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California DOC Federal Healthcare Receiver Issues Master Remedial Plan by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg "Good care is less costly than bad care." This maxim, from prison healthcare Receiver Robert Sillen, set the tone when he announced his master plan on May 10, 2007 to constitutionally repair the California …
California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program “A Complete Waste Of Money” by Marvin Mentor California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program "A Complete Waste Of Money" by Marvin Mentor California's Inspector General Matthew Cate issued a scathing 52-page report in February 2007 which …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
U.S. Prison and Jail Population Continues Meteoric Rise by Michael Rigby It?s beginning to sound a bit repetitive, but the nation?s prison population continues to grow exponentially. At midyear 2006, U.S. prisons and jails held 2,245,189 persons?a 2.8% increase over the previous year, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
State Auditor Flunks California DOC For Failure To Make Prison Population Projections by Marvin Mentor In a March 2007 Letter Report to California's Governor and Legislature, State Auditor Elaine Howell reported that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) had failed to make meaningful progress in devising accurate prisoner …
California DOC Guards Win Injunction to Stop Prisoner Transfers Out-Of-State; Transfers Continue While State Appeals by The Superior Court of Sacramento County has granted a writ of mandate prohibiting the transfer of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners to out-of-state facilities to alleviate the prison system's chronic overcrowding …
GAO Audit: Alien Detention Facilities Suffer Continuing Deficiencies by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg An often overlooked segment of the nation's prison population, alien detainees, was the subject of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit between May 2006 and May 2007. While the largest problem noted was limited access …
California’s Solution To Prison Overcrowding: $7.4 Billion To Build 53,000 New Beds by Marvin Mentor California's Solution To Prison Overcrowding: $7.4 Billion To Build 53,000 New Beds by Marvin Mentor Faced with three federal judges threatening to place a population cap on California's overcrowded prison system, the state Legislature and …
Colorado Investigates Former Prison Director for Malfeasance Following State Audit by The Colorado State Auditor completed a review of the state's private prison contracts in November 2006. The audit found that former Director of Prisons Nolin Renfrow's "private business activities arguably present a conflict of interest and result in a …
Fulton County Jail Consents to Improve Dismal Conditions by David Reutter The Fulton County Jail (FCJ) has entered into an agreement to correct the “dismal environmental conditions and poor maintenance” at the facility. A Georgia federal district court approved a consent order on February 7, 2006 to solidify the badly …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Texas Prison System Faces Critical Guard Shortage by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is understaffed by 3,152 guards, a 12% deficit compared to full staffing. The shortage has grown each year from an average of 8.5% in 2004. Some prison units have …
Monterey County Grand Jury Report Blasts Two California Prisons by Marvin Mentor In its 2006 report on Monterey County?s two state prisons (Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) and the Correctional Training Facility (CTF)), the Monterey County Grand Jury made 23 findings and 13 recommendations for SVSP plus 5 findings and …
Civil Grand Jury Calls San Mateo County Women’s Jail a “Crowded Disgrace” by Civil Grand Jury Calls San Mateo County Women's Jail a "Crowded Disgrace" The San Mateo County (California) Civil Grand Jury found that the decades-old Women's Correctional Center in Redwood City was so deficient that it must be …
San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Cites Continuing Jail Deficiencies by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In November 2005, the jurors of the San Francisco Grand Jury inspected city and county jails and found longstanding unremediated problems of inadequate budgets, staffing shortages, overcrowding and high (40%) recidivism rates. The Jury …
Indiana Prison Overcrowded with Inadequate Medical Care by The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City was overcrowded, and that the medical care available at the prison was constitutionally inadequate. The judgment of the trial court was affirmed in …
Supreme Court Holds Double Celling Not Unconstitutionally Cruel and Unusual by The U.S. Supreme Court held that the policy of "double celling" did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Prisoners in an Ohio state maximum security prison brought action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against state officials alleging that policy …
Officials Not Qualifiedly Immune In Paralyzed Prisoner's Suit by The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey held that county and jail officials were not entitled to qualified immunity in a paralyzed prisoner's civil rights suit. Timothy Ryan was arrested for a traffic violation and held at the …
No Qualified Immunity For Prison Officials In Paralyzed Prisoner's Suit by The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey held that prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity in a paralyzed prisoner's civil rights suit and that fact issues precluded summary judgment. Timothy Ryan was arrested for …
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 …
Double Bunking, Mail and Visitation Rules, Searches Constitutional by The U.S. Supreme Court held that a jail's practices of "double bunking," barring hardcover books sent by individuals, banning receipt by prisoners of food packages and personal items, requiring prisoners to remain outside their housing areas during searches, and body cavity …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Orders Minimum Jail Staffing at Harris County (TX) Jail by A federal district court in Texas ordered that Harris County (Texas) Jail official defendants not be held in contempt even thought they were unable to maintain a court-ordered minimum staff-to-prisoner ratio. The court stated that it had no choice …
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