MO Prisoner's 1983 Action to Correct Parole Record Dismissed as Frivolous by John Quincy Adams, a Missouri state prisoner, was denied parole based on records stating that he was an alcoholic. He filed suit in a federal district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking correction to his parole record …
Qualified Immunity Denied to Prison Pharmacist That Refused to Fill Prisoner's Prescriptions by Qualified Immunity Denied to Prison Pharmacist That Refused to Fill Prisoner's Prescriptions The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a pharmacist's refusal to fulfill a prescription issued by a doctor to treat a prisoner disentitles …
Missouri Prisoner's Allegation that Prison Doctor Ignored His Constant Complaints of Pain May State 8th Amendment Claim by Missouri Prisoner's Allegation that Prison Doctor Ignored His Constant Complaints of Pain May State 8th Amendment Claim In February of 2002, Robert Taylor, a Missouri state prisoner, injured his knee. A Correctional …
Individual Class Action Settlement Notice Not Required by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that individual notice to each prisoner in a class action is not required and a district court's unexplained failure to set forth reasons or evidence to show the settlement was fair did not render …
Missouri DNA Profiling Program Expanded by In July of 2000, John Clevenger, a Missouri state prisoner serving time for attempted murder, was directed to provide a blood sample for DNA profiling. He complied. Later, he learned that MO. Rev. Stat. § 650.055 allowed the taking of blood only from violent …
Missouri Mental Health Records Must Be Disclosed by The Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services (MOPAS) requested medical peer review reports from Missouri Department of Mental Health Director Dorn Schuffman following a patient's death. Missouri law rendered the report confidential, but the federal Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act …
Restrained Juvenile Prisoner Settles Injury Claim For $1,000 by After filing suit in August 1997, a juvenile female prisoner who suffered emotional distress and facial bruising while being forcibly restrained by personnel at the Marygrove Residential Treatment Facility settled her claim for $1,000. The girl had alleged in her suit, …
No Liability for Attack on Prisoner Collaborator by Segregation prisoners flooded their cells in protest over not receiving clean linens; the plaintiff was ordered to mop up the water. The other prisoners kicked and banged on their cell doors and threatened him. The defendants let another prisoner out of his …
Seizure of State Court Settlement Damages by MO DOC Upheld by Federal Courts by The plaintiff had cash seized on arrest; it was neither returned nor forfeited, so he sued; there was a settlement and the money was paid into his prison account. Eight days later the state invoked the …
MO Jail Guards Denying Seizure Medication amd Assigning Prisoner to Top Bunk May Violate 8th Amendment by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has reversed a federal district court?s grant of summary judgment to jailers who denied seizure medication to a prisoner, who then fell from a …
Missouri Prison Ordered to Provide Immediate Abortion by A federal court in Missouri granted an injunction to a female prisoner, requiring the Women?s Diagnostic and Correctional Center (WERDCC) to transport her for an immediate abortion. Prisoner Roe was approximately 16-17 weeks pregnant and had been requesting an abortion while confined …
Missouri Prisoner Calls Get Cheaper; But Lowest Bid Rejected by The competitive bid process is normally used by state agencies to compel companies to compete with lower bids while providing the same service. Usually, the lowest bid prevails. In the case of providing collect calls for Missouri prisons, the contract …
Female Missouri Prisoners Make $291,000 as Sexy Pen Pals, AG Wants His Cut by Some Missouri prisoners have been making money by soliciting donations from pen pals found using internet web sites. Attorney General Jay Nixon says Missouri wants a piece of the action. Well, actually, the state wants all …
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 …
Missouri Seizes Prisoner Assets Worth $748,682 In 2005 by A more accurate motto for the show me state may be the show me the money state. In 2005 Attorney General Jay Nixon confiscated $748,682 from Missouris most oppressed residents--state prisoners. The money was seized under the 1988 Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement …
Reproductive Rights in Theory and Practice: The Meaning of Roe v. Wade for Women in Prison by Rachel Roth Reproductive Rights in Theory and Practice: The Meaning of Roe v. Wade for Women in Prison by Rachel Roth In 1973, when the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe …
Missouri's 5-Year Limitation Period Applies to § 1983 Claims; 8th Circuit Reverses Earlier Decision to Contrary by Missouri's 5-Year Limitation Period Applies to § 1983 Claims; 8th Circuit Reverses Earlier Decision to Contrary The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that it previously erred in applying a three-year statute of …
Federal District Court Awards Missouri Prisoner $2,500 For Excessive Force by On January 25, 2005, a Missouri prisoner was awarded $2,500 for pain and suffering incurred when guards kicked him in the groin. Lance A. Cole, 24, was arrested for violating his probation by possessing a gun. A day earlier …
Los Angeles County Jail Tests Prisoner Radio ID Tags by by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles (L.A.) County Sheriff's Department will spend $1.5 million to install a computerized radio ID tag system in 2006 to monitor the location of 1,900 prisoners at the Pitchess Detention Center (county jail) in …
Lethal Injection Painful, Study Suggests; U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Issue by by Michael Rigby Hundreds of prisoners killed by lethal injectionthe preferred method of execution in 37 states and the federal Bureau of Prisonsmay have suffered agonizing deaths due to a routine failure to administer enough anesthesia, according to …
