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Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Searches, Drug Testing, Parole
Federal Probation Officers Can't Order Probationers to Drug Treatment by Manuel Carrera, a federal prisoner in Puerto Rico, was sentenced to five years' supervised release after completing a 78-month prison sentence for drug sales. As a condition of his release, the district court directed Carrera's probation officer to set up …
TX Private Prison Guard Can't Sue Under § 1983 For Bogus Employment Termination by TX Private Prison Guard Can't Sue Under § 1983 For Bogus Employment Termination Harold Cornish was employed as a guard at a Texas private prison owned and operated by Correctional Services Corp. (CSC). He blew the …
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 …
OH DORC Liable for Property Damage Done by Prisoners by K. Michael Deem Investment Corp., Inc. (Deem Inc.), an Ohio corporation, allowed the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) to operate a pallet-restoration industry on its property. While working there, prisoners damaged a cinder block wall, a dumpster and …
BOP Must Disclose Part of Investigation Manual by The federal prison at Forrest City, Arkansas (prison) suspended for one day an employee represented by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). The AFGE requested that the prison produce a copy of its Special Investigative Supervisor Manual (manual), which the prison …
Article • May 15, 2007
IL Prisoner Fails to Show Unreasonable Application of Federal Law on Habeas Review by IL Prisoner Fails to Show Unreasonable Application of Federal Law on Habeas Review Andrew Lockhart, an Illinois state prisoner, pled guilty to murder. He received a 35-year prison sentence and 3 years' mandatory supervision release (MSR). …
Article • May 15, 2007
OH Prisoner Wins $50 in Personal Injury Suit by Earl Starks was an Ohio state prisoner at the Toledo Correctional Camp. In the early morning hours of January 1, 2004, a riot broke out in Starks' dorm. Guards refused his request to leave the dorm, after which he was hit …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Awarded $125,000 for Slip and Fall Injury by In February 1998, a New York City prisoner was awarded $125,000 for injuries sustained when she slipped while descending wet stairs at the City's jail. The 31-year-old plaintiff claimed in her lawsuit, filed in Bronx County, that the City …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Awarded $164 For Improper Housing Assignment by In July 1998, a New York court of claims awarded $164 to a state prisoner for emotional distress incurred when prison officials housed him in the infirmary due to a lack of cell space in the prison's special housing unit. …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Injured On Fence Awarded $15,000 by In February 1998, a New York court of claims awarded $15,000 to a state prisoner who cut his arm on a chain link fence. The 34-year-old plaintiff claimed that in August 1998, while playing softball on the prison recreation yard, he …
Article • May 15, 2007
Pennsylvania Prisoner Awarded $5,000 for Crushed Finger by In January 1998, a Pennsylvania prisoner was awarded $5,000 in arbitration against the City of Philadelphia. The plaintiff alleged the bone in his left finger was crushed in February 1996 when the bed in his cell tipped over. The plaintiff sued in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Work, Workplace Injury
Washington Prisoner Awarded $16,695 For Back Injury by In April 1998, a Snohomish County, Washington, prisoner was awarded $16,695 in arbitration for injuries sustained when he fell from a County vehicle. The plaintiff claimed that in April 1996 while laboring on a work crew for the county jail he fell …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prison Assault Conviction Reversed Due to Faulty Jury Instruction by Florida's Second District Court of Appeals has reversed a prisoner's conviction for battery by a person detained in a prison or jail facility. After his conviction from events that occurred at the Charlotte Correctional Institution, prisoner Jeffrey Humbert appealed. At …
Article • May 15, 2007
Fourth Circuit Vacates Maryland Beating Verdict by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a jury's verdict finding guards at the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center violated a prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights by using excessive force on him. Quinten X. Jackson claimed guards used excessive force on him in two …
Court Approves Continued Pennsylvania Prisoner's Segregation Beyond 21 Years by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that despite 21 years in solitary confinement, Pennsylvania prisoner Daniel Delker has received all the process he is due and prison officials may continue to confine him. Delker has been kept in …
Title VII Suit Dismissed for Lack of Exhaustion by The plaintiff's Title VII hostile work environment claim is dismissed for nonexhaustion because he didn't include it in his EEOC charge and it is not "reasonably related" to the claims he did assert. At 1100: "Pro se plaintiffs must strictly comply …
Delaware Medical Contractor's Policies Deliberately Indifferent by A Delaware Superior Court has denied a motion to dismiss a complaint alleging First Correctional Medical (FCM) was deliberately indifferent to the serious medical needs of prisoner Gregory D. Smith, causing his death. The suit alleged FCM's policies, procedures, and customs displayed a …
Selective BOP Prosecution Based On Race Unproven by Federal prisoner Frederick DeBerry (an African-American) located at the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Florence, Colorado, facility, and two other African-American prisoners at this facility, appealed the District of Colorado's decision that they had not met their burden of proof of both discriminatory …
Article • May 15, 2007
Random Searches Of Pennsylvania Prison Visitors' Vehicles Held Constitutional by In a ruling that applies the limited rights of prisoners to those who visit prisoners, the U.S. District Court for the District of Pennsylvania held that prison officials can randomly search visitors' vehicles regardless of individualized suspicion or cause. On …
$641,000 Settlement In Beating Death Of Alabama Jail Prisoner by Following the death a man who was allegedly beaten by jailers in a Montgomery, Alabama, jail, the City settled with the man's estate for $641,000. The decedent was arrested in June 1997 for fondling a 10-year-old girl and imprisoned in …
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