Prisoners In 13 States Allowed Work-Access To Social Security Numbers by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reported that prisoners in thirteen states had access to Social Security numbers (SSNs) during the course of their prison employment. Following a nationwide survey, the …
Deaths In Alabama Jail Prompt Changes by Gary Hunter Two people died in less than 90 days in Alabama’s Baldwin County Corrections Center. On May 30, 2006, at 11:30 p.m., Ross Paul Yates was found slumped over and unresponsive, in his cell, his hands cuffed behind him to a restraint …
Alabama Spends $500,000 to Vaccinate State Prisoners by Gary Hunter The Alabama DOC has launched an innovative program to vaccinate prisoners for Hepatitis A and B. Hepatitis is a disease that damages the liver with the potential to be fatal. Alabama optimistically hopes to inoculate over half of its prisoners …
Alabama Guards Liable in Killing a Prisoner by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an Alabama federal district courts grant of summary judgment to guards in a civil rights suit stemming from the killing of a prisoner by guards during a struggle. Following a successful escape attempt at …
AL Dept of Finance DOC phone contract pre-bid conference transcript I PROCEEDINGS September 21, 2006 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Page 1 STATE OF ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA PRE-BID CONFERENCE IN RE: TELEPHONE SERVICES - …
Widespread Prisoner Labor Abuse Requires Reform by Gary Hunter Lonoke Mayor Thomas Privett and police Chief Jay Campbell were caught abusing the state's prisoner work program. Arkansas Department of Corrections requested, in early August 2005, that the program be suspended after learning that state prisoners had been used to repair …
Gooden v. Worley, Order, AL, Felon Disenfranchisement, 2006 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA Richard Gooden, et al, Plaintiffs, v. Nancy Worley, et al, Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Civil Action No. CV-2005-5778-RSV CLASS CERTIFICATION ORDER AND FINAL ORDER ON ALL PENDING …
Alabama Clarifies Prisoners Right to Call Witnesses At Disciplinary Hearing by Matthew T. Clarke Alabama Clarifies Prisoners Right to Call Witnesses At Disciplinary Hearing by Matthew T. Clarke The Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama held that prison officials may not use excuses such as off duty or unable to …
Alabama Sheriff Charged With Raiding Jail Food Fund by Mobile County, Alabama, Sheriff Jack Tilman has been charged with theft and violation of the public officials ethical laws for allegedly taking for personal use funds allocated by the state to feed jail prisoners. Alabama paid Tilman $1.75 per day to …
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 …
Alabama Supreme Court Sidesteps Merits of Suit Challenging Contracted Prison Labor by The Alabama Supreme Court denied class certification and sidestepped ruling on the merits of a prisoners claim that prison officials illegally contracted out his labor to a private company. Before the Court was the appeal of prisoner Darrell …
42 Alabama AIDS Prison Deaths In Five Years Spurs Major Medical Suit Settlement by John Dannenberg By John E. Dannenberg The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) settled a class action federal civil rights lawsuit brought by Limestone Correctional Facility AIDS-afflicted prisoners who had complained of unconstitutional conditions of medical treatment …
Alabama Workers' Comp Act No Bar to Psychological Torts by The Alabama Court of Appeals held that Alabama's Workers' Compensation Act is not an exclusive remedy for tort claims of employees alleging purely psychological injuries. Three female employees of Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS) brought suit against CMS employees of …
Alabama Prisoner Awarded $90,000 For Work-Related Eye Injury by by Michael Rigby On February 5, 2004, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) agreed to pay $90,000 to a prisoner who was refused safety glasses and later suffered an eye injury while working at a prison recycling center. Plaintiff Brian Dodd, …
U.S. Supreme Court Holds § 1983 Proper to Challenge Execution Procedure by U.S. Supreme Court Holds § 1983 Proper to Challenge Execution Procedure In an extremely limited," unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court held that an Alabama death row prisoner properly utilized 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge a …
Leatherwood et al v. Campbell et al, AL, Mot to hold Def in Contempt, failure to treat accommodate HIV, 2005 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA WESTERN DIVISION ) ) ) ) ANTONIO LEATHERWOOD, ERIC HOWARD, JERRY SANFORD, JOHN LEVINS, MICHAEL PATRICK, and, individually …
PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues by by John E. Dannenberg Prison Health Services (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service Group, Inc. (ASG), continues to face lawsuits and lose contracts for its deplorable record of prisoner health care gaffes in a dozen states. …
Lack Of Deliberate Indifference Negates Constitutional Violation In Prisoner Suicide by The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that defendants in a § 1983 action stemming from a prisoner suicide did not violate the deceased's constitutional rights and were therefore entitled to summary judgement. Danny Ray …
Widespread Prisoner Labor Abuse Requires Reform by Gary Hunter Lonoke Mayor Thomas Privett and police Chief Jay Campbell were caught abusing the state's prisoner work program. Arkansas Department of Corrections requested, in early August 2005, that the program be suspended after learning that state prisoners had been used to repair …
BOP Proper Defendant in Work Release Change Suit under ADA by The plaintiffs are criminal defendants who received judicial recommendations that they serve their sentences in a community corrections center, but were denied such placement pursuant to the Department of Justice's abruptly announced change of policy barring it except for …
