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Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Gates of Injustice - The Crisis in America's Prisons by Tom Murlowski by Alan Elsner, FT Prentice Hall, 256 pp., hardcover Review by Tom Murlowski "Alan Elsner's powerful book demonstrates that our $40 billion corrections system for both adults and juveniles is badly broken. Our jails and prisons and penitentiaries …
Wisconsin PLRA Fee-Limit Does Not Violate Equal Protection by The Wisconsin Court of Appeals held that the Wisconsin Prison Litigation Reform Act's (WPLRA) prohibition against the recovery of costs and fees by prevailing prisoners does not violate equal protection. Daniel Harr, a prisoner of Wisconsin's "Supermax prison successfully pursued a …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Alaska Prisoners Cannot Challenge Conditions of Confinement Under State Post-Conviction Relief Statute by Roger Smith The Alaska court of appeals has dismissed a prisoner's suit challenging the conditions of his confinement in an Alaska prison under AS § 12.72.020(c), Alaska's post-conviction relief statute. This ruling came after the court found …
Ohio County Juvenile Facility Not Immune from Suit in Rape Claim by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a county juvenile detention center was not entitled to sovereign immunity. S.J., an Ohio juvenile, was referred to the Hillcrest Training Center (Hillcrest) which is a county juvenile facility created …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
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News in Brief by News in Brief: Alaska: On August 4, 2004, Charles Rubin, 41, the manager of the Cordova Center, a half way house in Anchorage which is operated by Cornell Corrections, a private, for profit prison company, was arrested in charges that he lured a 23 year old …
Texas Prison Guard's Sentence for Rape Reinstated by Texas Prison Guard's Sentence For Rape Reinstated The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has reinstated the sentence of a Texas prison guard who had impersonated a police officer, using a fake badge to coerce women into sex acts. Charles Melvin Page, a …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Study Shows Boot Camps Are a Failure by Study Shows Boot Camps are a Failure A June 2003 study published by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, shows that boot camps are failures in reducing recidivism and prison populations. In the late …
Wrongfully Convicted Pennsylvania Prisoner Settles for $2.3 Million; Forensics Expert Fired by A wrongfully convicted ex-prisoner who spent 15-years in a Pennsylvania prison got modest compensation from the government that imprisoned him by winning a $2.3 million settlement in the lawsuits he filed. In Washington state, a forensic scientist was …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Clarifies Law Crediting "Street Time" by by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has recently clarified the meaning of the recent statute allowing the award of parole "street time" credits for prisoners convicted of non-violent crimes. Lucian Lee Spann and Andrew Michael …
Connecticut Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit for $2.9 Million by Michael Rigby Connecticut Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit For $2.9 Million by Michael Rigby On April 4, 2002, the State of Connecticut agreed to settle for $2.9 million a lawsuit arising from the wrongful death of Timothy Perry, a mentally ill man …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Ohio Prisoners Not Entitled to Memory Typewriters by The Ohio Supreme Court, affirming an appeals court decision, held that Ohio prisoners have no right to typewriters with more than one line of memory and that prison officials were justified in confiscating a prisoner's typewriter that had a five-page memory capacity, …
New York Prisoners Win Injury Awards, Lack of Expert Testimony Detrimental by Michael Rigby New York Prisoners Win Injury Awards, Lack Of Expert Testimony Detrimental by Michael Rigby In two separate cases, New York courts of claims awarded $3,500 to prisoners pursuing pro se personal injury claims against the state. …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
$600,000 Settlement in California Prisoner Shooting Death by Marvin Mentor $600,000 Settlement In California Prisoner Shooting Death by Marvin Mentor California Department of Corrections (CDC) officials settled a wrongful death complaint for $600,000 brought by the survivors of Octavio Orozco, a prisoner at Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP) in Coalinga, …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Prison Town Legislators Represent Prisoners' Interests? Not Quite by Peter Wagner On June 7, 2004, talks between the New York State Senate and the Assembly on how to best reform the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws broke down. Publicly, the dispute is over ideological disagreements, but an obscure Census quirk that …
Texas Prisoner's Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth. Circuit reversed a district court's dismissal of a prisoner's complaint that prison officials retaliated against him for exercising his right to file a grievance. Robert Hart, 38, is a prisoner at the 2,800-man Albert …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Nevada Trust Account Interest, Less Accounting Costs, Belongs To Prisoners by In two separate decisions, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals determined whether the Nevada Department of Prisons (NDOP) procedure of reallocating interest earned on prisoner trust accounts constituted an unconstitutional "taking" in violation of the Fifth Amendment or …
Brief • November 15, 2004
Ayala v City of New York Ny Prelim Statement Informant Misinformation Wrongful Raid 2004 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------x ROSEMARY AYALA, JOSE AYALA, JR., ANTHONY AYALA, and JOSE AYALA III by his mother and natural guardian ROSEMARY AYALA, Plaintiffs, 04 CV 1102 (DC) -againstTHE CITY …
Brief • November 12, 2004
Waters v Dc Complaint Prisoner Death 2004 Case 1:02-cv-00167-EGS Document 126 Filed 11/12/2004 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LEROY WATERS, SR. As Personal Representative on behalf of the estate of ROBERT LEROY WATERS, JR. 8108 Poplar Hill Road Clinton, Maryland 20735 Plaintiff …
Brief • November 10, 2004
Overton v County of Sacramento Ca Mediation Brief and Complaint Med Neglect 2005 · ,,.,. I 2 4 I, MOSELEY C. COLLINS, ill, SBN 092460 A Professional Law Corporation R.ECF.T'TED Post Office Box 5500 El Dorado Hills. CA 95762-5500 Telephone: (916) 444-4444 Facsnnile: (916) 444-000 I NOV ~ (} 2004 …
Brief • November 8, 2004
Reck v State of Washington Doc Wa Settlement Campylobacter Infection 2004 RELEASE (TORT) , FOB. AND IN"CONSIDERATION of the total sum of Twenty Thousand DoBars (S20,OOt).OO)'ia DOD-eeonomie damages, (pain aud sUff~g,) aDd re~ra~on .ofTwoHun~ (200) hours of annual leave Eighty (80) bours of sick leave, Plaintiff SldD~ Clark, hiS ana …
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