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Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Satellite Surveillance Approved For Wisconsin Sex Offenders by Gary Hunter Tracking sex offenders just cost Wisconsin taxpayers millions of dollars and ensures that citizens will pay millions more every year. Governor Jim Doyle signed a bill on May 22, 2006 that requires GPS monitoring for certain child molesters. The vote …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Drunk PA DOC Attorney Charged in Hit-and-Run by Michael Farnan, 40, chief counsel for the Pennsylvania DOC, resigned from his job after he was involved in a hit-and-run accident in his state car. Farnan had been drinking heavily when he ran into the back of Tamara Hughes? minivan on November …
Tennessee DOC’s Double Standard by G.A. Bowers Tennessee DOC's Double Standard by Greg Bowers The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) applies a double standard to ethical violations committed by its employees and those committed by prisoners. TDOC staff who commit ethical violations are typically reassigned. Even when fired, they have …
Temporary Restraining Order Suspends California’s Sex Offenders’ Housing Banishment Law by John Dannenberg Temporary Restraining Order Suspends California's Sex Offenders? Housing Banishment Law by John E. Dannenberg The U.S.D.C. (N.D. Cal.) issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on November 8, 2006, the same day California voters approved state Proposition 83 …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Louisville, Kentucky, Settles with Wrongly Imprisoned Man for $3.9 Million by A man who spent seven years in prison for a rape he didn?t commit will receive $3.9 million from the city of Louisville, Kentucky, according to a February 12, 2007 settlement agreement. William Gregory, now 59, was convicted in …
More Settlements and Verdicts in New Hampshire False Disciplinary Charge Case by A federal jury in New Hampshire has awarded a total of $150,000 to two former prisoners in the continuing saga of false disciplinary charges by a guard at the Hillsborough County Jail. These cases stem from the actions …
$9,063,000 Jury Award For Illinois False Rape Conviction by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On October 23, 2006, a federal jury in Illinois awarded a man who had been falsely convicted of rape $9,063,000. On September 19, 1989, Alejandro Dominguez was a 16-year old living in an apartment complex …
Federal Court Continues To Enforce Decade-Old California Prison Guards’ “Code-Of-Silence” Ruling by Federal Court Continues To Enforce Decade-Old California Prison Guards' "Code-Of-Silence" Ruling The United States District Court (N.D. Cal.) reviewed progress on its 11-year-old federal court remedial action to eliminate a pernicious code-of-silence by prison guards (most notably at …
$27,500 Settlement for Rape of Four Women Prisoners in Pittsburgh Jail by There have been settlements in four separate lawsuits involving the Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Jail. The suits alleged that seven Allegheny County Jail guards sexually assaulted four women prisoners. In May 2006, Allegheny County began settling a series of …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
$2 Million Settlement in Montgomery County, NY Strip Search Suit by On September 22, 2006, a federal judge entered an order approving the preliminary settlement of a suit against Montgomery County, New York, over its county jail strip search policy, for $2 million. This is a class-action civil rights lawsuit …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Oklahoma Escapee Who Fled With Warden’s Wife Sentenced to Maximum, Then Dies by Oklahoma Escapee Who Fled With Warden's Wife Sentenced to Maximum, Then Dies When Randolph F. Dial escaped from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in August 1994, he set off a search not only for himself, but also for …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Pennsylvania DOC Settles Religious Dietary Suit by On December 26, 2006, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to provide substitute meals to state prisoner Alfonso Pew whenever pork is served. Pew claimed that while imprisoned in the Restrictive Housing Unit, prison officials refused to provide peanut butter or any …
Escape From TransCor Van Not a Crime in Montana by On January 11, 2006, a Montana state district court set aside two prisoners' convictions for escape and acquitted them after holding that no evidence had been presented that they were in the custody of a peace officer, a requirement for …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Retroactive Application of Missouri Sex Offender Registration Law Banned by Missouri's Supreme Court has held that the state's "Megan's Law" cannot be retroactively applied to persons convicted prior to January 1, 1995. The ruling affects about half of the people previously required to register as sex offenders, but allows information …
Policy of Hiring Trained Medical Professionals Does Not Immunize County from Municipal Liability in Wrongful Jail Death; Case Settles for $475,000.00 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that where a Los Angeles County Jail prisoner died of allegedly deficient medical attention, …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Washington Supreme Court Reverses Parole Denial by In a shocking five-to-four decision, the Washington Supreme Court, for the first time ever, reversed a parole denial by the state Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (Board). The Court found that the Board had ignored evidence at Richard Dyer?s December 4, 2002 parole hearing …
Fifth Circuit: No FLSA Minimum Wage for Texas Prisoners by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) did not apply to Texas prisoners working in Texas state prisons. Douglas Loving, a Texas state prisoner, filed a civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
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California Prisoner Permitted to Challenge Oppressive Prison Conditions Absent Physical Injury; Ruling Later Voided by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) ruling that had misinterpreted 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e) to require physical injury in order to …
Illinois Administrative Remedies Exhausted When Prison Officials Lost Grievance by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that an Illinois prisoner ?took all steps necessary to exhaust? his administrative remedies when prison officials misplaced his timely grievance and did not instruct him to re-file an ?untimely grievance.? On March …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Texas County Jail Settles Sex Assault Suits For Undisclosed Sum by On December 22, 2006, Goliad County, Texas, agreed to settle with a prisoner who claimed she was raped by a guard at the county?s jail in September 2001. Under the agreement the county will pay a confidential amount to …
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