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Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Alaska Supreme Court Reverses Former Prisoner's $2.4 Million Jury Award by The Supreme Court of Alaska reversed a jury verdict and a $2.4 million damage award in favor of a former prisoner who was injured when he fell down a stairway. In February 1994, Carry Johnson was returning to his …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
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News in Brief by Alabama: In April 2001, four unnamed guards at the Morgan County jail in Decatur were fired for leaving their posts on April Fools Day to play jokes on each other. The jokes included smearing shaving cream on each other, covering their cars with toilet paper and …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
From the Editor by Paul Wright The recent attacks of the World Trade Center towers (WTC) in New York City and the Pentagon have filled the news. Largely ignored by the corporate media has been the federal government's treatment of people convicted in previous Muslim terrorist attacks, such as the …
Virginia Settles Juvenile Death Suit for $1.2 Million by In early April 2001, the Virginia Attorney General's office announced it had agreed to settle a wrongful death suit for $1.2 million. In the December 1999 issue of PLN we reported the death of Wallace Dandridge, 16, a developmentally disabled child …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Children Strip-Searched While Touring DC Jail by In April and May 2001, school children were strip searched while touring a jail in Washington, D.C. A lawsuit seeking $4 million for each of six girls and one boy is forthcoming. D.C. schools routinely schedule these tours for children with behavioral problems. …
DC Prison Guards Smuggled Cash, Pagers by Ten Washington, D.C., prison guards were charged with conspiracy to smuggle cash and twoway pagers to prisoners in federal indictments unsealed April 31, 2001. The guards, nine of whom work for Corrections Corporation of America, a private company operating the Correctional Treatment Facility …
Hawaii Prison Doctors Denied Qualified Immunity by AU.S. district court found that Hawaii state prison physicians were deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's medical needs and were not entitled to qualified immunity. Raymond Kenney filed suit in state court alleging denial of medication to control his seizures while he was a …
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 …
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