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California Inspector General Assesses DOC’s Compliance With Past Audit Recommendations by John Dannenberg California Inspector General Assesses DOC's Compliance With Past Audit Recommendations by John E. Dannenberg California's Inspector General (IG), Matthew Cate, who has oversight responsibility over the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), issued an exhaustive 363 …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Federal Court Restrains Los Angeles County Jail Overcrowding by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On October 27, 2006, the U.S. District Court (C.D. Cal.) issued an ?Order to Show Cause (?OSC?) re Issuance of Preliminary Injunction or Temporary Restraining Order,? plus imposed initial restraints, regarding the ongoing unconstitutional overcrowding …
Brief • March 13, 2007
U.S. v. Lake Worth Police Department, FL, Memo of Agreement, Failure to Provide Language Assistance, 2007 MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT (MOA) BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND LAKE WORTH, FLORIDA POLICE DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE NUMBER 171-18-16 A. SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION This matter was initiated by a complaint filed …
Osterback v. McDonough, FL, Def's Findings of Fact, 8th Am segregation, 2007 Case 3:04-cv-00210-HLA-MCR Document 841 Filed 02/27/2007 Page 1 of 71 U.S. DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Jacksonville Division MARK OSTERBACK, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Case no. 3:04-CV-210-J-25MCR JAMES MCDONOUGH , et al., Defendants. ________________________________/ DEFENDANTS’ PROPOSED FINDINGS …
No Qualified Immunity for Michigan Prisoner’s Heat-Dehydration Death by No Qualified Immunity for Michigan Prisoner's Heat-Dehydration Death The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to eleven prison officials in the isolation, dehydration and death of a Michigan prisoner. A "heat alert" was issued for Ionia …
Still More Murder and Mayhem in Maryland by Michael Rigby "Lock them up and throw away the key." Like the rest of the nation, this overriding penal philosophy in Maryland has led to a criminal justice system that is defunct at every level. The state's adult prisons are "in crisis." …
Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America’s Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. by John Dannenberg Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America's Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's …
Sacramento Jail Rampant with Excessive Force and Brutality by Gary Hunter Imagine six million candles of light and the noise level of a jet plane taking off inside an average 6'x10' jail cell. That's what Courtney Countee, Jessie Kerwin, Daniel Lucas, Jason Morrison, Cladius Jefferson and Michael Toro endured at …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
5-Point Restraints = Excessive Force + Due Process Violation Results in $25,000 Virginia Damage Award by A federal court in Virginia held that subjecting a prisoner to five-point restraints for 46-48 hours on five occasions was cruel and unusual punishment. It also found the lack of procedural protections deprived the …
Cleaning up Mississippi’s Supermax: Conditions Suit Settled by David Reutter Cleaning up Mississippi's Supermax: Conditions Suit Settled by David M. Reutter A class action lawsuit filed on behalf of prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman charged that the totality of conditions are so "hellish" that it makes "Unit …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
U.S. Spends Record $185 Billion on Justice System is 2003 by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke According to a report released by the U.S. Department of Justice?s Bureau of Justice Statistics in April, 2006, the U.S. spent a record $185 billion for police protection, detention, and judicial and legal …
New Jersey Sex Offenders Must Be Protected and Segregated During Transports by A New Jersey federal district court has issued a preliminary injunction requiring prison officials at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel, New Jersey (ADTC) to protect and segregate ADTC prisoners when transporting them to medical appointments …
Raven v. City of Miami, FL, Motion, Seizure by Physical Force Projectiles Organized Event, 2007 Case 1:06-cv-21182-CMA Document 96 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/16/2007 Page 1 of 30 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA MIAMI DIVISION CASE NO: 06 - 21182 - CIV - JORDAN HOLLEY …
Brief • January 16, 2007
Davis v. TDCJ, TX, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2007 Case 9:07-cv-00019-RC-ZJH Document 1 Filed 01/16/07 Page 1 of 47 PageID #: 1 COMPLAINT UNDER 42 USC §1983, CIVIL RIGHTS ACT-TDCJ-ID (Rev. 7/97) IN THE . ' UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TYLER DJVISION Daryl Davis …
Tenth Circuit Reinstates Colorado Ad Seg Conditions Claims by Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has reversed a Colorado state prisoner?s administrative segregation (Ad Seg) conditions of confinement claims which were dismissed as frivolous by the United States District Court for the District of …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Maryland Sentence Reduction Rule Violates Ex Post Facto Clause by The Maryland Court of Appeals has struck down an administrative regulation amending another regulation to deny previously authorized sentence reduction credits for certain categories of prisoners. In January of 2002, Quinton Demby, Jesse Baltimore, Kenneth Woodall, Daniel Falcone, and Earl …
Violence from Racial Tension and Overcrowding Pervades California Jails, Spreads to Prisons by Marvin Mentor by Marvin Mentor Los Angeles (L.A.) County jail prisoners have been locked in interracial gang-controlled violence for the past year, and the unrest has spread to other jails and into California state prisons as prisoners …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Vermont DOC Agrees To Stop Punishing Self-Harming Prisoners by Michael Rigby On May 18, 2006, the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) settled a class-action lawsuit by agreeing to stop punishing prisoners who harm themselves. The VDOC further agreed to implement training, retain consultants, and document the mental health assessments of …
Washington Women’s Prison Healthcare Violations Continue by Washington Women?s Prison Healthcare Violations Continue As we've reported extensively, health care at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), has been woefully inadequate for decades. Reform efforts have been underway since 1993, but the more things change, the more they stay the …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
The Prison and Jail Industry—Who Will Run It by Gary Hunter The Prison and Jail Industry--Who Will Run It by Gary Hunter With the huge growth in American prisons between 1980 and 1990, the American Correctional. Association (ACA) went looking in the past to solve both foreseeable and current problems. …
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