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Oklahoma Jailhouse Informants Settle Failure to Protect Suit for $80,000 by Federal prisoners Curtis Sherfield and Hugh Grayson, who were being held at the Oklahoma County jail on federal drug charges, were given a total of $80,000 in December 2001 to settle their lawsuit against the county after they were …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Judge Awards $2.8 Million to Victims of CSC Texas Boot Camp Sexual Abuse by Judge Awards $2.8 million to Victims of CSC Texas Boot Camp Sexual Abuse On March 5, 2001, State District Court Judge Paul Enlow found Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) criminally liable for the actions of two former …
Criminal Guards in Texas by Four female guards were each freed from Jefferson County Jail on $6,000 bond early in January 2002 after being charged with crimes involving sex with Texas prisoners. The four women were employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) at the Mark W. Stiles …
CCA Conditions Claim Not Frivolous by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Tennessee Federal District Court's dismissal of a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims as frivolous, vacating and remanding part of the lower court's decision with instructions. David Dellis is a Wisconsin prisoner who was for a …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
PLRA and AEDPA Have Different Effects on Prisoner Petitions by In a December 2001 special report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, determined that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) have had significant, but …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Court Reviewability of California Parole Denials Survives; No Parole Policy Goes to State Supreme Court by Marvin Mentor The California Supreme Court let stand one appellate court's ruling that the California Board of Prison Terms' (BPT) lifer parole denial decisions were subject to court oversight under a "some evidence" standard, …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by California: On May 1, 2002, the Wasco State Prison banned all smoking by prisoners at the facility, becoming the second state prison in California to do so. Prison officials claimed it was costing $250,000 a year to reprimand prisoners smoking in non smoking areas and to …
News in Brief by Roger Hummel Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Editorials, Juveniles
From the Editor by Paul Wright 9-11 Immigration Detainees NJ Sex Offender Website Florida Guards Acquitted Parents' Project S.Ct. on Civil Commitment $3.5 Million Nevada Settlement Damages in Michigan Smoking Case Legal Mail Bans $2.8 Million TX Boot Camp Award Texas Guards California Parole News in Brief When people think …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Washington Prisoner Attorney Disciplined for Negligence by by Lonnie Burton Attorney Jean Scheidler-Brown holds the DOC "free-services" contract to provide legal representation to prisoners incarcerated at McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) and the Washington Correction Center for Women, both in Washington state. In April 1997, she agreed to represent MICC …
USPC Reverses Stance on HIV Discrimination after Suit Filed by Deborah M Golden by Deborah M. Golden In September 2001, the United States Parole Commission (USPC) issued a Notice of Action that, while not precedent, signifies an important policy and a possible way for prisoners to challenge parole decisions. The …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Suicides, Juveniles
Texas Juvenile Jail Suicide Settles for $100,000 by On October 5, 2001, the Denton County Juvenile Detention Center in Texas agreed to a pre lawsuit settlement of $100,000 in the suicide death of Seth Moss. Moss, 15, was being held in the Center as a runaway. Apparently Moss hung himself …
Remand Defeats Georgia DOC's Attempted 11th Amendment Immunity Bar by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The US District Court (M.D. Ga.) remanded a state prisoner 42 USC §1983 medical indifference civil rights suit back to state court because under state law, defendant Georgia Dept. of Corrections (DOC) could …
BOP Policy Denying Electric Musical Instruments Upheld; Religious Exception Enjoined by The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has upheld the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy prohibiting prisoners from using or possessing electric guitars or electronic musical instruments. The court enjoined BOP's exception that permitted electric …
Wisconsin DOC in Contempt for Not Collecting PLRA Fees by Wisconsin DOC in Contempt For Not Collecting PLRA Fees The US District Court (E.D. Wis.) issued an Order to Show Cause to Wisconsin DOC Secretary Jon E. Litscher as to why he should not be held in contempt for declaring …
Statute of Limitation Tolled by Administrative Exhaustion by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for the has reversed and remanded for a district court to decide, in the first instance, whether the statute of limitations is tolled by a prisoner's satisfaction of the mandatory exhaustion requirements of 42 U.S.C. § …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
New Florida Trend: Abuse in a Spray Can by Frank Valdes may have accomplished in death what he could not in life: a decrease in prisoner beatings by guards. The problem of abusive guards, nonetheless, has not disappeared after Valdes's murder. The form of the abuse has progressed to frequent …
Motion Accepted as Appeal Notice; Damage Award Set Off Against Costs by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a pro se motion must be accepted as a notice of appeal if it states the intent to appeal, and that a jury's damage award could be set off …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Nevada Juvenile Road Accident Kills Six, Settles for $3.5 Million by Six Nevada teenagers in a juvenile offender program working to pay off fees and restitution in lieu of doing time in a detention center were struck and killed in March 2000 as they picked up trash on a freeway …
Brief • August 13, 2002
Maxwell v Haley Al Pi Motion 2002 Heat Conditions FILED IN THE-'UNITED-STATES DISTRICT FOR PNEMIDb± DISTRICT OF AL rAw MICHAEL MAXVflIQJBIU.Y P 3: HENDERSON, & JOHN CALHOUN, Plaintiffs, vs. Case No. a. Cu 33 CLERK U. S. DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DIST. OF ALA. MICHAEL HALEY, Commissioner of the Alabama Department …
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