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Director Out at Scandal-Plagued Washington State Jail by Lonnie Burton Amid numerous scandals and investigations into wrongdoing and prisoner mistreatment by staff, the director of the Snohomish County jail in Everett, WA was relieved of her duties in mid-April 2003. Corrections department director Andrea Bynum was fired due to her …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Rikers Island Jail Chief Demoted by Rikers Island supervisor Anthony Serra has been demoted from his $140,000 per year position as New York City jail chief amid allegations he improperly assigned underlings to work on Republican Governor George Pataki's re-election campaign. Serra was suspended from duty on October 22, 2002 …
Deaths and Beatings Rampant in Texas' Nueces County Jail by Gary Hunter Nueces County Jail in Corpus Christi Texas has become a regular source of dead and beaten prisoners. Ten prisoners have died in the jail between 1996 and 2000. Two cases have already cost the county $2 million and …
Pratt v. DC, DC, Order, Jail Tour Youth Strip Search, 2003 I UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA VERNELL PRATT, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 01-1525 (JGP) ECF DISTRlCT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Defendants. ORDER ___Upon consideration of plaintiffs Consent Motion for Attorneys' Fees and …
Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Matthew T. Clarke On May 1, 2002, two guards and an assistant warden were convicted in federal court of charges relating to the beating of a …
Sex, Drugs, and Beatings at Boston Jails by by Matthew T. Clarke A pattern of sexual abuse, bru-tality, drug smuggling, improper guard/prisoner relationships, and other official malfeasance at the jails in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, has raised serious questions about the leadership abilities of Suffolk County Sheriff Richard J. Rouse. Sex, …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
North Carolina Jail Fire Kills Eight Prisoners by A fire in the Mitchell county jail at Bakersville, North Carolina killed eight prisoners on May 3rd. Joey Grindstaff, 23; Mark Thomas, 20; Edmond Banks, 46; Danny Johnson, 42; Jesse Davis, 27; Jeremiah Presnell, 20; Jason Boston, 27; and Tywain Neal, 28 …
Pratt v. DC, DC,Memo Order of Judgment, Jail Tour Youth Strip Search, 2002 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA VERNELL PRATT, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Civil Action No. 01-1525 (JGP) ECF MEMORANDUM …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Ex-Georgia Sheriff Convicted in Ambush Killing of Successor by Lonnie Burton Former Georgia Sheriff Sidney Dorsey was convicted on July 10 for ordering the assassination of his political rival, a man who defeated him for sheriff in the 2000 elections. Dorsey was convicted of first-degree murder for the slaying of …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Virginia Sheriff Investigated for Misuse of Prisoner Funds by Lonnie Burton When prisoners at the Richmond, Virginia jail buy goods from the inmate store, the profits were supposed to be used for the benefit of the prisoners. Instead, an investigation has revealed that Richmond's sheriff, Michelle B. Mitchell, has been …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Honolulu Police Officers Indicted in Jail Food Scandal by From January 1995 to September 2000, while prisoners at the Honolulu Police Department were eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and prepackaged, reheatable meals, their captors were eating top sirloin and rib eye steaks at taxpayers' expense. Assistant Police Chief Rafael …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Officials Netted in Kansas Jail Bribery by A private company, MgtGP Inc., was awarded a $1.5 Million contract in 1997, and a four-year renewal in January 1997 worth $615,000 for that year alone, to run Kansas's Reno County Jail Annex. In May 2001, Reno's Sheriff, Larry Leslie, pled innocent to …
Georgia Sheriff Charged in Murder of Successor by Lonnie Burton In November 2000, DeKalb County (GA) Sheriff Sidney Dorsey was locked in a close re-election bid with political rival Derwin Brown. Brown defeated Dorsey in that contest, but Sheriff Dorsey, apparently unwilling to accept the will of the voters, allegedly …
Pratt v. DC, DC, Complaint, Jail Tour Youth Strip Search, 2002
America's Jails: The Dungeons of the New Millenium by Sam Rutherford At any given time there are approximately 500,000 people incarcerated in the more than 3,500 city and county jails across the United States. Some of these individuals are confined while awaiting trial, others are serving relatively short sentences for …
$350,000 Verdict in Dirty Dancing Suit; Punitive Damages Vacated by John E Dannenberg AU.S. district court jury in Washington, D.C., awarded female D.C. Jail prisoner Sunday Daskalea $350,000 in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages against the District and the Department of Corrections Director, Margaret Moore, for Daskalea's …
Brutality Behind the Orange Curtain by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely The FBI began its second civil rights investigation of the Orange County, California, sheriff's department following the beating of a diabetic prisoner asking for food to lower his blood sugar. Michael Gennaco, head of the civil rights division of …
Justice Department Report Slams Nassau County Jail by After a 14 month investigation, the U.S. Justice Department released a report September 11, 2000, that is harshly critical of the Nassau County Correctional Center (NCCC) located on Long Island, New York. The 23 page report found that NCCC prisoners have long …
Texas Deputy Pays Price for Testifying by Without the testimony of former Bexar County (TX) Jail guard Linda Grady, one of her former colleagues would never have been indicted for striking a prisoner, prosecutors say. As it was, Charles Mizell was convicted June 8, 2000 on one count each of …
Brief • January 29, 2001
Witherspoon v. Pierce County, WA, Claim, Jail Guard Rape, 2001 ~ ~ r" ,f. . HI:\.;I:I VI:U CLAIM FOR DAMAGE L- J.AN 292001 PIERCE COUNTY RISK MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT 955 Tacoma Avenue sOUlh. Suite 303 ,, , T 8CO!Tll, Washington 98402 . PIERCE 'COUNTY RISK MANAGEMENT (253) 79&-7462 c/o attorney Home: …
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