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Jama v. Esmor Correctional Services, NJ, Deposition Slattery, Immigration Beating, 2001

Brief • February 5, 2001

Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Expert Witnesses, Immigration

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$16 Million Agreement to Revamp NJ Prison Mental Health Care

Article • November 15, 2000 • from PLN November, 2000

Filed under: Hearing Officers, Staff Assistance, Staffing, Attorney Fee Awards, Damages, Settlements, Americans with Disabilities Act, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

$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

Article • November 15, 2000 • from PLN November, 2000

Filed under: Staff-Staff Harassment, Discrimination, Gender Discrimination -- Men, Damages, Settlements, Employee Litigation

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

Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Parole Board Misconduct, Crime, Parole

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 …

Jama v. Esmor Correctional Services, NJ, Deposition, Immigration Beating, 2000

Brief • July 31, 2000

Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Expert Witnesses, Immigration

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Individual Analysis Required for Diabetic Class Action Damage Award

Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000

Filed under: Diabetes, Civil Procedure, Damages, Parties, Class Certification, Qualified Immunity

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

Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000

Filed under: Disciplinary Hearings, Liberty Interests, Sex Offender Treatment

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

Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000

Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Mail, Sexually Explicit Materials

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

Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999

Filed under: Toxic Fumes/Chemicals, Boot Camps, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Burning, Damages, Settlements, Municipal Liability

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

Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999

Filed under: Staff-Staff Harassment, Guard Misconduct, Discrimination, Gender Discrimination -- Men, Retaliation against Staff, Damages, Employee Litigation

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 …

No Privacy Rights for Sex Offender Registrants

Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999

Filed under: Discrimination, Sex Offender Registration, Disclosure of Records

No Privacy Rights for Sex Offender Registrants by The Third Circuit ruled that sex offenders required to register under "Megan's Law" have no protected right to privacy that would render unconstitutional the public dissemination of such information. This is not the first time the 3rd Circuit has upheld Megan's Law. …

FBI Investigates CCA-Run INS Center in New Jersey

Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Retaliation for Organizing, Sanitation, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Immigration

FBI Investigates CCA-Run INS Center in New Jersey by A Corrections Corporation of America operated immigrant detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey is under investigation due to alleged misconduct by company employees. Federal officials confirmed on April 13, 1999 that the U.S. Dept. of Justice had requested the probe, which …

PLRA Doesn't Affect Court Contempt Powers

Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Consent Decrees (PLRA), Contempt (Civil Procedure)

PLRA Doesn't Affect Court Contempt Powers by A federal district court in New Jersey held that 18 U.S.C. § 3626, which allows for the immediate termination of prison and jail consent decrees, does not affect the contempt powers of courts. The underlying case involves a motion by jail detainee plaintiffs …

Parole Officials Liable for False Information in Parole Violation Arrest Warrant

Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Parole Board Misconduct, Disciplinary Litigation, Filing Fees (PLRA), Physical Injury Rule, Parole, Qualified Immunity

Parole Officials Liable for False Information in Parole Violation Arrest Warrant by A federal district court in New Jersey has held that parole officials are liable for causing the arrest of a parolee based upon false information. Robert Friedland, a New Jersey state prisoner, was paroled in August, 1995. Subsequently …

New Jersey Guard's Killer Gets Life

Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Assaults on Staff

New Jersey Guard's Killer Gets Life by Steven Beverly was convicted for the 1997 killing of a Bayside State Prison (New Jersey) guard. But two days later, November 11, 1998, the jury of seven men and five women said they were deadlocked on whether he should be executed. Under state …

New Jersey Porn Ban Struck Down

Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999

Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Injunctions, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Mail, Sexually Explicit Materials

New Jersey Porn Ban Struck Down by In two separate rulings a federal court in New Jersey held that a New Jersey statute prohibiting imprisoned sex offenders from receiving or possessing sexually oriented materials was unconstitutional. The two rulings consist of a preliminary injunction and a permanent injunction enjoining the …

Administrative Exhaustion Doesn't Include Judicial Remedies

Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999

Filed under: Disciplinary Hearings, Disciplinary Litigation, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA)

Administrative Exhaustion Doesn't Include Judicial Remedies by The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) administrative exhaustion requirement does not include judicial exhaustion as well. Hassan Jenkins, a New Jersey state prisoner, filed suit in federal court claiming his due process rights …

Temporary Injunction Issued to Prevent Sex Offender Notification to Employer

Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999

Filed under: Discrimination, Sex Offender Registration, Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Prison Labor, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Parole

Temporary Injunction Issued to Prevent Sex Offender Notification to Employer by A federal court in New Jersey has issued a temporary injunction to prevent state parole officials from notifying a paroled sex offender's employer of his parole status and criminal history. John Doe is a paroled New Jersey state sex …

AEDPA Statute of Limitations Tolled

Article • January 15, 1999 • from PLN January, 1999

Filed under: Transfers, Disciplinary Litigation, Court Access, Legal Materials, Limitations, Habeas Corpus

AEDPA Statute of Limitations Tolled by The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that the one year statute of limitations in which to file a federal habeas corpus petition is a statute of limitation subject to tolling. In 1994 Frank Miller, a New Jersey state prisoner, was found …

PLRA Immediate Termination Provisions Unconstitutional

Article • January 15, 1999 • from PLN January, 1999

Filed under: Drug Testing, PLRA, Consent Decrees (PLRA)

PLRA Immediate Termination Provisions Unconstitutional by Afederal district court in. New Jersey has declared unconstitutional the provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b)(2)(3), permitting the immediate termination of consent decrees. In 1983, Robert Lee Denike and Kenneth Vespa, New Jersey state prisoners, sued prison officials …