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Dental Care Denial Defeats Summary Judgment
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Filed under: Dental Care, Civil Procedure, Complaints, Parties, Limitations
Dental Care Denial Defeats Summary Judgment by A federal district court in Illinois has denied summary judgment in a prisoner's denial of dental treatment claim under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and expounded on the relations back upon amendment provision of Fed.R.Civ.P. 15(c). While a detainee at the Cook County …
Washington Sex Offender Therapist Fired for Sex Related Misconduct
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Filed under: Sexual Harassment, Staff-Staff Harassment, Medical Misconduct, Civil Commitment
Washington Sex Offender Therapist Fired for Sex Related Misconduct by Thomas Smith is again in hot water over his seemingly endless sexoriented misconduct. On February 12, 2002 he was fired from his therapist position at the Special Commitment Center (SCC) on McNeil Island near Steilacoom, Washington. He had "treated" civilly …
News in Brief
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by California: On June 24, 2002, San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews pleaded not guilty to felony assault charges stemming from his stabbing of Martin Stanley when he caught Stanley urinating on a fence in front of his home. Andrews stabbed Stanley seriously enough to expose his intestines …
Death Row Prisoners Volunteer to Die
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty, Death Row
Death Row Prisoners Volunteer to Die by Late in 1997, Arizona began moving death row prisoners to a super-maximum security facility. There, they are held in small, separate cells for 23 hours a day with almost no interaction with other human beings. In Florida, prison officials recently added a mesh …
Review: The Criminal Law Handbook, 3rd Edition
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews, Resources
Review: The Criminal Law Handbook, 3rd Edition by by Paul Bergman and Sara J. Berman-Barrett. Nolo, 606 pages, paperback, $29.95 A sure-fire method to eliminate future overcrowding of our nation's prisons would be to compel each aspiring scofflaw to read the third edition of The Criminal Law Handbook before his …
Pennington v. City of Youngstown, Complaint, Oh, Wrongful Death-excessive Force, 2002
Brief • September 12, 2002
Pennington v. City of Youngstown, Complaint, Oh, Wrongful Death-excessive Force, 2002 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION DENISE PENNINGTON, Stepdaughter and Administrator of the Estate of BOOKER T. MITCHELL 1465 Townsend Avenue, Apt. 22 Youngstown, OH 44505 ) ) ) ) ) …
Ashburn v. Mapes, Ia, Deliberate Indifference, 2002
Brief • September 4, 2002
Ashburn v. Mapes, Ia, Deliberate Indifference, 2002 Case 4:02-cv-90447-RP-TJS Document 1 Filed 09/04/2002 Page 1 of 35 Case 4:02-cv-90447-RP-TJS Document 1 Filed 09/04/2002 Page 2 of 35 Case 4:02-cv-90447-RP-TJS Document 1 Filed 09/04/2002 Page 3 of 35 Case 4:02-cv-90447-RP-TJS Document 1 Filed 09/04/2002 Page 4 of 35 Case 4:02-cv-90447-RP-TJS Document …
Sheptin v. US, IL, Attorney Fees, BOP Hepatitis C Medical Suit, 2000
Brief • September 3, 2002
Filed under: Hepatitis, Failure to Treat
Sheptin v. US, IL, Attorney Fees, BOP Hepatitis C Medical Suit, 2000
Wirtz v Washington State Doc Wa Complaint Inmate Worker Slip and Fall 2002
Brief • August 27, 2002
Wirtz v Washington State Doc Wa Complaint Inmate Worker Slip and Fall 2002 , .~ " I STANDARD TO~ CLAIM FORM General L1ablllty CJaim Form #SF 210 STATE OFFiCE OF RISK ~Jv\NAGEMENT Pursuant to RCW' 4.92, this fomi Is provided for your convenience when filIng a tort claim against the …
Cooper v. WA DOC, WA, Complaint, Unlawful Detention After Time Served, 2002
Brief • August 22, 2002
Cooper v. WA DOC, WA, Complaint, Unlawful Detention After Time Served, 2002 3/DS4-50l 1 NOTJ:CB _OF CLAIH FOR DAMAGBS 2 AGAINST WASHINGTON STATE 3 -ro: TORT CLAIMS ADM:tNJ:STRA~OR STATE OFFiCE OF RISK MANAGEMENT lID? AUG 22 AM 9: 43 B'OR THE OFFICE OF RISK HMJAGEMEN'll' 4 01' THE STATE OF …
Duvall v. Glendening, MD, Consent Order, Excessive Heat, 2002
Brief • August 22, 2002
Filed under: Exposure to Heat
Duvall v. Glendening, MD, Consent Order, Excessive Heat, 2002 08 122 102 .. 15:55 FA.X J10 J66 7838 A C L t: ~016 ., IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND ) JEROME DUVALL, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) ) Civil Action No. JFM-94-2541 …
Ill Treatment on Our Shores
