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Innocent Idaho Prisoner Receives $900,000 for 21 Years Wrongful Incarceration by After spending nearly twenty-one years incarcerated for murder, Donald M. Paradis was released from Idaho?s death row on April 10, 2001. Now, just over fiver years later, Paradis is set to receive $900,000 for his wrongful conviction and incarceration. …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
Prosecutors Check Prospective Jurors’ Background, Hoping to Disqualify Them by Prosecutors Check Prospective Jurors' Background, Hoping to Disqualify Them An Ohio murder case has exposed a new tactic that prosecutors are using to disqualify potential jurors -- the use of a federal criminal records database to run background checks. Timothy …
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue marks PLN?s 17th anniversary and our 205th issue since we first started publishing in May, 1990. This makes PLN the longest published, by far, independent prisoner publication in US history. About 95% of PLN?s articles remain written by current or former prisoners …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
California Creates High Risk Sex Offender Task Force by By Executive Order S-6-08 (May 15, 2006), California?s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger created the High Risk Sex Offender Task Force (HRSOTF). Its job was to advise the Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on policy upgrades regarding (1) …
Article • May 15, 2007 • from PLN May, 2007
Florida's Prison Industry Practices Tightening by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Three years after its scathing report on the corporate nepotism that was lining the pockets of administrators of Florida's Prison Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE), Florida's Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accounting (OPPAGA) has issued a …
PLN Uncovers Secret Sweetheart Settlement Between PRIDE and Former Board Members by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In its continual effort to expose corruption within prisons, PLN has uncovered the confidential settlement between Florida?s Prison Rehabilitation Industries and Diversified Industries (PRIDE) and the corporations spawned by its former directors? …
City Liable for Retaliation Against Cop Whistleblower and Code of Silence by The plaintiff police officer reported misconduct by other officers that resulted in their suspension. At 943: "Blair had the right under the First Amendment to inform his superiors of misconduct in the police department." He was then subjected …
Article • May 15, 2007
Denial of Medical Care by Police to Force Confession Illegal by The court of appeals for the Fourth circuit held that a district court erred in dismissing a Virginia jail detainee's claim that he was denied medical care by police detectives attempting to force him to confess to a crime. …
Religious Retaliatory Transfers Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that Alaska prisoners did not state a claim for relief that they were involuntarily transferred to out of state prisons. This occurred at a time when Alaska had no state prisons of its own, therefore felons …
$12,000 Award Against Jail Guard who Witnessed Police Beating and Did Nothing by $12,000 Award Against Jail Guard Who Witnessed Police Beating and Did Nothing The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit affirmed a jury verdict of 112,000 against a policeman who beat a Georgia jail detainee after he …
Article • May 15, 2007
Jewish Prisoner Entitled to Kosher Diet by The court of appeals for the Second circuit affirmed a district court's order that a Jewish federal prisoner in New York be provided with a Kosher diet. The prisoner successfully challenged the Bureau of Prisons national policy on this issue. The plaintiff in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ban on Muslim Literature Struck Down by A federal district court in California struck down as unconstitutional a California Department of Corrections ban on the Nation of Islam newspaper "Muhammad Speaks" and the Koran. The court also ordered the CDC to hire and pay a Muslim minister to attend to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Segregation Prisoners Entitled to Exercise and Showers by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit modified and affirmed a district court injunction requiring that Illinois prisoners in segregation for more than 90 days receive at least five hours of outdoor exercise and three showers per week. The suit was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prison Officials Liable for Holding Prisoner Past Release Date by The court of appeals for the Third circuit affirmed in part, reversed and remanded in part, a district court's ruling in favor of a Pennsylvania prisoner who was held nine months past his release date. The district court awarded $3,520 …
Transexual Case Remanded for Trial by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit reversed and remanded the grant of summary judgment in favor of Iowa prison officials. Plaintiff claimed to suffer from gender dysphoria, better known as transsexualism, and demanded medical treatment which prison officials refused to provide, at …
Article • May 15, 2007
Don't Sue Agreement Enforced in Jail Fire by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit vacated a jury verdict of $200,000 in favor of a Mississippi prisoner injured in a jail fire because plaintiff had signed an agreement saying he wouldn't sue the jail in exchange for probation and …
Article • May 15, 2007
$4,226 Awarded in Missouri Filthy Cell Suit by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit affirmed a jury verdict of $4,226 in favor of a Missouri prisoner confined in a filthy cell. Plaintiff was confined for two years in the segregation unit of the Missouri State Penitentiary in a …
Confidential Informants Require Credibility Finding by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit affirmed in part, reversed in part, a district court order denying prisoner's counsel access to a confidential informant's under seal. A federal prisoner was found guilty in a prison disciplinary hearing of stabbing another prisoner at …
Article • May 15, 2007
Blood for Good Time Creates Liberty Interest by A federal district court in Rhode Island held that a Rhode Island statute giving prisoners time off their sentences in exchange for blood donations by prisoners created a liberty interest. Prisoner plaintiff was transferred out of state where he could not reduce …
AL Jail Fined for Violating Population Cap by A federal district court in Alabama issued an order fining the Mobile County, Alabama, jail $5,000 a day for failing to comply with a jail population limit. The court had previously found that overcrowding at the jail was so severe that it …
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