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Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Rhode Island Prison Strip Searches Struck Down by The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has held that two Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) policies routinely subjecting all males committed to the state prison to strip searches and visual body cavity searches are not reasonable under Bell v …
Failure to Protect Confidential Informant Not Deliberate Indifference by The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the conduct of a county, when housing a prisoner with another prisoner against whom he had acted as a confidential informant, did not rise to the level of an Eighth Amendment …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Suits Claiming Racial Discrimination Plague Florida Prisons by Gary Hunter Citing incidents dating back to 1993, over 100 current and past employees are suing the Florida DOC for perpetuating a "long standing custom or policy of racial discrimination." What began as two law suits in December 1999 increased to four …
Private Prison Woes in Ohio by Gary Hunter Less than two years after it opened, the second privately operated prison in the state of Ohio is already in trouble. CiviGenics, a private prison company out of Massachusetts, has succumbed to pressure applied by the state employees union. On January 10, …
BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm by In October, 2000, federal prison guards Troy Kemmerer and Todd Swineford were arrested and indicted for accepting money to help smuggle cryogenic sperm kits to a New York City fertility clinic. The investigation began over two years ago when convicted hit man Kevin Granato sat …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
'Invisible' Prisoner Gets $36,200 for Wrongful Imprisonment by A Mississippi man who was improperly jailed for nearly 10 months because of a "bureaucratic snafu" was awarded just $36,200 by a federal jury in Jackson, Mississippi in October 2000. Joseph Jones, a Jackson mechanic, was stopped by a state patrol officer …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Oklahoma Governor Takes Entrepreneur's Bribe by Oklahoma officials are investigating the propriety of $240,000 in cash gifts given to that State's governor, Frank Keating. Jack Dreyfus, an entrepreneur who hopes to convince Oklahoma prison officials to use Dilantin (a seizure medication) to control violent prisoners, made the gifts. After receiving …
FPI Has Sovereign Immunity in Fraud Action by The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI) is entitled to sovereign immunity in a qui tam suit brought under the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq. Gilbert W. Galvan, a federal …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Washington Supreme Court Upholds 35% Seizure Law by Roger Smith Washington Supreme Court Upholds 35% Seizure Law; But Prisoners Entitled To Interest From Mandatory Savings Accounts The Washington Supreme Court has declared RCW § 72.09.480 to be constitutional. The statute directs the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) to seize 35% …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
No Workers' Compensation for Ohio Slave Laborers by Gary Hunter An attempt by Ohio prisons to manufacture items for retail business had to be cancelled because it could not provide Workers' Compensation insurance for prisoners. State Inspector General Thomas P. Charles says the state is not at fault. Rather, the …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Former BOP Prisoner Settles Medical Suit for $355,000 by Lonnie Burton The federal government wrote Terry Dean Scearce a check for $355,000 in November, 2000, to settle his claim that he suffered a stroke in 1998 because prison officials did not give him the medicine prescribed to treat his high …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
New York Prisoners Prosecuted by Gary Hunter The prosecution of prisoners in Greene County New York is a high priority for District Attorney Terry Wilhelm. In the first nine months of his tenure, Wilhelm secured 23 indictments from the Greene and Coxsackie Correctional Facilities. His predecessor, Ed Cloke, prosecuted only …
Brief • September 6, 2001
Filed under: Jail Specific
Bassil v. District of Columbia, DC, Judgment, Class Action, Bacteria Outbreak, 2001 ~ ..... ,. , .~ " I . . I ... UNITED s:.r-ATES DISI-RleT.COURT- -. FILEr . .--. SEP (; ··if.·OO·l FOR THEDISTRICTOFCOLUMBIA -tJANCYMAYER WHITTINGTON CI U.S. V1STRICT COURT' ROBERT BASSIL, et al., Plaintiffs v. Civil Action No. …
Brief • August 27, 2001
Filed under: Medical
Wood v. US, FL, Complaint, Deficient Medical Care, 2001
Brief • August 24, 2001
Meeks v. District of Columbia, DC, Release, Prisoner Assault, 2001 RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Darnell Meeks, DCDC No 260-177 (SSN: ..... DOB 02/14/69 residing at Central Facility P.O. Box 25, Lorton, VA 22199, for consideration of the sum of Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00), lawful money …
Brief • August 24, 2001
Filed under: Medical, Failure to Treat
Reynolds El v. Williams, DC, Release, Medical Neglect 2001 24 AUG 2001 Memorandum • Government of the District of Columbia ,RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Keith Reynolds El, residing at the Central Detention Facility 1901 D Street. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20001, with the DCDC Number 186-728, …
Brief • August 17, 2001
Filed under: Discrimination
US v. Lee, NM, Reply to Plaintiff Response to Motion to Intervene, Chinese Affirmative Action, 2001 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO Case No. CR 99-1417 JP United States of America, Plaintiff, v. Wen Ho Lee, Defendant. REPLY TO GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO MOTION TO …
No Due Process for Washington Sex Offender Registration by No Due Process For Washington Sex Offender Registration The Washington Supreme Court held that sex offenders are not entitled to notice or a hearing prior to being assigned a registration level. In 1990, the Washington State Legislature enacted the Community Protection …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Bolivia: On June 4, 2001, prisoners at the Palmasola jail became fed up with a gang of prisoners who called themselves the "smurfs" who beat, assaulted and extorted other prisoners and their visitors at the jail. Taking matters into their own hands, a mob of prisoners …
DC Prisoner Wins $175,000 in Conditions Case by David C Fathi by David C. Fathi On January 25, 2001, a federal jury in Washington, D.C. awarded nearly $175,000 to D.C. prisoner Lawrence Caldwell in his challenge to conditions at the District of Columbia's Maximum Security Facility (MSF) in Lorton, Virginia. …
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