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The Abuse of U.S. Women Prisoners by Julia Lutsky It is really like this dirty little secret that everyone in corrections knows about and doesn't want to talk about. It is a huge problem." The words are those of Brenda Smith, senior counsel of the National Women's Law Center quoted …
Fifth Circuit Reverses Scott by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit, sitting en banc, reversed its prior holding in Scott v. Moore, 85 F.3d 230 (5th Cir. 1996) [PLN, June, 1997] that inadequate jail staffing violated the due process rights of a woman detainee who was repeatedly raped …
Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997
Gun Law Threatens Police, Military, Prisons by In September, 1996, an acrimonious 104th Congress, faced with government "shut-down," passed the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997. The budget battle garnered so much attention that little notice was given to a "rider" attached to the bill that poses a threat to …
PLRA Codifies Injunction Standards in Conditions Case by In the December, 1995, issue of PLN we reported Smith v. Arkansas DOC, 877 F. Supp. 1296 (ED AR 1995) in which the district court ordered increased staffing levels in open bay barracks prisons in Arkansas. The defendants appealed and the eighth …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Guard Tower Scam by A.L. In the January PLN, Paul Wright described the ordeal of the guards' union in Washington state successfully fighting the DOC's effort to reduce staffing of the guard towers in Washington's prisons. While it's clear that the public-employee unions representing turnkeys fight tooth-and-nail to keep positions …
Philadelphia Fined for Degrading City Prisons by A Philadelphia common pleas court panel fined the city $2.2 million for "degrading" conditions in the city's prisons. The judgment, passed down by a three judge panel in early October, 1996, was accompanied by a contempt of court citation for the city. The …
Inadequate Jail Staffing Violates Due Process by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a jail staffing practice that allowed a lone male guard to oversee female detainees could be held to violate due process after a woman detainee was raped by a guard. The court held …
Pierce County (Tacoma) Jail Suit Settled by In the February, 1995, issue of PLN we reported the filing of Herrera v. Pierce County, a class action suit challenging overcrowding and various other unconstitutional conditions at the Pierce County jail in Tacoma, Washington. The suit was settled in mid 1996 in …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
Washington Pork Refuses to Be Trimmed: Guard Towers Stay by Paul Wright In the August and November, 1995, issues of PLN we reported the passage of House Bill (HB) 2010 and the DOC's 1996-97 budget by the Washington state legislature. Among HB 2010's provisions were instructions for the DOC to …
Okay for Guards to View Naked Prisoners by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that it is constitutionally permissible for female guards to routinely view naked male prisoners. Albert Johnson, a pretrial detainee in the Cook County (Chicago) jail, filed suit claiming that female guards monitoring male …
CDC Mental Health System Ruled Deficient by California's prison system (CDC) was cited by a federal judge for "gross inadequacies" in the delivery of mental health care services to prisoners. On September 13, 1995, U.S. district judge Lawrence Karlton put the bite on the CDC, issuing an 82 page court …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Bad Apples in Florida DOC by Kenneth Smith, fired from four separate Florida prisons, exemplifies a problem the Florida DOC has: keeping "bad apples" out of the barrel. Smith was fired from prisons for repeatedly violating prison rules, drunken driving, and a criminal conviction for resisting arrest, yet always managed …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Pelican Bay Psychiatrists Resign in Protest by In the August '95 issue of PLN we reported Madrid v. Gomez, the suit challenging conditions at the Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, CA. Federal district court judge, Thelton Henderson, ordered the California Department of Corrections (CDC) to implement significant improvements …
Ohio Mental Health Decree Entered by A far reaching consent decree governing the delivery of mental health care to Ohio prisoners was entered on 10 July 1995. The consent decree resulted from a §1983 suit filed in 1993 and certified as a class action on June 7, 1995. The prisoner …
Open Prison Barracks Unsafe by In the past fifteen years of massive prison expansion many prison systems have opted to build open dormitory type prison barracks because they are substantially cheaper to build than conventional cell blocks. There are inherent shortcomings in this type of prison design. The Connecticut DOC …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Feeding at the Trough by The highest paid state employee in California isn't the governor, it is Darryl Andrade, a DOC lieutenant at the Avenal State Prison who earned gross wages of $108,989 in 1994. Andrade was one of 702 California prison guards, sergeants and lieutenants who made more than …
WA Passes Record Anti-Prisoner/Defendant Legislation by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the March, 1995, issue of PLN I gave a rundown on most of the anti-prisoner and defendant legislation then pending in the legislature. After we had gone to press for that issue Ida Ballasiotes, the rabid chair of …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Violence Increases in Fed Prisons by BOP records show an increase of violence at the five older U.S. Penitentiaries at Atlanta, Leavenworth, Lewisburg, Lompoc and Terre Haute. Statistics from the two newer prisons at Florence and Allenwood are not yet available. BOP records show that prisoner assaults on guards increased …
PA Class Action Settlement Published by The October, 1994, issue of PLN reported that on August 12, 1994, attorneys representing all Pennsylvania state prisoners had reached a settlement with prison officials of that state regarding almost every aspect of prison conditions in that state. The district court has published the …
Turner Applied to Rehabilitation Act Claims by Prisoners at the California Medical Facility (CMF) in Vacaville filed a class action suit challenging the adequacy of medical care and the overall treatment afforded to prisoners at the facility, especially those who were HIV positive or had AIDS. Before trial the parties …
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