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Washington Jail Settles Conditions Lawsuit by On October 6, 2003 officials in Jefferson County, Washington settled a class action lawsuit filed by a Jefferson County Jail prisoner. The suit alleged inhumane living conditions and resulted in sweeping changes in jail policy. On February 25, 2002 Shawn Orndorff, a prisoner at …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Prison AIDS Cases, Deaths Increase; HIV Infections Decrease by In January 2004, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, reported that the number of confirmed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) cases and AIDS-related deaths among all state and federal prisoners increased from yearend …
Administrative Remedies Deemed Unavailable Based on Physical Injury by Bob Williams Administrative Remedies Deemed Unavailable Based On Physical Injury By Bob Williams The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that administrative remedies are unavailable when a prisoner has a physical injury which prevents filing a grievance and a subsequently …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Federal Halfway House Litigation by Todd Bussert by Todd Bussert, Esq.* In Decemberr 2002, a shock wave reverberated through the federal prison system, when the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced radical changes in its policy on when it will allow prisoners to serve some or all of their sentences in …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Prison Guards With Criminal Records Work in Texas Prison by Gary Hunter Over ten percent of the guards at the Lyncher State Jail, near Houston Texas, are convicted felons themselves. Houston television station. KPRC uncovered court files showing that about thirty of the guards had served time. Some are repeat …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time, Parole
Texas Prisoners Have Right to Specific Notice of Mandatory Supervision Hearing by by Matthew T. Clarke On May 19, 2004, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) issued a revised opinion holding that a prisoner being considered for denial of mandatory supervision release has the right to specific notice of …
Manipulation of Crime Statistics and Use of Tax Dollars for Campaigning Revealed by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The public entrusts its law enforcement officials to protect it from crime and to use the tax dollars it provides to fulfill that duty. The manipulation of that trust has come …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
New York State Prisoner Awarded $30,000 for Work Related Injuries by On December 17, 2003, a state court of claims in White Plains, New York, awarded state prisoner Jose Santos $30,000 for injuries he sustained while working in the industrial-unit paint shop at the Fishkill Correctional Facility. In his lawsuit, …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Austin, Texas, Settles Wrongful Conviction Suit for $9 Million by by Matthew T. Clarke On July 17, 2003, the City of Austin, Texas settled for $9 million a suit brought by the guardian of a wrongfully convicted Texas prisoner. Richard Danziger, 31, a wrongfully convicted Texas state prisoner, spent 12 …
Idaho Incompetence Delays Prisoners' Release, Taxpayers Foot The Bill by Michael Rigby Idaho prisoners check in but they don't check outand it's costing taxpayers thousands. That's the criticism being hurled at the Idaho parole commission and the state Department of Corrections (DOC) for unnecessarily holding prisoners past their approved parole …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
California Prison Guard Union Scandal Goes Public by Woody Morgan The current leadership of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association has charged 10 current and former leadership members with wrongdoing. In internal documents received by the Lassen County Times, current President Mike DeWitt of the local CCPOA said both Mark …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Filed under: Court Access, Judiciary
Supreme Court Justice Criticized Over No Recording Policy, Federal Agent's Actions by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's longstanding policy of prohibiting audio and video recordings of his remarks came back to haunt him on April 7, 2004, when an over zealous Federal Deputy Marshall assigned to protect the justice …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Prisoner Shot Dead by Guard in California Prison Riot by One prisoner was shot dead and four others received wounds requiring outside hospitalization, in a 20 minute riot an October 12, 2003 at Facility "B" of Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP), a 5,000 man prison in Coalinga, California. The evening …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
California Changes Policies for Prison Gangs and Security Housing Units by Charles F.A. Carbone by Charles F.A. Carbone, Esq. Major changes to prison gang management policies and the use of security housing units (SHU's) or super-maximum prisons are expected in California prisons due to the settlement of a lawsuit brought …
Survivors of Prisoner Killed in Texas County Jail Awarded $2,500,000 by On May 20, 2003, a state district court in El Paso, Texas, awarded $2.5 million in damages plus attorney fees and court costs of $393,518 to the surviving spouse, daughter and estate of a man who died while imprisoned …
Brief • September 10, 2004
Marriott v Co of Montgomery - Ny Strip Search Suit - Complaint 2006 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ____________________________________ : : : : : : Plaintiffs, : : v. : : THE COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY, : THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY : SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT, MICHAEL : …
Mason v. State of Maine, ME, Motion for Summary Judgement, Disability Discrimination, 2004 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE DAVID A. MASON AND PHILLIP M. NAPIER Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF MAINE, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS et. al. Defendants * * * * * CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:03-cv-199 * …
Brief • August 31, 2004
Ankrom v. Hageman, Oh, Parole, Order, 2004 11111111. ArrtilLAEILL. ORDER IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO Douglas Ankrom, et al, Plaintiff, vs. Harry Hagernan, et al., TERM IN T N NO BY. Case No. 01CVH02-1563 Judge Cain Defendants f""" ••••• Don Carlos Scott, c, --in Plaintiff, 7=0,. …
Brief • August 27, 2004
Hornsby v State of Alabama Al Court Order Religious Property Practices 2004 Case 2:95-cv-00385-CSC Document 208 Filed 08/27/04 Page 1 of 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHERN DIVISION TIMOTHY THOMAS HORNSBY, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) STATE OF ALABAMA, …
Brief • August 25, 2004
Vilsack v Thompson Ia Kosher Diet Order 2006 IN THE UlsTITED STA1.hS DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA CENMAL DIVISION DOT Xi:LAS D. THOMPSON, 4:03-cv-901 21 Plaintd V. THOMAS VILSA(K, JESSIE RASMIJSSEN, JAMES GARDNER, RUB! ESPEARCE, MARK SWORE, BRIAN JEFFERIES, and THE STA1E OF IOWA, MEMORANDIJM OPINION AND …
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