Washington Prison File Inspection Request is PRA Request by Mark Wilson The Washington Court of Appeals held that a prisoner's request to review his central file was a Public Records Act (PRA) request. On May 3, 2010, an attorney for Washington prisoner Marvin Hunter requested the opportunity to review Hunter's …
Summary Judgment Reversed on Washington Guard's MRSA Claims by The Washington Court of Appeals held that factual disputes about whether a guard contracted MRSA on the job precluded summary judgment. In 2008, Cara Stinson worked as a seaman for the Washington state Department of Corrections (WDOC). She served as a …
$40,000 for Federal Prisoner in Slip and Fall Case by Lonnie Burton On May 22, 2000, the U.S. Attorney General's Office reached a settlement agreement with a federal prisoner who had injured himself when he slipped and fell in his cell shower at the Federal Detention Center (FDC) near Seattle. …
Faulkner v. Washington DOC, WA, Settlement, Access to Medical Records, 2016 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 STATE OF WASlilNGTON 8 WALLA WALLA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 9 CLARENCE J. FAULKNER, Plaintiff, 10 11 12 NO. 16-2-00465-3 RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREE:MENT v. WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS (WDOC), 13 Defendant. 14 …
Rowe v. City of Yelm, WA, Claim, Wrongful Death Cardiac, 2016 Bu DGE-@t-1 EI PT, PLLC ATTORNEYS AT LAW 705 Second Avenue, Suite 910 Seattle, WA 98104 Telephone 206-624-3060 • Facsimile 206-621-7323 Edwin S. Budge (206) 624-3060 www.budgeandheipt.com October 3, 2016 Mr. John Simmons, Chief Executive Officer Nisqually Indian Tribe …
Global Tel Link v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, DC, Amicus Brief for States of MN, IL, MA, NM, NY, WA, and DC, Telephone Contact During Incarceration, 2016 USCA Case #15-1461 Document #1636355 Filed: 09/19/2016 Page 1 of 27 NOT YET SCHEDULED FOR ORAL ARGUMENT No. 15-1461 …
Federal Prison Guard Receives $58,000 Settlement in Racial Discrimination Case by Lonnie Burton On November 9, 2001, a federal prison guard entered into a settlement agreement with the United States in which he agreed to drop his complaints for racial discrimination in exchange for just over $58,000, back pay, and …
Yakima County (WA) Voters Reject Tax Hike to Pay for Empty Jail by For the right reasons—say, funding for education, children's healthcare, or effective law enforcement—voters will support tax increases, even in the hyperbolic throes of a so-called fiscal crisis. Voters in Yakima County, Wash., however, were not inspired on …
Lakewood (WA) Police Department Found in Violation of State Public Records Act by Lonnie Burton On May 25, 2016, Division Two of the Washington State Court of Appeals found that the city of Lakewood, Washington, and the Lakewood Police Department (LPD) improperly withheld documents in a Public Records Act (PRA) …
Whistleblower Investigation Report - Department of Corrections, WA SAO, 2016 Whistleblower Investigation Report Department of Corrections Published August 15, 2016 Report No. 1017272 Washington State Auditor’s Office August 15, 2016 Dick Morgan, Acting Secretary Department of Corrections Report on Whistleblower Investigation Attached is the official report on Whistleblower Case No. …
Washington State Prisons Chief Resigns as Video of Affair with Subordinate Emerges by Matthew Clarke Eldon Vail, Corrections Secretary in Washington State, turned in a letter of resignation on July 1, 2011, after it was made public that he had been having an affair with a subordinate. Shortly before Vail …
Washington Court Upholds Prison's Good Time Credit Computation by The Washington State Court of Appeals held that the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) correctly calculated a prisoner's time served and good time sentence reduction credit for presentence confinement. Kail Erickson spent 98 days in jail awaiting trial and received 49 …
State of Washington Settles on Wrongful Death Claim by The Superior Court of the State of Washington oversaw the $100,000 settlement in February 2002 of a wrongful death claim brought by the wife of Dexter Villa, who was deceased in October 1998 as a result of the actions and inactions …
State of Washington Settles in Damages Claim Brought by Prisoner by The State of Washington reached a settlement of $11,000 and appropriate dental care in February 2004 with Patrick J. Hoffman, a prisoner at Stafford Creek Correctional Center, Intensive Management Unit. Hoffman was housed at Walla Walla State Prison serving …
Washington: Consecutive Sentences Affirmed by In an unpublished opinion from a Washington State appellate court, state prisoner Jordan Knippling was denied relief on his claim that he was given an exceptional sentence without notice. The complaint was filed following Knippling’s being sentenced to 43 months for a custodial assault he …
Washington State Undersheriff Gets 5 Months in Prison for Stealing $67K in Bail by Claims of compulsive tendencies and poor physical health don't often help criminal defendants trying to mitigate their prison sentences. Consider Carole Lepiane, the former undersheriff for Walla Walla County, Wash., the predictable exception. Lepiane, 58, using …
Washington State Keeps Sex Offenders in Prison, Bypasses Civil Commitment by A recent bureaucratic report says that a 2001 Washington State law intended to keep sex offenders in prison indefinitely has succeeded, in spite of research showing that—like other violent offenders—the likelihood of committing similar crimes significantly decreases with age. …
Solitary Confinement Emboldens Recalcitrant Witnesses, Breaks Court's Resolve by A Washington federal court ordered the release of two recalcitrant federal grand jury witnesses, after five months of confinement. In September 2012, Katherine Olejnik and Matthew Duran refused to testify before a Federal Grand Jury. As a result, a Washington federal …
Affidavit of Prejudice Deprives Washington Judge of Jurisdiction; Decisions Are Void by In an unpublished April 9, 2013 Opinion, the Washington state Court of Appeals vacated a trial court's letter rulings, concluding that a valid affidavit of prejudice deprived the court of jurisdiction. On October 21, 2008, Washington prisoner Matthew …
Meth OD, Taser & Restraint Chair = Washington Prisoner Death by A Washington man died in jail, soon after paramedics examined him for a methamphetamine overdose but released him into police custody. Although the cause of death was not immediately disclosed, the diabetic prisoner was Tased and confined in a …
