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Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Permanent Injunction Granted for Kosher Diets by The Colorado Federal District Court granted a permanent injunction against the Department of Corrections (CDOC) finding the CDOC in violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment for failing to provide Colorado Prisoners with a kosher diet. As reported in the …
Louisiana Abandons Private Juvenile Prisons by The state of Louisiana agreed to a settlement in federal court September 7, 2000 designed to radically alter the way it operates its juvenile prisons. The agreement was intended to settle several lawsuits against the state, including one by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
Summary Judgment Reversed on Diabetes Claim by The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court's grant of a summary judgment in favor of a doctor and a deputy sheriff on a pre-trial detainee's §1983 claim that they were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs. Floyd …
Ohio Abandons Private Food Service Experiment by In October 2000, the Ohio prison system decided to abandon its controversial two-year pilot project to privatize the food service at the Nobel Correctional Institution (NCI). In October, 1998, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) awarded a two-year contract to ARAMARK …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
University Cancels Sodhexo-Marriott Contract by Students from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, declared victory August 14, 2000 in a two month struggle to keep a catering company with ties to the forprofit prison industry from taking over the school's food service contract. In July, school administrators announced that the …
Illinois Supermax Hunger Strike by Dan Pens By Dan Pens Displaying remarkable solidarity while encaged under unimaginably oppressive conditions, more than half of the 273 prisoners at the Tamms Supermax prison in downstate Illinois began a hunger strike by refusing their breakfast on May 1,2000. Prison officials said 173 prisoners …
Ohio Prison Food Contract Sparks Controversy by In 1998 senior officials of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) were convinced that outsourcing prison food service would be the next great leap forward for Ohio penology. So they bid out a contract for private firms to provide food service …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
No Immunity in Denying Kosher Diet by The court of appeals for the Second Circuit held that fact issues requiring a trial were present in a Jewish prisoner's lawsuit over the denial of a kosher diet. The court also held prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity from money …
DOJ Sues Wackenhut Juvenile Prison by Gary Hunter In March, 2000, six teenage boys, brutalized by guards in a Wackenhut prison in Jena, Louisiana, were removed by the judge who sentenced them. State Judge Mark Doherty of Orleans Parish Louisiana was so appalled by their treatment that he made a …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
VA Warden Fired in Foodbank Theft by On October 13, 1999, Vanessa Crawford was fired as warden of the Pocahontas Correctional Unit. Two other unidentified Virginia DOC employees were also fired. The firings stemmed From the theft of food at the Central Virginia Foodbank (CVF). CVF was started in 1995 …
$47,500 Settlement in Pennsylvania Restraint Suit by In May, 1999, the Northampton County Prison (NCP) paid Maria Merced $47,500 to settle a "hogtying" lawsuit she had filed. In August, 1996, while awaiting trial in the NCP, Merced argued with a guard and eventually spat on him. A number of guards …
Texas Supreme Court Invalidates TDCJ-ID VitaPro Contract by The Texas Supreme Court reversed a lower appellate court's decision and held that the trial court had ruled correctly when it invalidated TDCJ-ID's contract with VitaPro Foods, Inc. of Montreal, Canada, for a soy-based meat substitute. The product was unpopular among prisoners …
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
Field 'Sleep Out' Without Adequate Toilet Facilities States An Eighth Amendment Violation by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that, for qualified immunity purposes, a prisoner who was forced to spend the night outdoors in a work field without adequate bathroom facilities …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
Denial Of Food and Medicine Supports Eighth Amendment Claim by Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that a prisoner's medical condition was sufficiently serious to support an Eighth Amendment claim, and material fact issues existed as to whether officials acted with deliberate indifference toward the …
Tenth Circuit Holds Prison Officials Liable for Failing to Provide Religious Meals by Tenth Circuit Holds Prison Officials Liable For Failing To Provide Religious Meals The Tenth Circuit court of ap- peals has held that prison officials unconstitutionally interfered with a punitive segregation prisoner's exercise of religion when they failed …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
Punitive Shackling Without a Hearing Okay by The court of appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that it does not violate the Eighth or Fourteenth amendment to chain and shackle a prisoner in his cell for 24 hours without first providing for a hearing or an opportunity to be heard. …
Retaliatory Acts Need Not "Shock the Conscience" to be Actionable by by Matthew T. Clarke The Sixth Circuit court of appeals, sitting en banc, has held that prisoners who claim retaliation for constitutionally protected activities are no longer required to prove the retaliatory acts "shock the conscience." Instead, they must …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
Arizona DOC Settles Kosher Diet Suit by On January 29, 1999, the Arizona Department of Corrections settled a lawsuit involving a Jewish prisoner's right to a kosher diet. Kenneth Ashelman, an orthodox Jewish prisoner, filed suit when the DOC refused to provide him with a kosher diet. The suit was …
First Amendment Guarantees Kosher Meals by The court of appeals for the Third 1 Circuit held that under the First Amendment, prison officials must provide Jewish prisoners with a diet sufficient to sustain them in good health without violating kosher laws. However, the food need not be hot, nor even …
VitaPro President Arrested by In the latest development in the on-going VitaPro scandal involving the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice, Yank Barry was arrested Feb. 11, 1999. Barry, president of Montreal-based VitaPro Foods Inc., was indicted in January 1998 with former state prison chief James A. "Andy" Collins [ PLN …
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