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Jail Closed Due To Living Conditions, Failure To Comply by The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ordered the closing of a county jail due to unconstitutional living conditions. Prisoners confined in the 102-year-old Allegheny County Jail (Pennsylvania) brought suit against state and county authorities to alleviate …
Alabama Prison Conditions Unconstitutional by A district court in Alabama declared the conditions of confinement in Alabama state prisons unconstitutionally cruel and unusual in a class- action suit. The court ordered that: (1) prison populations be reduced to design capacity; (2) isolation prisoners be single-celled with not less than 40 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Fifth Circuits Upholds Pugh v. Loch Injunction by The Fifth Circuit upheld the district court's ranting of relief to ensure Alabama state prisoners reasonably adequate food, clothing, shelter, sanitation, necessary medical attention, personal safety, and recreational opportunities. The Fifth Circuit vacated the district court's instructions that all prisoners be single …
Overcrowding, Bad Prison Conditions Enjoined by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed a suit against a an Arkansas county jail. The court held the plaintiffs had presented sufficient evidence of a deficient diet, overcrowding, inadequate excercise, and forced exposure …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Unconstitutional Deprivation for County Jail Overcrowding by Daniel Sams, a prisoner sentenced to the West Virginia State Department of Corrections, and five other similarly-situated prisoners, filed a State court mandamus action to compel their transfer out of county jail to D.O.C. due to overcrowding. The State Supreme Court appointed …
Aliens May Sue Private Detention Companies Under ATCA by A federal court in New Jersey became the first court to hold that corporations which operate privatized immigration detention facilities may be sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA). The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) contracted with Esmor Correctional Services, …
Individual Class Action Settlement Notice Not Required by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that individual notice to each prisoner in a class action is not required and a district court's unexplained failure to set forth reasons or evidence to show the settlement was fair did not render …
Article • May 15, 2007
Arkansas Jailers Not Responsible for Prisoner's Beating by Scott Crow, a state prisoner in Arkansas' Faulkner County Detention Center (Jail), was punched and his jaw broken by a prisoner in his cell. He sued several jail administrators under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in federal district court. Although the defendants knew …
Buford-Lewis v. Marion County, IN, Complaint, jail conditions, 2007 Case 1:07-cv-00527-SEB-DML Document 1 Filed 04/26/2007 Page 1 of 9 Case 1:07-cv-00527-SEB-DML Document 1 Filed 04/26/2007 Page 2 of 9 Case 1:07-cv-00527-SEB-DML Document 1 Filed 04/26/2007 Page 3 of 9 Case 1:07-cv-00527-SEB-DML Document 1 Filed 04/26/2007 Page 4 of 9 Case …
Corruption and Violence Plague South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Prisons by Gary Hunter Corruption and Violence Plague South Africa's Post-Apartheid Prisons by Gary Hunter Corruption plagues South African (SA) prisons at every level as prisoners suffer violence and torture from both prisoners and warders alike. Former high court judge Thabani Jali was …
Reflections on Katrina’s First Year: The Story of Chaos and Continuing Abuse in One of America’s Worst Justice Systems by Bob Williams Reflections on Katrina's First Year: The Story of Chaos and Continuing Abuse in One of America's Worst Justice Systems by Bob Williams As America reflected on Hurricane Katrina's …
Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
Alabama Transfers Prisoners to Louisiana Rather Than Use In-State Prison by Gary Hunter Overcrowded prisons in Alabama almost landed state prison commissioner Richard Allen in jail. Under current state law the DOC has thirty days to pick up prisoners from county jails once they?ve been convicted. But the prison population …
California Inspector General Assesses DOC’s Compliance With Past Audit Recommendations by John Dannenberg California Inspector General Assesses DOC's Compliance With Past Audit Recommendations by John E. Dannenberg California's Inspector General (IG), Matthew Cate, who has oversight responsibility over the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), issued an exhaustive 363 …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Federal Court Restrains Los Angeles County Jail Overcrowding by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On October 27, 2006, the U.S. District Court (C.D. Cal.) issued an ?Order to Show Cause (?OSC?) re Issuance of Preliminary Injunction or Temporary Restraining Order,? plus imposed initial restraints, regarding the ongoing unconstitutional overcrowding …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Maryland Sentence Reduction Rule Violates Ex Post Facto Clause by The Maryland Court of Appeals has struck down an administrative regulation amending another regulation to deny previously authorized sentence reduction credits for certain categories of prisoners. In January of 2002, Quinton Demby, Jesse Baltimore, Kenneth Woodall, Daniel Falcone, and Earl …
Violence from Racial Tension and Overcrowding Pervades California Jails, Spreads to Prisons by Marvin Mentor by Marvin Mentor Los Angeles (L.A.) County jail prisoners have been locked in interracial gang-controlled violence for the past year, and the unrest has spread to other jails and into California state prisons as prisoners …
Idaho Population Cap Upheld; $155,858.68 in Fees and Cost Awarded; 300+ Prisoners Shipped to Minn. C by Idaho Population Cap Upheld; $155,858.68 in Fees and Cost Awarded; 300+ Prisoners Shipped to Minn. CCA Facility A federal court in Idaho has refused to lift a 1987 population cap on four housing …
District of Columbia Jail Pays $14 Million For Over-Detentions and Strip Searches by Bob Williams While denying a pattern and practice of over-detentions and strip searches, the District of Columbia (the District) has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a class-action lawsuit plus an additional $2 million in additional …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Arkansas County Pays $40,000 To Handicapped Man Raped In Jail by Michael Rigby On May 22, 2006, Saline County, Arkansas, agreed to pay $40,000 to a deaf man who was raped by other prisoners in the Saline County Detention Center. Johnny Jones, a deaf man who is unable to speak, …
Kentucky County Jail Settles Lawsuit Alleging Overcrowded Conditions by Michael Rigby On November 30, 2005, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky tentatively approved the settlement of a class action lawsuit alleging unconstitutionally overcrowded conditions at the Campbell County Jail in Newport, Kentucky. Built in 1991, the …
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