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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
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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, …
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 …
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