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Incompetence, Brutality and Scandal Infest Tennessee Prisons and Jails by by Michael Rigby Tennessee isn't known for its huge prison system, like Texas or California. Nor is the state's capital city, Nashville, recognized for massively overcrowded jails such as the ones in Los Angeles or New York City. But one …
Michigan's Dirty Little Secret: Sexual Abuse of Female Prisoners Pervasive, Ongoing by by Michael Rigby Despite reports of sexual abuse dating back 20 years ... despite a tumultuous decade of lawsuits that cost millions of taxpayer dollars ... and despite a promise by state officials to implement sweeping reforms, the …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Louisiana Prisoners Obscenity Conviction for Masturbation Vacated by The Louisiana Court of Appeals vacated a prisoner's obscenity conviction and sentence for masturbating in a public shower, within view of a female guard. Louisiana prisoner, Bobby Holmes, was charged with two counts of obscenity in violation of La.R.S. 14:106. The first …
Washington S.Ct. Upholds Persistent Prison Misbehavior Statute by In a 54 decision, the Washington State Supreme Court upheld a law that makes it a felony for a Washington prisoner to commit a serious prison infraction after losing all potential earned early release credits. The majority concluded that the statute was …
Oklahoma Prisons Suffer Crisis of Violence and Mismanagement by by Matthew T. Clarke 2005 has turned out to be a violent year in Oklahoma prisons. Between January and July, 2005, the prisons in Oklahoma suffered multiple riots, multiple murders of prisoners, and extensive probes of drug running. The stage for …
Federal Prison Problematic For Texas Officials by Michael Rigby A 500-bed federal detention center may have caused more problems than it solved for cash-strapped Willacy County, Texas. Three county commissioners have already been convicted of accepting kickbacks from companies involved with the prison, and a state senator's ties to three …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Supreme Court Holds Penalty Phase by Supreme Court Holds Penalty Phase Shackling Violates the Due Process In a 7-to-2 decision that Justices Thomas and Scalia criticized as shunning common sense and risk[ing] the lives of courtroom personnel, with little corresponding benefit to defendants," the United States Supreme Court held that …
Bringing Down The Brotherhood by by Alan Prendergast Inside the feds' war on the deadliest prison gang: 16 murders. 21 death-penalty cases. Snitches galore. A wide red line runs across the floor of the visiting room like a clown's grin, separating the guard post and the civilian exit from the …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Tennessee Pretrial Jail Credit Mandatory, Not Waivable by The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals reversed a defendant's convictions, holding that the trial court should not have accepted [his] plea agreement waiving pretrial Jail credit and that the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty pleas. …
Suit Implicates Washington DOC In Near-Fatal Collision, Drug Use Suspected by Michael Rigby A woman critically injured in a collision caused by an employee of the Washington prison system--reassigned to his home because of suspected drug use--has sued the state Department of Corrections (DOC) for endangering the public. Barbara Starkel …
Prisoners Faced Violent Hazing In Troubled Pennsylvania Jail by by Michael Rigby At least 50 prisoners entering Pennsylvania's Somerset County Jail over a 2-year period were beaten as part of a violent hazing ritual that went unchecked by jail authorities. This combined with serious overcrowding and a history of poor …
Titan Pays $28.5 Million After Pleading Guilty to Three Felonies by Titan Pays $28.5 Million After Pleading Guilty to Three Felonies by Matthew T. Clarke On March 1, 2005, Titan Corp., the largest private supplier of translators for the U.S. military, pleaded guilty to three felony charges and agreed to …
Article • October 15, 2005
Certain Blood for Uncertain Reasons: Reinstating Capital Punishment in Vermont by by Michael Mello Seventeen winters ago, a man I loved as a father was murdered. A few days before Christmas 1989, a racist coward with a grudge mailed a shoebox- sized bomb to federal appellate Judge Robert S. Vance. …
Article • October 15, 2005
BJS Analyzes Immigration Offenders by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a divison of the U.S. Department of Justice, disclosed in an August 2002 special report that the number of persons referred to federal prosecutors for an immigration offense as the most serious offense rose to 16,495 persons in 2000, …
Grand Jury Finds Criminal Conduct In Chicago Jail Prisoner Abuse Scandal by Matthew T. Clarke As previously reported in PLN, the Cook County Jail has been the scene of controversy involving the wanton beating of prisoners by an elite squad of guards known as the SORT team. [PLN Feb. 2004, …
USP Beaumont, Texas: Murder and Mayhem in the Thunder Dome by Leah Caldwell Located in East Texas, the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) at Beaumont is made up of a trio of federal prisons that are home to 5,667 prisoners. These prisons are run by the Bureau of Prisons, which is …
CCA Guard Arrested for Sexually Abusing Vermont Prisoners by Sexual abuse by a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) guard has spurred three lawsuits against CCA and resulted in the guard's arrest. The legal activity resulted from incidents at CCA's prisons at the Marion Adjustment Center (MAC) and St. Mary's Kentucky. …
First They Came For Lynne Stewart by Marjorie Cohn First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Acting Pro Se, NJ Prisoner Beats Charges of Spitting on Guard by A New Jersey jury took only three hours to declare William Victor not guilty of spitting on a Northumberland County Prison (NCP) guard in 2003. NCP's warden called the verdict ridiculous." Considering Victor proceeded through trial representing himself, …
U.S. Supreme Court: Michigan Appellate Attorneys Have by U.S. Supreme Court: Michigan Appellate Attorneys Have No Third Party Standing To Sue For Rights Of Future Unrepresented Prisoners by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. Supreme Court, sidestepping the important question of the constitutionality of a Michigan state law that prohibited appointment …
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