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Article • August 15, 2008
Unlawful Maryland Strip Search Suit Settles for $285,000 by Kent County, Maryland high school students Heather Gore and Jessica Bedell received a total of $285,000 and apologies in a settlement for nefarious strip searches conducted in 2004. The Kent County Sheriff’s Dept. brought drug sniffing canines into the school in …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Maryland Juvenile Justice Official Resigns Over Past Abuse Allegations by David Reutter Just seven months after he was hired as director over Maryland’s juvenile detention facilities, Chris Perkins, 38, resigned his $76,000 a year position when a Montana judge unsealed a report that found Perkins had abused children at a …
Article • August 15, 2008
$185,000 Settlement In Ohio Deceased's Estate For Racial Discrimination And Retaliatory Termination by Ohio State Resident Sheila Smoot, acting as administratrix of her deceased husband Robert's estate, brought suit for racial discrimination and retaliatory termination in 2006 against the Hillcrest Training Center (HTC) juvenile facility. The suit settled for $185,000. …
Article • August 15, 2008
$1 Million Settlement After Florida Teen's Shooting Death by Police by Delray Beach, Florida residents Kenneth Miller and Terry Glover brought a § 1983 action against the city and rookie policeman Barren Cogoni for negligence and excessive force after Cogoni shot and killed Jerrod Miller in 2005. The suit settled …
Child Abuse Abounds in Wilderness and Boot Camp Programs by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 10, 2007, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)--a federal governmental entity that audits, evaluates and investigates for Congress--released a report on residential treatment programs (RTPs) entitled Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain …
Squalor, Corruption Cause Cancellation of GEO Group’s TYC Contract by Gary Hunter When Texas Youth Commission (TYC) ombudsman Will Harrell toured the privately-operated Coke County Juvenile Justice Center in Bronte, Texas on September 24, 2007, he found children sleeping on dirty bed sheets, walls covered with smeared feces, urine-stained walls …
Article • July 15, 2008
Washington Cop Sexually Abuses 15-Year-Old Who Wins $325,583 at Trial by In 1995, Larry Jackman was a cop in the town of Wilkerson, Washington. On several occasions he had sex with then 15-year-old Crystal Bailey. She later sued Jackman and the town, claiming that Jackman had taken advantage of her. …
Texas Juvenile Justice Whistleblower Settles for $175,000 by On the eve of trial Bowie County, Texas and Bowie County Juvenile Center (BCJC) employee Bruce Ballou agreed to pay former BCJC employee Karen Foster $175,000 to settle her whistleblower complaint in federal court. The action was filed by Karen Foster, a …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
$900,000 Settlement in Illinois Jail Guard’s Sexual Assault of Juvenile by Another case of sexual abuse upon a minor by a custodial person has hit the taxpayer’s coffers. This time, a guard at Illinois’ St. Clair County juvenile custody center sexually assaulted a 15-year-old boy, causing the County to settle …
Washington Jail Prisoners Suffer from Overcrowding, Abusive Guards, Inadequate Health Care and Indifferent Politicians by Roger Smith Since the mid-1990s, Washington State jail populations have increased exponentially. Obsolete facilities built decades ago to hold a handful of prisoners are now packed like sardine tins, with as many prisoners sleeping on …
Fabian et al v. Dunn et al, TX, Complaint, juvenile immigrant guard brutality denial of counsel, 2008
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Filed under: Editorials, Juveniles
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month?s cover story on abuse in the Texas youth prisons is of notable interest for exposing the shallow hypocrisy of many politician?s ?protect the children? mantra which tends to go hand in hand with being ?tough on crime.? PLN has previously reported that …
Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Non-Convicted Michigan Sex Offenders Required to Register by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that Michigan's Sex Offender Registration law, which requires persons charged with but not convicted of sex crimes to register as sex offenders, is constitutional. The Court's ruling affirms an order granting summary judgment to …
Article • January 15, 2008
Filed under: Juveniles
BOP Must Grant Juveniles Time Served Credits by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) erred in refusing to credit a juvenile offender with 35 months he spent in presentence custody. On June 17, 2001, Jonah R., a juvenile, was arrested after shooting …
Article • January 15, 2008
Documents Exempt from Viewing under Public Records Act Allowed with Confidentiality Agreement by Because of an underlying civil action brought in Massachusetts against the Bright Horizons Children's Center, Inc. (the Center), alleging sexual abuse of a minor child, the Center sought records of the completed investigation from the district attorney …
Brief • November 27, 2007
M.P. v. Texas Youth Commission, TX, Memo on Enforcement, Juvenile Pepper Spray, 2007 TEXAS YOUTH COMMISSION ED OWENS DIMITRIA D. POPE Acting Executive Director Conservator November 27, 2007 To: All TYC Staff From: Dimitria D. Pope Acting Executive Director Steve Foster General Counsel Re: TYC Rule 97.23 (Use of Force) …
Brief • October 22, 2007
M.P. v. Texas Youth Commission, TX, Mot to Enforce Judgment and Dismissal, Pepper Spray, 2007 .' ., (;~\ev:~ ~~o;;;/. ;;,~~' '\;~ """; ,,'\ Vj \;0' . "" \'. C,,. ""J ~. .\:\ ~ CAUSE NO. D-I-GN-07-002998 M.P., by and through his next friend, A.T., D.M., by and through his next …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Mere Possibility of Parole Insufficient to Prevent Texas Prisoners’ Parental Rights Termination by Matthew Clarke The Texas Supreme Court held that the mere possibility of parole within the two-year imprisonment requirement of § 161.001(1)(Q), Texas Family Code, was insufficient to prevent termination of a prisoner's parental rights. William Keith M. …
Brief • September 28, 2007
M.P. v. Texas Youth Commission, TX, Judgment, OC Pepper Spray, 2007 Cause No. D-I-GN-07-002998 M.P., by and through his next friend, A.T.; D.M., by and through his next friend, N. J.; and E.B., by and through her next friend, E.R., Plaintiffs, vs. TEXAS YOUTH COMMISSION and DIMITRIA D. POPE, in …
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