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Rhode Island Pays $120,000 To Prisoner Forced To Eat Feces by Michael Rigby The State of Rhode Island has paid $120,000 to settle with a prisoner who was forced by guards to eat his own feces. While serving a six month sentence for shoplifting at the Adult Correctional Institution (ACI) …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Breaking the Prison Habit by Mumia Abu-Jamal Book Review by Mumia Abu-Jamal Changin? Your Game Plan: How To Use Incarceration As A Stepping Stone For Success (Self-published: Big Mouth Street Media, 2006) pp.234] $14.99 This writer usually does reviews for political books, or ones which address the controversial or newsworthy …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Alabama: On May 7, 2007, Leigh Ann Cochran, 33, a guard at the Houston county jail, was arrested and charged with having sexual contact with at least one prisoner and buying unspecified contraband for several others. California: On March 8, 2007, Jack Boerner, 43, a guard …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
New York Discharge-Planning: The Term “City Jail” Includes Mental Health “Forensic Units” by New York Discharge-Planning: The Term "City Jail" Includes Mental Health "Forensic Units" A unanimous Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court held that a class action settlement agreement obliging discharge-planning for "city jail" prisoners necessarily included …
Prisons as Incubators and Spreaders of Disease and Illness by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg America’s lockups are turning from prisoner dumping grounds into infectious disease breeding grounds. Isolation is intended to be the punishment inflicted by society upon prisoners. But concentrating prisoners in the process of isolating them, …
$140,000 Settlement in Death of Asthmatic Texas Prisoner by Michael Rigby The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will pay $140,000 to settle a federal lawsuit stemming from the needless asthma-related death of a prisoner at the McConnell prison unit in August 2004. At least six guards and a nurse were …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
$1.2 Million Compensation Package Approved For Wrongfully Convicted Georgia Man by Who can put a price on wrongful imprisonment? The Georgia legislature can. On March 19, 2007, the Georgia House of Representatives approved a $1.2 million compensation package for a man who spent 23 years in prison for a rape …
Monterey County Grand Jury Report Blasts Two California Prisons by Marvin Mentor In its 2006 report on Monterey County?s two state prisons (Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) and the Correctional Training Facility (CTF)), the Monterey County Grand Jury made 23 findings and 13 recommendations for SVSP plus 5 findings and …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Connecticut: Victims’ Privacy Protection Saves Some Sex Offenders From Public Registration by John Dannenberg Connecticut: Victims' Privacy Protection Saves Some Sex Offenders From Public Registration by John E. Dannenberg In Connecticut, some convicted sex offenders' names will not show up on the state's public online registry. Under penal statute Section …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
New Orleans Prisoners Work on Judge’s House by New Orleans Prisoners Work on Judge's House To facilitate learning construction skills, prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) participate in a government-funded private vocational program. That program, the Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater New Orleans, Inc. (OIC), a non-profit, is not …
United States Sues Georgia County Jail over Unconstitutional Medical and Living Conditions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Using its investigative powers under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) investigated conditions at the Terrell County, Georgia jail …
Civil Grand Jury Calls San Mateo County Women’s Jail a “Crowded Disgrace” by Civil Grand Jury Calls San Mateo County Women's Jail a "Crowded Disgrace" The San Mateo County (California) Civil Grand Jury found that the decades-old Women's Correctional Center in Redwood City was so deficient that it must be …
An Old Story: District of Columbia Continues Overdetaining and Strip Searching Prisoners by A federal district court for the District of Columbia has, once again, certified a class action in a complaint that District of Columbia is over-detaining persons ordered released and strip searching them without individualized suspicion. The Court …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Columbus, Ohio Jail’s Seclusion Turns Parole Into Death March by Columbus, Ohio Jail's Seclusion Turns Parole Into Death March Columbus, Ohio's main incarceration facility has a fatal flaw. It is located so remote from public transportation--requiring walking miles along a dangerous freeway -- that prisoners happily paroled, but unable to …
A Voice From Guantanamo’s Darkness by Jumah al-Dossari A Voice From Guantanamo's Darkness A current detainee speaks of the torture and humiliation he has experienced at Guantanamo since 2002 by Jumah al-Dossari JUMAH AL-DOSSARI is a 33-year-old citizen of Bahrain. This article was excerpted from letters he wrote to his …
Brief • August 13, 2007
Davis v Yin Ny Demand Letter to Defendants Medical Negligence 2007 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ----------------------------------------------------------------------X PAULINE FORSHA DAVIS, as Administrator of the ) Estate of BILLY CURL DAVIS, ) Plaintiff, ) ) ) vs. ) ) CHEN YIN, M.D., WESLEY CANFIELD, M.D., ) NEW …
Littles v. CCA, TN, Complaint, transport dental injury, 2007 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0071 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0072
Brief • August 12, 2007
Kelson v Wadoc Wa Release Wrongful Incarceration 2007 08/12/2007 14:28 FAX 3605861788 o F M RISK MGMT Iiil 002/003 Claim #: 31062006 RELEASE ('fORT) FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION of the sum of, PORTY·SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($46,500.00), inclusive of all liens known and unknown, RAND KELSON 971639, …
Brief • August 9, 2007
Murphy v Mckee Mi Wrongful Death Dehydration Judgment 2007 Case 1:03-cv-00145-AJT Document 315 Filed 08/09/2007 Page 1 of 2 AMENDED* ORDER OF JUDGMENT Case 1:03-cv-00145-AJT Document 315 Filed 08/09/2007 ORDER OF JUDGMENT *Dated: August 9, 2007 /s/ Arthur J. Tarnow *Replaces order # 313, correcting date of signature. Page 2 …
Brief • August 8, 2007
Hammer v Ashcroft in Amicus Brief Media Access 2007 No. 06-1750 ______________________________________________________________________________ In the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ______________________________________________________________________________ David Paul Hammer, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States; Harley G. Lappin, Warden; Kathleen Hawk-Sawyer, Director - Federal Bureau of Prisons; …
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