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Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
California DOC Medical Receiver’s Initial On-The-Job Impression: “Conditions Disgraceful” by John Dannenberg California DOC Medical Receiver's Initial On-The-Job Impression: "Conditions Disgraceful" by John E. Dannenberg In his first bi-monthly accounting to his boss (U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson), California's Prison health-care Receiver ("CPR") Bob Sillen concluded that the California …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
U.S. Spends Record $185 Billion on Justice System is 2003 by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke According to a report released by the U.S. Department of Justice?s Bureau of Justice Statistics in April, 2006, the U.S. spent a record $185 billion for police protection, detention, and judicial and legal …
New York’s Governor Vetoes New Treatment Facilities For Mentally Ill Prisoners by John Dannenberg New York's Governor Vetoes New Treatment Facilities For Mentally Ill Prisoners by John E. Dannenberg Prior to leaving office, on August 16, 2006, then New York Governor George Pataki (R)vetoed Assembly Bill No. 3926-A, which would …
Virginia Prison Minister Indicted on Sex Charges; Ministries Under Fire by Gary Hunter Toney Leon McDonald, an ex-sheriff?s deputy and now ex-prison minister, was arrested on May 17, 2006 on four counts of sexual misconduct with a 23-year-old female prisoner. After posting a $25,000 bond, McDonald surrendered to authorities a …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
$2.5 Million Settlement for Illegal Strip Searches in Connecticut Jail by The State of Connecticut has entered into a settlement agreement that will cost it $2.5 million for a correctional policy of strip searching all detainees regardless of their charges. The settlement comes in a class action filed in a …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
MO Jail Guards Denying Seizure Medication amd Assigning Prisoner to Top Bunk May Violate 8th Amendment by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has reversed a federal district court?s grant of summary judgment to jailers who denied seizure medication to a prisoner, who then fell from a …
New Jersey Sex Offenders Must Be Protected and Segregated During Transports by A New Jersey federal district court has issued a preliminary injunction requiring prison officials at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel, New Jersey (ADTC) to protect and segregate ADTC prisoners when transporting them to medical appointments …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Illinois Jail’s Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby Illinois Jail's Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby On December 16, 2005, a federal district judge ruled that the Will County, Illinois jail routinely violated prisoners' Fourth Amendment rights by subjecting them to a blanket strip search policy, paving the …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Filed under: Searches, Drug Testing
Nebraska UA Procedures Do Not Violate Due Process by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court?s decision that Nebraska?s Department of Correctional Services (DCS) urine sample collection and testing procedures do not deprive prisoners of due process of law. DCS tests urine samples for drugs using the …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
BOP Halfway House Walkaway Is Not Federal “Crime of Violence” by John Dannenberg BOP Halfway House Walkaway Is Not Federal "Crime of Violence" by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a walkaway from a federal halfway house did not fit the categorical "crime of …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Native American Entitled to Prayer Feather by An Arkansas federal district court has held that a Native American prisoner has a constitutional right to possess or use a prayer feather for religious purposes. This action was brought by Billy Joe Wolf, complaining about acts while he was imprisoned at Arkansas? …
New Hampshire Prisoner’s ADA Claim Survives Summary Judgment by New Hampshire Prisoner's ADA Claim Survives Summary Judgment The First Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a New Hampshire federal district court's summary judgment order concluding that a prisoner failed to demonstrate that prison officials violated his rights under Title II …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Alabama: On August 21, 2006, Baldwin county jail guard Jorge Quezada, 20, was fired for failing to monitor jail prisoner Ross Paul Yates who died after being handcuffed to a wall for several hours. Arkansas: On October 12, 2006, Michael Bolton, 25, a prisoner at the …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Mississippi DOC Guts TB Program by For many years the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) has led the nation in controlling tuberculosis (TB) in its prison system. This was accomplished by giving chest x-rays to all incoming prisoners to determine whether they had the disease. Unfortunately this practice has been …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Filed under: Voting, Sentencing, Parole
Colorado Parolee’s Disenfranchisement Upheld by Colorado Parolee's Disenfranchisement Upheld The Colorado Supreme Court has held that a person on parole does not have a right to vote. That ruling came in an appeal filed by Pastor Michael Danielson after the District Court for the city and County of Denver dismissed …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
PLN Awarded $48,709 In Attorney Fees After Successful FOIA Suit Against BOP by In June, 2006, Prison Legal News won the right to gain media investigative access to federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) records regarding lawsuits by prisoners, employees, contractors and visitors without payment of search and copying fees, pursuant …
Family of Texas Prisoner Murdered in Geo-Operated Prison Awarded $47.5 Million by Michael Rigby On September 15, 2006, a jury in Willacy County, Texas awarded $47.5 million to the family of a prisoner who was murdered at a private prison operated by the Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections). The Florida-based …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
$255 Awarded For Destruction of Prisoner’s Property by $255 Awarded For Destruction of Prisoner's Property The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOC) appealed an order awarding state prisoner Carlos Escamilla $255 for property that turned up missing. Escamilla petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to receive reimbursement. The …
9th Circuit Holds § 1997e(a) Applies to Private Prisons; Magazine Confiscation Is a “Prison Condition” by 9th Circuit Holds § 1997e(a) Applies to Private Prisons; Magazine Confiscation Is a "Prison Condition" The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of an Idaho prisoner's suit for non-exhaustion, concluding that the …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Filed under: Media, Access to Media
New Jersey Prison Commissioner’s Complete Ban On Media Lifted by Gary Hunter New Jersey Prison Commissioner's Complete Ban On Media Lifted by Gary Hunter Immediately upon taking office, in January 2005, New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) Commissioner George Hayman imposed a total ban on media interviews with prisoners. DOC …
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