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Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
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. …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Probable Cause Hearing Delay Actionable by Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that the fact issue as to whether an arrestee's detention without a probable cause hearing resulted from the sheriff's deliberate decision not to monitor detainees brought to jail by outside agencies precluded summary …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Ex-Welfare Workers in Georgia Replaced with Prison Slaves by To save money, a South Georgia recycling plant fired 50 trash sorters, including 35 who had taken jobs to get off welfare, and replaced them with prison slave labor. The former welfare clients had been earning $5.20/ hour before they were …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
California Prison Legal Fund Broke by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely The California Department of Corrections' $15.5 million legal settlement fund went broke in late March, 1999, three months before the end of the fiscal year, according to an article by Pam Podger in the May 27, 1999, edition of …
Nevada Guards Party with Inmate Welfare Fund by The Nevada state legislature made a bold move to "end inmate welfare as we know it" when it passed a bill (AB289) in 1999 stating that revenue from state prisons' Inmate Welfare Fund (IWF) can be used for employee perks. But the …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Prison Realty Stock Plummets; Shareholders File Suit by Last May the price of shares in Prison Realty Trust Inc., the parent company of Corrections Corporation of America, fell almost 35% within a week after Prison Realty announced it would pay increased costs for building and marketing private prisons. Several investment …
Corcoran Bad Apple Rehired by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely Bruce Farris, the former Corcoran State Prison associate warden fired for allowing guards to beat, kick, and stomp 36 black prisoners, was reinstated April 6, 1999, in a rare Personnel Board reversal of an earlier administrative judge's decision. Farris was …
New York Retaliation Suit Nets $100,000 in Damages by On April 28, 1999 a federal jury awarded $25,000 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages to New York prisoner Ronald Maurer. Three years earlier Maurer filed a pro se complaint claiming that he had been subjected to retaliation for …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Brazil: In early August four men armed with automatic weapons overpowered guards and broke into the Tremembe jail near Sao Paulo, and stole money that jail prisoners were planning to send home. CA: In 1998 15 state prisoners were killed. Three were shot to death by …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
From the Editor by Dan Pens Greetings and welcome to another edition of PLN. Five years ago my first editorial appeared in the October 1994 issue. Sadly, this will be my last. I am stepping down as co-editor, but will remain active with the PLN collective as a contributing writer. …
Brief • November 15, 1999
Von Collin v. County of Ventura, CA, Order, Pro-Straint Chair, 1999 Page 1 189 F.R.D. 583, *; 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20956, ** KURT JOHN VON COLLN, JR., KEITH GEORGE STRINGER, ERIC PRATT, JEFFERY LLOYD, Consolidated Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY OF VENTURA, SHERIFF LARRY CARPENTER in his official and personal capacity, …
Brief • November 10, 1999
Prideaux v. WA DOC, WA, Judgment, Sexual Harassment Case, 1999 : ,! . • FILED NOV t 0 1999 THOMASA F SPOKANE C6U~~~~~~A, 2 3 4 5 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 6 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SPOKANE 7 JOANNA PRlDEAUX, NO. 99-2-03447-8 8 …
Brief • November 5, 1999
Avery v. District of Columbia, DC, Complaint, Inmate Assault, 1999 \. ANTONIO AVERY DCDC #248-092 District of Columbia Department of Corrections Plaintiff, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT Municipal Corporation For The Intentional and Negligent Acts and Omissions of its Agents and Agencies D.C. Department of Corrections and D.C. General Hospital, Serve: …
Brief • October 29, 1999
Garcia v. Evans, WA, Complaint, Mail Room Dispute, 1999 . -:31 DS-r'6S? ... FII.ED !H ThE U.J. n:STR:CT (()LiRT ~';:~'Ej1~j " : ..' '.• -' '_).\..I. . .,.I,·t.• . . "'9 v'" ,JAi~,IES A. L'\RSEN, , ., . :1ISTRICT CJF 'I/A!1HtNGTON CLERK ....,.....---= DEPUn SPOKANE. WASHI~~GTON UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT …
Brief • October 22, 1999
Starr v. District of Columbia, DC, Complaint, Prisoner Stabbing, 1999 SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Civil Division ) ) Keith Starr #260-582 Maximum Security Facility P.O. Box 5200 Lorton, VA 22199 < '" "'%7' . ) "'-"', I Y.\ :(_~'&"---j . __ """.--",.,).-. , '~"';=J':':'.":';_'::~, .. _.....,."_..... , …
Brief • October 22, 1999
Avery v. DC, Complaint, Prison Assault, 1999 t. SUPERIOR COURT ~;,"~~~TIU~j~~ C~~~IA \ . t\Qj·~ ANTONIO AVERY DCDC #248-092 District of Columbia Department of Corrections " I,' " ".," ! ""'f ! -".-- }~f Jury Demand c.A. NO. Plaintiff, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT Municipal Corporation For The Intentional and Negligent …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Feds Not Obligated to Accept State-Ordered Concurrent Sentence by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that a California state court's designation of a prisoner's sentence as concurrent with his prior federal sentence created no obligation on the U.S. Attorney General to provide …
Alabama Prison Officials Held in Contempt Again by A federal district court held Alabama prison officials in contempt for violating a 12-year-old Consent Decree. The court also awarded attorney's fees against the state and dissolved the decree pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act, (PLRA). In 1983, prisoners in an …
CDC Whistleblower Gets $1.7 Million by A former California Department of Corrections (CDC) guard who reported the Corcoran State Prison "gladiator fight" shootings to the FBI, resulting in the indictment of eight other Corcoran guards, has been paid $1.7 million by the state. Richard Caruso, 35, sued the CDC in …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
BOP Sentence Reduction Exclusion Based on INS Detainer Upheld by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that the Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) regulation conditioning a sentence on completion of a community-based treatment program was a reasonable and permissible construction of the statute …
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