Government Says No Criminal Conduct in New Jersey Mass Prisoner Beating, But Jury Awards Abused Prisoner $19,000; Sexual Harassment Suit Settled for $250,000 by Government Says No Criminal Conduct in New Jersey Mass Prisoner Beating, But Jury Awards Abused Prisoner $19,000; Sexual Harassment Suit Settled for $250,000 by Matthew T. …
Brown et al v. Esmor Correctional Services, NJ, Settlement - Plan of Allocation, immigration beating, 2005 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY ________________________________ SAMSON BROWN, et al., Plaintiffs, vs. ESMOR CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, INC., Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Civil …
New Jersey Vegetarian Meals Satisfy Halal Dietary Obligations by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Third U.S. Court of Appeals held that legitimate cost and convenience factors supported the New Jersey Department of Corrections' (NJDOC) decision to provide the 280 observant Muslims with only vegetarian Halal (Islamic ritually …
New Jersey Civil Commitment Hearings Secret, Biased by Michael Rigby The growing trend of keeping sex of-fenders confined even after they have completed their prison sentences has taken a bizarre turn for the worse in New Jersey, where civil commitment proceedings are held in secretthe records sealedand sex offenders are …
Suits in Michigan and New Jersey Seek to Force HCV Treatment by A groundswell of prisoner litigation is taking aim at states to force them to comprehensively and meaningfully address HCV in prison. These suits, often brought as class actions, seek to mandate a protocol for HCV detection and treatment …
Injunctive Relief Granted for Parole Rescission Based on Free Speech by Injunctive Relief Granted for Parole Rescission Based on Free Speech U.S. District Judge Joseph E. Irenas of New Jersey recently granted Edward Forchion's request for a preliminary injunction reinstating him to New Jersey's Intensive Supervised Parole (ISP) pending trial …
PHS Liable for Denying Insulin to Diabetic New Jersey Jail Prisoner by The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the U.S. District Court (New Jersey) on its dismissal of a pretrial detainee's state law medical malpractice claims and summary judgment for jail defendants of the detainee's claims under 42 …
New Jersey Prisoners May Confront Accusers in Disciplinary Hearings by Michael Rigby In response to a ruling by the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, the New Jersey Department of Corrections has announced that they will afford prisoners the opportunity to question their accusers in person during disciplinary hearings, …
New Jersey Supreme Court Upholds $1.6 Million Harassment Verdict by by Matthew T. Clarke The Supreme Court of New Jersey up-held one of the largest female-on-male sexual harassment compensatory damage awards and fees, sending the even larger punitive damage award back to the trial court for reconsideration. Robert L. Lockley, …
Prisons Nationwide Fail to Treat HCV Epidemic by John E Dannenberg Prisons Nationwide Fail To Treat HCV Epidemic by John E. Dannenberg The JeopardyTM answer is: "The national average treatment rate for HCV-infected prisoners." The winning question is: "What is approximately 1%?" With HCV [Hepatitis-C] infection rates in state prisons …
CCA Abuse Goes Unpunished at New Jersey INS Detention Center by Mark Dow Maybe it was cynical courtroom theatre, or maybe the attorney for the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) believed it when he ridiculed the very idea that prison guards would retaliate against prisoners for conducting a hunger strike …
New Jersey: Prisoner Attacked, Rendered Quadriplegic, Settles For $9,700,000 by A former prisoner in the Burlington County (New Jersey) Jail, rendered quadriplegic when his neck was broken in an attack by another prisoner, settled with the county and state individually for a combined total of $9,700,000. Timothy Ryan, 32, was …
Arrest Without Probable Cause Suit Settled Against New Jersey Police Department by Arrest Without Probable Cause Suit Settled Against New Jersey Police Department Oki Dzivenu, an African-American male, entered into a settlement with the Borough of Paramus (New Jersey), its police department and employees thereof on his behalf in the …
Over 600 Prisoners Brutalized by New Jersey Prison Guards by Gary Hunter On April 25, 2003, acting Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced he would reopen a criminal investigation in which New Jersey prison guards reportedly brutalized over 600 prisoners. When guard Fred Baker was stabbed to death in 1997, …
Informal Grievance Procedure Must Be Exhausted Before Filing Suit by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a district court's denial of summary judgment for prison officials after ruling that prisoners were required to exhaust their administrative remedies before bringing a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action even …
Sadistic New Jersey Prison Doctor's License Revoked Amid Allegations of Neglect, Malpractice by Lonnie Burton On November 13, 2002, the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners revoked the license of Dr. John J. Napoleon following the most recent allegations that he was grossly negligent in the treatment of nine patients …
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 …
Veterans' Disability Check Unlawfully Seized to Pay State Restitution Fine by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Third Circuit US Court of Appeals held that a New Jersey statute providing for seizure of a prisoner's federal veterans' disability benefits check to pay a state restitution fine was void …
Appointment of Counsel in New Jersey Medical Suit by The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated and remanded a New Jersey U.S. District Court's award of summary judgment against, and denial of appointment of counsel to, a pro se prisoner plaintiff. Jeffrey Montgomery, a New Jersey State prisoner …
Favorable Termination Rule Inapplicable to Conditions Claims by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the "favorable termination rule" of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 114 S.Ct. 2364 (1994), and Edwards v. Balisok, 520 U.S. 641, 117 S.Ct. 1584 (1997), does not apply to claims that implicate only …
