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Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief: Arkansas: On August 23, 2001, Joseph Davis, 39, and Bobby Green, 51, prisoners at a state prison in Varner feigned illness and jumped a guard. The men then stole the guard's truck and kidnapped an unidentified off duty guard and his daughter. The …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Denial of Treatment for Two Hours Defeats Qualified Immunity by Denial Of Treatment For Two Hours Defeats Qualified Immunity Afederal district court in Alabama has held a detainee's allegations that guards failed to take action on his complaints of chest pains for over two hours defeats qualified immunity. After being …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
New Missouri Mega-Prison Mothballed by Ronald Young What if they built a prison and nobody came? It's every prison abolitionist's dream come true. Such a reality has unfolded, even if only temporarily, in the rural Missouri community of Bonne Terre. The economic history of Bonne Terre is a familiar one, …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Administrative Remedies Need Not Identify Wrongdoers by The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has held that prisoners do not need to identify those persons directly involved in the alleged deprivations in their administrative remedies to satisfy the exhaustion requirement of 42 U.S.C. § 1997(e)a. Prisoner Raymond Brown filed …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Connecticut and Florida Change Felon Disenfranchisement Laws by Connecticut and Florida take different approaches as they address the disenfranchisement of convicted felons. In Connecticut, state lawmakers, after intense debate and much legislative maneuvering, passed a bill that gives back the right to vote to convicted felons on probation. In a …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Staff Shortage in Nation's Prisons by Gary Hunter Across the nation, states are plagued by a shortage of prison guards. A decade of building prisons has created an industry that employs more people than General Electric, and costs taxpayers in excess of $40 billion a year. To fill the shortage …
Excessive Force Claims Not Subject to Exhaustion; Supreme Court Grants Review by The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) does not apply to assault and excessive force claims. Connecticut state prisoner Ronald Nussle brought a …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Filed under: Classification, Escapes
Two Studies Criticize Texas Department of Criminal Justice by Gary Hunter Two independent studies, one by the Institute on Crime, Justice, and Corrections, the other by Security Response Technologies, indicate that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) needs stricter guidelines in assigning prisoners to housing areas and work details. …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Prison Guard Sentenced in Escape Plot by Willie Wisely Erik Jacobs, 31, a former guard at Ely State Prison in Nevada was sentenced to one year in jail and fined $2,000 for helping a prisoner plan an escape. Jacobs was sentenced in March, 2001, by White Pine District Judge Dan …
Texas Jury Awards $70,000 in Prison Stabbing by Ronald Young In May 2001, a federal court jury in Corpus Christi, Texas, held three Texas prison officials responsible for a 1997 attack during which a prisoner at the McConnell Unit was stabbed about a dozen times by another prisoner who had …
Jury Awards Imprisoned KKK Member $55,000 in Texas Jail Beating by On July 19, 2000, a federal jury in Houston, Texas, awarded a Ku Klux Klan member damages totaling $55,000 after he was beaten by black prisoners with whom he was forced to share a cell. Larry Webster, 42, was …
Rape Rarely Prosecuted in Texas Prisons by Gary Hunter According to recent reports, rape in Texas' prisons is the highest in the nation. Based on research from 19952000, of the 660 cases reported barely 4 percent have been prosecuted. Why does the state that prides itself on having the highest …
Brief • December 14, 2001
Filed under: Workplace Injury
Carruthers v. Pride, FL, Complaint, Work Injury, 2001 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR. LEON COUNT', FLORIDA CASE NO.: D CD DIVISION: Calvin Carruthers Plaintiff, • C:. • (VI tlfr27 r." VS. Prisons Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises, Inc, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, and Donald Larson, …
Brief • December 6, 2001
Karcher v. Pierce County, WA, Class Action Complaint, Failure to Protect From Tuberculosis, 2001 RECEIVED CLAIM FOR DAMAGES FORWA (i (i' UNTYRISKMANAGEMENTDEPARTMENT OEC :.. 5 2001 TO PROSECUTING ATTY. "S: SHE~iii-F" 955 Tacoma Avenu~ South, Suite 303 Tacoma, Washmgton 98402 (253) 798-7462 DEC - 62001 R~R~9..~~8~~t~T HAI\iD DELIVERED f-~ -""2"tDf:t-/ …
Brief • December 4, 2001
Wright v. WA DOC, WA, Complaint, Achilles Injury Medical Negligence, 2001 .: .--._- I STANDARD TO~T CL.AIM FORM General Uabilily f' . " Form #SF 210' '. Pu~uant' to RCW 4.92, this fonn is provided for your convenience when filing a lort claim against the State of Washington. If filing …
Brief • December 3, 2001
Clark v. State of California, CA, Court Order, ADA Cruel and Unusual Punishment, 2001 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PRISONLAWOFFICE DONALD SPECTER #83925 HEATHER MacKA Y #161434 SARA NORMAN #189536 General Delivery San Quentin, CA 94964 Telephone: (415) 457-9144 ORKGKN.iiL CHAVEZ & GERTLER MARK A. CHAVEZ #90858 …
Brief • November 30, 2001
Jones v. DC, Complaint, Slip and Fall, 2001 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Civil Division THEODORE JONES 12737 Midwood Lane Bowie, MD 20714 Plaintiff v. ~~~~_" THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA A Municipal Corporation 441 Fourth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 c •.~, Civil Action No. Calendar Judge FILED …
Publication • November 16, 2001
Lawmakers Reach Deal on Air Security, Chicago Tribune, 2001 Cbicago, IL Trl.ulII C~ICl8' Mil Arll ~fidiIJ 0122,882 NOV 16. <:lee I 1'11'" • ~II III SECURITY: I ' ' ' ' • " . . . " . " • • ,.' ,., ON CAPITOL HILL Thursday, individual airports hired …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Washington's Island of Deviant Doctors by Roger Smith The McNeil Island Correction Center (MICC), located on McNeil Island near Steilacoom, Washington, has a long history of hiring misfits in its medical and psychological departments. In order to secure such a position it almost seems as though one must have drug …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Washington DOC Pays $24,697 in PLN Records Suit by The cover story in this issue of PLN , "Washington's Island of Deviant Doctors," is the result of a lengthy investigation into the provision of medical care to prisoners and civil commitment "residents" at the McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) in …
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