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State Auditor Blasts Colorado DOC's Private Prison Oversight Failures by Matthew T. Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In June 2005, the Colorado State Auditor released its April 2005 report of the performance audit of private prisons contracted by the Colorado Department of Corrections. The report strongly criticized the private prisons …
$1.1 Million FTCA Emotional Distress Award In BOP Suicide Death Upheld, Even Though Murder By Guar by $1.1 Million FTCA Emotional Distress Award In BOP Suicide Death Upheld, Even Though Murder By Guards Suspected by John E. Dannenberg The Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a $1.1 million award …
Federal Court Seizes California Prisons' Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers by Federal Court Seizes California Prisons' Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is forcefully having its failed healthcare system both corrected and rehabilitated. Despite court-ordered healthcare …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
California DOC Watched Over by Toothless Bureau of Independent Review by While Californias $7.4 billion Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) continues to report solely to the Governors Secretary of Corrections, the CDCR is also being overseen by the Bureau of Independent Review (BIR), reporting to the Governor. The good …
California and Connecticut Reinstate Jobs of Fired Guards by In a process fabled for reinstating 6070% of the jobs of fired prison guards, a unanimous California State Personnel Board (SPB) ordered the positions of six previously dismissed Youth Authority guards restored with full back pay. And in a strikingly similar …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Florida's Privatization of Prisoner Canteen Services Under Scrutiny by by David M. Reutter An October, 2004, report issued by Florida's Auditor General (AG) criticizes a contract awarded to Keefe Commissary Services (Keefe) for the operation of the Florida Department of Corrections' (FDOC) 240 prison canteens. The three-year contract that privatized …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Whistleblowers Nail Cheating California Corrections Employees by The California State Auditor detailed four investigations of California Department of Corrections (CDC) employee misconduct completed between July 1 and December 30, 2004, where the tip-offs of miscreance were reported through California's Whistleblower Protection Act (Government Code § 8547 et seq.). Reportable transgressions …
Incompetence, Brutality and Scandal Infest Tennessee Prisons and Jails by by Michael Rigby Tennessee isn't known for its huge prison system, like Texas or California. Nor is the state's capital city, Nashville, recognized for massively overcrowded jails such as the ones in Los Angeles or New York City. But one …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Florida DOC's No Bid Pharmaceutical Contract Scrutinized and Criticized by by David M. Reutter A September 2004 Florida Auditor General's Report found numerous deficiencies in the Florida Department Of Corrections' (FDOC) pharmaceutical contract with Terry Yon & Associates, Inc. (TYA). The current three-year contract became effective January 1, 2004. Its …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Court Halts Practice of California Prison Guards Getting Unlimited Paid Time to Conduct Union Busine by Court Halts Practice of California Prison Guards Getting Unlimited Paid Time to Conduct Union Business on the Job In a recent expose, the Sacramento Bee revealed that the California prison guards union (CCPOA) cut …
Michigan's Dirty Little Secret: Sexual Abuse of Female Prisoners Pervasive, Ongoing by by Michael Rigby Despite reports of sexual abuse dating back 20 years ... despite a tumultuous decade of lawsuits that cost millions of taxpayer dollars ... and despite a promise by state officials to implement sweeping reforms, the …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
New Jersey Taxpayers Underwrite Unqualified, Unnecessary Prison Employees by The New Jersey prison system is infested with parasitic employees--thrust upon the department by legislators and the governor's office--who bleed state taxpayers for more than $850,000 a year, Department of Corrections (DOC) commissioner Devon Brown has admitted. The revelation came during …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Former California Warden Allegedly by Former California Warden Allegedly Assaults News Reporter The former warden of Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP), Anthony Lamarque, allegedly swung a cane at Sacramento News and Review reporter Stephen James and then pinned him against a wall, when Lamarque apparently objected to being photographed at …
Privatized Medical Services in Delaware Kill and Maim by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Anthony Pierce was serving a 14 month sentence for parole violation of a burglary charge at Delaware's Sussex Correctional Institution when he discovered a marble-sized lump growing on the back of his head. A prison …
Washington State Supreme Court Grants PLN Public Disclosure of Washington DOC Medical Malpractice Re by Washington State Supreme Court Grants PLN Public Disclosure of Washington DOC Medical Malpractice Records by John E. Dannenberg Prison Legal News won a big victory for the cause of investigative journalism on July 14, 2005 …
PLN Sues Bureau of Prisons for Lawsuit Information by On September 12, 2005, Prison Legal News (PLN) filed suit in federal district court to overturn an agency ruling denying it access to documents held by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Washington, …
Mexican Prisons in Crisis: Cartels Murder Prisoners and Guards by by Matthew T. Clarke One of the achievements of which Mexican President Vicente Fox is most proud is the record-breaking number of drug lords who have been arrested and thrown into federal prison during his tenure. He has a right …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
California Youth Prison Superintendent by California Youth Prison Superintendent Removed For Using Unreasonable Force The Superintendent of a California youth prison was permanently removed from his position for using unreasonable force against a ward, and then not reporting it. Steve Kruse, Superintendent at the N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility in …
Controversial Ex-Prison Official Lane McCotter Appointed Utah J.P. by Lane McCotter, once the director of the Utah Department of Corrections, has been appointed to a justice of the peace bench in Utah. The McCotter era remains a high-point of prison violence in Utah's history cumulating in the death of a …
Rising Deaths and Violence Among Problems In Illinois Prisons, Jails by by Michael Rigby Imprisonment in Illinois is becoming more perilous, according to the John Howard Association, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that monitors prisons and jails. Between August 2003 and May 2004, according to the association, several state prisoners died …
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