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$8 Million Settlement by Michigan Jail over Baby's Injuries by An $8 million settlement was reached in a lawsuit claiming guards and officials at Michigan’s Wayne County Jail (WCJ) failed to treat a female prisoner in active labor, resulting in serious injury to the infant. When Chantrienes Barker was booked …
Article • April 15, 2013
City Council Candidate Pays Juvenile Program for Campaign Work by A Virginia juvenile prison teacher agreed to pay the state for the services of youths in creating advertising materials for his city council campaign following scrutiny of his campaign contribution report. Virginia officials looked to restrict Virginia’s Youth Industries job-training …
Prison Reforms Under Maine’s New DOC Commissioner by Lance Tapley Several weeks after firing Maine State Prison warden Patricia Barnhart on January 10, 2013, and two years after taking over the Department of Corrections (DOC), Commissioner Joseph Ponte appears determined to continue – and ramp up – his forceful program …
Bid-Rigging, Sex, and Politicians: Welcome to Oklahoma by Brandon Sample A $10 million-a-year contract awarded to the Ada Youth Academy Authority for a new juvenile facility has been put on hold while the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office looks into whether the contract was improperly steered to Ada by an Oklahoma …
America Eats its Young: Arizona Communities Embrace Use of Private Prison Employees in Drug Raids at Public Schools by Beau Hodai In Arizona an unsettling trend appears to be underway: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations. The state has graced headlines in recent years as the …
Article • November 15, 2012 • from PLN November, 2012
Los Angeles Jail Pays $161,000 Settlement for Juvenile Injured Due to Negligent Supervision by The County of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $161,000 to settle a civil rights action that claimed a juvenile offender was seriously injured while held at the Los Angeles County Probation Department’s Central Juvenile Hall …
New York City Pays $2 Million to Settle Suit Over Death of Juvenile Killed by Other Prisoners Acting as Guards’ Enforcers by The City of New York has paid $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the mother of a juvenile offender who was beaten to death at the …
Brief • November 9, 2012
Townsend v. Imperial County, CA, Complaint, juvenile inmate suicide, 2012 • Case 3:12-cv-02739-WQH-PCL Document 1 Filed 11/09/12 Page 1 of 12 1 2 3 . 4 SINGLETON & ASSOCIATAES TERRY SINGLETON, ESQ., SBN 058316 1950 Fifth Avenue, Suite 200 San Diego, California 92101 Tel: (619) 239-3225 Fax: (619) 702-5592 Z0\2 …
S.H. v. Reed, OH, Expert Report, Juvenile Class Action, 2012 Case: 2:04-cv-01206-ALM-TPK Doc #: 328-3 Filed: 10/29/12 Page: 1 of 44 PAGEID #: 9265 Stuart Grassian, M.D. 401 Beacon Street Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 (617) 244-3315; fax (617) 244-2792 stgrassian@gmail.com Declaration: Psychiatric Report in S.H. v. Reed I, Stuart Grassian, …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Oregon Passes Legislation to Move Juveniles Out of Adult Jails by “Youth who are held in adult jail[s] are at significantly increased risk of experiencing violence, committing suicide, and they’re actually at much higher risk of recidivating as well,” stated David Rogers, executive director of the Partnership for Safety and …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
$657,670 Settlement in Ohio Juvenile Facility Class-action Suit by Less than a year after the filing of a federal civil rights class-action, a settlement was reached in the lawsuit, which challenged conditions of confinement at the Washington County Juvenile Center (WCJC) in Marietta, Ohio. In October 2011, the parties to …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
$375,000 Settlement for Washington Female Juvenile Detainee Raped by Guard by On July 7, 2011, the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) agreed to a $375,000 settlement in a lawsuit that alleged a guard had raped a female detainee at the Echo Glen Children’s Center. The detainee, …
$3.5 Million Settlement in Teen’s Death at New York Juvenile Facility by A $3.5 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over the death of a juvenile offender who was restrained by two staffers at the Tryon Boys Residential Center in Fulton County, New York. The suit claimed that …
Texas Teenager Killed at Private Juvenile Detention Center by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 10, 2011, 14-year-old Jordan Adams was found unconscious on the floor of his isolation cell at the Granbury Regional Juvenile Justice Center (GRJJC) in Granbury, Texas. A sheet was wrapped around his neck. He …
Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
California Pays $2.5 Million After Girl Attempts Suicide at Juvenile Facility by California officials have agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of a teenage girl who was left severely brain damaged after trying to hang herself in the mental health unit of the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility (VYCF). …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
Florida Closes Oldest Boy’s School, Best Known for Abusive Past by Despite a reputation for brutality, the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida remained in operation until budget cuts forced its closure in June 2011. The facility, which opened in 1900 as the Florida State Reform School, …
Article • June 15, 2012
The Private, Nonprofit Prison by David Pozen After decades of inaction, Congress is debating whether to pass America's first comprehensive plan for dealing with recidivism. Studies have long shown that nearly two-thirds of former prisoners are rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within three years of release. With nearly …
Seven Florida Prison Guards Arrested by Seven Florida state prison guards, employed at two facilities at opposite ends of the state, have been charged with criminal misconduct in unrelated incidents. The first four arrests occurred on June 10, 2011, when U.S. Marshals arrested South Florida Reception Center (SFRC) guards Alexander …
BJS - Facility-level and Individual-level Correlates of Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities, 2012 Bureau of Justice Statistics Working Paper Series Facility-level and Individual-level Correlates of Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities, 2012 Leanne Heaton David Cantor Carol Bruce Weijia Ren John Hartge WESTAT®, 1600 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850, www.westat.com Allen …
Pennsylvania Businessman Sentenced to 18 Months in “Kids for Cash” Kickback Scandal by In November 2011, a Pennsylvania U.S. District Court sentenced the former owner of two for-profit juvenile detention centers to 18 months in prison for his role in a kickback scheme that included two judges. The scandal, involving …
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