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Discrimination, Political Prisoners, Racial Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Cardiovascular, Failure to Protect (General), Exposure to Cold, Jail Specific, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Immigration, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
Ill Treatment on Our Shores by Anne-Marie Cusac ( On October 24, 2001, Muhammed Butt died of a heart attack at the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, New Jersey. Butt, a Pakistani national, was detained on September 19 by the FBI as a suspect connected with the September 11 …
New Jersey Goes Online with Sex Offender Website
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Sex Offender Registration, Crime/Demographics, Databases, Ex Post Facto
New Jersey Goes Online with Sex Offender Website by A federal district court in New Jersey has denied sex offender plaintiffs Motion for Preliminary Injunction Relief seeking to prevent implementation of New Jersey's (NJ) Internet sex offender registry, but barred the listing of the offenders' home addresses. On November 7, …
Florida Guards Murder Another Prisoner, Get Another Acquittal
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Prison/Jail Murders, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Juries, Death Row
Florida Guards Murder Another Prisoner, Get Another Acquittal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A state jury has acquitted three Florida prison guards in the murder of death row inmate Frank Valdes. The guards, Captain Timothy Thornton, Sgt. Jason P. Griffis, and Sgt. Charles A. Brown, were exonerated of …
No 85% on New Jersey Murder Conviction
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time, Parole
No 85% on New Jersey Murder Conviction by The Supreme Court of New Jersey has affirmed an Appellate Division's holding that the No Early Release Act (NERA), N.J.S.A. 2C:43-7.2, does not apply to murder. The justices evenly split on this case of statutory construction. Murder is the only crime for …
The Parents' Project
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Resources, Juveniles, Family Law, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison
The Parents' Project by Denise Johnston by Denise Johnston and Michael Carlin According to the U.S. Department of Labor, more than 25% of the nation's adult population lives with a criminal record for a substantial portion of their lives. The majority of these adults are parents. The Center for Children …
Prisoner's Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in The United States and Canada , 2 nd Ed.
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Reviews, Prisoner Privileges, Education
Prisoner's Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in The United States and Canada , 2 nd Ed. by Hans Sherrer by Jon Marc Taylor, Biddle Publishing Co., 2002, pb. 341 pages Review by Hans Sherrer All across the country DOC educational programs available to prisoners are being reduced or eliminated. That …
Courts Retain Power To Grant TROs Under PLRA
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Transfers, PLRA, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Injunctions (PLRA), Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Religious Grooming
Courts Retain Power To Grant TROs Under PLRA by The District of Columbia (DC) Court of Appeals has vacated a district court ruling on the merits of a prisoner lawsuit where the district court also found that the prisoner plaintiffs failed to exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing suit. Louis …
Officials Netted in Kansas Jail Bribery
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Private Prisons, Contractor Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution
Officials Netted in Kansas Jail Bribery by A private company, MgtGP Inc., was awarded a $1.5 Million contract in 1997, and a four-year renewal in January 1997 worth $615,000 for that year alone, to run Kansas's Reno County Jail Annex. In May 2001, Reno's Sheriff, Larry Leslie, pled innocent to …
Kansas Sexual Predator Civil Commitment Standards Refined by U.S. Supreme Court
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Mental Health, Civil Commitment
Kansas Sexual Predator Civil Commitment Standards Refined by U.S. Supreme Court by The U.S. Supreme Court refined its earlier ruling that a sexually violent predator could constitutionally be civilly committed after his criminal sentence had been served by distinguishing sexual misbehavioral impairment classifications into those caused by an uncontrollable mental …
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