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Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
New York Times Reveals Racial Bias Rampant in Upstate New York Prisons by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton In December 2016, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo ordered an official probe into allegations of racial bias by guards in the state’s prison system. The governor’s announcement came shortly after the New York …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Pennsylvania Class-action Targets Company Providing Inaccurate Background Checks by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Helen Stokes, a 65-year-old Pennsylvania woman with no criminal record, was nonetheless continually denied credit due to inaccuracies in her background report that a property credit reporting company refused to correct. Consequently, she filed a class-action …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
National Registry of Exonerations Report: Blacks Suffer More False Convictions by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On March 7, 2017, the National Registry of Exonerations published a report that found African-Americans are much more likely than whites to be wrongfully convicted and spend more time in prison before being exonerated. …
Article • January 3, 2018
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Texas Prison Reform Model Maintains Mass Incarceration and Racial Disparity by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2007, Texas asked the Justice Center of the Council of State Governments to recommend ways it could reduce incarceration and criminal justice expenditures, then enacted most of the recommendations. This package of reforms …
Article • January 3, 2018
$5,000 to Transgender Prisoner in Maryland Sexual Harassment Lawsuit by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On August 17, 2015, an administrative law judge in Maryland ruled that state prison officials were guilty of sexually harassing and mistreating a transgender prisoner and awarded her $5,000 in damages. The ruling was the …
$15.000 Settles Multiple Civil Rights Complaints by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled multiple civil rights lawsuits brought by prisoner David Y. Merritt in March 2002. Merritt, an imprisoned government informant, filed several lawsuits against the Bureau of Prisons in federal court between 1995 and 2001. …
BOP Fails and Prevails in Prison Guard Discrimination Complaint by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Robert T. Aranda, an "inmate systems officer" (prison guard), was a very litigious Bureau of Prisons employee. Between 1996 and 1998, while working at multiple BOP facilities in several capacities, Aranda filed at least six …
Article • December 26, 2017
MA Supreme Court: Registration Not Mandatory for Juvenile Sex Offenders by Matthew Clarke On February 17, 2017, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that sex offender registration and GPS monitoring were not mandatory for a juvenile who had been convicted of a sex offense and adjudicated both as a …
Article • December 26, 2017
SCOTUS: IDEA Exhaustion Applies Only if Suit is Educational by The U.S. Supreme Court vacated a Federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeal’s dismissal of a civil discrimination suit filed against a public school for alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which occurred when the defendants refused to …
Article • December 22, 2017
$19,719 to People in Prison for ADA Violations by Matthew Clarke Plaintiffs Hickman, Barber, Newman and Lane were wheelchair-bound prisoners at the Western Missouri Correctional Center where they were denied proper medical treatment and accommodations for their disabilities. In July 1994, they filed suit in federal court against the prison …
Article • December 21, 2017
Male Vermont Prison Employees Paid $10,000; No Gender Discrimination Found by Mark Wilson The Vermont Supreme Court held that Vermont prison officials did not violate state law by paying male employees as much as $10,000 more annually than their female counterparts. Lynne Silloway began working as a business manager for …
Report Finds Texas Prison Staff Often Ignore Reports of Prison Rape by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke In November 2016, the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault and the Prison Justice League (PJL) published a report on sexual assaults in Texas prisons. The report concluded that Texas has failed to stem …
Plascencia v. United States of America, ICE, et al., CA, complaint, wrongful detention, 2017 Case 5:17-cv-02515 Document 1 Filed 12/19/17 Page 1 of 28 Page ID #:1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Douglas A. Axel, (SBN 173814) daxel@sidley.com …
Peters v. Baldwin, IL, Third Amended Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2018 Case: 1:17-cv-04809 Document#: 15 Filed: 12/14/17 Page 1 of 26 Page\D #:163 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION Scott Peters. ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) V. Case No.: 1: l 7-cv-04809 ) ) Benjamin …
Article • December 12, 2017
New York Top Court Invalidates Local Laws Restricting Sex Offender Residency by Christopher Zoukis By Christopher Zoukis The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that efforts by local governments to restrict where sex offenders may reside in New York are preempted by state law, rendering them invalid. The court …
Article • December 7, 2017
Alabama Prisoner Convicted of Kidnapping Minor Can be Labeled Sex Offender by David Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that an Alabama prisoner failed to state a claim against the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC), when he alleged that its application of a 2011 sex offender (S.O.) statute …
Article • December 7, 2017
$5,000 to Conn. Prisoner in Retaliation Lawsuit by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On April 24, 2014, a Connecticut state prisoner and the Connecticut Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to settle a claim brought by the prisoner which alleged that he was terminated from his prison job after he filed …
Article • December 7, 2017
Filed under: Discrimination
Rhode Island Settles Prison Hiring Civil Rights Suit with United States by Lonnie Burton By Lonnie Burton On April 24, 2017, the state of Rhode Island and attorneys for the United States Department of Justice (D0J) reached a settlement agreement in a three year old lawsuit over discriminatory hiring practices …
Article • December 7, 2017
Self-Serving Affidavits Admissible in Discrimination Suit by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal district court's summary judgment granted to Indiana's Whitley County Sheriff's Office in a racial discrimination suit. The court found that the district court erroneously applied the "common actor" provision to grant summary judgment, and …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Filed under: Gang Policies
Prison Tattoos Tell a Story by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Tattoos are virtually a rite of prison passage, and the designs, where they are placed and what they signify often have more meaning than just self-expressive body ink. Once considered taboo, tattoos have gained wider acceptance in today’s …
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