Tenth Circuit Upholds Use of Stunbelt on Defendant by On September 22, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed the conviction and sentence of a man accused of retaliating against a federal witness. In upholding the conviction and sentence, the court rejected a challenge to the …
Colorado Officials Lead Efforts to Modernize Afghan Prisons by Derek Gilna Bill Zalman is the leader of a team of prison officials from Colorado that has been tapped to help train the wardens of Afghanistan’s prisons in modern correctional practices. The head of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law …
Conviction Affirmed for Former Prisoner Who Posed as Lawyer by by Brandon Sample Howard O. Kieffer “is not an attorney, never obtained a college degree and has never attended law school or passed a bar exam,” wrote the Chief Judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, in affirming Kieffer’s …
Class Certification Denied in Colorado Jail Mental Health Challenge by Mark Wilson The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the denial of class-action certification in a lawsuit concerning mental health care at a Colorado jail. Several prisoners at the El Paso County Jail filed suit in federal court in …
Tenth Circuit Follows Jones v. Bock, Reverses Full-Exhaustion Predicate in § 1983 Cases by John Dannenberg Tenth Circuit Follows Jones v. Bock, Reverses Full-Exhaustion Predicate in § 1983 Cases by John E. Dannenberg The Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals realigned its jurisprudence to comport with the U.S. Supreme Court …
Prison Pays: Geo Corp Profits from Half-Way House Murder and Mayhem in Texas by Craig Malisow Despite a history of abuse and bad conditions, private-prison corporation GEO Group keeps getting contracts in Texas by Craig Malisow Anthony Ferrell left the Ben A. Reid halfway house in northeast Houston on October …
Colorado Prisoner Granted Judicial Review on Appeal by On February 4, 2010, a Colorado appellate court reversed a district court’s ruling dismissing a complaint filed by state prisoner Shawn Geerdes. Geerdes filed the complaint requesting judicial review in regard to a disciplinary conviction he received while housed at the Crowley …
Summary Judgment for BOP in FOIA Case Granted by On January 27, 2010, U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer granted summary judgment for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit wherein the prisoner sought records related to a former BOP guard who was terminated …
Violent Oregon Prisoner Murders Colorado Prisoner by In March 1993, Kevin Carl Lust shot his second wife to death in Washington, then drove to Portland, Oregon and shot his former fiancée four times with a shotgun. He pleaded guilty to both murders and was sentenced to life without parole. He …
Colorado Sought to Revoke Prisoner’s Electrician License After His Release by Gary Hunter For nearly two decades, Colorado state prisoner Marke E. Bogle worked as a licensed electrician for the Colorado Department of Corrections. In 1987, with the prison system’s approval, he tested and obtained his journeyman’s license. The next …
Elderly Home Detention Program Eligibility Determined Based on Sentence Imposed Without Good Time by In determining eligibility for the Elderly Offender Home Detention Pilot Program (EOHDPP), the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) may not consider a prisoner’s earned good time in calculating whether a prison has served enough time to enter …
Al-Owhall v Hoder, CO, Order dismissing Complaint, ADX restrictions, 2011 Case 1:07-cv-02214-LTB-BNB Document 98 Filed 01/27/11 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 07-cv-02214-LTB-BNB MOHAMED RASHED D. AL-OWHALI, Plaintiff, v. ERIC HOLDER, in his official capacity as …
Rezaq v. Nalley, CO, Order No Defendant Attny Fees, Solitary Confinement, 2011 Case 1:07-cv-02483-LTB -KLM Document 172 Filed 01/12/11 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Case No. 07-cv-02483-LTB-KLM OMAR REZAQ, Plaintiff, v. MICHAEL NALLEY, RON WILEY, MICHAEL MUKASEY, …
Rezaq v. BOP, CO, Resp to Motion for Costs, Solitary Confinement, 2011 Case 1:07-cv-02483-LTB -KLM Document 171 Filed 01/11/11 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 11 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 07-CV-02483-LTB-KLM OMAR REZAQ, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS, et al., …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf Res to Discovery Mot, prison riot, 2010 DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CROWLEY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: Sixteenth Judicial District Court Crowley County Courthouse 110 E. 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, Colorado 81063 Telephone 719-267-4468 Plaintiffs: VANCE A. ADAMS et. al. ▲COURT USE ONLY ▲ …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf Mot in Limine, Disclosure of Medical Requests, 2010 DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CROWLEY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: Sixteenth Judicial District Court Crowley County Courthouse 110 E. 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, Colorado 81063 Telephone 719-267-4468 Plaintiffs: VANCE A. ADAMS et. al. ▲COURT USE ONLY …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf Support Mot PSJ, prison riot medical records, 2010 DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CROWLEY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: Sixteenth Judicial District Court Crowley County Courthouse 110 E. 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, Colorado 81063 Telephone 719-267-4468 ▲COURT USE ONLY ▲ Plaintiffs: VANCE A. ADAMS et. …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf BiS Plf Mot PSJ - Damages, Disclosure of Medical Requests, 2010 DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CROWLEY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: Sixteenth Judicial District Court Crowley County Courthouse 110 E. 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, Colorado 81063 Telephone 719-267-4468 Plaintiffs: VANCE A. ADAMS et. al. …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf Mot PSJ - Damages, prison riot, 2010 DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CROWLEY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: Sixteenth Judicial District Court Crowley County Courthouse 110 E. 6th Street, Room 303 Ordway, Colorado 81063 Telephone 719-267-4468 ▲COURT USE ONLY ▲ Plaintiffs: VANCE A. ADAMS et. al. …
Colorado Closes Boot Camp Program by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Following the graduation of 23 prisoners from its boot camp program on May 27, 2010, Colorado suspended the program. A combination of high costs and low returns led to the boot camp being scuttled. Military-style boot camps for …
