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Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
Filed under: News, News in Brief
-max" prison that has been repeatedly cited for human and civil rights abuses by various human rights organizations. FL: In October, 1999, Steven Manning, a guard at the Florida State Prison in Starke ...
CYA Suit Alleges Abuse of Juveniles by Anne Mania The California Youth Authority (CYA) houses 6,000 juvenile offenders and was once considered a model for juvenile justice in this country ...
is a state actor and entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity from suit. Recognizing that a defendant need not be labeled as a state officer or official but only be acting as an "arm of the state ...
plea agreement Jenne admitted to an ?abuse of his position of public trust.? That admission will cause Jenne to forfeit his $125,000 annual Sheriff?s pension. He will also likely be disbarred ...
, Carona announced he would take 60 days paid leave from the Sheriff’s office to defend himself against the federal charges. After one week he returned, claiming he could not afford the large legal tab ...
university, apparently doesn't want outsiders listening in -- even on issues of national public importance. GESO representatives addressed the committee and detailed abuses by CCA staff, including the 2004 ...
to the defendants. The case began when two prison guards – one identified as T. Quillen – at an unnamed California state prison attempted to escort prisoner Lamont Shepard to a holding room after ...
Article • December 11, 2017
Jerome Laudman on February 7, 2008.  As PLN reported , he was sprayed with “physical munitions and physically abused” by a guard while in Supermax.   He lay in a cell for a week ...
Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
white-collar defendants, has also helped form a market for prison survival guides not only for those facing incarceration for the first time but also for people wanting a voyeuristic taste ...
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment
committed after the Buie murder. He befriended Brown and McCollum, who were being abused by other prisoners, and told them he knew they were innocent but never admitted to killing and raping Buie. Both ...
. Abusive searches and beatings conducted by the team have resulted in a number of lawsuits, including a 2015 case filed by the Uptown People’s Law Center and the law firm of Loevy & Loevy. [See ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
defending what is basically an indefensible act by some employees.” The investigation that followed Sweeper’s beating and hospitalization resulted in the termination of six guards for failing ...
Article • August 25, 2016
of Texas. The fees amount to an onerous burden on the people who are already among society's poorest--criminal defendants. "We're trying to squeeze more money from people who have a hard time getting jobs ...
Article • March 28, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Costs
, recreation centers, fixing potholes, cleaning up graffiti and other problems are instead being spent on lawsuits and settlements claiming police abuse or neglect. Inkster, an impoverished suburb of Detroit ...
filed in federal district court in Manhattan. “I don’t think anyone can recall a case where the abuse and mistreatment was more egregious.” Corizon Health, a private health care provider ...
for Reconsideration was denied, and Murray appealed. The court reviewed for abuse of discretion. U.S. v. Smith, 445 F.3d 713 (3d Cir. 2006). After noting that 18 U.S.C. Section 3583(e)(2) provides that a court can ...
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
abused as a child and struggled with low intellectual function. However, his resentencing counsel merely relied on White’s statement to a probation officer that “he had a normal childhood ...
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
that were also owed, and as a result was punched in the face by fellow prisoner Ricardo C. Sellers. [See: PLN, Oct. 2010, p.50]. Virginia prisoner George Alec Robinson paid his public defenders in honey buns ...
of the class certification order pursuant to FRCP 23(f). The Seventh Circuit first determined that Arreola had standing to sue and that the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding relation back ...
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
British Court Blocks Sex Offender’s Extradition to U.S. Due to “Draconian” Civil Commitment Policies by In June 2012, Britain’s High Court of Justice blocked the extradition of a defendant ...
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