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Article • August 12, 2016
BOP Settles Religious Discrimination EEOC Complaint for $20,000 by David Gordon Murphy was a guard at the FDC in Seatac, Washington, when he was terminated on April 16, 1998. With the assistance of Seattle attorney William Knowles, he filed an EEOC complaint alleging a supervisor had made rude comments about …
Article • August 12, 2016
BOP Settles Guards' Unfair Labor Practices Grievance for $120 Million by On August 10, 2000, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) settled for $120,363,105 a grievance filed by the Council of Prison Locals, American Federation of Government Employees (Council) on behalf of 33,982 current and former BOP guards alleging they …
Article • August 12, 2016
BOP Settles Guard's Racial Discrimination Complaint for $5,000 by David Eugene Weaver, who is black, filed a grievance with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaining that a former supervisor discriminated against him on the basis of race while he was a GS-7 …
Article • August 12, 2016
BOP Settles Employee's Retaliation Lawsuit for $35,000 by David T. Lee was a GS-7 inmate systems officer at the FCI in Florence, Colorado when he applied to two GS-8 positions. He was not selected for either position. Believing the reason for this was racial prejudice, he filed a complaint with …
Article • August 12, 2016
BOP Settles Dyslexia Discrimination Complaints for $2,000 by In 1997, Douglas Lewis Urness was working as a GS-11, Step 4 Drug Treatment Counselor for the BOP in Yankton, South Dakota, when his supervisors allegedly discriminated against him due to his dyslexia. The discrimination took the form of supervisors allegedly complaining …
Article • August 12, 2016
BOP Reverses Termination of Disabled Guard in Settlement by Steven Dacey was a tenured Senior Officer (GS-07) at the BOP Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, MA, earning $41,000 a year when he was terminated on April 4, 2003. The reason for his termination was that he had not reported …
Article • August 12, 2016
$528,858 Federal Jury Award Against BOP in Racial Discrimination Case by On December 7, 2000, a federal jury awarded former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee Debbie E. Tickle $114,000 for loss of wages and $300,000 for emotional pain a suffering in a racial discrimination lawsuit she brought pursuant to …
Article • August 12, 2016
$15,000 Settlement in Case Manager's EEOC Action by On December 4, 2002, the federal Bureau of Prisons entered into a settlement agreement that paid a correctional treatment specialist (case manager) at the United States Penitentiary Lewisburg (USP) $15,000, restored him to his previous job and made other concessions. After Prison …
Rikers Island Excessive Force Monell Claims Survive Dismissal by Mark Wilson A New York federal court refused to dismiss Monell Claims in a Rikers Island excessive force case. On September 28, 2013, Bobby White was incarcerated at Rikers Island, when guard Marlene Ocasio sprayed him with a chemical agent and …
Article • August 11, 2016
D.C. Circuit: No Summary Judgment on Guard's Termination Claims by Mark Wilson The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) Circuit held that a lower court improperly granted prison officials summary judgment on a former guard's wrongful termination claims. On the morning of June 4, 2006, …
Article • August 10, 2016
Michigan Opens Prison Museum in Presently Operating Prison Facility by Christopher Zoukis The Michigan Department of Corrections has opened a prison museum -- at the still-in-operation State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson. Opened June 25, 2014, the Cell Block 7 Prison Museum charges $15.00 for adults, $10.00 for a …
Iowa Jail Guard Who Tased Mentally Ill Woman Missed Training for Three Years by After a guard tased a mentally ill woman in October 2013 to compel her to change her clothes, officials at the Muscatine County, Iowa, Jail are considering requiring less Taser training for guards rather than more. …
Pendleton v. Contra Costa County, CA, Settlement, Employment Discrimination, 2016 ( . FULL AND FINAL RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This FuU and Final Release and Settlement Agreement ("Agreement") is entered il1to as of the date it is fully executed by the parties hereto, as defined below, and is made by …
DOJ Intervenes in Ohio Jail Taser Class Action; County Settles by On February 4, 2011, Franklin County, Ohio officials agreed to substantially upgrade jail Taser training, use and accountability policies to settle a Class Action law suit in which the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had intervened. On July 16, …
Pennsylvania Blames Prison Clerk for Her Rape by Prisoner by David Reutter In response to a female secretary who was raped by a prisoner at Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution – Rockview in 2013, the State Attorney General’s office filed a pleading that blamed the woman for her rape. As PLN …
OSHA Cites Corizon for Inadequate Workplace Safety on Rikers Island by Matthew Clarke Listing numerous instances of its medical, mental health and dentistry employees being assaulted by Rikers Island prisoners, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Corizon Health, Inc. for willful violation of Section 5(a)(1) of the …
Article • August 3, 2016
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Eleventh Amendment Immunity Applies to Florida Sheriff Acting as Chief Corrections Officer by A Florida federal district court held a Florida Sheriff, in his capacity as Chief Corrections Officer (CCO), is an arm of the state.  The holding led the court to determine the Sheriff is entitled to Eleventh Amendment …
Publication • August 3, 2016
A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management - Handbook for Prison Staff, ICPS - Coyle, 2002 A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management Handbook for prison staff Andrew Coyle International Centre for Prison Studies A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management Handbook for prison staff Andrew Coyle International Centre for …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Mother Jones Reporter Goes Undercover at CCA Prison in Louisiana by Derek Gilna Mother Jones magazine, known for its in-depth investigative reporting, was not content to merely skim the surface of the controversial private prison industry by viewing it from the outside. Prisons both public and private are notorious for …
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