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Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Virginia Rent-a-Cell Program Expected to Net $100 Million by Virginia Rent-A-Cell Program Expected to Net $100 Million The state of Virginia will pocket an estimated $100 million in 2001 by warehousing out-of-state and federal prisoners for a fee. About 10% of the Virginia jail and prison population is out-of-state or …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Private Jail Settlement Not a Consent Decree under PLRA by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The United States District Court, Eastern District of CA, held that a "private settlement" agreement to cap the El Dorado (California) County jail population was not a "consent decree" as defined in the …
Maynor v. Morgan County, AL, Complaint, Inmate Funds Misappropriation, 2001 Case 5:01-cv-00851-AKK Document 1 Filed 04/05/01 Page 1 of 17 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA C. / "~i - 3 i.. ; ~·: NORTHERN DMSION JOHNNY MAYNOR, Anthony Murphree, Christopher Nichols, Yvette Barbee, …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
MO Consent Decree Modification Affirmed by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a district court correctly granted prison officials' motion to modify a consent decree to allow for prison overcrowding. The ruling is novel in this post Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) era when prison officials …
Iowa Segregation Suit Settled by James Quigley A federal district court in Iowa held that after nearly a decade of unconstitutional conditions, state prison officials have finally submitted an acceptable plan to remedy substantive due process violations relating to extraordinarily longterm lockup, and various Eighth Amendment violations in a segregation …
Change in Fulton County, GA: Indigent Defense, HIV, and Community Organizing by Lisa Zahren The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta is the largest jail in Georgia, with approximately 3,000 prisoners held there for months and sometimes years waiting for their cases to be resolved or to be transferred to a …
$53,000 Settlement in AL Conditions Suit by On April 8, 2000, the Alabama Department of Corrections settled a conditions lawsuit by agreeing to pay eight prisoners $53,000 in damages and establish basic standards of care at the Loxley Community Work Center in Mobile, Alabama. In August, 1997, eight prisoners were …
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
Czech Prisons Reverberate as Thousands Protest by Julia Lutsky by Julia Lutsy An uprising at 21 of the Czech Republic's 33 prisons was touched off on January 10, 2000, when a guard turned off prisoners' television an hour early in the Vinarice prison in Central Bohemia. This gave rise to …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Colorado Prison Population Exploding by Bob Williams Last summer the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, John Suthers, announced to the Colorado Legislature that Colorado's male prison population is growing at its fastest rate ever. In fact, at an average of 1.3% per month in the second quarter …
Hearing Required Prior to Automatic Termination Under PLRA by The Eleventh Circuit has held that a federal district court must hold a hearing on the current conditions at the prison and the scope of the prospective relief to be terminated before terminating prospective relief in a prison conditions lawsuit under …
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 …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
Texas Prison Warehouses (Letter) by DG "Tex" Hoffman by : D.G. "Tex" Hoffman The Texas Dept. of Corrections operates the nation's second largest prison system after California, including 20 transfer facilities. Transfer facilities are Texas' answer to overcrowded county jails; the first facility was built in mid- 1994 when jails …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
Automatic Stay Provision Unconstitutional by A federal district court in New Mexico held that 18 U.S.C. § 3626(e), a PLRA provision that automatically stays prospective relief 30 days after a party files a motion for immediate termination of such relief, violates the separation of powers doctrine. The case involves a …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
Alabama Jail Injuction Dissolved by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit held that a district court had erred in refusing to dissolve an injunction designed to relieve jail overcrowding. In 1982 an injunction was entered by a federal district court which prohibited the state of Alabama and Lauderdale …
Behind Bars in Brazil (Review of Human Rights Watch Report) by Julia Lutsky Reviewed by Julia Lutsky Since Brazil is the largest nation in Latin America it comes as no surprise to know that its prisons hold more people than do the prisons of any other Latin American nation. Its …
Former Jail Prisoner Awarded $8,000 for Abuse; PLRA Attorney Fee Limit Inapplicable to Juveniles by The court of appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that there was sufficient evidence that the county's policies regarding the housing of juvenile detainees, resulted in overcrowding, which led to a juvenile being beaten, raped …
Wisconsin Resists Out-of-State Transfers by In October, 1996, Wisconsin's legislature granted the Department of Corrections (WDOC) authorization to house 700 prisoners in Texas County Jails. WDOC Secretary Michael Sullivan overcame the opposition to that first prisoner-export proposal by assuring the public that the crossborder option was merely a stop-gap measure …
Georgia DOC Turns to Private Prisons by Alex Friedmann According to a report by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, by July 2003 the state will have just 42,000 prison beds for a projected 55,000 state prisoners. This imbalance is primarily due to a "two strikes" law that took …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Devil's Island Redux by Devil's Island Redux? Tucked away in the mammoth $238 billion 1997 defense spending authorization bill was a four paragraph section, approved by the House Armed Service Committee, that asked the Pentagon to study the feasibility of imprisoning drug offenders on isolated islands in the Pacific Ocean. …
Amnesty International Seeks Human Rights Abuse Info by Amnesty International Seeks Human Rights Abuse Info Amnesty International (A.I.) is working on a comprehensive report on human rights in the United States, inclusive of prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers. The primary purpose of this report is to document where there …
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