New Jersey Prisoners Exempt from Exhaustion Requirement by New Jersey Prisoners Exempt From Exhaustion Requirement A federal district court has held that New Jersey prisoners are not required to exhaust institution implemented grievance procedures before filing a civil rights suit. New Jersey prisoners Victor Concepcion and Anthony Ways filed suit …
Chinese Company Convicted of Using Forced Prison Labor by On February 28, 2001, Peter Chen, a Taiwanese entrepreneur, pled guilty in a New Jersey federal district court to charges of selling goods in the U.S. which were produced by forced prison labor. Chen will pay a $50,000 fine. Chen owned …
New Jersey Prisoners' Disciplinary Convictions Reversed on Due Process Violations by The Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court reversed two separate prison disciplinary matters after finding that two state prisoners were denied due process protections limiting the use of confidential informants and confidential information. Andrew Daley, a prisoner …
New Jersey Detainees Entitled to Medical Care by A federal district court in New Jersey held that material issues of fact precluded summary judgment on a former prisoner's claim that he was denied adequate medical care. The court also rejected defendants' claim of qualified immunity. Dana Andrews, a former prisoner …
Ten Percent Prison Commissary Surcharge in New Jersey Upheld by The Superior Court of Appeals of New Jersey has held that the 10% surcharge on purchases from prison commissaries in New Jersey is constitutional. Paul Auge, a New Jersey state prisoner, filed suit in state court challenging the imposition by …
New Jersey Guard Unions Charged with Telemarketing Fraud by New Jersey Guard Unions Charged With Telemarketing Fraud The New Jersey Attorney General's Office charged four "correctionsofficer" unions and a forprofit fundraising company with diverting nearly $2 million from police charities over a threeyear period. In a 12count complaint filed in …
Deadly Nostalgia: The Politics of Boot Camps by Christian Parenti The short, stout eighth grader Gina Score, was never much of an athlete. But that didn't matter to the staff at South Dakota's Plankinton boot camp for girls, where militarystyle discipline and calisthenics were the modus operandi and, as staff …
NJ Prisoners Entitled to Cross Examine Witnesses by Holding that a prisoner was entitled to cross examine and to confront the complaining witness at a prison disciplinary hearing, a New Jersey appellate court reversed the sanctions imposed on a prisoner accused of tampering with a locking device on a gate. …
Mentally Ill Prisoners in the New Jersey Prison System by Julia Lutsky Two hundred prisoners filed a class action suit against the New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) in 1996. A court order issued as a result of that suit mandated an investigation to "assess the mental health services in …
Louisiana Abandons Private Juvenile Prisons by John E Dannenberg The state of Louisiana agreed to a settlement in federal court September 7, 2000 designed to radically alter the way it operates its juvenile prisons. The agreement was intended to settle several lawsuits against the state, including one by the U.S. …
$16 Million Agreement to Revamp NJ Prison Mental Health Care by A federal district court in New Jersey has approved a $16 million settlement in a class-action suit against state prison officials for constitutionally deficient prison mental health care. Patricia P. Pearlmutter, assistant professor of clinical law at the Center …
Male NJ Guard's Sexual Harassment Suit Settled for $425,000 by On December 6, 1999, the New Jersey Department of Corrections agreed to pay $425,000 to Mid State Correctional Facility employee Thomas Ferri, 55, to settle his sexual harassment suit against the prison. Ferri, an internal affairs investigator at the prison, …
New Jersey Parole Board Chief Resigns by The chairman of the New Jersey state Parole Board submitted his resignation July 28, 2000, as authorities neared the end of a two-year investigation into his alleged links with organized crime. A law enforcement source close to the investigation told The Record, the …
Individual Analysis Required for Diabetic Class Action Damage Award by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that the lower court erred in holding that all members of the plaintiff class past, present, and future of insulin-dependent diabetic prisoners alleged violation of their …
New Jersey Sex Offender Treatment Statute Creates Liberty Interest by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's FRCP 12(c) dismissal of a prisoner's action stemming from a failure to provide sex offender treatment. The court held that the unique statutory scheme at issue created a liberty interest …
New Jersey Sex Offender Porn Ban Upheld by In the May, 1999, issue of PLN we reported Waterman v. Verniero, 12 F. Supp. 364 (D NJ 1998) where a federal district court preliminarily enjoined a New Jersey law banning sexually oriented material from a sex offender treatment prison. The same …
New Jersey Jail Settles Chemical Burn Suit for $900,000 by On April 20, 1999, Atlantic County, New Jersey, paid $900,000 to settle a lawsuit involving extensive chemical burns suffered by a prisoner forced to do calisthenics in a pit filled with caustic chemicals. David Zamot was a non violent offender …
New Jersey Guard Wins $3.75 Million Harassment Suit by On May 27, 1999, a Burlington county jury in New Jersey ruled in favor of prison guard Robert Lockley Jr. and awarded him $3.75 million in damages. Lockley, 39, a guard at the Mid State Correctional Facility in Ft. Dix, New …
