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Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Afghanistan: On July 10, 2005, four captured Arab guerrillas escaped from the Bagram Air Base where they were being held and tortured by United States military forces. They were the first political prisoners to escape from the torture camp since it was opened in 2001 shortly …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
The Warehouse Prison, by Dr. John Irwin, 318 pp., softback, Roxbury Publishing Company, 2005 by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Taking Californias Solano State Prison as a model, author John Irwin exposes the warehouse concept of Californias prisons and its debilitating effect on prisoners and their struggle for …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
U.S. Corrections Corporation Suit Settled for $13.2 Million by The former owners of U.S. Correctional Corporation (USCC) have agreed to settle a lawsuit over misuse of the employee stock-ownership plan for $13.2 million. Prior to 1998, when it was purchased by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for $225 million, USCC …
Audit: California Private Prison Contracting Tainted by Conflicts of Interest by The California State Auditor reported in September 2005 that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), when contracting with private prison contractors for two minimum security Community Correctional Facilities (CCF), issued no-bid awards to companies who had hired …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Hurricane Threat Forces Texas Prison Evacuations, Damage Worsens Overcrowding by Michael Rigby As Rita churned westward through the Gulf of Mexico, at times a monstrous Category 5 hurricane with wind speeds of 175 mph, officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) ordered the evacuation of entire prisons in …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Gun-smuggling Prisoners Convicted in Shooting Scam by Gary Hunter Fraud takes many forms but few as bizarre as the one allegedly concocted by D.C. prisoners Shawn Gray, Jamal Jefferson, Leonard Johnson and Fredrick Robinson. On December 20, 2003 all four men were wounded by gunfire inside of the Southeast Washington …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Alleged Attacks Plotted By New Folsom Prisoners Uncovered by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke A federal grand jury has indicted four men--two of whom have been prisoners at the California State Prison-Sacramento (New Folsom Prison)--with conspiracy to levy war against the United States, to possess and use firearms in …
$9 Million Jury Award In Arizona County Jail Death by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A federal jury awarded $9 million to the family of a Scottsdale, Arizona prisoner who suffocated in a restraint chair in the Maricopa County Jail (MCJ) in 2001. Found negligent and liable were Sheriff …
Non-Sex-Offender Parolee Entitled to Due Process Before Being Treated As Sex Offender by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that a parolee who has never been convicted of a sex offense is entitled to a due process hearing prior to being required to …
Ohio DOC Stipulates To Vastly Improved Medical Care by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) settled a prisoner class action federal lawsuit on October 6, 2005 by stipulating to comprehensive improvements to its prisoner medical care, grounded in adding 321 medical personnel …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Filed under: Medical, Dental Care
South Carolina Prisoner Awarded $825,000 for Untreated Infection by On January 10, 2006, a South Carolina jury awarded $825,000 to a state prisoner who received inadequate medical treatment for a life threatening infection. State prisoner Jason Bynum was diagnosed with a serious mouth infection on January 9, 2002, while imprisoned …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
Fifth Circuit Joins Four Others in Denying Prospective BOP Good Time Credits by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a federal prisoners habeas corpus petition seeking advance good time credits because the claim was not ripe. The appellate court further opined that even if it were ripe, a reasonable …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Missouri Seizes Prisoner Assets Worth $748,682 In 2005 by A more accurate motto for the show me state may be the show me the money state. In 2005 Attorney General Jay Nixon confiscated $748,682 from Missouris most oppressed residents--state prisoners. The money was seized under the 1988 Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Unconstitutionality of Lockdown of California Hispanics Upheld On Appeal by Marvin Mentor The California Court of Appeal upheld the Del Norte County Superior Courts 2003 ruling [case no. HCPB 00-5164] requiring supermax Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) officials to cease locking down Southern Hispanic prisoners endlessly solely based upon their …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Guard Out on Bond, Woman He Allegedly Raped Jailed Beyond Her Sentence by Platte County (Wyoming) Detention Center control clerk Jeremy King was charged with two counts of second-degree felony sexual assault for having sex with a female Jamaican prisoner convicted of federal drug offenses. The woman, who was not …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Washington Liable for Negligent Parolee Supervision; Bad Jury Instruction Vacates $33 Million Award by In a 6-3 decision, the Washington Supreme Court reaffirmed its earlier holdings that the state may be held liable for negligent supervision of offenders. However, the court vacated a $22.4 million verdict resulting from a 2000 …
Washington Liable for Negligent Parolee Supervision; Bad Jury Instruction Vacates $33 Million Award by In a 6-3 decision, the Washington Supreme Court reaffirmed its earlier holdings that the state may be held liable for negligent supervision of offenders. However, the court vacated a $22.4 million verdict resulting from a 2000 …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Arizona Jail Prisoners Not Pretty in Pink by Gary Hunter Paraded in pink boxers, pink flip-flops and pink handcuffs more than 2,600 Arizona prisoners walked four blocks to new jail facilities in downtown Phoenix. Most moved from the Madison Street Jail, which closed for remodeling, to either the Towers Jail, …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
South Carolina Jury Awards $28.5 Million For Diabetic Jail Prisoners Death by South Carolina Jury Awards $28.5 Million For Diabetic Jail Prisoners Death A South Carolina jury has awarded $28.5 million to the family of a mentally ill diabetic man who died from insulin deficiency while imprisoned at the Sumter …
Seventh Circuit Reinstates $100,000 Award In Indiana Failure-To-Protect Suit by Michael Rigby The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a prisoners $100,000 award against two Indiana prison employees, overturning a district courts reversal of the jury verdict. On September 9, 1998, Robert Pierson, 51, was attacked by fellow …
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