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Problems Continue In Maryland Prisons and Jails by Michael Rigby A battle is raging in Maryland over how best to improve prison safety. Some advocate hiring more guards and medical personnel. Others want to expand prisoner rehabilitation services. Neither side seems to be considering the possibility that both are needed. …
$100,000 Settlement For Black Oklahoma Prisoner Beaten By White Prisoners by Creek County, Oklahoma, has paid $100,000 to a black man who was severely beaten by a group of white prisoners in the county jail. Rameses Gibbs, a black man, was arrested on November 22, 2001, on a misdemeanor charge …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
California Prison Guards Overtime Doubles to $277 Million by California Prison Guards Overtime Doubles to $277 Million The total California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) guard overtime pay in 2005 of $277 million was twice that of 2004. CDCR's 30,000 prison guards averaged $72,000 for the year, gaining about …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
$365,000 Settlement For Restrained, Untreated Michigan Boot Camp Prisoner by On December 22, 2005, the state of Michigan agreed to pay $365,000 to a boot camp prisoner who was strapped in a restraint chair for six hours and later suffered kidney and liver failure. Craig Allen Cook II was arrested …
Muslim Prisoner Attacked by Other Muslims May Sue Prison for Failure to Protect by Marvin Mentor The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a California Muslim prisoner who was attacked by fellow Muslims stated two Eighth Amendment claims against prison officials by alleging that (1) they failed to …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Alabama Sheriff Charged With Raiding Jail Food Fund by Mobile County, Alabama, Sheriff Jack Tilman has been charged with theft and violation of the public officials ethical laws for allegedly taking for personal use funds allocated by the state to feed jail prisoners. Alabama paid Tilman $1.75 per day to …
Offender Rulebook, MO DOC, 2006 OFFENDER RULEBOOK MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Larry Crawford, Department Director MISSION STATEMENT -h e mission of the Missouri Department of :.or~c:·: ll o ns with victims, communities, the state ::.::K beat governments is to improve public safety through secure confinement and …
CCA Florida Jail Operations: An Experiment in Mismanagement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After being in business for twenty-three years, one would think that Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) would have refined the art of running prisons and jails. Yet an examination of CCA's three jails in Florida …
Youth Dies in Florida Boot Camp; Cause of Death Questioned by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For the fifth time in five years a juvenile has died in a Florida boot camp. A videotape of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson being counseled at a Bay County boot camp facility in …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
BOP Transfers Unescorted Prisoners On Civilian Buses, Some Escape by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In a little-known program, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has been allowing unescorted prisoners to transfer between prisons using Greyhound and other civilian buses. Not surprisingly, some never show up at their destination. …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
New York Prisoner Awarded $4,000 For Assault by On May 23, 2005, a New York court of claims awarded $4,000 to a state prisoner who suffered a head injury when another prisoner attacked him. While imprisoned by the State Department of Correctional Services in Elmira, New York, William Crenshaw was …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Hurricane Threat Forces Texas Prison Evacuations, Damage Worsens Overcrowding by Michael Rigby As Rita churned westward through the Gulf of Mexico, at times a monstrous Category 5 hurricane with wind speeds of 175 mph, officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) ordered the evacuation of entire prisons in …
Ohio DOC Stipulates To Vastly Improved Medical Care by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) settled a prisoner class action federal lawsuit on October 6, 2005 by stipulating to comprehensive improvements to its prisoner medical care, grounded in adding 321 medical personnel …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Unconstitutionality of Lockdown of California Hispanics Upheld On Appeal by Marvin Mentor The California Court of Appeal upheld the Del Norte County Superior Courts 2003 ruling [case no. HCPB 00-5164] requiring supermax Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) officials to cease locking down Southern Hispanic prisoners endlessly solely based upon their …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Arizona Jail Prisoners Not Pretty in Pink by Gary Hunter Paraded in pink boxers, pink flip-flops and pink handcuffs more than 2,600 Arizona prisoners walked four blocks to new jail facilities in downtown Phoenix. Most moved from the Madison Street Jail, which closed for remodeling, to either the Towers Jail, …
Seventh Circuit Reinstates $100,000 Award In Indiana Failure-To-Protect Suit by Michael Rigby The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a prisoners $100,000 award against two Indiana prison employees, overturning a district courts reversal of the jury verdict. On September 9, 1998, Robert Pierson, 51, was attacked by fellow …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Political Patronage In Hiring Illinois Prison Wardens? by Julie Wilkerson was a Rend Lake College associate music professor and band director making under $40,000 annually when she was hired as an assistant warden at Indianas Big Muddy River Correctional Center at a salary of $65,000 a year. Two other newly-minted …
Texas Federal District Judge Throws Out VitaPro Convictions by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In another bizarre twist to an already bewildering prosecution history, on September 9, 2005, Texas federal district judge Lynn Hughes, by judicial fiat, acquitted Andy Collins, the former executive director of the Texas Department of …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
CONMED Not Using Licensed Nurses In Maryland Jail by Attempts to get jail medical services on the cheap may have backfired for Marylands Queen Anne County. CONMED, a private jail medical services company, has a contract to provide medical services at the countys 80-bed jail and 11 other Maryland jails. …
Los Angeles Jail Pays $375,000 To Assaulted Keep Away Prisoner by Los Angeles Jail Pays $375,000 To Assaulted Keep Away Prisoner Los Angeles County, California, should pay $375,000 to a former prisoner who was severely beaten after being improperly celled with his assailant, the County Claims Board recommended on December …
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