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Only One California Jail Has State-Mandated Psychiatric Treatment Center Licensure by by John E. Dannenberg Although California law has since 1998 required all county jails that provide inpatient medical or psychiatric care to have a correctional treatment center license, only one (Los Angeles) has obtained one. The issue was highlighted …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
California Guards Assigned Word Puzzles to Satisfy Training Requirements by California State Assembly Member Rudy Bermudez, himself a member of the powerful prison guards union (CCPOA) while on leave from his prison job to serve elective office, sharply criticized the practice of solving word puzzles used by California prison guards …
Brief • September 2, 2005
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Complaint, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2005 1 John Burton, State Bar No. 86029 THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURTON 2 414 South Marengo Avenue Pasadena, California 91101 3 jb@johnburtonlaw.com Telephone: (626) 449-8300 4 Facsimile: (626) 449-4417 5 Attorneys for plaintiffs Betty Lou Heston, …
Brief • September 1, 2005
Gavira v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Deposition - Baca Pt 2, Prisoner Excessive Force Death, 2004 ;OURT OF TIlE STA1E m' CALIFORNIA 1 IF LOS ANGELES, CENTRAL DlSTRlCT 2 3 FOR THE DEFENDANTS: APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL CONTINUED: 4 ESGAVIRA, as Guardian ad MANNING & MARDER KASS, ELLROD, RAMIREZ LLP …
Federal Immigration Detainee Taken Off Life Support Without Family's Consent by by John E. Dannenberg A 69 year-old Mexican national, who suffered a heart attack at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Los Angeles and was put on life support at White Memorial Medical Center, was taken off life …
Brain Dead California Prisoner Guarded Around The Clock by A California parole violator, who was declared brain dead from being shot in the head by a guard at 6,100 bed Wasco State Prison during a lounge-area fight, was guarded at a nearby Bakersfield hospital at a cost of $1,056/day in …
California Prison Employee Paid $500,000 To Settle Whistleblower Retaliation Suit by The California Department of Cor¬rections (CDC) settled an employee whistleblower retaliation suit for $500,000 in October, 2004. CDC admitted it had additionally spent $300,000 in legal fees fighting the claim. Richard Krupp, formerly the chief of CDC’s Personnel Automation …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
California Guard Wins $10 Million Default Judgment Against Assaultive Prisoners by A guard at California State Prison Los Angeles (CSP-LA) in Lancaster, who was allegedly injured by two prisoners, was awarded a $10,253,792.57 default judgment against them in Los Angeles Superior Court on March 17, 2005. Guard Demont Blunt, 25, …
$1 Million L.A. County Jail Rape Award Overturned by by Marvin Mentor The California Court of Appeal, in an unpublished opinion, reversed a Los Angeles (L.A.) County jury verdict that had awarded $1 million in damages to a jail detainee who was brutally beaten and raped in his L. A. …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Former Wackenhut Guard Awarded $600,000 For Wrongful Termination by A federal jury in Fresno, California, has awarded $600,000 to a former guard at the Taft Correctional.Institution (TCI) for wrongful termination. TCI is a private prison operated by the Geo Group, formerly Wackenhut Corrections Corporation [see PLN, June 2004, p.16]. TCI …
Ninth Circuit: Kicking Shackled Prisoner In Genitals Is Cruel And Unusual Punishment by When California Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) prisoner Christopher Watts filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against guards J. McKinney and S.J. Steinberg for kicking Watts in the genitals after an unsuccessful interrogation regarding PBSP guards …
California Prison Guard Gets Time For Setting Up Prisoner Beating by On February 17, 2005, a former guard at Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP), who set up a gang -initiated attack on a prisoner, was sentenced in Monterey Superior Court to two years and eight months in state prison. On …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Los Angeles County Settles Parolee's Overdetention Suit For $80,000 by Los Angeles County paid $80,000 to settle a California parolee's overdetention suit that alleged failure to process release information for one week. On June 4, 2001, William Green was arrested by his parole agent on a violation for failing to …
Besmirched California Prison Doctors Sue To Block Higher Qualification Standards by By John E. Dannenberg California Department of Corrections (CDC) doctors, who have been much maligned in recent scathing federal court reports depicting “horrible” medical care conditions in California’s prisons, made a defensive move on April 29, 2005 by having …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
California’s Sex-Offender Internet Site Gets 14 Million Hits In First Four Days by California’s new public internet data-base listing 63,000 of 85,000 convicted sex-offenders was put on line December 15, 2004. By that evening, it was too crowded to navigate, receiving 14 million hits in the first four days. This …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
U.S. Supreme Court Holds California Policy Of Double-Celling By Race During Prison Intake Must Pass by Marvin Mentor U.S. Supreme Court Holds California Policy Of Double-Celling By Race During Prison Intake Must Pass Strict Scrutiny," Not Rational Relationship" Test by Marvin Mentor The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the strict …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
$600,000 Awarded To Paraplegic Jail Prisoner Hurt By Riding In Non-Handicap-Accessible Vehicle by by John E. Dannenberg A paraplegic jail prisoner who was transported to a hospital in a non-handicap accessible police car was awarded $600,000 by a federal jury on November 12, 2003 for injuries he claimed resulted from …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
Three California Prisons Ration Water Due To Contaminated Wells by by John E. Dannenberg When wells at the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC), Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) and Sierra Conservation Center (SCC) state prisons became contaminated, water was severely rationed until repairs could be made. In June, 2004, when maximum-security …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
California Parole Condition Prohibiting Computer Access For Molester Ruled Unreasonable by The California Court of Appeals granted habeas corpus relief sought by a paroled child molester who complained that the condition of parole forbidding him from either using a computer or getting on the Internet was unreasonable. Ramon Stevens was …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
California's Parole-Violator Cell-Study Education Program Portends Increase In Recidivism by California's Parole-Violator Cell-Study Education Program Portends Increase In Recidivism by Marvin Mentor A well-intentioned but struggling new rehabilitative in-cell, tutored, self study program for California parole violators (Bridging Program), participation in which cuts five days per month off eligible violators' …
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