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Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
California Jail Settles Rape Case for $95,000 by On November 19, 2001, the city of Santa Ana, California, agreed to pay $95,000 to an unidentified former jail detainee who was beaten and raped by his cellmate, to settle a lawsuit stemming from the attack. The 32-year-old unnamed accountant plaintiff was …
Brief • June 13, 2002
Plata v. Davis, CA, Stipulation for Injuctive Relieft, Medical Neglect, 2002 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 FILffi BILL LOCKYER, Attorney General of the State of California PETER J. SIGGINS, Chief Deputy Attorney General ROBERT R. ANDERSON Chief Assistant Attorney General PAUL D. GIFFORD Senior Assistant …
Brief • June 3, 2002
Filed under: Medical
Small v. Los Angeles, CA, Settlement, Jail Medical Neglect, 2002 June 3, 2002 Honorable Board of Supervisors 383 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration 500 West Temple Street Los Angeles, California 900l2 Re: Larry Small and Rosa Small v. County of Los Angeles Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. BC 208 …
Eighth Amendment Challenge to California Integrated Yard Policy Is Triable by Marvin Mentor In a California prisoner suit claiming cruel and unusual punishment for the prison's "integrated yard" policy, the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled that the factual question presented could proceed to trial, thus rejecting prison defendants' …
County Supervisors Liable for Indemnifications by John E Dannenberg County Supervisors Liable For Indemnifications by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles (LA), California County Board of Supervisors made official decisions, and thus a policy, to indemnify their county sheriffs so as to willfully (i.e., in bad faith) protect the sheriffs …
California Prison Guards Protected in Criminal Investigation by A recent case before the First Appellate District of California demonstrates the political clout of the California Correctional Peace Officers' Association (CCPOA), and the sweetheart treatment that clout buys. That clout enabled CCPOA to win a preliminary injunction against the California Department …
$3.54 Million Paid For Falsely Imprisoning Unconvicted Mentally-Incapacitated California Man For Two Years In New York by John E Dannenberg A mentally incapacitated misdemeanant detainee at the Los Angeles County, California, jail was unlawfully extradited to New York, where he was imprisoned for two years in the Green Haven Correctional …
Los Angeles Sheriff's Over-Detention Policy Renders County Liable Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 by John E Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that Los Angeles County Jail prisoners who were kept beyond their release dates for the purpose of awaiting the completion of records searches for any …
Qualified Immunity Granted at Summary Judgment Stage in Prison Shooting Suit by John E Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that California prison guards who shot one prisoner in the neck during a yard riot, while allegedly aiming at another prisoner, were entitled to qualified immunity from …
California Pays for Guard's Sexual Misconduct by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely California taxpayers must pay $154,212 in damages to a former female prison guard sexually harassed on the job, according to the Sacramento Bee . Ray Collie, the lieutenant who couldn't seem to control his urges, owes just $75,000 …
$1.5 Million Awarded in CDC Medical Neglect Suit by $1.5 Million Awarded In CDC Medical Neglect Suit In November 2000, a jury awarded the Estate of Mark Holton and Amanda Holton a total of $1.5 million in costs and damages, as well as $279,000 in attorneys' fees, in a civil …
Brief • December 3, 2001
Clark v. State of California, CA, Court Order, ADA Cruel and Unusual Punishment, 2001 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PRISONLAWOFFICE DONALD SPECTER #83925 HEATHER MacKA Y #161434 SARA NORMAN #189536 General Delivery San Quentin, CA 94964 Telephone: (415) 457-9144 ORKGKN.iiL CHAVEZ & GERTLER MARK A. CHAVEZ #90858 …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Plug Pulled in California Prison by Willie Wisely California is short on energy. The state has suffered repeated Stage Three power alerts and rolling power outages. Without authorization by the Legislature, the California Department of Corrections (CDC) may be trying to alleviate the crisis. And it seems at least one …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Environmental Challenge Bars Construction of California Prison by Rose Braz by Rose Braz, Esq. A Kern County, California, supperior court judge has barred the state from proceeding with plans to build a $335 million, 5,160 bed maximum-security prison slated for Delano. The groundbreaking ruling came in an environmental lawsuit filed …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
$522,458 Rebate Ordered in California Prisoner Phone Overcharges by John E Dannenberg The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ordered MCI Telecommunications Corp. (MCI) to offset $522,458 in overcharges it made between June 14, 1996, and July 12, 1999, on MCI California Maximum Security Calls (i.e., California prisoner collect calls) by …
California Racial Segregation Case Reversed; Phone Claim Dismissed by Holding that the action was not time-barred and otherwise stated an actionable claim, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s pro se action which claimed that California state prisons practiced racial …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
California Dials Wrong Number by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely In reaction to bad publicity, lawsuits, and legislative hearings following a record number of fatal shootings of unarmed male prisoners, staged fights, and the sexual abuse and medical neglect of women prisoners, California established the allegedly independent Office of Inspector …
America's Jails: The Dungeons of the New Millenium by Sam Rutherford At any given time there are approximately 500,000 people incarcerated in the more than 3,500 city and county jails across the United States. Some of these individuals are confined while awaiting trial, others are serving relatively short sentences for …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
Filed under: Resources, Organizing
The Prison Activist Resource Center: It's About Sharing Resources and Working Collectively by Marti Hiken The Prison Activist Resource Center: It's about Sharing Resources and Working Collectively "We all need energetic people to spark us," says Vanessa Agard-Jones, the coordinator for the Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) located in Berkeley/Oakland, …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
California State Prisoner's Handbook by John E Dannenberg by Steven Fama, et. al. Subtitled a "Comprehensive Practice Manual" for California prisoners, the new 3rd edition of the California State Prisoners Handbook easily lives up to its billing. Covering in detail all aspects of California prisoners' interaction with the "correctional experience" …
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