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Article • January 15, 2008
Protection from Personal Document's Disclosure Does Not End With Death in Pennsylvania by Temple University law student Hayes Hunt petitioned the court to review the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections' (DOC) 1996 order denying his request for medical and mental health records of executed prisoner Leon Moser. The denial was affirmed …
Article • January 15, 2008
Psychological Records' Denial Upheld; Specificity in Request Required under Pennsylvania Act by Pro se Pennsylvania state prisoner Amitha Nanayakkara appealed the court's dismissal of his petition for a writ of mandamus to obtain records for use in filing a civil suit in federal court. The denial and dismissal were upheld …
Article • January 15, 2008
Records Requested by Victim Ordered When Police Failed to Justify Lawful Exemption by Massachusetts resident Tameeka Messier filed a motion to compel to acquire documents from the Boston Police Department, Area D 14 (BPD), regarding an injury she allegedly suffered in 1997 during a concert. The BPD failed to present …
Pennsylvania DOC's Nondisclosure of Documents Regarding Chemical Incident Upheld by Court by Pennsylvania state prisoner Christopher Heffran petitioned for review of the Department of Corrections' (DOC) non-production of requested documents regarding his asthma attack. The DOC stated that the requested documents were not public records under the Right to Know …
Article • January 15, 2008
Nebraska Prisoner's Transfer to Another Prison Was Lawful by Robert Hunt, a Nebraska state prisoner, is a Seventh Day Adventist. After nearly 20 years at the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP), he was transferred to the Tecumseh State Correctional Institute (TSCI) against his will. As a result he lost his job …
Bivens Action Inapplicable to Private Prison Employees by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that individual employees of a privately-operated prison are not subject to Eighth Amendment liability under a Bivens action. Before the Court was the defendants' appeal of a North Carolina federal district court's denial of …
As New Regulations Limit Organ Transplants from Executed Chinese Prisoners; South Carolina Allows Organ Donations by Prisoners by In November 2006, China finally admitted that most of the human organs used to satisfy the burgeoning number of transplant-seeking foreigners came from executed prisoners. ?Apart from a small portion of traffic …
Eleventh Circuit Condemns One-Sentence Qualified Immunity Denial Order by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an Alabama federal district court?s order denying jail officials? motions to dismiss on qualified immunity ground, admonishing the district court for only entering ?one sentence orders denying? the motions. Kevin Danley sued under …
Wrongful Death Suit Against LA County Jail Settles For $750,000 by The surviving family of an untreated and mistreated mentally unstable diabetic prisoner who died at the Los Angeles, California (LA) County Jail settled their wrongful death lawsuit against the county and LA Sheriff?s officials for $750,000 in May 2007. …
Washington Pays $665,000 to Prisoner Injured In Racially Motivated Attack by On May 30, 2007, the State of Washington agreed to pay $635,000 to a black prisoner who was injured in an attack by white prisoners. The white prisoners were members of a ?Security Threat Group?. The plaintiff was also …
Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008
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Vermont DOC: Nations Biggest Prison Dispenser of Psychotropic Medication by Vermont DOC: Nations Biggest Prison Dispenser of Psychotropic Medication It is not questioned by those familiar with the population of America's prisoner system that prisons have become the main provider of mental health services since the nation dismantled its psychiatric …
Brief • December 20, 2007
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Order Def Mot SJ, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2007 Case 5:05-cv-03658-JW Document 122 Filed 12/20/2007 Page 1 of 25 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SAN JOSE DIVISION …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
California’s Mother-Child Alternative Prison Centers Investigated by California's Mother-Child Alternative Prison Centers Investigated by John E. Dannenberg California has five alternative prison centers housing 140 women with their children as the mothers serve prison terms for non-violent crimes. Contracted out to Center Point, Inc. of San Rafael, CA, the five …
Pennsylvania County Jail System Overcrowded, Under-Regulated by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Almost everyone with experience on the incarceration side of America's criminal justice system will tell you they would rather do time in prison than in a jail. The primary reason is that the overall conditions of confinement …
Article • December 15, 2007
Deceased Prisoner's Medical Reports Ordered Disclosed To Commission Of Correction Chairman by Chairman of the New York Commission of Correction Alan Croce motioned to compel document production concerning a prisoner's death and treatment. County Department of Health Service Medical Director Jeanne Alicandro, M.D., had denied the request. The court ordered …
California DOC Settles With Mistreated Diabetic Prisoner For $600,000 by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled with a prisoner who had sued for failure to properly treat his diabetic condition that eventually resulted in blindness and amputations. The $600,000 settlement included attorney fees and costs. When Daniel …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
County, Contractor Settle Diabetic New Jersey Prisoner’s Death for $700,000 by County, Contractor Settle Diabetic New Jersey Prisoner's Death for $700,000 On April 3, 2007, Essex County, New Jersey, and Correctional Health Services (CHS) paid $700,000 to settle with the family of a man who died from insulin deficiency after …
Dallas, Texas, Jail Pays $950,000 for Neglecting Mentally Ill Prisoners by Michael Rigby On February 20, 2007, the Dallas County, Texas, Jail agreed to pay $950,000 for its negligent mistreatment of three mentally ill individuals, one of whom died, while imprisoned at the jail awaiting competency hearings. In 2004, James …
Michigan’s Solution to Prisoner Healthcare: Close the Prison by David Reutter Michigan's Solution to Prisoner Healthcare: Close the Prison by David M. Reutter In December 2006, a federal district court found the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) in contempt in the long-running Hadix case, and ordered prison officials to submit …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Sentenced to Science: One Black Man’s Story of Imprisonment in America, by Allen M. Hornblum by Greg Dober Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America, by Allen M. Hornblum Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, 232 pages, 16 illustrations, Cloth Bound, $24.95 Book Review by Greg …
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