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Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
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Behind the Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates by Michael Rigby by Jorge Antonio Renaud, University of North Texas Press, 2002, soft cover, 218 pages, $14.95 Review by Michael Rigby If you or someone you know is one of the nearly 150,000 people incarcerated in …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
DSU-Like Conditions in Massachusetts Prison Trigger Due Process Protection by DSU-Like Conditions in Massachusetts Prison Trigger Due Process Protection by Matthew T. Clarke The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has held that the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corrections (MCOC) may not avoid previously ordered due process review of prisoners placed in …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton In February 2002, it was announced that prisoners at a new federal prison in California will soon be partnering with companies such as Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard in a program …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Probation and Parole Populations Continued to Rise in 2001 by According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), in a bulletin released in August 2002, the total number of adult women and men under some form of correctional supervision --jail, prison, probation, or parole rose to 6,592,800 by the end …
Overt Act Unnecessary to Allege Conspiracy Claim in 7th Circuit by The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that it is not necessary to allege an overt act to state a conspiracy claim. The court also held that dismissal of a prisoner's retaliation claim for failure …
America's Prisons Turn a Blind Eye to HCV Epidemic by Mark Wilson The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an insidious and relentless disease which is highly unpredictable and eventually fatal. It is a chronic disease which is the leading cause of cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer which causes an …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Pregnant Wisconsin Prisoner Punished for Sexual Contact While Guard Walks Free by Lonnie Burton In December, 2002, a mentally ill female prisoner at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution (TCI) in Wisconsin was given a year of solitary confinement after being impregnated by a prison guard, while the guard, Mathew Emery, was …
Louisiana Guards' Conviction Upheld in Prisoner's Beating by A jury's conviction of three guards at the Louisianan State Penitentiary at Angola in the assault and beating of prisoner Raymond Jackson has been affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Sergeant Harrison Daniels was convicted in the assault, and denying …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month we continue our coverage of the hepatitis C (HCV) epidemic sweeping through American prisons with little or no treatment for the afflicted. The public health consequences of this and many other diseases that have historically festered in American prisons and jails before …
California Prison Policy Restricting Book Orders Enjoined by The US District Court (ND Calif.) issued a permanent injunction against officials at the maximum security Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) that terminated their policy requiring vendors who shipped books, periodicals, magazines or calendars to PBSP prisoners to use a prison-supplied shipping …
Massachusetts Jury Awards $175,000 to Beaten Ex-Prisoner by On August 28, 2002, a Worcester (MA) Superior Court jury awarded $175,000 to a former Massachusetts state prisoner who sued the Department of Correction (DOC). The jury also found that the DOC negligently hired and supervised a guard with a known propensity …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
900 British Prisoners Freed Following Court Ruling by On July 26, 2002, nine hundred prisoners in England and Wales had to be set free after the European Court of Human rights unanimously ruled that extending prisoners' imprisonment for disciplinary violations without allowing them legal representation violated Article 6 of the …
Sexual Harassment Scandal Rocks Connecticut DOC by by Matthew T. Clarke The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) has been rocked by allegations of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and illegal sex between guards and prisoners. The scandal began on August 8, 2002, when 15 female guards filed two separate federal class-action …
Brief • August 15, 2003
Harvin v Dc Judgment Minor Strip Search 2003 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ANGELA HARVIN, as next friend of JOSEPH BENNETT, ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) v. ) ) ) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Defendants. Civil Action No. 02-729 (JGP) ECF ) ) ) AMENDED …
Brief • August 7, 2003
Gronquist v Doc Wa Def Response to Complaint to Show Cause Re Public Disclosure Public Record Act 2003 .'. CLERK'S OFFICE COpy ,.... -- .- The Honorable Jerome 1. Leveque Hearing Date: August 14, 2003 Hearing Time: 9:30 a.m. Hearing Location: TELEPHONIC - Defendants shall initiate call 2 3 4 …
Brief • August 5, 2003
Leblanc v Tdcj Settlement 2003 No. 0084586 KEITHA LEBLANC Plaintiff, v. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, ET. AL., Defendant. § § § § § § § § IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NUMBER ONE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS COMPLETE RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF J …
Brief • July 21, 2003
Green v State of Ohio Oh Judgement Entry and Order 2003
Brief • July 17, 2003
Thiel v. Wi Dhfs, Wi, Order, Civil Commitment, 2003 STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BRANCH 12 DANE COUNTY DENNIS THIEL, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 00 CV 2745 THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES, ET AL., Defendants. ORDER AND JUDGMENT I. INTRODUCTION The Defendants, the Wisconsin Department of Health …
Brief • July 17, 2003
Gregory v. City of Louisville, KY, Katsaris Deposition Pt II, 2003 Katsaris Deposition, Part 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE DIVISION CASE NO. 3:01-CV-535-R WILLIAM THOMAS GREGORY, Plaintiff, vs. VOLUME 1 PAGES 1 - 208 CITY OF LOUISVILLE, et al, Defendants. ______________________________ DEPOSITION OF: W. KEN …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by by Matthew T. Clarke On May 1, 2002, two guards and an assistant warden were convicted in federal court of charges relating to the beating of a Philadelphia prisoner. In the latest of a series of settlements for …
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