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Article • December 15, 2007
DC Prisoner Assaulted by Other Prisoners Suffers Brain Damage, Awarded $1.6 Million by A District of Columbia (DC) prisoner who was assaulted by other prisoners was awarded $1.6 million. Brown sued in state court alleging that only one guard was on duty and that he was in a different section …
Article • December 15, 2007
Skin Ulcer from Delouser Nets Michigan Jail Prisoner $3,500 Settlement by A Michigan prisoner was awarded $3,500 for a skin ulcer he sustained from being sprayed with a delousing product. Mr. Young was sprayed with a delousing product when he entered the Eaton County Jail. The product caused a skin …
Article • December 15, 2007
New York Jail Visitor Injured in Prison Van Accident Awarded $1,476,431 by A New York woman injured while she was a passenger in a prison van was awarded $1,476,431. Mrs. Tejada visited her sister at Riker's Island prison. A prison owned and operated bus transported visitors to the prison. Following …
Prison Drinking Water and Wastewater Pollution Threaten Environmental Safety Nationwide by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Aging infrastructure concerns are not limited to America's highways, bridges and dams. Today, crumbling, overcrowded prisons and jails nationwide are bursting at the seams -- literally -- leaking environmentally dangerous effluents not just …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Filed under: Sewage, Water, Media, PLN Litigation
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month's cover story is on what goes in and comes out of prisons in the way of water and sewage. While a lot of attention is paid to the more dramatic effects of prison overcrowding, such as violence, inadequate medical care, prisoners sleeping …
Dallas County Jail Deficient, Says 2006 Report; DOJ Files Suit by Gary Hunter Just over two years ago, the jail in Dallas County, Texas (DCJ) failed state certification inspections and came under fire for numerous high profile cases of prisoner deaths and neglect. A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) report, …
$56,000 Settlement for Torturous Eight Hours in New Jersey Jail by In April 2007, the Borough of Bradley Beach, New Jersey, agreed to pay $56,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging multiple constitutional violations by a woman who spent eight hours in the Borough?s jail. Plaintiff Aimee Sliker was arrested …
Arizona and Indiana Prisoner Uprising at GEO-Run Prison in Indiana by by Matt Clarke On April 24, 2007, about 500 Arizona and Illinois prisoners at a privately-run facility owned by the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) participated in an uprising. The prison is operated by the Boca Raton, Florida-based GEO …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Five-Year Forecast: Prison Population Will Swell 13%—Triple America’s Growth Rate by Five-Year Forecast: Prison Population Will Swell 13%?Triple America's Growth Rate The charitably funded Washington D.C.-based Public Safety Performance Project (PSPP), statistically analyzing prison population trends in all 50 states and the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), projected that between …
Overcrowded Washington DOC’s Solution: Ship ’Em Out of State by David Reutter Overcrowded Washington DOC's Solution: Ship ?Em Out of State by David M. Reutter Overcrowding is pinching the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC). To alleviate that problem, the department ordered less than 100 community supervision violators released without a …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Oklahoma Court Orders Sentenced Prisoners Transported to Prison by The District Court for Oklahoma County, Oklahoma has ordered the County's Sheriff to transfer all prisoners awaiting transportation to the Department of Corrections (DOC) within 30 days and any prisoners sentenced after the Court's order are to be so transferred within …
Federal Prisoner Beaten On Texas Recreation Yard Awarded $350,000 by On March 12, 2007, a federal district court awarded $350,000 to a prisoner who was beaten by about 40 other prisoners on the recreation yard of a federal prison in Texas. Plaintiff Luis Garza claimed that while on the recreation …
“Please Rip Us Off” Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies by David Reutter "Please Rip Us Off" Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies by David M. Reutter Despite having ordered a criminal investigation into its private prison contractors, the Florida Legislature and Governor Charlie Crist have enacted legislation that specifies …
California DOC Federal Healthcare Receiver Issues Master Remedial Plan by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg "Good care is less costly than bad care." This maxim, from prison healthcare Receiver Robert Sillen, set the tone when he announced his master plan on May 10, 2007 to constitutionally repair the California …
California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program “A Complete Waste Of Money” by Marvin Mentor California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program "A Complete Waste Of Money" by Marvin Mentor California's Inspector General Matthew Cate issued a scathing 52-page report in February 2007 which …
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 …
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