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Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Georgia Sheriff Indicted on Corruption Charges, Pleads Guilty by Gary Hunter Coffee County Sheriff Rob Smith was indicted on March 20, 2006 on eight counts of abuse of office. Three counts charged Smith with using prisoner labor to construct campaign election signs. The charges also included two counts of violation …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
U.S. Businesses Lobby Government to Curb Federal Prosecutors by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke U.S. businesses and Wall Street investment companies have begun a campaign to get the Justice Department to reign in federal prosecutors in business crime cases. The effort by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Securities Industry …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Corruption in Arpaio's Office: AZ County Continues Paying Convicted Sheriffs Sgt. by Gary Hunter Corruption in Arpaios Office: AZ County Continues Paying Convicted Sheriffs Sgt. by Gary Hunter On August 2, 2005, Maricopa County Sheriff's Sgt. Leo Richard Driving Hawk, Sr. pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in connection with …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Georgia Prison Guards Plead to Misdemeanors in Prisoner Beatings by Michael Rigby In mid-April 2006, seven Georgia prison guards were indicted by a Tantall County jury in connection with beatings of prisoners at the Rogers State Prison in Reidsville. As previously reported [see PLN, April 2006, p.1], Rogers is a …
Unique Texas Sexual Predator Civil Commitment Has Successes/Failures by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Texas has a unique form of civil commitment for sexual predators which allows outpatient treatment and requires most of the civilly committed to live at a halfway house. A committed man's recent escape from a …
L.A. County Sheriff Settles Two Jail Excessive Force Suits For $135,000 by Los Angeles (L.A.) County settled two civil rights complaints arising from alleged excessive use of force on prisoners in the L.A. County Jail. In January 2005, Jerry Moreno, a prisoner at the Pitchess Detention Facility (North) was brandishing …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Supreme Court: No Exclusionary Rule for Vienna Convention Violations by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On June 28, 2006, the Supreme Court held that violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Notification (Convention) do not require exclusion of evidence from a criminal trial and are subject to procedural default …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Settlement Agreement Evicts Room and Board Fees From Georgia Jail by Michael Rigby The Sheriff of Clinch County, Georgia, has agreed to end a decades-long practice of charging pretrial detainees for room and board and to return $27,000 to those who paid the fees over a 4-year period. Also pursuant …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Ex-Con Denied Admission To AZ Bar by The Arizona Supreme Court has upheld the State Committee on Character and Fitness (Committee) denial of a convicted murderer's application for admission to the State Bar. James Hamm served over 17 years in the Arizona prison system for a first degree murder he …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
$6,280,000 Settlement For Illegal California Juvenile Hall Strip Searches by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On July 10, 2006, the County of Sacramento, California agreed to pay $6,280,000 to the class of juvenile hall detainees who were illegally strip-searched between January 1, 1998 and October 1, 2004 at the …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
New York Parole Rates Plunge Under Governor Patakis Policy by New York Parole Rates Plunge Under Governor Patakis Policy by John E. Dannenberg The administration of Governor George Pataki has dramatically cut parole release rates for violent felons, especially those with A-1 crimes (e.g., murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, arson). Where …
Idaho Population Cap Upheld; $155,858.68 in Fees and Cost Awarded; 300+ Prisoners Shipped to Minn. C by Idaho Population Cap Upheld; $155,858.68 in Fees and Cost Awarded; 300+ Prisoners Shipped to Minn. CCA Facility A federal court in Idaho has refused to lift a 1987 population cap on four housing …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
New York Jail Employee Charged With Sexual Abuse Commits Suicide by On March 27, 2006, a health care worker charged with multiple counts of sexually abusing female prisoners at the Suffolk County Jail apparently committed suicide by stepping into the path of an oncoming Long Island Railroad Train. He was …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Federal Prisoner Awarded $150.00 For Food Poisoning by Michael Rigby On February 17, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the Middle district of Florida awarded $150.00 to a federal prisoner who contracted food poisoning while imprisoned at FCC Coleman-Low. On April 23, 2002, prisoners eating breakfast in the chow hall …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Minnesota Court Invalidates Some Evidence Standard in Disciplinary Hearings for Fact-Finding by David Reutter Minnesota Court Invalidates Some Evidence Standard in Disciplinary Hearings for Fact-Finding by David M. Reutter The Minnesota Supreme Court has held that a Minnesota Department of Corrections disciplinary hearing fact-finder must find by a preponderance of …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
$50,000 Settlement for Neck Injury Resulting from Seattle Jail Guards Excessive Force by $50,000 Settlement for Neck Injury Resulting from Seattle Jail Guard's Excessive Force Washington States King County Jail has paid a former jail prisoner $50,000 to settle a civil rights action claiming guards used excessive force and injured …
Sovereign Immunity No Bar to BOP Prisoners' Eighth Amendment Mandamus Suit by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a federal prisoner's mandamus action alleging an Eighth Amendment violation is not barred by the doctrine of sovereign immunity. This action was brought by Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoner …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Wrongly Imprisoned Massachusetts Man Settles Suit Against City For $2,450,000 by On October 14, 2005, the City of Chicopee, Massachusetts, paid $2,450,000 to settle with a man who was falsely convicted of rape and imprisoned for 14 years before DNA evidence exonerated him. Eduardo Velazquez was convicted in 1987 of …
Brief • November 15, 2006
Filed under: Telephones
Sample v Bop Dc Foia Phones Its Transfers and Commissary Complaint 2006 Case 1:06-cv-00715-PLF Document 22 Filed 11/15/2006 Page 1 of 14 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BRANDON C. SAMPLE, § and § BERNARD SHAW, § v. § FEDERAL BUREAU OF …
Brief • November 15, 2006
Filed under: Transfers, Commissary
Sample v. BOP, DC, Complaint, FOIA phones ITS transfers and commissary, 2008 Case 1:06-cv-00715-PLF Document 22 Filed 11/15/2006 Page 1 of 14 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BRANDON C. SAMPLE, § and § BERNARD SHAW, § v. § FEDERAL BUREAU OF …
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