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Baker v. CCA, VT, Settlement, Lee riot guard beating, 2005 LYNN, TM1 & M1HALICH 7 FC ATTORNEYS AT LAW BARBARA R. BLACKMAN STEVEN C. COLLIER PIETRO J. LYNN JENNIFER G. MIHALICH MATTHEW A. SIEBEL HEATHER E. THOMAS JEFFREY S. MARLIN March 13, 2006 Devin McLaughlin, Esq. Langrock Sperry & Wool …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Low Pay Drives Tennessee Guards to Smuggle Drugs, Contraband into Prisons by Tennessee lawmakers are complaining that their prison guards are helping to drugs and other contraband into the state's prisons. They specifically are bemoaning that those guards are being allowed to quit or resign without facing criminal prosecution when …
Maryland's PHS Prison Health Care Under Fire, New System Implemented by by Michael Rigby A Maryland prison is no place to get sick. Virtually every facet of prisoner health care, which has been provided by Tennessee-based Prison Health Services (PHS) since 2000, is in disarray. Prisoners sometimes receive the wrong …
Incompetence, Brutality and Scandal Infest Tennessee Prisons and Jails by by Michael Rigby Tennessee isn't known for its huge prison system, like Texas or California. Nor is the state's capital city, Nashville, recognized for massively overcrowded jails such as the ones in Los Angeles or New York City. But one …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
New York Prisoner Attacked On Bus Awarded $600,000 by On April 28, 2005, a New York prisoner was awarded $600,000 for injuries he sustained when other prisoners attacked him on a prison bus. Plaintiff Daniel Arroyo, 17, was convicted of a youthful offense. On November 9, 1994, while being transported …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Kentucky Prisoner Injured In Transport Vehicle Awarded $9,000 by On June 3, 2005, a Kentucky jury awarded $9,000 to a prisoner who was injured while riding in a jail transport vehicle. Plaintiff Steven Jarmon was imprisoned in a Louisville jail on robbery charges. On February 15, 2000, Jarmon, 38, and …
Georgia DOC Settles Failure-To-Protect Suit for $15,000 by Michael Rigby In September 2004, the Georgia Department of Corrections (CDOC) settled for $15,000 a prisoner lawsuit alleging that understaffing at the maximum-security Georgia State Prison (GSP) compromised prisoner safety. The GDOC also agreed to increase staffing levels in prisoner housing areas …
Wilkins v. Oakland, CA, Response, Mot to Bifurcate, 2006 4 BRIAN T. DUNN (SBN 176502) COCHRAN, CHERRY, GIVENS, SMITH & STEWART 4929 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1010 Los Angeles, California 90010-3856 Telephone: (323) 931-6200 Facsimile: (323) 931-9521 5 Attorneys for all Plaintiffs 6 MICHAEL J. HADDAD (State Bar No. 189114) JULIA …
Brief • February 7, 2006
Westefer v. Snyder, IL, Class Action Memo, ad seg condition of confinement, 2010 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ROBERT WESTEFER, et al., No. 00-162-GPM Plaintiffs, v. DONALD SNYDER, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS' MOTION TO CERTIFY THE PLAINTIFF CLASS INTRODUCTION …
Texas Jails Troubled by Deaths, Negligence and Failed Inspections by Gary Hunter For decades Texas jails have been cesspool's of misery, medical neglect, brutality and over crowding. Class action litigation in the 1970's alleviated some of the worst aspects of the Texas jail system and led to modest improvements. By …
Michigan's Dirty Little Secret: Sexual Abuse of Female Prisoners Pervasive, Ongoing by by Michael Rigby Despite reports of sexual abuse dating back 20 years ... despite a tumultuous decade of lawsuits that cost millions of taxpayer dollars ... and despite a promise by state officials to implement sweeping reforms, the …
North Carolina Pays $43,500 to Women Strip-Searched By Prisoners by by Michael Rigby The North Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) has paid $43,500 to four women who were subjected to strip and body-cavity searches performed by other prisoners and to a fifth who was beaten when she refused to undress. …
Private Prison Firms Stumble; Hire Former California Officials to Lobby for For-Profit Facilities by Private prison companies, which presently house only 2,550 of California's 165,000 prisoners, have hired a former county lawmaker, former CDC employees and the former state Finance Director in an attempt to expand into the $7 billion …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries, Food
Death Penalty for Texas Prison Horses Stirs Controversy by Between February 2003 and November 2004, the Texas prison system sold 53 horses to the Dallas Crown slaughterhouse in Kaufmann, Texas, for processing into meat for human consumption. This violates § 149.003 of the Texas Agriculture Code. The first offense is …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
New Jersey Taxpayers Underwrite Unqualified, Unnecessary Prison Employees by The New Jersey prison system is infested with parasitic employees--thrust upon the department by legislators and the governor's office--who bleed state taxpayers for more than $850,000 a year, Department of Corrections (DOC) commissioner Devon Brown has admitted. The revelation came during …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Class Action Suit Filed Against L.A. County Jail After 4,000 MRSA Infections by by John E. Dannenberg A class action lawsuit against Los Angeles (L.A.) County and its Sheriff Leroy Baca was filed in 2004 in the United States District Court (C.D. Cal.) on behalf of an estimated 4,000 present …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Wisconsin Must Install Air Conditioning in Supermax by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order requiring prison officials to take immediate steps to air condition the cells of Wisconsin's supermax prison. In 2000, two prisoners confined in the Supermax prison in Boschobel, Wisconsin brought suit alleging …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Double-Celling Mentally Ill California Ad-Seg Prisoners Proves Fatal by When administratively segregated mentally ill prisoners were placed in the same cell at California State Prison, Los Angeles (LAC) in September, 2004, one strangled the other with a bed sheet. Upon investigating the death, the watchdog Office of the Inspector General …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Hawaii Prisoner Injured In Fight Awarded $25,427 by On February 1, 2005, a Hawaii court awarded $25,427.00 to a prisoner who claimed he was assaulted by another prisoner. Plaintiff Lael Samonte, 47, contended that while imprisoned at the Halawa Correctional Facility on May 22, 2002, he was attacked and knocked …
Brief • January 3, 2006
Lake v. Schoharie County, NY, Medical Lake Case, Order, 2006
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