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NY Prisoner Entitled to Hearing Before Temporary Release Committee by The Supreme Court, New York County, held that the removal of a prisoner from a work release program without a hearing deprived him of a protected liberty interest. Simon Anderson was participating in the Lincoln Correctional Facility Work Release Program …
Article • May 15, 2007
Independent Evaluation Mandated For Federal Prisoner's Nunc Pro Tunc Housing Designation Request by Independent Evaluation Mandated For Federal Prisoner's Nunc Pro Tunc Housing Designation Request Federal prisoner Edward Trowell filed a federal habeas corpus petition seeking review of a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) rejection of a nunc pro tunc designation …
Article • May 15, 2007
Involuntarily Transferring Prisoner to HIV Dormitory Violates Right to Privacy by A New York federal district court held that prison officials cannot involuntarily transfer a prisoner who had tested positive for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to a separate dormitory. This class action suit was filed by a New York prisoner …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Classification, Furloughs
Alaska Superior Courts May Not Grant Furloughs Under Criminal Rule 35(b) by The Alaska Court of Appeals held that superior courts may not use their authority to modify sentences under Criminal Rule 35(b) to grant furloughs to prisoners, but may use that authority to impose a term of periodic imprisonment. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Monetary Sanctions Against DOC Commissioner Violates Alabama Constitution by The Alabama Supreme Court held that a trial court's imposition of monetary contempt sanctions against the Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC), in his official capacity, violated Section 14 of the Alabama Constitution. In the early 1990s the Alabama …
Daughters Of Woman Killed By Furloughed Indiana Prisoner Settle For $900,000 by Two daughters who witnessed their mother's murder by a furloughed Indiana prisoner settled their claim against the state for $900,000. The woman's attacker, her ex-husband, had been imprisoned by the state for crimes against her and the couple's …
$24,000 Paid in WA Disability Termination Suit by Thomas J. Miller, a visually impaired individually applied for, was interviewed, and hired by Second Chance, a non-profit organization that is a Washington DOC Contractor, to be an on-call supervisor. Bruce Kuennan, Second Chance Director, told Miller that the Washington DOC would …
Jury Awards $136,501 to Handicapped Michigan Prisoner Sent to Virginia Prison by Dwayne Hubbard, a one-legged Michigan state prisoner was sent to a Virginia prisoner due to overcrowding. The Virginia prison had no accommodations for his handicap. He fell and injured his back in the shower. The Virginia guards made …
Article • May 15, 2007
Lay Advocate Case Affirmed in Part by In an unpublished opinion, the Seventh Circuit court of appeals affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded an Indiana case requiring that prisoners in segregation be given a lay advocate during disciplinary transfer hearings. There are numerous other opinions in this case …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Entitled to Lay Advocate in Disciplinary Transfer by The Seventh Circuit court of appeals held that certain minimal due process, requirements are attached to disciplinary transfers of prisoners from the Indiana State Prison. The court held that a prisoner who was the subject of a disciplinary transfer hearing was …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Due Process Hearing Needed In Prison Transfer by The Supreme Court ruled that a prisoner had no Constitutional right to remain at any particular prison. The case stems from a suit filed by a New York prisoner who was fired from his job as a law library clerk and …
Retaliatory Harassment and Transfer of Law Clerk Nets $2,100 Award by A federal district court in Tennessee, after a bench trial, held that the Warden at Tennessee State Prison (TSP) violated a prisoner's right to access to the courts for taking retaliatory action against the prisoner. After the prisoner helped …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Classification, Transfers
Security Threat Must be Shown to Transfer NY Prisoner Elected as Representative by The New York Supreme Court has held that under section 139 of the Correction Law a prisoner elected to be a prisoner representative on the Inmate Grievance Resolution Committee (IGRC) had a right to not being transferred …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Classification, Transfers
State Prisoner Transfer To Federal Prison Constitutional by The U.S. Supreme Court held that the transfer of a Vermont prisoner to a federal prison for security reasons was constitutional. Vermont, having no maximum security prison, opted to transfer a prisoner convicted of violent crimes to a federal prison under 18 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Arkansas Jailers Not Responsible for Prisoner's Beating by Scott Crow, a state prisoner in Arkansas' Faulkner County Detention Center (jail), had his jaw broken by a prisoner in his cell during a fight. He sued several jail administrators under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in federal district court. Although the defendants …
$2,220,000 Settlement To Missouri Prisoners Formerly Housed In Texas by Over seven hundred Missouri state prisoners, who were formerly housed as part of a bed-sharing program in Texas prison facilities from January 1, 1995, through December 31, 1997, filed a Federal class action civil rights complaint regarding conditions of confinement …
Article • May 15, 2007
Oklahoma Prisoner's Federal Civil Rights Complaint For Alleged Rapes Denied by Oklahoma state prisoner Pamela Smith filed a Federal civil rights complaint against former Oklahoma Department of Public Safety ("ODPS") employee Don Cochran, claiming violations of her Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights for repeatedly being raped by Cochran …
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Race/Exposure Claims by In an unpublished order, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of an Illinois prisoner's racial discrimination and pepper spray exposure claims. Illinois prisoner Johnnie Flournoy brought suit in federal court asserting several unrelated constitutional violations. The district court dismissed …
Fed BOP Can Declare State Prison a Place of Fed Incarceration by Hassan Abdul-Malik was in New York state custody in 1993 when he was transferred to federal custody, convicted of postal robbery, and sentenced to thirty years in federal prison. He was then returned to state custody where he …
WI Transfer to CCA Prison Upheld by The plaintiff challenged his transfer to an out-of-state prison. At 974: ". . . [A] prisoner has no liberty interest in avoiding transfer to another prison, be it out-of-state, more restrictive, or owned and run by a private corporation." The transfer does not …
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