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$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 …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Political Patronage In Hiring Illinois Prison Wardens? by Julie Wilkerson was a Rend Lake College associate music professor and band director making under $40,000 annually when she was hired as an assistant warden at Indianas Big Muddy River Correctional Center at a salary of $65,000 a year. Two other newly-minted …
Texas Federal District Judge Throws Out VitaPro Convictions by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In another bizarre twist to an already bewildering prosecution history, on September 9, 2005, Texas federal district judge Lynn Hughes, by judicial fiat, acquitted Andy Collins, the former executive director of the Texas Department of …
Alabama Work-Release Prisoners Working But Not Getting Paid by Gary Hunter Prisoners in an Alabama work-release program have been working without getting paid. Problems have come mostly from prison employees who have hired prison workers then defaulted on their debt. Prisons located in Decatur, Birmingham and Loxley posed the greatest …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Sweetheart Deal For Pharmacy Supplying Saratoga County Jail by OBriens Pharmacy in Ballston Springs has a pretty good deal in supplying the Saratoga County Jail in New York with prescription drugs for prisoners. The county, which paid OBriens $247,000 in FY 2004, has been paying the average wholesale price plus …
Illinois Prison Official, Parole Board Member Indicted For Corruption by On December 9, 2005, a Lee County, Illinois, grand jury returned indictments against former Illinois Department of Corrections official Ron Matrisciano and former Illinois Parole Board member Victor Brooks. Matrisciano was indicted for five counts of official misconduct and two …
Louisiana Work-Release Prisoners Used by Sheriff in Chop Shop by Gary Hunter Louisiana sheriff Ronald Gun Ficklin faces 22 counts on charges of conspiracy, trafficking in motor vehicles with removed or altered vehicle identification numbers (VINs), removing or altering VINs, aiding and abetting the possession of a firearm by a …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Wrongfully Convicted Texas Prisoner Finally Receives $118,000 in Compensation by Matthew T. Clarke In 1988, a 17-year-old Josiah Sutton was convicted in a Texas court of a rape he did not commit and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Sutton spent close to five years in prison before new DNA …
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