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Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Survivors of North Carolina Jail Fire Settle for $1.94 Million by On January 9, 2003, Mitchell County (NC) Superior Court Judge Marlene Hyatt approved a settlement in which the families of the eight fatalities and the nine survivors of the May 3, 2002, Mitchell County Jail fire will split $1.94 …
Alabama's Women Prisoners Moved to Louisiana to Ease Overcrowding by Alabama's Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women at Wetumpka was built in 1942 to house 364 prisoners. In 2002, Tutwiler's population rose beyond 1,000 with overcrowding so severe that a group of women prisoners sought relief by filing a lawsuit in …
The Prison Index: Taking the Pulse of the Crime Control Industry by by Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Initiative and Western Prison Project, 2003, 48 pages Review by Paul Wright As a prison journalist, one of the most challenging things is reporting the facts and putting those facts into a bigger …
Expert Witness Standard in RLUIPA Gang Case by The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has denied in part and granted in part summary judgment to New York's Department of Correctional Services (DOCS), in a case involving the beliefs, practices, and literature of the Nations …
Brief • September 9, 2003
Minor v. D.C., Settlement, Youth Jail Tour, Strip Search, 2003 I RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That 1, Michele Minor, residinq:t 14' b M4S~S~3 h.t~, S.l;.. W~4tTPn l).e,. a."O"b Q'> , with Social Security Numbe:t • and /lA, Cf!"€' t-,,;:::M I t£-r>~. " Guardian 'for the minor, Reuben …
U.S. v. Verbickas, CO, Opinion, Prison Conditions, 2003 U.S. v. Verbickas, 75 Fed.Appx. 705 (2003) 75 Fed.Appx. 705 This case was not selected for publication in the Federal Reporter. Not for Publication in West’s Federal Reporter. See Fed. Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 generally governing citation of judicial decisions issued …
Los Angeles County Liable Under § 1983 for Jail Detainee's Murder by Los Angeles County Liable Under § 1983 for Jail Detainee's Murder by Walter Reaves The following are summaries of the some of more significant, and interesting cases decided during the last several months dealing with issues important to …
News in Brief by California: On May 2, 2003, Gary Culverson, 25, and Van Kopp, 37, were arrested on charges that they assaulted Casey Humphrey, 18, a prisoner at the Monroe Detention Center in Yolo County. Culverson and Kopp were employed as guards at the jail's intake area but the …
Director Out at Scandal-Plagued Washington State Jail by Lonnie Burton Amid numerous scandals and investigations into wrongdoing and prisoner mistreatment by staff, the director of the Snohomish County jail in Everett, WA was relieved of her duties in mid-April 2003. Corrections department director Andrea Bynum was fired due to her …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton In February 2002, it was announced that prisoners at a new federal prison in California will soon be partnering with companies such as Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard in a program …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Kansas Tobacco Smuggling Conviction Upheld by The Kansas Supreme Court upheld Audra Watson's conviction for smuggling tobacco into the county jail in Pratt County, Kansas. That court rejected Watson's argument that the statute under which she was convicted, KSA § 21-3826, was unconstitutionally vague and could not be applied to …
$240,000 Settlement in Florida Juvenile Boot Camp Suicide by Lonnie Burton Although described as a troubled kid, 16-year old Chad Franza didn't deserve to die they way he did. Only 24 days after entering a juvenile boot camp in Bartow, Florida, the teenager was found dead after hanging himself with …
Compelled Oral Sex Satisfies PLRA's "Physical Injury" Requirement by The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, denying a defendant's motion for partial judgment on the pleadings, has held that compelled oral sex constitutes "physical injury" for purposes of the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA's) requirement that …
$22,500 Award Upheld in Texas Gang Assault Set-up by Guards by John E Dannenberg $22,500 Award Upheld in Texas Gang Assault Set-Up By Guards by John E. Dannenberg The Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals affirmed a district court's denial of defendant prison officials' summary judgment motion in a prisoner …
Brief • July 7, 2003
Henderson v. Washington, DOC, WA, Complaint Campylobacter & Blood Infection, 2003 .' .. .,.. _.-...-.. --- -.... STANDARD TO~T CLAIM FORM General LlablUly n Form #SF 210 STATI:'·OPf.1eE {)F . RISK MANAGEMENT Pursuant to ROW 4.92, this fonn is provided for your convenience when filing a tort claim against the …
U.S. v. Lavallee, CO, Order, Prison Conditions, 2003 269 F.Supp.2d 1297 (2003) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Mike LAVALLEE, Rod Schultz, and Robert Verbickas, Defendants. No. CR.A. 00-CR-481-D. United States District Court, D. Colorado. July 2, 2003. 1298 *1298 Mark Blumberg, United States Attorney's Office Criminal Section/CRT, Washington, DC, …
YSI: Another Death, Another Settlement by Youth Services International (YSI), a company already under fire for a multitude of problems, including contract violations, financial mismanagement, prisoner mistreatment and prisoner deaths, was again in the news this past September. YSI, a subsidiary of Corrections Services Corporation, operates juvenile prisons, including boot-camp-style …
Deposition Testimony Not Hearsay; Expert Must Satisfy Daubert in BOP Van Accident by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred in failing to make findings of fact on critical issues, excluding the deposition testimony of a prisoner as hearsay, and in failing to conduct a …
Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Matthew T. Clarke On May 1, 2002, two guards and an assistant warden were convicted in federal court of charges relating to the beating of a …
Alaska Prisoners' Benefits Extended to Arizona by The Supreme Court of Alaska sustained a lower court's ruling which provisionally allowed Alaska prisoners to be transferred to an Arizona prison, required the Arizona facility to comply with Alaska's prison overcrowding settlement agreement, and found the Alaska prisoners' challenge to the process …
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