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North Dakota DOC's "No-Passing" and "Publisher Only" Rules Upheld by The Supreme Court of North Dakota has upheld the constitutionality of the "no-passing" and "publisher-only" rules of the North Dakota Department of Corrections (DOC). Reuben Larson, a North Dakota state prisoner, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in …
MA Prison Conditions Might Amount to Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Richard Smith, a Massachusetts state prison at MCI-Concord, filed suit against prison officials after being disciplined for fighting. He sued numerous guards and administrators in state court alleging a multitude of constitutional and statutory violations. Among them was a …
Article • August 15, 2008
TDCJ Policy for Female Guards Strip Searching Male Prisoners Judicially Monitored by Texas federal prisoner Albert Aranda and approximately 100 other prisoners filed suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) in 1989. They alleged constitutional violations for male prisoners being strip searched by female guards. The court ordered …
Article • August 15, 2008
Kansas Prison Double Bunking Approved if ACA Standards Met by Thomas Porter and other Kansas state prisoners filed suit against the state and prison officials (defendants) alleging prison overcrowding, and subsequently objected to a proposed increase in the prison population by double bunking. The action alleged too little space per …
Article • August 15, 2008
Forcing WV Prisoner to Wear Jail Garb At Sentencing Violates Due Process Clauses by Jeffrey Finley, a West Virginia state prisoner, was convicted of murdering his neighbor. The trial court, believing it had unfettered discretion to make him wear jail clothes at sentencing, denied his request to wear street clothing …
Paralegal Services Reimbursed at Market Rate Under Federal EAJA by The Richlin Security Service Co. (Richlin) provided guards for U.S. government detainees at the Los Angeles International Airport during the 1990s. Contract ambiguities resulted in Richlin guards being underpaid. In 1995, the U.S. Department of Labor ordered the government to …
Brief • July 31, 2008
Leary v. Livingston County, MI, Settlement, failure to protect release, 2008 GENERAL RELEASE SKAUN LfARY, \PIaintII""). IIfa.9ll a eM CMI5e oIllCl:ioo in the US Dostrid: Cowl for the E.lstem l)Is(ri(t 0I1'kt1igan, bl'ing eM IldIon 03-60021, ("I 'i9*"'Jj a'ld IlilITllIl9 as Oetendllntli. in Iter oIIIdilllllld in;Iridulll QIPilCU'S, L1Yingston County, tile Livingston …
Townsend v. CCA, TN, Complaint, inmate murder in double cell segregation, 2008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0201 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0202 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0203 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0204
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
PEW Public Safety Report: Prisoncrats Abuse Their Probation/Parole Violation Powers So As To Stymie Offenders’ Re-entry Into Society by Marvin Mentor A November 2007 national study by the PEW Public Safety Performance Project concluded that the policy of returning parolees and probationers to custody for other than new offenses has …
Child Abuse Abounds in Wilderness and Boot Camp Programs by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 10, 2007, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)--a federal governmental entity that audits, evaluates and investigates for Congress--released a report on residential treatment programs (RTPs) entitled Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain …
Squalor, Corruption Cause Cancellation of GEO Group’s TYC Contract by Gary Hunter When Texas Youth Commission (TYC) ombudsman Will Harrell toured the privately-operated Coke County Juvenile Justice Center in Bronte, Texas on September 24, 2007, he found children sleeping on dirty bed sheets, walls covered with smeared feces, urine-stained walls …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
A Long Road Toward Reform: An Interview with John Boston, Director of the Prisoners’ Rights Project of the New York City Legal Aid Society by Todd Matthews For New York City attorney John Boston, law school was a calling of sorts. “I went to law school because legal work seemed …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
“Hot Bunking” at Cook County Jail Could Violate Consent Decree by In December 2007, to alleviate the problem of prisoners sleeping on the floor due to chronic overcrowding, Illinois’ Cook County Jail started “hot bunking.” The practice entails prisoners taking turns sleeping in the same bed in shifts. Each prisoner …
Indicted California Sheriff Resigns to Fight Federal Corruption Charges by Orange County, California Sheriff Michael Carona, 52, resigned his post on January 14, 2008 to fight corruption charges. As a result of his leaving office he became eligible to receive pro bono legal assistance from a Los Angeles-based law firm …
California DOC Federal Health Care Receiver Replaced by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Robert Sillen, the scrappy Receiver appointed by a U.S. District Court to fix California’s ailing prison healthcare system, was replaced on January 23, 2008 by J. Clark Kelso, former Chief Information Officer for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. …
No Safety or Security for Maryland Prisoners by Michael Rigby Twenty-five guards have been fired amid allegations that they beat prisoners at two Maryland prisons. The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) initially terminated the employment of eight guards on April 4, 2008. Another nine were fired …
Ninth Circuit: Prisoner’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Classification Claims Fail Sandin Test by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, applying the “atypical and significant hardship” test of Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1995), affirmed a U.S. District Court’s (N.D. Cal.) ruling that …
Article • July 15, 2008
North Carolina Liberty Denying Treatment Program Ruled Statutorial Confinement; Prisoner's Time Credited by North Carolina State prisoner William Hearst petitioned for review of an appellate affirmation denying him 81 days credit for treatment program confinement. The affirmation was reversed and remanded to credit the 81 days, Hearst pled guilty for …
$200,000 Injury Damages For Illinois Juvenile Prisoner Reduced To $40,000 For Total Versus Individual Award Confusion by 15 year old Illinois Youth Center (IYC) prisoner Jeffrey Watts brought federal action against several IYC employees for cruel and unusual punishment in failure to protect after fellow prisoner Derrick Greaves allegedly attacked …
Article • July 15, 2008
Paruresis Requires Medical Verification to Excuse Urinalysis Failure; Agreement Willingly Signed Upheld by New York City Transit Authority (Authority) and Transit Workers Union (TWU) employee Joseph Kwok brought action for U.S. Constitutional violations and racial discrimination after being demoted for urinalysis compliance failure. He allegedly suffered from paruresis (shy bladder …
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