Banished Texas Civilly Committed Sex Offenders Commit Crimes in Other States by Matthew Clarke The Texas Office of Violent Sex Offender Management (OVSOM), which supervises civilly committed Texas sex offenders, has been the subject of multiple controversies in recent months. These included secretly housing civilly committed sex offenders (CCSOs) in …
Texas Juveniles Endangered in Jail or in Prison by Matthew Clarke A recent study by the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Policy showed that Texas juveniles who were being held in adult jails while awaiting trial as adults are often isolated with no access to education …
$60,000 Plus Back-Pay Awarded to Federal Prison Worker to Settle Discrimination Complaint by Lonnie Burton Jai Mutreja worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) South Central Regional Office in Dallas as an electrical engineer. Mutreja is of Indian descent and had filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of …
USA v. Warrick, TX, Indictment, Fraud Conspiracy, 2016 Case 1:16-cr-00074-MAC-ZJH Document 2 Filed 09/07/16 Page 1 of 13 PageID #: 2 Fl LED U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS BEAUMONT DIVISION SEP 07 2016 BY DEPUTY ______________ …
GEO Texas Immigration Facility Hit for Substandard Health Care and Understaffing by Derek Gilna GEO, the world's largest private prison company, has been cited by the United states Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG) for overcharging the Bureau of Prisons for contract services, abusing prisoners with inadequate …
State Audit Finds Problems at Texas Office of Violent Sex Offender Management by Matthew Clarke The Texas State Auditor's Office released an audit report on the Office of Violent Sex Offender Management (Office) in January 2015. The report listed many problems, including a lack of controls over the management of …
Report Finds Abuse of Blind, Deaf, Elderly and Disabled Texas Prisoners by Matthew Clarke The Prison Justice League (PJL), a group advocating prison reform in Texas, released a report entitled Cruel & Unusual Punishment: Excessive Use of Force at the Estelle Unit. The report found that blind, deaf, elderly and …
Man Detained in Dallas Jail without Trial Longer Than Maximum Sentence by Matthew Clarke A man who was arrested for criminal trespass spent 200 days in the Dallas County Jail awaiting a court date on a charge that carries a maximum of 180 days in jail. The 37-year-old unidentified man …
Guards Falsifying Texas Jail Records Leads to Resignations and Demotions by Matthew Clarke An investigation into staff falsifying records of prisoner welfare checks at the Smith County Jail in Tyler, Texas, has led to the resignation of four guards and the demotion of one jail lieutenant to sergeant. Another guard …
BOP Settles Discrimination Claim by "Non-Asian" for $12,000 by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled a discrimination complaint brought by Wendy Lynn Brown, a white female employee at Federal Correctional Institution Big Spring, Texas in July 2010. Brown's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint was filed on July 6, …
Securus Settles Lawsuit Alleging Improper Recording of Privileged Prisoner Calls by by Jordan Smith, The Intercept Attorneys and advocates for people incarcerated in local jails in Austin, Texas have settled a federal lawsuit against telecommunications company Securus Technologies, with an agreement ostensibly designed to ensure that privileged legal communications between defense …
Jail Prisoner’s Death Results in $1 Million Judgment against Texas County by Matthew Clarke On October 22, 2015, a federal jury awarded $1 million to the survivors and estate of a prisoner who died in a Texas jail, finding jail employees were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs. Terry Lynn …
Screening Inmate Cases in Texas - A Brief Overview of Federal and State Inmate Litigation, Justice for Texans, undated T. Michael Kennedy, P.C. 1431 Greenway Drive Suite 800 Irving, TX 75038 972-281-5888 www.justicefortexans.com email: tmichael@justicefortexans.com Screening Inmate Cases in Texas: A Brief Overview of Federal and State Inmate Litigation in …
El Paso County Settles Ex-Prisoner's Disabilities Suit for $6,650 by Matthew Clarke On June 26, 2012, representatives of the County of El Paso, Texas signed a settlement in a suit brought by a deaf former jail prisoner over the lack of accommodations for disabled prisoners at the El Paso County …
Texas Correctional Industries Gives Prisoners Work Skills by With factories employing 5,200 prisoners at 37 Texas prisons, Texas Correctional Industries (TCI) is a large operation. It is also a diversified operation with furniture factories, computer repair facilities, soap and detergent factories, metal fabrication facilities, boot and shoe manufacturing plants, sign …
Private Prisons Are a Risky Business for Local Governments by Matthew Clarke Local governments in Texas and across the nation are bearing high costs for building private prisons that are now unwanted due to a sharp decline in incarceration rates. This has led some local governments to adopt radical strategies …
Texas Criminal Court Fees Are a Secret Tax on the Poor by The Texas Legislature has erected such a mishmash of criminal court fees that even the- court administrators and clerks don't know how to apply them. These fees, which are frequently not used for their intended purposes amount to …
Texas Court of Appeals Affirms Termination of Prisoner's Parental Rights by On January 21, 2016, a Texas court of appeals affirmed the termination of a prisoner's parental rights to his two minor children. At the time of the termination jury trial in the district court, the father was incarcerated on …
Texas Supreme Court Rules Inmate Trust Accounts Are Civil in Nature by On June 5, 2009 U.S. Justice Willett reversed in part a petition from the Court of Appeals for the Seventh District of Texas of a due-process claim for funds withdrawn from inmate trust accounts. In 2006, Texas prisoner …
Fifth Circuit Upholds Settlement Agreement in Discrimination Suit by Robert Quesada filed a Title VII discrimination against his employer Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The District Court required both parties to complete alternative dispute resolution. At the end of the mediation, Quesada's attorney made a $5000 …
