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South Dakota Prison Conditions Class Action Settled by The federal district court in South Dakota has dissolved a state prison conditions consent decree and approved a class action settlement, ending two decades of litigation. State prisoners filed a §1983 suit challenging prison conditions, certified as a class action in 1982. …
Blind Ohio Prisoner Spends Months in Strip Cell by Ronald Young Blind Ohio Prisoner Spends Months In Strip Cell by Ronald Young An investigation by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) revealed that a blind prisoner at the Orient Correctional Institution in Pickaway County was subjected to three …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Environmental Challenge Bars Construction of California Prison by Rose Braz by Rose Braz, Esq. A Kern County, California, supperior court judge has barred the state from proceeding with plans to build a $335 million, 5,160 bed maximum-security prison slated for Delano. The groundbreaking ruling came in an environmental lawsuit filed …
Mississippi Taxpayers Fund Welfare Payments to Private Prisons by Ronald Young Mississippi Taxpayers Fund Welfare Payments To Private Prisons by Ronald A. Young Mississippi taxpayers will pay about $6 million a year to private and regional prisons for "ghost inmates" under a bill the legislature approved on March 26, 2001. …
Prisoners Riot in Dartmouth Jail by Gary Hunter On April 15, 2001, the scene at the Dartmouth House of Correction in Massachusetts could have been lifted straight from the pages of a medieval novel. Prisoners stormed the woodshop, armed themselves with boards, then set the shop afire. While one group …
Summary Judgment Denied in Oklahoma Jail Beating by A federal district court in Oklahoma has denied summary judgment against a pretrial detainee's failure to protect and deliberate indifference to medical needs claims. On September 5, 1995, John Winton was booked into the Tulsa County Jail on shooting charges that were …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
$522,458 Rebate Ordered in California Prisoner Phone Overcharges by John E Dannenberg The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ordered MCI Telecommunications Corp. (MCI) to offset $522,458 in overcharges it made between June 14, 1996, and July 12, 1999, on MCI California Maximum Security Calls (i.e., California prisoner collect calls) by …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Notes from the Unrepenitentiary: A Matter of the Past by Marilyn Buck In Charlottesville, Virginia, Mary Smith, a Black working class woman, got fired from her job at the University of Virginia Medical Center. So did eight other workers. They all had prior felony convictions. Ms. Smith's was for $200 …
Colombian Rebels Attack Prisons, 140 Prisoners Flee by Prison escapes are common in Colombia. Prisoners often buy the help of guards and administrators and are often able to outgun their jailers. In the case that follows they had concerted help from the outside. It is not the first time that …
California Racial Segregation Case Reversed; Phone Claim Dismissed by Holding that the action was not time-barred and otherwise stated an actionable claim, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s pro se action which claimed that California state prisons practiced racial …
Summary Judgment Granted for Forced Religious Substance Abuse Program by A New York federal district court has awarded summary judgment to a prisoner who held agnostic beliefs and was forced to participate in a prison religious-based substance abuse program. New York prisoner Troy Alexander sued officials at Cayuga Correctional Facility …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Cell Search, Property Seizure Suit Set for Trial by Cell Search, Property Seizure Suit Set For Trial A federal district court in Delaware held that summary judgment was not appropriate to decide if a prisoner's cell had been illegally searched and his papers improperly seized. Michael Jordan, a Delaware prisoner, …
Jailhouse Lawyering Protected; Frivolous Claims Are Not by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that a prisoner could not maintain an access to the courts claim based on an action that has been dismissed as frivolous, but the plaintiff can …
New Trial Ordered in Excessive Use of Force Suit by A federal district court in New York has ordered a new trial in a civil rights excessive use of force suit. Prisoner Milton Ruffin filed suit against Sullivan Correctional Facility guard Van Fuller for an incident that occurred on October …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
California Dials Wrong Number by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely In reaction to bad publicity, lawsuits, and legislative hearings following a record number of fatal shootings of unarmed male prisoners, staged fights, and the sexual abuse and medical neglect of women prisoners, California established the allegedly independent Office of Inspector …
Brief • November 14, 2001
Hallett v. NY DOC, NY, Second Amended Complaint, Work Release Access, 2001
Brief • November 4, 2001
Filed under: Strip Searches
Charles E. Austin; Et Al. V. Reginald Wilkinson; Et Al. - Grassian Expert Report on Strip Searches • . LexisNexis· User Name: Carleigh Zeman Date and Time: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:04:00 PM EDT Job Number: 169298329 Document (1) 1. REPORT OF STUART GRASSIAN, M.D., 2001 Misc. Filings LEXIS 627 …
America's Jails: The Dungeons of the New Millenium by Sam Rutherford At any given time there are approximately 500,000 people incarcerated in the more than 3,500 city and county jails across the United States. Some of these individuals are confined while awaiting trial, others are serving relatively short sentences for …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
From the Editor by Paul Wright PLN frequently reports on litigation and news arising from jails. This month's cover story, America's Jails: The Dungeons of the New Millenium , takes a broad look at the problems afflicting American jails: brutality, overcrowding, medical neglect, corruption, sexual assaults, etc. In many respects …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
The Connally Seven - A Texas Prison Escape and its Aftermath by Roger Hummel The John B. Connally State Prison is a 2,800-capacity maximum security facility for men. As part of Texas' $2 billion prison building frenzy of the 1990's, construction of the so-called "Michael prototype" unit was completed in …
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