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Five Homicides In L.A. County Jail Blamed On Security Lapses; 25 Sheriff's Deputies May Be Disciplined by Five Homicides In L.A. County Jail Blamed On Security Lapses; 25 Sheriff's Deputies May Be Disciplined by Marvin Mentor After investigating five brutal prisoner-on-prisoner slayings in a six month period inside the Los …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Untreated Dental Infection Kills California Prisoner by A 41 year-old prisoner at the California State Prison (Solano) in Vacaville died six days after having a tooth extracted, when prison medical staff failed to treat his resulting infection. Anthony Shumake, sentenced to 12 years, 8 months in 2000, had an abscessed …
Nine California Guards Fired For Prisoner Assaults by Nine guards at California's maximum security Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP), including some belonging to the Green Wall" satanic gang of rogue guards, were fired on November 8, 2004 as a disciplinary action for allegedly assaulting a prisoner and then conspiring to …
New Federal Civil Rights Tax Relief Act Ends Double Taxation On Attorney Fee Awards by California Drug Possession" Disciplinary Satisfied By Positive Urine Test The California Court of Appeal held that a positive urine test for THC (marijuana) was some evidence" sufficient to uphold a prison disciplinary finding of possession" …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Phone Companies Gouge California Jail Prisoners' Families by by John E. Dannenberg In a scenario reminiscent of the Spy versus Spy" cartoon, phone companies are gouging California jail prisoners' families with outlandish collect call rates, while prisoners are defrauding the phone companies by taking advantage of new computerized phones to …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Filed under: Sentencing, Ex Post Facto
California Criminal Fine Surcharges Ruled Ex Post Facto by The California Court of Appeals determined that surcharges on fines levied upon criminal convictions were ex post facto where the laws establishing the surcharges were punitive and were enacted after the crimes had been committed. Daniel High was convicted of property …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
California Awards MCI WorldCom Another Sole-Source Prisoner Phone Contract by by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections (CDC) awarded a sole-source contract to MCI WorldCom (MCI) for all CDC prisoner phones. The October 29, 2004 agreement covers four years, with options for up to two one-year extensions. Significantly, CDC …
California Youth Authority Fires Six For Pummeling Prisoners And Filing False Reports by On September 10, 2004, six California Youth Authority (CYA) Correctional Counselors (guards) were fired for using excessive force" in beating two prisoners at a Stockton, California youth prison on January 20, 2004, and then falsifying the reports. …
$40,000 To Settle Excessive Force Claim At Los Angeles County Jail by In September, 2004, the Los Angeles County Claims Board (Board) agreed to pay $40,000 to settle an excessive force claim brought by a prisoner injured at the L.A. County Main Jail. On March 17, 2002, prisoner Joseph Amezola …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
Race-Based California Prison Job Lockout May Violate Equal Protection by by John E. Dannenberg A divided panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that during a California prison partial lockdown limited to two ethnic populations, prison officials' exclusion from early return-to-work of pre-screened critical" prisoner workers solely …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
No Miranda Error During FBI Office Interrogation Where Parolee Knew He Was Free To Leave by by John E. Dannenberg An en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that no Miranda violation occurred in failing to suppress an interrogee's statement taken in the office of …
Brief • March 28, 2005
Filed under: Snitch Jacketing, Discovery
USA vs. Mills, CA, Discovery Order, Snitch Factory, 2005 H. Dean Steward SBN 85317 107 Avenida Miramar 2 Ste. C San Clemente, CA 92672 3 949-481-4900 fax-949-496-6753 4 Mark Fleming SBN 165770 5 433 G. St. #202 San Diego, CA 92101 6 619-652-9970 fax 619-652-9964 1 7 Attorneys for Defendant …
Baker v State of California, CA, Complaint,youth guard beating, 2005 FEB-18-2005 FRI 02:09 PM CYA LEGAL OFFICE .. '---C;-'se 2:05-cv-00589-GEB-KJM Document 1-2 4 Laurence E. Drivon, S.B.N 46660 THE DRIVON LAW FIRM Davey L. Turner, SBN #196886 215 North San Joaquin Street Stockton, CA 95202 Telephone: (209) 644-1234 Fax: (209) …
California Corrections System Officially Declared Dysfunctional" - Redemption Doubtful by California Corrections System Officially Declared Dysfunctional" - Redemption Doubtful by Marvin Mentor Culminating a multi-year crescendo of criticism leveled at California's Corrections system from frustrated legislative, judicial and executive leaders, the Corrections Independent Review Panel (CIRP) recently tasked by Governor …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
Pay To Play: Guard Union Spreads the Wealth by From January 3, 2000 to February 9, 2004, 26 of the 40 California state Senators and 50 of the 80 Assembly Members received funds - ranging from $1,000 to $333,000 - from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), the guards …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
Summary Judgment Reversed In Los Angeles Jail Over-Detention Suit by In a suit for damages against Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca for over detention of jail prisoners court-ordered for release, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that summary judgment for Baca was not available where the facts …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
Civil Punitive Damages On Top Of Criminal Punishment Is Not Double Punishment by Civil Punitive Damages On Top Of Criminal Punishment Is Not Double Punishment by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeals held that a drunk driver convicted of vehicular manslaughter was not constitutionally immune from the second …
Brief • February 24, 2005
Cordero v DOC, CA, Complaint, medical care denial ADA, 2005 Case 1:05-cv-00268-0WW-DLB 1 2 3 Document 1 Filed 02/24/2005 Page 1 of 29 JAMES S. MULLER, ESQ. SBN#126071 3435 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD SUITE 2900 LOS ANGELES, CA 90010 (213) 381-3299 4 5 6 7 MARGARET WILSON, ESQ. SBN#123766 3435 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
California Prosecutor Fights Deportation Of Paroled Sex Offenders by California Prosecutor Fights Deportation Of Paroled Sex Offenders Today, nobody wants to keep paroled sex offenders around. Except the Los Angeles County district attorney, that is. In an odd "man bites dog" scenario, the district attorney is trying to retain four …
California Prisoner Trust Accounts Allegedly Used To Launder Gang Drug Taxes by California Prisoner Trust Accounts Allegedly Used To Launder Gang Drug Taxes A phantom "Banco de Pelican Bay" has sprung up at California's supermax Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP), wherein 14 Mexican Mafia (nicknamed "Eme") prisoners had their prison …
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