000 In Jail Healthcare Wrongful Death by Los Angeles (LA) County settled out a wrongful death claim brought by the widow of a 71-year old prisoner who died allegedly for want of proper medical care in the county jail. On top of the $475,000 settlement payment, …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis, Complaints
U.S. Supreme Court: Colorado Prisoner Alleging Injury From Suspension Of Medical Treatment Stated Adequate Claim To Preclude Dismissal by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In a per curiam ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a Colorado state prisoner seeking reinstatement of his Hepatitis-C medical treatment had stated an …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
BOP May Not Foreclose Transfer to Community Corrections Center Based on Length of Remaining Sentence by John Dannenberg The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has held that federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoners seeking transfers to community correctional centers (CCC) before reaching a point when they have the greater …
“Liberal” Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim by "Liberal" Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a New York federal district court?s dismissal of claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), finding that the court failed to "liberally" construe the …
Findings of Fact by Indiana Disciplinary Panel Not Entitled toPresumption of Correctness for Federal Habeas Purposes by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Seeking to clarify an "established proposition frequently ... overlooked in litigation arising from Indiana's prison system," the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that the lower …
Unsupported Penile Plethysmograph Testing as Condition of Release Rises to Due Process Violation, Creates Liberty Interest by The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that arbitrarily imposing a penile plethysmograph [electromechanical gauge of male sexual stimulation] testing requirement as a condition of supervised release for a sex offender violates …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Texas Allows Actual Innocence Claim in Non-Capital Habeas Actions by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has held that a habeas corpus applicant may raise a free-standing claim of actual innocence in a state habeas corpus proceeding. Randolph Roy Sparks, a Texas state prisoner, filed a post-conviction petition for a …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Mere Possibility of Parole Insufficient to Prevent Texas Prisoners’ Parental Rights Termination by Matthew Clarke The Texas Supreme Court held that the mere possibility of parole within the two-year imprisonment requirement of § 161.001(1)(Q), Texas Family Code, was insufficient to prevent termination of a prisoner's parental rights. William Keith M. …
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