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Prisoners Died By the Thousands Between 2001 and 2004 by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby Elderly prisoners are more than twice as likely to die behind bars as those who are not in prison, a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) on prison mortality rates reveals. White and …
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
TOWARD A MORE ELABORATE TYPOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES: LIBERALIZING CRIMINAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT LAWS AND POLICIES by 33 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 283 TOWARD A MORE ELABORATE TYPOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES: LIBERALIZING CRIMINAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT LAWS AND POLICIES [FN1] © Avi Brisman [FNa1] Copyright © 2007 by New England …
CCA Pays $438,626 for Discriminatory Hiring Practices in Arizona by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest private prison operator, has agreed to pay more than $438,000 to settle allegations of discriminatory hiring practices at the company's Central Arizona Detention Center in Florence, according to a February 23, 2007 …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Washington’s Criminal Justice System Racially Biased; Voting Rights Act Claim Fails Anyway by Washington's Criminal Justice System Racially Biased; Voting Rights Act Claim Fails Anyway Despite finding that Washington state's criminal justice system is racially biased, a federal district court has held that the state's felon disenfranchisement law does not …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Colorado Successfully Pressures FBI To Release DNA Info; Racial Bias Infects DNA Databases by Gary Hunter State law enforcement agencies have struck a tentative deal with FBI officials that allows agencies to share previously privileged information. The deal resulted from the brutal rape and beating of a Colorado woman who …
Article • May 15, 2007
Racial Discrimination Case Reversed and Remanded for Damages by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a U.S. district court's finding that a Nebraska prison official did not racially discriminate against a state prisoner and remanded for a damages hearing. Prisoner Plaintiff brought a §1983 action after …
Supreme Court Discusses § 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Status by The United States Supreme Court held that a South Carolina nonprofit private school, which prescribed and enforced racially discriminatory admission standards on the basis of religious doctrine, did not qualify as a tax-exempt organization under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Deliberate Indifference Survives Summary Judgment by The U.S. Southern District Court of Ohio determined a prisoner's claim of deliberate indifference should survive summary judgment. Morris Gulett, a white supremacist and pre-trial detainee, was housed in an eleven-man tank in the Montgomery County jail in Ohio. Each prisoner was confined to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Florida Felon Disenfranchisement Found Constitutional by The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has ruled that a 135-year old state law that bans ex-felons from voting is not unconstitutional. Thomas Johnson, a former prisoner from New York now residing in Florida, filed a class action lawsuit …
Public Employee Granted Access to Information in Personnel File by In a §1983 action, an Oregon DOC guard brought suit alleging racial discrimination. A federal district court in Oregon held that a guard is entitled to information contained in his personnel file to pursue a discrimination suit against his employer. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Florida Department of Corrections Ordered to Cease Racially Discriminatory Practices in Selected Reading Materiala by Florida Department of Corrections Ordered to Cease Racially Discriminatory Practices in Selected Reading Material Florida state prisoner Herman Jackson filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 lawsuit against prison officials claiming that his rights under the First …
United States District Court Rules Alabama Department of Corrections Violates Prisoners' Fourteenth Amendment Rights with Its Segregation Policies by United States District Court Rules Alabama Department of Corrections Violates Prisoners' Fourteenth Amendment Rights with Its Segregation Policies Alabama state prisoner Robert McCray filed a §1983 suit against state prison officials …
Article • May 15, 2007
Racial Segregation in Kansas Jail Unconstitutional by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that racial segregation of prisoners at Kansas' Wyandotte County Jail was unconstitutional. The District Court found "assignment to one of the two tanks [an East tank and a West tank] is made upon a racial basis, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Racial Segregation in Nebraska Prison Unconstitutional by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that racial segregation at the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex was unconstitutional. All facilities at the prison were integrated but one. That cell block housed 50 prisoners who objected to living with or housing with blacks. …
Injunctive Relief Reversed Due to Lack of Personal Stake by The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a judgment granting injunctive relief in a §1983 action against Philadelphia police. Respondents brought a §1983 action against Philadelphia officials, including the Mayor and the Police Commissioner, alleging a pervasive pattern of illegal and unconstitutional …
Qualified Immunity Denied In Use Of 5-Point Restraint by A Federal District Court in Virginia has held that prison officials are not entitled to qualified immunity on excessive force, racial discrimination, and due process claims rising from use of 5-point restraints. Trini Davis, a prisoner at Wallens Ridge State Prison …
Class Claims Must Be "Fairly Encompassed" By Named Plaintiff's Claims by Class Claims Must Be "Fairly Encompassed" By Named Plaintiff's Claims The U.S. Supreme court held that a Mexican-American who filed suit under the Civil Rights Act claiming he was passed over for promotion because of his national origin could …
Article • May 15, 2007
$1,200 Paid and Apology Given in WA Racial Discrimination Suit by Washington State Penitentiary officials agreed to settle a 42 U.S.C. §1983 action filed in the Eastern District of Washington federal court filed by Sir Jesse R. Hunter. Hunter had placed his food tray on his cell door's food slot …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ban on Public Speaking While Masked Held Unconstitutional by The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted declaratory relief and a permanent injunction on behalf of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan against the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the City of New …
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