Skip navigation

Search

6767 results
Page 281 of 339. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 ... 335 336 337 338 339 | Next »

Georgia Prison Guards Caught in Bondage Videos by More than 150 law enforcement officers from various Georgia agencies including the Department of Corrections, have been moonlighting as actors in gay bondage videotapes since 1980. Sold over the internet, the tapes include scenes of kidnapping and torture. In November 1999, Hays …
Washington Prisoners Sue DOC for Extortion, Mail Fraud, Criminal Profiteering and Racketeering by Four Washington state prisoners have filed suit against the Department of Corrections (DOC) over DOC's longstanding practice of charging prisoners to ship their own personal property when they are transferred from one institution to another, and doing …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
9-11 Prompts New Regulations for Prisoner Airline Transports by Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) transferred its rulemaking authority regarding civil aviation security to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The TSA subsequently promulgated new rules regarding the transportation of prisoners on civilian airlines. The …
Disputed Material Facts in Failure to Protect Suit Preclude Interlocutory Appellate Review by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that it is without jurisdiction to hear an interlocutory appeal on qualified immunity issues where material facts are in dispute. The Court of Appeals let stand most of a …
Brief • August 22, 2002
Filed under: Exposure to Heat
Duvall v. Glendening, MD, Consent Order, Excessive Heat, 2002 08 122 102 .. 15:55 FA.X J10 J66 7838 A C L t: ~016 ., IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND ) JEROME DUVALL, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) ) Civil Action No. JFM-94-2541 …
Ill Treatment on Our Shores by Anne-Marie Cusac ( On October 24, 2001, Muhammed Butt died of a heart attack at the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, New Jersey. Butt, a Pakistani national, was detained on September 19 by the FBI as a suspect connected with the September 11 …
$54,750 Damages Awarded Asthmatic Prisoner in Michigan ETS Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (E.D..) awarded an asthmatic Michigan state prisoner $36,500 in compensatory damages and $18,250 in punitive damages after a bench trial determination that Michigan Department of Corrections (DOC) wardens had …
Oklahoma Jailhouse Informants Settle Failure to Protect Suit for $80,000 by Federal prisoners Curtis Sherfield and Hugh Grayson, who were being held at the Oklahoma County jail on federal drug charges, were given a total of $80,000 in December 2001 to settle their lawsuit against the county after they were …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Judge Awards $2.8 Million to Victims of CSC Texas Boot Camp Sexual Abuse by Judge Awards $2.8 million to Victims of CSC Texas Boot Camp Sexual Abuse On March 5, 2001, State District Court Judge Paul Enlow found Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) criminally liable for the actions of two former …
CCA Conditions Claim Not Frivolous by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Tennessee Federal District Court's dismissal of a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims as frivolous, vacating and remanding part of the lower court's decision with instructions. David Dellis is a Wisconsin prisoner who was for a …
News in Brief by Roger Hummel Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor …
Statute of Limitation Tolled by Administrative Exhaustion by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for the has reversed and remanded for a district court to decide, in the first instance, whether the statute of limitations is tolled by a prisoner's satisfaction of the mandatory exhaustion requirements of 42 U.S.C. § …
Brief • July 26, 2002
Garza v. US, TX, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2002 Case 1:02-cv-00154 Document 1 Filed 07/26/2002 Page 1 of 4 Case 1:02-cv-00154 Document 1 Filed 07/26/2002 Page 2 of 4 Case 1:02-cv-00154 Document 1 Filed 07/26/2002 Page 3 of 4 Case 1:02-cv-00154 Document 1 Filed 07/26/2002 Page 4 of 4
Two Private Kentucky Youth Facilities Closed for Abuse by Gary Hunter It took only six weeks for the Juvenile Justice Department (JJD) to close two Kentucky Youth Academy (KYA) facilities. On Sept. 14th, 2001 the Kentucky Division of Protection and Advocacy (DPA) filed suit in federal court charging the Central …
Texas Prisoner Wins $130,000 from Jail for Poor Care, Beatings by A Texas state prisoner won $130,000 in damages after it was shown that he was denied medical care and not protected from violent prisoners while held at Williamson County Jail near Austin. Martin DiCarlo, 39, filed suit in U.S. …
Alabama Jail Enjoined for "Uncivilized and Hazardous Conditions" by Chief Judge Clemon of the Federal District Court, Northern District of Alabama, has preliminarily enjoined the Morgan County Jail, its sheriff, administrator, and commissioners, and the commissioner and transfer director of the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) because of conditions described …
No Jurisdiction for Appeal When Qualified Immunity Not Denied by by Matthew T. Clarke The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has ruled that it has no jurisdiction to hear an interlocutory appeal of a partial denial of a motion for summary judgment when the district court did not …
No Qualified Immunity in Illinois Denial of Exercise Claim by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Northern District of Illinois Federal District Court decision to deny qualified immunity to prison officials at Stateville Correctional Center (SCC) in Illinois. The underlying case, Delaney v DeTella , 123 F.Supp.2d …
Religious Discrimination, Unsanitary Food Suit Denied Summary Judgment by The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has partly granted, and mostly denied, the defendants' motions for summary judgment on a District of Columbia (D.C.) prisoner's claims that he was racially discriminated against by the defendants' arbitrary handling …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Prisoners at Private Federal Prison in California Strike Over Food, Medical Care by Lonnie Burton On November 26, 2001, more than 1,800 prisoners at the Taft Correctional Institution (TCI) refused to report to work in protest of shortcomings in the prison's food and medical care. TCI, a privately run low-security …
Page 281 of 339. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 ... 335 336 337 338 339 | Next »