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Article • August 23, 2016
Jail Employees Steal from Prisoner Fund in Small-Town Maine by After stealing more than $7,200 from a so-called "inmate benefits account," a county jail employee in small-town Maine snitched on a co-worker and implicated his boss in the scam before finally resigning himself. Capt. Robert Gross, 62, filed his letter …
Article • August 5, 2016
CA Prisoners Win Appeal in Failure-To-Pay Interest Case by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has remanded a case filed by several California state prisoners challenging a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) practice of refusing to credit the prisoners with interest earned on their accounts. …
Article • August 5, 2016
Prison Guard Guilty of Stealing Mail by On September  23, 2014, a guard at a Virginia state prison entered a guilty plea to one count of mail theft for stealing mail intended for prisoners. Ezra Lamont Price was employed as a guard at the Danville Adult Detention Center when mail …
Publication • June 2, 2016
Managing Inmate Funds, Multnomah County Auditor OR, 2011 Managing Inmate Funds December 2011 Steve March Multnomah County Auditor Audit Staff Fran Davison Craig Hunt We conducted this performance audit in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Lawsuits Challenge Release Debit Cards; Courts Rule Against Arbitration by Derek Gilna Robert Regan, 67, was carrying $764 when he was arrested on a warrant in Rockdale County, Georgia. Upon his release from jail, instead of receiving cash or a check for the money seized during his arrest, he had …
Elizzari et al v. Sheriff of Cook County, IL, Plf Mot to Alter or Amend IR Judgment, 2016.pdf Case: 1:07-cv-02427 Document #: 448 Filed: 03/07/16 Page 1 of 6 PageID #:8558 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION LEONCIO ELIZARRI, et al., Plaintiffs, -vsSHERIFF OF …
Publication • February 25, 2016
Repaying Debts, BJA, 2007 Repaying Debts Repaying Debts A publication about how policymakers can increase accountability among people who commit crimes, improve rates of child support collection and victim restitution, and make people’s transition from prisons and jails to the community safe and successful Rachel L. McLean Michael D. Thompson …
Publication • February 22, 2016
Inmate Accounts Policy - Metro-Davidson Co Detention Facility, CCA, 2009 POLICY TITLE Inmate/Resident Trust Accounts CHAPTER SIGNATURE ON FILE AT FACILITY SUPPORT CENTER David M. Garfinkle Vice President, Finance SIGNATURE ON FILE AT FACILITY SUPPORT CENTER Richard P. Seiter Executive Vice President/Chief Corrections Officer SIGNATURE ON FILE AT FACILITY SUPPORT …
Colorado Court Finds Book Limitation Policy Violates Prisoner’s Religious Rights, but Case Reversed on Appeal by David Reutter A federal district court held that a Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) policy which limits prisoners in administrative segregation to having no more than two personal books at a time violates the …
Article • November 6, 2015
Court Rules National Geographic and Naturist Catalogue Pictures Not Child Pornography by Court Rules National Geographic and Naturist Catalogue Pictures Not Child Pornography John Rex is a prisoner at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk. On August 31, 2011, after a search of Rex's cell, guards found an envelope containing …
Wyoming Lifers Required to Maintain Savings Account by Wyoming Lifers Required to Maintain Savings Account The Wyoming Supreme Court has held that prisoners serving life sentences must still maintain mandatory savings accounts even though they have "little hope of ever leaving the prison system." In 1992, Kenneth Dale Nicodemus pled …
Article • November 6, 2015
Illinois Sues Prisoner for Cost of Incarceration by Illinois Sues Prisoner for Cost of Incarceration In February 2013, the state of Illinois sued a prisoner to recover the cost of keeping him locked up for 15 months. The suit was filed after the state learned that the prisoner received an …
Brief • November 4, 2015
Smith v. State of Illinois, IL, Opinion, shakedown loss of inmate property, 2015 IN THE COUIRT OF CLAIMS OFTHE I FILED STATE OF ILLINOIS COURT Of CUMMS NOV 0 4 Z015 MATTHEW SMITH. #B-86629 S^taiyotSttttMd Ex-Oifielo QwkCwrt of CliInB Claimant, Case No. 15-CC-0807 V. STATE OF ILLINOIS, V Respondent. ) …
Article • October 28, 2015
‘Release cards’ turn inmates and their families into profit stream by Amadou Diallo ‘Release cards’ turn inmates and their families into profit stream Unlike consumer debit cards, prison-issued cards are unregulated and subject to exorbitant fees by Amadou Diallo In 2013 Gregg Cavaluzzi walked out of federal prison with nothing …
Article • October 27, 2015
Concerns about Michigan Prisoners’ Lost Property Claims by David Reutter Concerns about Michigan Prisoners’ Lost Property Claims by David Reutter Fearing many Michigan prisoners’ claims for lost or damaged property may be fraudulent, state officials are looking for ways to end such abuse. The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) paid …
Article • October 16, 2015
Phoenix Jail Prisoners Victims in Fake Illness Scam by Matthew Clarke Phoenix Jail Prisoners Victims in Fake Illness Scam by Matt Clarke Margarita Zaragoza was in the process of bonding out her former cellmate using her car as collateral when she found out the truth—she had been had. And Zaragoza …
Article • October 9, 2015
$4.28 Awarded to Prisoner; Wins Summary Judgment by $4.28 Awarded to Prisoner; Wins Summary Judgment New Mexico state prisoner William McGhee sued state prison officials in federal court after they took $78.00 from his prison account to cover the cost of a damaged law book. McGhee asked for recovery of …
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
Cell Phones Confiscated from Prisoners Given to Charities by Christopher Zoukis Cell Phones Confiscated from Prisoners Given to Charities by Christopher Zoukis Thousands of cell phones seized from prisoners nationwide have been donated to charitable causes, including domestic violence programs and Cell Phones for Soldiers. Cell phones are considered contraband …
Article • September 18, 2015
Alabama Supreme Court Dismisses Prisoner’s Money Order Processing Fee Suit by Alabama Supreme Court Dismisses Prisoner’s Money Order Processing Fee Suit The Supreme Court of Alabama restyled then dismissed the pro se appeal of the circuit court’s dismissal of prisoner Victor J. Russo’s action against the Alabama Department of Corrections …
Article • May 24, 2015
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Prisoner Compensated for Loss of Property by Prisoner Compensated for Loss of Property A state prisoner won a verdict in the New York Court of Claims to compensate him for property that was lost or destroyed when he was transferred between prisons in 2003. Al Green was incarcerated in the …
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