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March Madness in Georgia Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke March 2007 was an unusually bloody month in Georgia prisons, with three murders of prisoners by other prisoners and one severe beating of a mentally ill, handcuffed prisoner by guards. Since 2005 there have been five homicides in the …
Rikers Island Diapered Mentally Ill in Segregation by Prison officials in New York City have been charged in a lawsuit filed upon behalf of four mentally ill prisoners with depriving those prisoners of their basic human rights and placing them in diapers while in isolated segregation. The prisoners, who were …
Reformed Dental Care Will Have Ohio Prisoners Smiling by Michael Rigby The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) will hire dozens of dental health care providers, revise policies and procedures governing prisoner dental care, and implement oral health care education programs as part of a settlement agreed to in …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
U.S. Prison and Jail Population Continues Meteoric Rise by Michael Rigby It?s beginning to sound a bit repetitive, but the nation?s prison population continues to grow exponentially. At midyear 2006, U.S. prisons and jails held 2,245,189 persons?a 2.8% increase over the previous year, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
State Auditor Flunks California DOC For Failure To Make Prison Population Projections by Marvin Mentor In a March 2007 Letter Report to California's Governor and Legislature, State Auditor Elaine Howell reported that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) had failed to make meaningful progress in devising accurate prisoner …
Texas Jail Pays $200,000 to Settle Rape/Suicide Suit by Val Verde County, Texas and its contract Del Rio jail operator, GEO Group, Inc., agreed in March 2007 to pay $200,000 to the surviving family of a 23-year-old woman prisoner who, upon becoming depressed after being raped in the jail, hung …
California DOC Guards Win Injunction to Stop Prisoner Transfers Out-Of-State; Transfers Continue While State Appeals by The Superior Court of Sacramento County has granted a writ of mandate prohibiting the transfer of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners to out-of-state facilities to alleviate the prison system's chronic overcrowding …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Utah DOC Audit: Ingrained Staff Cronyism Stymies Workplace Effectiveness by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A December 2006 state audit of the Utah Department of Corrections (UDC) found that entrenched upper management personnel lacked vision and innovation, while they selectively allowed punishable staff "indiscretions" to be swept under the …
Article • November 15, 2007
TOWARD A MORE ELABORATE TYPOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES: LIBERALIZING CRIMINAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT LAWS AND POLICIES by 33 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 283 TOWARD A MORE ELABORATE TYPOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES: LIBERALIZING CRIMINAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT LAWS AND POLICIES [FN1] © Avi Brisman [FNa1] Copyright © 2007 by New England …
Brief • November 2, 2007
Sauve v. Lamberti, FL, Complaint, denial of HIV medication jail, 2008 Case 0:07-cv-61575-WPD Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 11/02/2007 Page 1 of 15 Case 0:07-cv-61575-WPD Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 11/02/2007 Page 2 of 15 Case 0:07-cv-61575-WPD Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 11/02/2007 Page 3 of 15 …
Brief • November 1, 2007
Hardwick v. Lamberti, FL, Complaint, denial of HIV medication jail, 2008 Case 0:07-cv-61296-ASG Document 22 Entered on FLSD Docket 11/01/2007 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 07-61296-CIV-GOLD/TURNOFF RICHARD HARDWICK, Plaintiff, v. AL LAMBERTI, in his official capacity as Sheriff of Broward County, …
Coleman v. Schwarzenegger, CA, Joint Statement Re Discovery Dispute, Medical Class Action, 2007 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PRISON LAW OFFICE DONALD SPECTER Bar No.: 83925 STEVEN FAMA Bar No.: 99641 E. IVAN TRUJILLO Bar No.: 228790 General Delivery San Quentin, California 94964 Telephone: (415) 457-9144 BINGHAM, …
Alves v. Harrison County, MS, second amended complaint, jail restraint chair injury, 2007 Case 1:06-cv-00912-LG-JMR Document 80 Filed 10/18/2007 Page 1 of 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI SOUTHERN DIVISION KASEY D. ALVES PLAINTIFF VERSUS CAUSE NO.:1:06cv912 LG-JMR HARRISON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI, BY AND THROUGH THE …
Hambrick v. CCA, TN, Settlement, slip fall water, 2007 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0006 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0007 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0009 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0010
Jailhouse Justice: Phoenix New Times article on failure to protect at Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson Jailhouse Justice: New evidence suggests Sheriff Joe's running his empire as if it were a Mexican prison By Robert Nelson Published: January 23, 2003 If new information in an inmate-beating case is any …
GAO Audit: Alien Detention Facilities Suffer Continuing Deficiencies by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg An often overlooked segment of the nation's prison population, alien detainees, was the subject of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit between May 2006 and May 2007. While the largest problem noted was limited access …
“Liberal” Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim by "Liberal" Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a New York federal district court?s dismissal of claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), finding that the court failed to "liberally" construe the …
California’s Solution To Prison Overcrowding: $7.4 Billion To Build 53,000 New Beds by Marvin Mentor California's Solution To Prison Overcrowding: $7.4 Billion To Build 53,000 New Beds by Marvin Mentor Faced with three federal judges threatening to place a population cap on California's overcrowded prison system, the state Legislature and …
$4 Million Settlement In Rape and Beating Death of Mentally Ill New Jersey Prisoner by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby The daughters of a mentally ill man who was raped and beaten to death by another prisoner in New Jersey's Camden County Correctional Facility (CCCF) will receive a combined $4 …
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