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Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
International Red Cross Suspects U.S. Hiding Foreign Detainees by The International Red Cross (IRC) said on July 13, 2004, that it suspects the United States is hiding foreign detainees in prisons throughout the world. According to Antonella Notari, spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, terror suspects that …
Connecticut Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit for $2.9 Million by Michael Rigby Connecticut Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit For $2.9 Million by Michael Rigby On April 4, 2002, the State of Connecticut agreed to settle for $2.9 million a lawsuit arising from the wrongful death of Timothy Perry, a mentally ill man …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Federal Halfway House Litigation by Todd Bussert by Todd Bussert, Esq.* In Decemberr 2002, a shock wave reverberated through the federal prison system, when the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced radical changes in its policy on when it will allow prisoners to serve some or all of their sentences in …
Tennessee Prison Audit Blasts DOC, CCA and CMS by Michael Rigby A Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) performance audit for the years 1997-2002, released by the state comptroller's office in September 2003, reveals problems with prison staffing, pre-release preparation, and numerous instances of contract violations by private prison contractors. A …
Overcrowding Forces Alabama Prisoners Into Private Prison Web by Gary Hunter Court orders have forced Alabama to reduce the number of prisoners in its county jails and send half of its prison population to two other states. Until recently the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) had crammed 28,000 prisoners into …
Wisconsin Contract for Faith-Based Program Does Not Violate First Amendment by Bob Williams Wisconsin Contract for Faith-Based Program Does Not Violate First Amendment by Bob Williams A Wisconsin federal district court has found that a state Department of Corrections (WDOC) contract with a faith-based addiction recovery program does not violate …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
California Sex Offender Prison Classification Label Approved for Dismissed Charge by John E Dannenberg California Sex Offender Prison Classification Label Approved for Dismissed Charge by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeals upheld the California Department of Corrections (CDC) regulation permitting administrative labeling of state prisoners as sex offenders …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
District of Columbia May Be Liable for Prisoner's Inadequate Medical Care by District of Columbia May Be Liable for Prisoner's Inadequate Medical Care The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, reversing and remanding the district court, held that a D.C. prisoner incarcerated in a Virginia state prison …
Ex Con "Helps Police" by Trying to Murder Sex Offenders by Gary Hunter Between April 12 and April 25, 2003, Lawrence Trant, Jr., 56, tried to kill 8 registered sex offenders in Concord, New Hampshire. Trant set fire to a boarding house, to an apartment building and ultimately stabbed one …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Administrative Hearings and Judicial Reviews Mandated for Sex Offender Classifications Without Current Felony Conviction. by Bob Williams Mandating administrative hearings and allowing for judicial review, the Colorado Court of Appeals has reversed a state district court's dismissal of a prisoner's challenge to his Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) sex offender …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Filed under: Work Release, Work, Prison Labor
Arkansas Work Release Prisoner Entitled to Unemployment Benefits by The Arkansas Court of Appeals, Division, II, held that a work release prisoner who loses his job as a result of a transfer to a prison to prepare him for parole is entitled to unemployment benefits as a result of losing …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Washington Medical Claim Reinstated by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Ap-peals reversed part of a grant of summary judgment to Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) officials in an Eighth Amendment challenge of WSP medical policies and practices. WSP prisoner Garrett Linderman sued WSP officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for …
Florida Work Release Prisoners Ripped Off by Private Transport Company by David Reutter Florida Work Release Prisoners Ripped Off by Private Transport Company by David M. Reutter In response to a new law, effective Oc-tober 1, 2003, that prohibited state prisoners from driving state vehicles, the Florida Department of Corrections …
Cornell Company - The Prison Industry's Enron by Gary Hunter It was not an earthshaking day when Cornell Corrections was founded in 1991. It was more like a pebble plummeting over a cliff, leading to a landslide of greed and corruption. Backed by Dillon Read Venture Capital, David Cornell's callous …
Escaped New Hampshire Prisoners Caught Camping by Gary Hunter Three escaped New Hampshire pris-oners were captured at a Massachusetts campground just one day after their daring daylight getaway. Kevin Gil, Philip J. Dick and Christopher McNeil negotiated their temporary freedom from New Hampshire State Prison (NHSP) in Concord by cutting …
Wisconsin Prisoners' Riot Charges Expunged From Records by The Wisconsin Court of Appeals has affirmed a circuit court's order overturning and expunging seven prisoners' disciplinary infractions for participating in a riot, barring future disciplinary action premised upon the riot, but allowing proceedings for future administrative confinement for involvement in the …
Cornell Half Way House Employees Charged with Drug Trafficking by The Ben Reid Community Correctional Facility in northeast Houston is run by Houston-based Cornell Companies, Inc., under a $4.8 million contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In May, 2004, Roy Thomas, 50, Ben Reid's director of employee training, …
Article • December 15, 2003
Heck Inapplicable to Halfway House Suit by The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed a lower court's dismissal of a prisoner's suit, for failure to state a claim. The court held that the favorable termination rule of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 488-87 …
Virginia: Stun Gun Implicated In Death, CMS Implicated In Coverup by by Michael Rigby Documents filed as part of a $204 million lawsuit directly, contradict the Virginia Department of Correction's (DOC) initial assertion that a stun gun played no role in the death of Lawrence James Frazier, and may implicate …
BOP Proper Defendant in Work Release Change Suit under ADA by The plaintiffs are criminal defendants who received judicial recommendations that they serve their sentences in a community corrections center, but were denied such placement pursuant to the Department of Justice's abruptly announced change of policy barring it except for …
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