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No Qualified Immunity for Inadequate Iowa Disciplinary Notice by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity to prison officials on an Iowa prisoner’s inadequate disciplinary notice claim. Iowa prisoner William Dible was granted work release in April 2003, and placed at a residential …
Article • July 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit Strikes Down BOP Regulations Limiting Halfway House Placement by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample On September 4, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit joined the Second, Third, Eighth and Tenth Circuits in concluding that the Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) regulations categorically limiting eligibility for …
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Ninth Circuit Rejects Challenge to BOP’s Implementation of Second Chance Act by On December 6, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against federal prisoners who argued that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was not properly implementing the Second Chance Act (SCA), a law designed …
Prison Pays: Geo Corp Profits from Half-Way House Murder and Mayhem in Texas by Craig Malisow Despite a history of abuse and bad conditions, private-prison corporation GEO Group keeps getting contracts in Texas by Craig Malisow Anthony Ferrell left the Ben A. Reid halfway house in northeast Houston on October …
Questionable New Jersey Halfway House Funding Benefits CEC by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie insisted on budget cuts in 2010, except when it came to funding treatment centers, formerly called halfway houses. Gov. Christie wanted to increase funding for treatment centers by $3.1 million, …
Article • March 15, 2011
Washington Settles Work Release Denial Claim for $2,284 by The State of Washington paid a prisoner $2,284.00 to settle his tort claim for negligently delaying his work release. Washington prisoner Jeremy Post became eligible for work release on July 25, 2007. He was approved on October 2, 2007 for release …
Washington DOC Pays $3,275,000 to Family of Deputy Killed by Former Prisoner by In September 2009, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to settle a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a King County deputy who was murdered by a recently-released prisoner. On December 2, 2006, while …
Washington DOC Pays Work Release Prisoner Back $3,660 Confiscated in Room Search by In January 2007, Washington state prisoner, Kenneth Lee, was housed at a work release facility in Seattle. During a search of his room, DOC staff discovered $3,600 in cash, which was confiscated because it exceeded the $60 …
Article • May 15, 2010
Washington DOC Agrees to Pay $8,685.60 to Prisoner Hurt in Van Accident by The State of Washington has agreed to pay $8,685.60 to a prisoner who was injured during a car accident while on work release. On May 29, 2007, Tracy Sehmel was injured when a Department of Corrections employee …
Article • March 15, 2010 • from PLN March, 2010
South Carolina Prisoner Does Easy Time by Gary Hunter South Carolina state prisoner Kevin Bell, 42, breezed through the last six years of his sentence with the help of local law enforcement officials. In 1996, Bell began serving a 13-year prison term for cocaine trafficking. Six years later he was …
Washington State Makes Work Release Available to Disabled Prisoners; Monetary Payments to Class Members by The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) agreed to a settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that results in not only a policy change but monetary payments …
Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
Alabama Ends Policy Barring HIV+ Prisoners from Work Release by After more than two decades of intense advocacy by the ACLU, in August 2009 the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) agreed to end its practice of prohibiting prisoners with HIV from participating in work release programs. PLN has previously reported …
Sex with Former Jail Employee Lands Texas Sex Offender Back in Prison by On February 27, 2009, three days after his release from prison, Wydell J. Vaughn, 28, found himself back behind bars for having a romantic relationship with a former jail employee. Vaughn was convicted in 2002 on two …
Texas Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Ex-Prisoner’s Religious Halfway House by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 19, 2009, the Texas Supreme Court held that a city zoning ordinance which effectively banned a religious halfway house in the City of Sinton violated the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act …
Article • December 15, 2009
$32,527 Settlement for Woman Sexually Abused by Work Release Guard by California’s Sacramento County had paid $32,527 to Shantel Franklin, who filed a lawsuit for the sexually abusive acts of Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy James Perkins. Franklin began serving the part of her sentence that required her to work in …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
California Budget Cuts Lead to Closure of Two Parolee Residential Centers by In a questionable effort to save money, the State of California has closed two parolee residential centers in Los Angeles and returned the 74 non-violent offenders housed at those facilities back to prison. Scott Kernan, undersecretary of the …
Article • September 15, 2009
Supervised Release Period Does Not Begin When Federal Prisoner Is Transferred To Pre-Release Custody by A federal prisoner's period of supervised release does not commence upon transfer to a halfway house, jail or other component of community confinement, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided November 7, …
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
First Circuit Upholds BOP’s Discretion to Limit Halfway House Placement by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the authority of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to limit halfway house placements. In 2005, the BOP promulgated formal rules categorically limiting halfway house placement to the last …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
Ohio Limits Electronic Monitoring to Only Those Who Can Pay by If you’re convicted in Ohio and can afford to pay, you may be able to obtain release on electronic monitoring. If not, you can serve your time in the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio (CCNO). That is the new …
No Tort Liability for Louisiana Employer Accused of Negligence in Death of Prisoner on Work Release by Louisiana prisoners injured while in work release may not pursue a tort action against the prisoner’s employer, the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, 2nd District, decided April 30, 2008. Instead, the exclusive remedy …
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