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Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Staff Shortage in Nation's Prisons by Gary Hunter Across the nation, states are plagued by a shortage of prison guards. A decade of building prisons has created an industry that employs more people than General Electric, and costs taxpayers in excess of $40 billion a year. To fill the shortage …
Texas Jury Awards $70,000 in Prison Stabbing by Ronald Young In May 2001, a federal court jury in Corpus Christi, Texas, held three Texas prison officials responsible for a 1997 attack during which a prisoner at the McConnell Unit was stabbed about a dozen times by another prisoner who had …
Jury Awards Imprisoned KKK Member $55,000 in Texas Jail Beating by On July 19, 2000, a federal jury in Houston, Texas, awarded a Ku Klux Klan member damages totaling $55,000 after he was beaten by black prisoners with whom he was forced to share a cell. Larry Webster, 42, was …
Rape Rarely Prosecuted in Texas Prisons by Gary Hunter According to recent reports, rape in Texas' prisons is the highest in the nation. Based on research from 19952000, of the 660 cases reported barely 4 percent have been prosecuted. Why does the state that prides itself on having the highest …
Brief • December 6, 2001
Karcher v. Pierce County, WA, Class Action Complaint, Failure to Protect From Tuberculosis, 2001 RECEIVED CLAIM FOR DAMAGES FORWA (i (i' UNTYRISKMANAGEMENTDEPARTMENT OEC :.. 5 2001 TO PROSECUTING ATTY. "S: SHE~iii-F" 955 Tacoma Avenu~ South, Suite 303 Tacoma, Washmgton 98402 (253) 798-7462 DEC - 62001 R~R~9..~~8~~t~T HAI\iD DELIVERED f-~ -""2"tDf:t-/ …
Brief • December 3, 2001
Clark v. State of California, CA, Court Order, ADA Cruel and Unusual Punishment, 2001 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PRISONLAWOFFICE DONALD SPECTER #83925 HEATHER MacKA Y #161434 SARA NORMAN #189536 General Delivery San Quentin, CA 94964 Telephone: (415) 457-9144 ORKGKN.iiL CHAVEZ & GERTLER MARK A. CHAVEZ #90858 …
Brief • November 30, 2001
Jones v. DC, Complaint, Slip and Fall, 2001 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Civil Division THEODORE JONES 12737 Midwood Lane Bowie, MD 20714 Plaintiff v. ~~~~_" THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA A Municipal Corporation 441 Fourth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 c •.~, Civil Action No. Calendar Judge FILED …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Plug Pulled in California Prison by Willie Wisely California is short on energy. The state has suffered repeated Stage Three power alerts and rolling power outages. Without authorization by the Legislature, the California Department of Corrections (CDC) may be trying to alleviate the crisis. And it seems at least one …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Alaska Supreme Court Reverses Former Prisoner's $2.4 Million Jury Award by The Supreme Court of Alaska reversed a jury verdict and a $2.4 million damage award in favor of a former prisoner who was injured when he fell down a stairway. In February 1994, Carry Johnson was returning to his …
South Dakota Prison Conditions Class Action Settled by The federal district court in South Dakota has dissolved a state prison conditions consent decree and approved a class action settlement, ending two decades of litigation. State prisoners filed a §1983 suit challenging prison conditions, certified as a class action in 1982. …
Blind Ohio Prisoner Spends Months in Strip Cell by Ronald Young Blind Ohio Prisoner Spends Months In Strip Cell by Ronald Young An investigation by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) revealed that a blind prisoner at the Orient Correctional Institution in Pickaway County was subjected to three …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Environmental Challenge Bars Construction of California Prison by Rose Braz by Rose Braz, Esq. A Kern County, California, supperior court judge has barred the state from proceeding with plans to build a $335 million, 5,160 bed maximum-security prison slated for Delano. The groundbreaking ruling came in an environmental lawsuit filed …
Prisoners Riot in Dartmouth Jail by Gary Hunter On April 15, 2001, the scene at the Dartmouth House of Correction in Massachusetts could have been lifted straight from the pages of a medieval novel. Prisoners stormed the woodshop, armed themselves with boards, then set the shop afire. While one group …
Summary Judgment Denied in Oklahoma Jail Beating by A federal district court in Oklahoma has denied summary judgment against a pretrial detainee's failure to protect and deliberate indifference to medical needs claims. On September 5, 1995, John Winton was booked into the Tulsa County Jail on shooting charges that were …
America's Jails: The Dungeons of the New Millenium by Sam Rutherford At any given time there are approximately 500,000 people incarcerated in the more than 3,500 city and county jails across the United States. Some of these individuals are confined while awaiting trial, others are serving relatively short sentences for …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
The Connally Seven - A Texas Prison Escape and its Aftermath by Roger Hummel The John B. Connally State Prison is a 2,800-capacity maximum security facility for men. As part of Texas' $2 billion prison building frenzy of the 1990's, construction of the so-called "Michael prototype" unit was completed in …
Not Part of my Sentence: The Rape of Washington Prisoners by Silja JA Talvi Gig Harbor, Wash.: Annette Guzman-White, a 32-year-old minimum-security prisoner incarcerated on a second-degree burglary charge at the Washington Correction Center for Women (WCCW), is eager to get out of prison. It's something that could probably be …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
Sixth Circuit Upholds PLRA Attorneys' Fees Cap by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the cap on attorneys' fees imposed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d)(3), does not violate the equal protection provision of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This …
Damages in Denial of Exercise Suit Reversed by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a harshly worded opinion, reversed an Illinois federal district court judgment that a one-year loss of yard privileges suffered by a prisoner in disciplinary segregation was cruel and unusual punishment. Alex Pearson is a prisoner …
Brief • October 10, 2001
Jonesel v. Berge, WI, Order Injunction, Mental Health Supermax, 2001 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN --------------------------------------------DENNIS E. JONES `EL, MICHAEL JOHNSON, DE'ONDRE CONQUEST, LUIS NIEVES, SCOTT SEAL, ALEX FIGUEROA, ROBERT SALLIE, CHAD GOETSCH, EDWARD PISCITELLO, QUINTIN L'MINGGIO, LORENZO BALLI, DONALD BROWN, CHRISTOPHER SCARVER, …
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