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Scandal-Ridden, Bankrupt MCI WorldCom Wins No-Bid California Prisoner Phone Contract by Marvin Mentor A renewed four-year no-bid prisoner phone contract was awarded in June, 2002 by the California Department of General Services to MCI WorldCom, a telephone conglomerate whose recent bankruptcy exposed the largest accounting fraud in US business history …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
$500,000 Settlement in Connecticut Suicide by On April 14, 2003, the family of a prisoner who committed suicide in 1996 while in a Connecticut prison settled with the state for $500,000. William Dumais, 19, was imprisoned in the Corrigan Correctional Institution in Uncasville from December 1995 to February 1996 on …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Dead Man Waking by Bruce Shapiro Is it possible Timothy McVeigh was fully alert and utterly sentient when potassium chloride shot through his leg and stopped his heart? The tear witnesses saw well up in his left eye suggests that he might have been very conscious as lethal drugs burned …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Family Awarded $229,000 Against CMS in Illinois Hepatitis C Jail Death by A jury has awarded the family of a prisoner who died while in the Kane County Illinois Jail $229,500. On May 16, 2002, after 92 hours of deliberation, the jury returned a verdict against Correctional Medical Services of …
Honduras Prison Massacre: What Really Happened by On April 5, 2003, 68 people were murdered inside the walls of the El Porvenir prison in Honduras. The story that initially came out of that country said that 59 of the dead were gang members who shot at other prisoners, then barricaded …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Cheap Mexican Prison Labor Exploited by U.S. Firms by Even with U.S. laws prohibiting the importation of commodities produced with prison labor, prison officials in northern Mexico report that prisoners there are making furniture headed for Texas. Moreover, they're pursuing more contracts with American companies to produce a variety of …
Michigan Visiting Rules Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court by Robert Woodman On June 16, 2003, the United States Supreme Court unanimously upheld visiting restrictions imposed by the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC). The decision reverses contrary rulings by the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and a Michigan federal district …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Thomas and Scalia Flunk History by Scott Christianson The unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court in Overton v. Bazzetta, upholding Michigan's punitive restrictions on prisoners' visiting rights, showed again how antagonistic the Rehnquist Court is toward prisoners' rights compared to the Burger Court. But the Court's two most …
Federal Appeals Courts Address Finality of Dismissals, Grievance Contents by In two, separate, unrelated cases, the Third and Seventh U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals have addressed the finality of dismissals without prejudice, the contents of grievances, and various procedural points under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and prisoner suits …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Washington SCC Injunction and Contempt Order Upheld by On February 26, 2003, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein upheld an injunction and contempt order issued against the superintendent and clinical director of the Special Commitment Center ("SCC") at McNeil Island, Washington. The SCC houses former prisoners civilly committed as "sexually violent …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Director of Florida's Private Prison Commisssion Resigns, Fined $10,000 for Ethics Violations by Agreeing to pay $10,000 for ethics violations, the director of Florida's agency overseeing private prison contracts resigned in April, 2002. The Florida Ethics Commission has accepted the settlement. C. Mark Hodges was in charge of Florida's Correctional …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Eight Washington Prison Premises Liabilities Claims Settled for $35,058 by Premises liabilities claims by injured Washington state prisoners and visitors were settled in eight unrelated claims totaling $35,058 over a two year period in 2001 and 2002. Pro per Walla Walla State Penitentiary prisoner Marcus Ogans filed a 42 U.S.C. …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Nebraska Prisons Get Progressive Phone Contract by by Matthew T. Clarke In February, 2003, The Nebraska Department of Corrections (DOC) has contracted with AT&T to set up what may be the most progressive prisoner phone service in the United States. The five-year contract makes AT&T the sole provider of local …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Nebraska Prisons Get Progressive Phone Contract by John E Dannenberg by Matthew T. Clarke In February, 2003, The Nebraska Department of Corrections (DOC) has contracted with AT&T to set up what may be the most progressive prisoner phone service in the United States. The five-year contract makes AT&T the sole …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Washington DOC Settles Failure to Protect Case for $13,000 by On March 16, 2002, the Washing-ton Department of Corrections (WA DOC) settled an Eighth Amendment complaint for failure-to-protect at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) where a high security prisoner was attacked and seriously injured by another prisoner known to want …
Washington Retaliation Suit Settled for $2,500 by On February 27, 2002, the Washington DOC settled a prisoner claim of retaliation for his having filed a grievance and a lawsuit, for $2,500. Airway Heights Correctional Center prisoner Douglas Gallagher was employed in the food factory production facility on a day when …
Kansas Sheriff, Lawyer, Jailed for Sweetheart Jail Contract by Negotiating their way out of 21 felony bribery charges, a former Kansas sheriff and a lawyer-cum-executive for a private prison contractor each pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts of conflict of interest on December 18, 2002, getting only one year in …
California Taxpayer Action Forces Private Employer to Pay Prisoners Prevailing Wages by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Under California Code of Civil Procedure §526a, a private citizen taxpayer may bring an action to compel an officer or agent of a municipality to restrain him from wasteful or injurious …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Washington Posts Health Care Provider Information Online by Past issues of PLN have reported on the checkered pasts of many prison health care employees. Before being employed by prisons and jails many medical staff have been disciplined, had their licenses revoked and suffered other forms of license limitations designed to …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
U.S. Supreme Court: Reviving Expired Statute of Limitations Violates Ex Post Facto by U.S. Supreme Court: Reviving Expired Statute of Limitations Violates Ex Post Facto Clause Reversing the California Court of Appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that California's recent law reviving criminal liability for previously time-barred prosecutions violated the …
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