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Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Prison Skin-Art Pared From Canadian Budget by Gary Hunter An innovative plan to prevent the spread of communicable diseases in Canadian prisons has been axed by Canada?s Conservative government. In 2005, $350,000 in startup funds plus $600,000 for operating costs were allocated to implement a safe-tattoo program in six federal …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
North Carolina Women Prisoners Work Call/Bulk Mail Centers For Slave Wages by For slave wages, prisoners incarcerated at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women are working for the North Carolina Department of Commerce, processing bulk tourism mailings and manning a 24/7/364 call center that also acts as the backup …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
California Ban On Hardcover Books Held Unconstitutional by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) held that the policy by California?s Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) Security Housing Unit of banning prisoners? possession of hardcover books violated their First Amendment rights. During the course of …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Florida Newspaper Revokes Permission to Post Article Critical of Judge by Shortly after the Miami Daily Business Review (DBR) was designated as ?the record newspaper for Courthouse publications,? the DBR revoked permission for an unflattering article about Broward County?s Chief Judge Dale Ross to be posted on a defense attorney …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Prisoner’s Death Following Failure To Give Intake Medical Examination Settled By Los Angeles County For $700,000 by John Dannenberg Prisoner's Death Following Failure To Give Intake Medical Examination Settled By Los Angeles County For $700,000 by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles County Claims Board settled a wrongful death lawsuit …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Florida Eliminates DNA Testing Deadline by During its 2006 Legislative session, the Florida Legislature enacted a law that eliminates deadlines for when prisoners can request DNA testing. That law comes on the heels of numerous prisoners being released from death row and imprisonment on lesser sentences for crimes they did …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
$5 Million Jury Award Against Doctor in Death of Michigan Prisoner by A federal jury awarded $5,000,000 to the estate of a deceased state prisoner who died after a prison psychiatrist prescribed him psychotropic medication without conducting a proper evaluation. Ozy Vaughn was a Michigan state prisoner who suffered from …
Texas Prison Chief Escapes Sex Charges, Convicted of Lesser Offenses by Gary Hunter On March 31, 2006, in a Walker County courthouse, Salvador ?Sammy? Buentello pleaded guilty to a felony charge of unlawful restraint and five counts of official oppression. Buentello, 50, had been the assistant director of gang affairs …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
California Lifers’ Parole Reversals Tossed by Two State Appellate Courts by Marvin Mentor California Lifers' Parole Reversals Tossed by Two State Appellate Courts by Marvin Mentor An infirm, 82-year-old lifer's reversal by Governor Schwarzenegger of the Board of Parole Hearing's (BPH) grant of parole was itself overturned by the California …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Arizona Enacts Three Strikes Law, Again by The Arizona Legislator and Governor have continued exploiting the ?get tough on poor criminals? bandwagon, enacting SB 1444, in April, 2006, a law that requires a life sentence for any person convicted of a third violent felony. That law prohibits ?suspension of sentence, …
San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Cites Continuing Jail Deficiencies by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In November 2005, the jurors of the San Francisco Grand Jury inspected city and county jails and found longstanding unremediated problems of inadequate budgets, staffing shortages, overcrowding and high (40%) recidivism rates. The Jury …
Three Failures To Segregate Vulnerable Jail Prisoner Costs Los Angeles County $44,000 by On November 21, 2006, Los Angeles County paid a thrice-injured jail prisoner $44,000 to settle a tort claim for the injuries he sustained on three occasions when he was placed in general population housing and beaten by …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Los Angeles County Pays Informant $80,000 For Failed Witness Protection by The County of Los Angeles (L.A.), California paid $80,000 in January 2007 to a prisoner for the injuries he suffered when attacked in a supposedly witness-protected section of the L.A. County Jail. Shane Wilson was housed in the K-10 …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
New York City Settles With Stabbed Riker’s Prisoner For $40,000 by New York City Settles With Stabbed Riker's Prisoner For $40,000 On August 17, 2006, the City of New York paid $40,000 to settle with a prisoner who was stabbed while imprisoned at the Riker's Island Correctional Facility. Plaintiff Melvin …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
$30,000 Settlement For Woman Raped By Missouri Jail Prisoner by In May, 2006, Jefferson County, Missouri, settled a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a female prisoner who was allegedly raped by a male prisoner a guard placed in her cell. Tracy Mundy, 24, a former Jefferson County Jail prisoner, …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Governor’s Task Force Recommends Changes in Florida’s Prison System Mission by Governor's Task Force Recommends Changes in Florida's Prison System Mission Recognizing that 90% of all Florida prisoners will eventually be released into society, former Governor Jeb Bush commissioned the Ex-Offender Task Force (Task Force) on February 7, 2005 to …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
$90,000 Awarded for Broken Hand During NY Prison Job Assignment by David Reutter by David M. Reutter While a prisoner at New York?s Bayview Correctional Facility, Jeanette Perez was required to assist moving a full garbage dumpster as part of her work detail. When trying to move that dumpster on …
Michigan Prisoner Boycotts Rape Trial, Still Acquitted by Facing a sexual assault trial of a fellow prisoner is a pretty serious felony, making one think they would want to be present during the trial. Feeling he could not get a fair trial, Charlie Lee Floyd, 46, boycotted that trial. Despite …
California DOC Chief Health Care Official Ousted by The top California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) health-care official, a gubernatorial appointee, was forced to resign by the federal court appointed healthcare Receiver, Robert Sillen. Dr. Peter Farber-Szekrenyi, who was hired in November 2005 to head CDCR?s Division of Health …
Brief • July 13, 2007
Filed under: Exercise
Norwood v. Alameida, CA, Order, Denial of Exercise, 2007 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 GREGORY LYNN NORWOOD, 11 12 13 Plaintiff, No. CIV S-03-2554 GEB GGH P vs. EDWARD ALAMEIDA, Jr., et al., …
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