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No Hearing Required for Oregon IMU Confinement by In a unanimous decision, the Oregon Supreme Court has held that state prisoners are not entitled to a hearing when they are confined in the Intensive Management Unit (IMU). The Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) operates two IMUs to segregate “prisoners who …
Florida to Allow Exportation of Prisoners to Other States by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida lawmakers have handed a victory to the private prison industry by passing a bill (SB 1722) that allows Florida prisoners to be exported to out-of-state facilities, which are mostly privately-operated. When Governor Charlie …
Prisoner Not Allowed to Sue One DOC in Another State by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Illinois held that New Mexico Department of Corrections (NMDOC) officials cannot be sued in Illinois due to lack of personal jurisdiction. Jimmy Kinslow, an NMDOC prisoner, was transferred in 1995 to the …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
California Lifers Housed Out-Of-State in Federal Witness Protection Program Entitled to Appear in Person at Parole Hearings by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeal (Third District) held that California prisoners sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, who are housed in out-of-state facilities in …
Article • February 15, 2009
Montana Detention Center May Not House Out Of State, Federal Prisoners by Montana Attorney General Mike McGrath, upon request of Hardin City Attorney Rebecca Convery, issued an opinion that detention center officials lack the authority to contractually house out of state and federal prisoners. A reportedly $20 million detention center …
Harris County, Texas Sends 600 Jail Prisoners to Private Pen in Louisiana by Harris County, Texas Sends 600 Jail Prisoners to Private Pen in Louisiana In December 2007, Harris County, Texas officials announced they were sending an additional 200 jail prisoners – 180 of them women – to a privately-run …
Contempt Order Entered Against Virgin Island’s Prison Mental Health Care by Contempt Order Entered Against Virgin Island’s Prison Mental Health Care A Virgin Islands federal district court has held territory officials in contempt, ruling that they willfully violated the court’s orders. That finding came in a class action suit dating …
Article • August 15, 2008
Prison System Commissioner Not Liable For Out of State Transfer by The plaintiff was assaulted by an employee and later by other prisoners in a Texas jail to which he was transferred because of overcrowding in Colorado. The plaintiff's allegation against the Director of the Colorado prison system, that he …
Article • August 15, 2008
No Liberty Interest in DC Prisoners Transfer to BOP by The plaintiff has no liberty interest in his security classification, nor does he allege atypical and significant hardships resulting from it, so he has no due process claim. Nor does he have an equal protection claim with respect to prisoners …
Challenge to Out of State Transfer Can Be Filed As Habeas by The plaintiff sought an order barring his transfer to an out of state private prison. The court dismissed his petition as an improper habeas action, but now grants reconsideration, since it realizes that this is not a second …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
$35,00 Settlement in Sexual Assault of Pennsylvania Female Prisoner by Guard by The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) has settled a female prisoner’s federal lawsuit that claimed she was sexually assaulted by two male guards and videotaped naked by a female guard for $35,000. The settlement came in the case …
Riots at CCA Prisons Reveal Weaknesses in Out-of-State Imprisonment Policies by Matthew T. Clarke By Matthew T. Clarke States, strapped by tight budgets and pressed by swelling prison populations, are faced with the Hobson's choice of releasing prisoners early to ease overcrowding or building prisons they can ill afford to …
Article • May 15, 2008
Wisconsin Prisoner Loses Claim Over Transfer to Private Prison in Tennessee by The plaintiff, a Wisconsin prisoner housed in a private prison in Tennessee, filed an "irregular document" with no filing fee or IFP application, asserting that by transferring him Wisconsin had relinquished jurisdiction over him, entitling him to release. …
No Restriction on Moving Wisconsin Prisoners to Private Out of State Prisons by The plaintiff sought an injunction against his transfer to a private prison in Texas or Tennessee. His commitment to the "Wisconsin State Prisons" as opposed to the "Wisconsin Department of Corrections" does not mean he has a …
Federal Healthcare Receiver Investigates Out-of-State Deaths of Transferred California Prisoners, but Does His Authority Follow Them? by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The federal court-appointed Receiver for California?s prison healthcare system is investigating the deaths of four prisoners who were transferred to out-of-state facilities, but stopped short of declaring …
Alabama Prisons Sell Land to Finance Prison Building, Repair by In July 2007, Alabama Governor Bob Riley announced a plan to sell approximately 6,000 acres of state prison land to finance the construction of new prison beds and make needed repairs to existing facilities. The extra bed space would enable …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Texas GEO Prison Squalor Drives Idaho Prisoner to Suicide by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Seven months after arriving at the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC), a private prison in Spur, Texas operated by the GEO Group, Idaho state prisoner Scot Noble Payne, 43, was dead by his own hand. …
Wrongful Death At Wallens Ridge State Prison Settled For $1,540,000 by In 2002, the state of Connecticut paid $1.1 million and in 2003 the state of Virginia paid $350,000 to the family of Connecticut state prisoner Larry Frazier who died a torturous death in a supermax prison. To ease Connecticut …
Arizona and Indiana Prisoner Uprising at GEO-Run Prison in Indiana by by Matt Clarke On April 24, 2007, about 500 Arizona and Illinois prisoners at a privately-run facility owned by the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) participated in an uprising. The prison is operated by the Boca Raton, Florida-based GEO …
California DOC Guards Win Injunction to Stop Prisoner Transfers Out-Of-State; Transfers Continue While State Appeals by The Superior Court of Sacramento County has granted a writ of mandate prohibiting the transfer of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners to out-of-state facilities to alleviate the prison system's chronic overcrowding …
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