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New Iowa Law Creates Sex Offender Residency Zones by A new Iowa law, passed in 2002, prohibits any sex offender who has victimized a child from living within 2,000 feet of a school or child-care center. The law has effectively exiled these ex-cons to enclaves on the outskirts of town, …
Immunity Granted to Wisconsin Sex Offenders in Treatment by Immunity Granted to Wisconsin Sex Offenders in Treatment The Wisconsin Supreme Court has held that Gary Tate is entitled to immunity for statements made at court imposed sex offender treatment, and the revocation of his probation for refusing to make admissions …
California Sexually Violent Predator's Recurring Habeas Claims Ruled Not Moot, But Nonetheless Merit by California Sexually Violent Predator's Recurring Habeas Claims Ruled Not Moot, But Nonetheless Meritless by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that because the two-year interval between recurring civil commitment trials for …
North Carolina Juvenile Prisons Plagued by Physical, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect by Lonnie Burton North Carolina Juvenile Prisons Plagued by Physical, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect by Lonnie Burton After four separate lawsuits were filed by prisoners serving sentences at two North Carolina juvenile facilities alleging a wide range …
Veterans' Disability Check Unlawfully Seized to Pay State Restitution Fine by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Third Circuit US Court of Appeals held that a New Jersey statute providing for seizure of a prisoner's federal veterans' disability benefits check to pay a state restitution fine was void …
Guard's Prior Misconduct Wrongly Excluded from Rape Trial by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the exclusion of evidence of a guard's prior improper sexual conduct against a former detainee warranted reversal. On Friday, January 31, 1997, Julie Ann Blind-Doan turned herself in to the Taft City Police …
The Crime of Being Poor by Paul Wright "The law in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread." _ Anatole France A central part of the mythology of the criminal justice system in …
Sole Washington Woman Civil Commitment Taxes System by Lonnie Burton Since 1997, when a court deemed her too dangerous to live in society, Laura McCollum has remained the lone female prisoner at Washington's civil commitment center for sexually-violent predators on the grounds of the state's women's' prison near Purdy. McCollum, …
California Guards Convicted of Arranging Prison Beatings, New Conspiracy Accusations Leveled by by Marvin Mentor On May 15, 2002, a federal criminal jury convicted two Pelican Bay State Prison (CA) guards of violating the civil rights of eight prisoners whom they conspired to have beaten and stabbed - two fatally; …
$1 Million New York Jail Beating Settlement by On April 19, 2002, Nassau County, New York, agreed to pay $1 million to Gary Boylan who was seriously beaten by jail guards after being falsely charged with attempted to lure a six year old girl into his car. Boylan, 52, suffers …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Washington Sex Offender Community Placement Dilemma by Roger Smith When "high-risk" sex offenders are released from Washington State prisons their pictures, names, addresses, and offenses are broadcast on the local news. Armed with that information, angry neighbors often drive them from the communities they're released to. With no one willing …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Colorado Sex Offenders Freed from Mandatory Parole by Bob Williams In one of the most criticized and widely reported rulings in Colorado history, the state Supreme Court has held that the state's mandatory parole laws do not apply to sex offenders whose crimes were committed on or after July 1, …
Failure to Protect States Claim in High Profile Case by The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held the failure to protect a pre-trial detainee in a highly charged and well-publicized case states a claim. Morritz Weiss, a white male, was the principal suspect in the rape of …
Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002
Washington Department of Corrections' Address Requirement Illegal by The Washington Court of Appeals has held that the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) lacks statutory authority to require a prisoner to obtain a preapproved residence location and living arrangement prior to release unless that condition was imposed by the sentencing court. …
Washington Enacts Sweeping New Sentencing Laws, Creates Parole Board for Sex Offenders by Lonnie Burton Washington Governor Gary Locke recently signed into law the biggest changes to that state's sentencing laws since the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA) was established. The Bill, known formally as Third Engrossed Substitute Senate …
Pelican Bay Guard's Conviction Upheld by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely Jose Garcia was a guard at California's Pelican Bay prison. With his supervisor, Mike Powers, Garcia plotted with prisoner shotcallers to have convicted child molesters, sex offenders, and informants stabbed or beaten. The conspiracy ran from January 1994 to …
Washington Media Royalties Sentencing Condition Reversed by A Washington State Court of Appeals modified the sentence of childrapist Mary R. Letourneau by striking a requirement that inperson contact with her own children be supervised and lifting the prohibition on her profiting from any commercialization related to her crimes. In early …
Washington DOC Hit with almost $50 Million in Verdicts and Settlements in Parole Victim Suits by Paul Wright In a four-month period between September, 2000 and January, 2001, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) was hit with separate jury verdicts for $22.4 and $15 million and settled two additional cases …
New York Jury Awards $900,000 for Jail's Failure to Protect by A federal jury awarded judgment of $900,000 against the County of Nassau and the Sheriff of Nassau for failing to protect prisoner Steven W. Arnold from being assaulted and severely beaten while detained in the Nassau County Jail. PLN …
Colorado Prisoner Challenges 'Sex Offender' Label by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Colorado prisoner's classification as a "sex offender" is subject to due process considerations. In 1985, the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) modified its Administrative Regulation governing classification to include a Sex Offender Component in …
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