US Supreme Court Holds That There Is No Interlocutory Appeals on Municipal Liability by US Supreme Court Holds That There Is No Interlocutory Appeals on Municipal Liability The US Supreme Court held that Municipalities are not qualifiedly immune from suit, and that the appellate courts do not have authority to …
Alabama Sheriffs Entitled to Immunity in §1983 Actions by The U.S. Supreme Court held that Alabama sheriffs were officials of the state rather than the county and therefore entitled to immunity in §1983 actions. An Alabama prisoner who had been sentenced to death had his conviction overturned and subsequently brought …
Alabama DOC's Mail Accumulation Policy Unconstitutional, Denial Of Motion To Amend Erroneous by Alabama DOC's Mail Accumulation Policy Unconstitutional, Denial Of Motion To Amend Erroneous The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that an Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) policy of accumulating prisoner mail before dispersing …
Alabama Prison Conditions Unconstitutional by A district court in Alabama declared the conditions of confinement in Alabama state prisons unconstitutionally cruel and unusual in a class- action suit. The court ordered that: (1) prison populations be reduced to design capacity; (2) isolation prisoners be single-celled with not less than 40 …
Fifth Circuits Upholds Pugh v. Loch Injunction by The Fifth Circuit upheld the district court's ranting of relief to ensure Alabama state prisoners reasonably adequate food, clothing, shelter, sanitation, necessary medical attention, personal safety, and recreational opportunities. The Fifth Circuit vacated the district court's instructions that all prisoners be single …
Alabama Prisoner Assaulted By Guard Awarded $100 by On June 11, 2003, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama awarded $100 to a state prisoner who claimed a previous rib injury was aggravated when he was assaulted by two guards. Harold Ivory, a state prisoner at the …
AL Control Unit Ban on Publications Not Moot Or Ripe by The defendants prohibited administrative segregation prisoners from receiving publications by subscription. When sued, they agreed to allow a subscriptions to newspapers and magazines up to a total of four. However, they put in their regulation an apparent limitation to …
Alabama Prisoners Injured By Unhealthy Living Conditions Settle For $53,000 by Eight prisoners injured by unhealthy living conditions at the Loxley Community Work Center settled their claim for $53,000. The prisoners had alleged multiple injuries, including one who suffered dehydration and a rash. In their lawsuit, filed in Mobile County, …
Attempted Rape by Cop States Claim by The plaintiff alleged that the defendant police officer stopped him, conducted an unlawful pat down search, handcuffed him, took him to a remote location, and tried to sodomize him. The allegations state a constitutional claim under the Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful searches …
Alabama Transfers Prisoners to Louisiana Rather Than Use In-State Prison by Gary Hunter Overcrowded prisons in Alabama almost landed state prison commissioner Richard Allen in jail. Under current state law the DOC has thirty days to pick up prisoners from county jails once they?ve been convicted. But the prison population …
Prisoners In 13 States Allowed Work-Access To Social Security Numbers by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reported that prisoners in thirteen states had access to Social Security numbers (SSNs) during the course of their prison employment. Following a nationwide survey, the …
Deaths In Alabama Jail Prompt Changes by Gary Hunter Two people died in less than 90 days in Alabama’s Baldwin County Corrections Center. On May 30, 2006, at 11:30 p.m., Ross Paul Yates was found slumped over and unresponsive, in his cell, his hands cuffed behind him to a restraint …
Alabama Spends $500,000 to Vaccinate State Prisoners by Gary Hunter The Alabama DOC has launched an innovative program to vaccinate prisoners for Hepatitis A and B. Hepatitis is a disease that damages the liver with the potential to be fatal. Alabama optimistically hopes to inoculate over half of its prisoners …
Alabama Guards Liable in Killing a Prisoner by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an Alabama federal district courts grant of summary judgment to guards in a civil rights suit stemming from the killing of a prisoner by guards during a struggle. Following a successful escape attempt at …
AL Dept of Finance DOC phone contract pre-bid conference transcript I PROCEEDINGS September 21, 2006 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Page 1 STATE OF ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA PRE-BID CONFERENCE IN RE: TELEPHONE SERVICES - …
Widespread Prisoner Labor Abuse Requires Reform by Gary Hunter Lonoke Mayor Thomas Privett and police Chief Jay Campbell were caught abusing the state's prisoner work program. Arkansas Department of Corrections requested, in early August 2005, that the program be suspended after learning that state prisoners had been used to repair …
Gooden v. Worley, Order, AL, Felon Disenfranchisement, 2006 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA Richard Gooden, et al, Plaintiffs, v. Nancy Worley, et al, Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Civil Action No. CV-2005-5778-RSV CLASS CERTIFICATION ORDER AND FINAL ORDER ON ALL PENDING …
Alabama Clarifies Prisoners Right to Call Witnesses At Disciplinary Hearing by Matthew T. Clarke Alabama Clarifies Prisoners Right to Call Witnesses At Disciplinary Hearing by Matthew T. Clarke The Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama held that prison officials may not use excuses such as off duty or unable to …
Alabama Sheriff Charged With Raiding Jail Food Fund by Mobile County, Alabama, Sheriff Jack Tilman has been charged with theft and violation of the public officials ethical laws for allegedly taking for personal use funds allocated by the state to feed jail prisoners. Alabama paid Tilman $1.75 per day to …
Alabama Work-Release Prisoners Working But Not Getting Paid by Gary Hunter Prisoners in an Alabama work-release program have been working without getting paid. Problems have come mostly from prison employees who have hired prison workers then defaulted on their debt. Prisons located in Decatur, Birmingham and Loxley posed the greatest …
