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L.A. County Settles With Abused Quadriplegic Prisoner For $46,000 by In February 2004, prisoner Joseph Burriss became exasperated waiting to make a phone call from the Los Angeles County Jail. Burriss, a partial quadriplegic, maneuvered his wheelchair towards a deputy and made a disparaging racial remark. The deputy responded by …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Oregon Predatory Sex Offender Designation Order Reversed; Notice and Hearing Required in All Cases by Oregon Predatory Sex Offender Designation Order Reversed; Notice and Hearing Required in All Cases The Oregon Supreme Court held that every offender facing a predatory sex offender designation under Oregon's community notification law is entitled …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
New Jersey Appeals Court Upholds Statute Disenfranchising Felons by The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, held that a state law prohibiting felons from voting while on parole or probation did not violate equal protection despite its disparate effect on minority voting power. Plaintiffs, the New Jersey National Association …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
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News in Brief: by Arkansas: On July 9, 2006, Rebecca Daniel, the former commissary manager at the Miller county jail was charged with sexually assaulting a male prisoner and giving him chewing tobacco. Prosecutors claim Daniel had sex with the prisoner in the back of the commissary and plied him …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Mentally Ill Arkansas Prisoners Removed From Supermax, CMS Contract Renewed by Michael Rigby On April 21, 2006, the Arkansas Board of Corrections approved a new policy designed to keep mentally ill prisoners out of sensory-deprived environments like the Varner Supermax Unit in Lincoln County. The Board also renewed the prison …
PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Prison Health Services (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service Group, Inc. (ASG), continues to face lawsuits and lose contracts for its deplorable record of prisoner health care gaffes in a …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Utah House of Refuge a House of Horrors by Gary Hunter A Utah faith based halfway house for probationers, jail releasees and homeless men, called the House of Refuge, turned out to be a house of horrors for those who lived there. On February 2, 2006, state licensing officials shut …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
From the Editor by Paul Wright By now subscribers should have received the annual PLN matching grant fundraiser. I hope that those who can afford to make a donation do so. While there are many worthy causes out there I think that PLN is one of the few where your …
Wisconsin Halfway House Overbills BOP; Fired Whistle blower Settles For $435,000 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Federal jurors found that Rock Valley Community Programs (RVCP) in Janesville, Wisconsin and its chief executive officer, Irwin McHugh, had submitted false claims for reimbursement to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). …
Floridas Civil Commitment Center Under Funded and Out-of-Control by David Reutter Floridas Civil Commitment Center Under Funded and Out-of-Control by David M. Reutter When first created in 1999, Florida's Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) was hyped as a place to house sexually violent predators for protection of the public while providing …
California Guard Murdered By Prisoner; Investigative Reports Blame Gross Staff Incompetence by Marvin Mentor A prison guard at the California Institution for Men (CIM) at Chino was stabbed to death in the Sycamore Hall housing unit on January 10, 2005 by an East Coast Crips gang-affiliated prisoner who had just …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
South Carolina Prison Industries Program Implements Some Audit Recommendations by Michael Rigby The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) has implemented 5 of 13 recommendations made in an October 2003 report that criticized its Prison Industries Program (PIP), according to a May 2006 follow-up report. In its original report the …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
California County Jail Settles Overdue Prisoner Hospital Bills For $1.5 Million by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Settling a long-simmering dispute in billing rates for medical treatment of jail prisoners, San Diego County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to multiple hospitals for bills dating back over three years. …
Illinois Cook County Jail Embroiled in Shootings, Scandals and Escapes by by Gary Hunter Shootings, stabbings, suicides, a death and multiple escapes have turned the Cook County Jail in Chicago on its proverbial ear over the past year, in addition to misconduct by guards, a change in the jails leadership …
Colorado Expands Private Prisons While Fining CCA for Understaffing by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On June 28, 2006, Colorado assessed $126,000 in fines against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for persistently understaffing two Colorado private prisons. The Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) also awarded contracts for new private …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
$1,156,149 Awarded to Former Federal Prisoner for Failure to Diagnose and Treat Throat Cancer by The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on September 6, 2005, awarded $1,156,149 to former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoner Hernando Lopez for failure to diagnose and treat throat cancer over …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Record $3.2 Million Settlement for Wrongfully Imprisoned Massachusetts Man by Michael Rigby The City of Boston, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $3.2 million to a man who spent 10 ½ years in prison for a rape he did not commit. The March 2006 settlement is believed to be the largest …
Florida County Sued Over Refusing Sex Offender Home Weather Stripping by A Florida sex offender has sued Brevard Bounty for refusing to weatherize his home. The suit alleges the County has enacted a prerequisite that excludes persons with criminal convictions from receiving federal funds to perform energy savings and installation …
Private Geo Prison in Texas Rocked By Prisoner Abuse, Disturbance and Escape by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Recently, the Newton County Correctional Center (NCCC), a private prison in Newton, Texas run by the Boca Raton, Florida-based Geo Group, has experienced several incidents involving the out-of-state Idaho prisoners housed …
Prisoner Dies in Custody of Washington Jailers by Gary Hunter Eight Spokane County Jail guards were placed on paid administrative leave while investigators probed the death of a prisoner under their care, but they werent suspended for long. All were back at work within two weeks. Benites Salmon Sichiro, 39, …
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