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Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Federal Court Finds California Murder Paroles Blocked by Illegal No-Parole" Policy by Federal Court Finds California Murder Paroles Blocked by Illegal No-Parole" Policy by Marvin Mentor On May 19, 2005, the United States District Court (E.D. Cal.) ruled that the California Board of Prison Terms (BPT), between 1992 and 1998, …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Class Action Suit Filed Against L.A. County Jail After 4,000 MRSA Infections by by John E. Dannenberg A class action lawsuit against Los Angeles (L.A.) County and its Sheriff Leroy Baca was filed in 2004 in the United States District Court (C.D. Cal.) on behalf of an estimated 4,000 present …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
California's Preferential Bulk Price For Hepatitis-C Drugs Kept Secret by The good news is that California's Department of General Services (DGS) negotiated a bulk discount price for the large quantities of pegylated interferon it buys for the treatment of Hepatitis-C infected prisoners, and will save the state $1 million on …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Los Angeles County Pays $60,900 To Settle Jail Detainee Rape Claim by Los Angeles County Pays $60,900 To Settle Jail Detainee Rape Claim Los Angeles (L.A.) County, California, paid $60,900 to a female detainee who was raped in her Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF) cell by a male prisoner who …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Double-Celling Mentally Ill California Ad-Seg Prisoners Proves Fatal by When administratively segregated mentally ill prisoners were placed in the same cell at California State Prison, Los Angeles (LAC) in September, 2004, one strangled the other with a bed sheet. Upon investigating the death, the watchdog Office of the Inspector General …
Brief • December 23, 2005
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Plf Opp to Def MTD, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2006 JOHN BURTON, State Bar No. 86029 THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURTON 2 414 South Marengo Avenue Pasadena, California 91101 3 Tel: (626) 449-8300/ Fax: (626) 449-4417 1 PETER M. WILLIAMSON, State Bar …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Former California Warden Allegedly by Former California Warden Allegedly Assaults News Reporter The former warden of Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP), Anthony Lamarque, allegedly swung a cane at Sacramento News and Review reporter Stephen James and then pinned him against a wall, when Lamarque apparently objected to being photographed at …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Los Angeles County Settles Two Jail Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Suits For $325,000 by Los Angeles County settled two prisoner wrongful death suits for $325,000 that alleged negligent medical care during incarceration at the L.A. County jail. On May 8, 2002, 39 year-old county jail prisoner Crystal Baize was transferred …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
$200,000 Failure-To-Medicate Award Granted to California by Jail Detainee Who Lost Testicle by John E. Dannenberg On July 18, 2005, a Solano County, California jail pre-trial detainee, whose infected testicle was not promptly treated, won a $200,000 damage award in Solano County Superior Court after suffering necrosis and subsequent amputation …
California Tort Claim Dismissed For Failure to Fully by California Tort Claim Dismissed For Failure to Fully Exhaust Administrative Remedies by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeal held that a prisoner's tort claim must be dismissed without prejudice for failure to fully exhaust administrative remedies even though the …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
California Youth Prison Superintendent by California Youth Prison Superintendent Removed For Using Unreasonable Force The Superintendent of a California youth prison was permanently removed from his position for using unreasonable force against a ward, and then not reporting it. Steve Kruse, Superintendent at the N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility in …
Florida Awards Contracts Putting Sex Offenders on GPS Supervision; Other States to Follow by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has awarded three contracts for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite monitoring of sex offenders. The contracts come on the heels on legislation that allocated $3.9 million over a three-year period …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
85 Year-Old California Prison Doctor Wins $20 Million For Age Discrimination by The chief physician and surgeon at California State Prison, Lancaster, still practicing medicine at age 85, successfully sued the California Department of Corrections (CDC) for age discrimination when CDC forced him to retire. On July 18, 2005, a …
Brief • December 7, 2005
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Def Notice of MTD, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2006 Case 5:05-cv-03658-RS Document 8 Filed 12/07/2005 Page 1 of 18 Case 5:05-cv-03658-RS Document 8 Filed 12/07/2005 Page 2 of 18 Case 5:05-cv-03658-RS Document 8 Filed 12/07/2005 Page 3 of 18 Case 5:05-cv-03658-RS Document 8 …
Brief • December 6, 2005
Gallagher, et al. v. San Mateo County Sheriff ‘s Office, et al, CA, Order, 2006 FIDLER v. SAN MATEO COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, No. C-04-1404 SC. (N.D. Cal. Dec 06, 2005) United States District Court, N.D. California. FIDLER v. SAN MATEO COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE No. C-04-1404 SC. (N.D. Cal. Dec 06, …
Parole for Women in California: Promise or Pathos by Corey Weinstein by Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP Women are not men, but the California Department of Corrections (CDoC) has treated them as such until very recently. They are housed in mega prisons, denied contact with their children and denied important gender …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
California Prison Gang Linked to Guards and Mexican Drug Cartel by A barber shop in National City, California was allegedly the war room" connecting the statewide Mexican Mafia gang (Eme) to the underworld Arellano Felix drug cartel in nearby Mexico, according to investigators from the California Department of Corrections (CDC). …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Procedural Default In Exhausting State Administrative Remedies Held Not A Bar To Bringing § 1983 Act by Procedural Default In Exhausting State Administrative Remedies Held Not A Bar To Bringing § 1983 Action; Supreme Court Grants Review by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, deepening a …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Los Angeles County Pays $125,000 In Medical Negligence Juvenile Camp Death by Los Angeles County settled a surviving family's suit for $125,000 that alleged negligent medical care for their son who died while incarcerated in county juvenile facilities. Sixteen year-old William Lee was taken to Central Juvenile Hall after being …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Accounting Errors Plagued California Criminal Justice Agency by A defunct California agency charged with distributing grant money for crime prevention and victim aid may have cost the state millions in federal funds due to poor accounting practices, state auditors said on February 2, 2005. Lawmakers knew something was wrong at …
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