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BOP Settles Prisoner Injury Claim for $1,500 by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled an injury lawsuit filed by prisoner Hazel Jackson on February 7, 2001. Jackson, a prisoner held at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, California, alleged in her complaint that on June 22, 1997 she "fell into an …
BOP Settles Handicapped Discrimination Lawsuit for $65,000 by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled a claim of discrimination on the basis of handicap brought by former employee Terry L. Ryckman in January 2001. Ryckman was employed by the Bureau as a prison guard at United States Penitentiary Florence, Colorado …
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, …
BOP Settles Claim of Race and Gender Discrimination by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled a claim of racial and gender discrimination in September 2002. Lisa Pinkston Druey, a white female prison guard at Federal Correctional Institution Yazoo City, Mississippi, filed a claim of discrimination against the Bureau of …
BOP Loses Disability Discrimination Suit Filed by Prison Guard by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons has been found to have discriminated against a prison guard on the basis of physical disability. Keith E. Beck, a GS-7 prison guard at Federal Correctional Institution Terminal Island, California, filed a complaint with …
Discrimination Complaint by White Male Prison Guard Settled by Christopher Zoukis An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint filed by Kevin J. Erickson, a white male prison guard at Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg, Virginia, was settled in March 2002. Erickson's EEOC complaint, filed in April 2001, alleged that Wanda Hunt, …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
Sixth Circuit Holds PLRA’s Physical Injury Rule Inapplicable to First Amendment Claims by On June 1, 2015, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held “that deprivations of First Amendment rights are themselves injuries, apart from any mental, emotional, or physical injury that might also arise from the deprivation, and that …
California: Jail’s Unsolicited Publication Distribution Ban Upheld by Mark Wilson A California federal district court held in May 2015 that jail officials did not violate the First Amendment by refusing to distribute unsolicited publications to prisoners. Crime, Justice & America, Inc. (CJA), founded by former bail bondsman Ray Hrdlicka, publishes …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
The Fight for Comprehensive Prison Phone Reform Continues by Carrie Wilkinson As previously reported in PLN, the prison telecom industry has been successful so far in delaying implementation of the rate caps ordered by the FCC in October 2015. [See: PLN, May 2016, p.36; Dec. 2015, p.40]. And while the …
From the Editor by Paul Wright A lot has been written about mass incarceration and the role drug laws have played in boosting the nation’s prison and jail population. While it is intuitive to expect prisoners to be accused or convicted of criminal offenses, the reality is that tens of …
Publication • September 1, 2016
Lenient in Theory, Dumb in Fact - Prison, Speech, and Scrutiny, Shapiro, 2016 \\jciprod01\productn\G\GWN\84-4\GWN403.txt unknown Seq: 1 19-JUL-16 10:28 Lenient in Theory, Dumb in Fact: Prison, Speech, and Scrutiny David M. Shapiro* ABSTRACT The Supreme Court declared thirty years ago in Turner v. Safley that prisoners are not without constitutional …
Article • August 25, 2016
Arkansas Federal Court Holds No First Amendment Right to Lower Prison Phone Rates by Matthew Clarke On January 21, 2011, an Arkansas federal court held that state prisoners in Arkansas had no First Amendment right to a specific telephone rate. Arkansas state prisoners Winston Holloway and Joseph Breault filed a …
Article • August 25, 2016
Guard’s Internet Boasts Expose Jail’s “Culture of Violence” by “Seeing someone get TASER’d is second only to being the guy pulling the trigger. That is money. Puts a smile on your face—My job is sweet sometimes,” wrote Multnomah County Jail Deputy David B. Thompson on an Internet gaming site called …
Former Michigan AG Found Guilty of Stalking Gay Man by In August 2012, a federal jury in Detroit found Andrew Shirvell, a homophobic former Michigan assistant attorney general, guilty of stalking, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and invasion of privacy, in a civil suit brought by Chris Armstrong, the …
Article • August 24, 2016
Sixth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity for Michigan DOC Officials by On February 6, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a denial of qualified immunity for three Michigan prison officials accused of violating the First Amendment and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalize Persons …
Article • August 24, 2016
Lawsuit Challenging BOP’s Ban on Face-to-Face Media Interviews Continues by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a jury could conclude the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) ban on face-to-face interviews with death row prisoners was not based on security threats related to such prisoners becoming jailhouse celebrities and …
Article • August 23, 2016
PLN Invalidates Oregon Jail's Postcard-Only Policy; Magazine Ban and Rejection by On April 24, 2013, an Oregon federal court granted Prison Legal News (PLN) an injunction, permanently enjoining an Oregon jail's postcard-only policy. It also declared that jail magazine ban and rejection notice and appeal policies violated the First and …
Article • August 23, 2016
Maryland Ban on Prisoner's Book Rescinded by Brandon Sample The Maryland Department of Corrections (MDOC) has rescinded its ban on "The Marshall Plan: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther," a book written by Marshall "Eddie" Conway, a Maryland prisoner. Acting MDOC warden Wayne Webb banned Conway's book …
Publication • August 23, 2016
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Talking Human Rights in the United States - A Communications Toolkit, Opportunity Agenda, 2009 Building the National Will to Expand Opportunity in America Talking Human Rights in the United States A Communications Toolkit Tips, tools, and techniques for building public support to uphold human rights at home. About The Opportunity …
Article • August 22, 2016
Fifth Circuit: Louisiana Prisons Can't Ban Nation of Islam Newspaper by In 2005, Louisiana prison officials instituted a statewide ban on "The Final Call, a newspaper published by the Nation of Islam. The ban was based solely on the content of a statement of beliefs called "The Muslim Program" located …
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