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Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
Ten Michigan Lawyers Honored For 8-Year Effort To Win $30 Million Damages For 10 Women Prisoners’ Sexual Abuse By Prison Guards by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Ten Michigan attorneys were awarded two different awards by two national attorney professional associations. The attorneys received the National Lawyers Guilds’ coveted …
Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, by Silja Talvi ;Seal Press, 359 pp. $15.95 by Alexis Paige Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, by Silja Talvi, Seal Press, 359 pp. $15.95 Reviewed by Alexis Paige Silja J.A. Talvi’s …
Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues by Bob Williams “The house always wins,” Warden Don Cabana proclaimed to the Sun Herald, a Mississippi newspaper, in July 2007. However, Harrison County, home of the Harrison County Adult Detention Center (ADC), has agreed to pay …
Article • August 15, 2008
Grabbing Prisoner’s Buttocks Not Sexual Assault by Several civilian maintenance workers grabbed the plaintiff's buttocks briefly. This conduct did not violate the Eighth Amendment because there is no evidence that the plaintiff suffered anything more than a brief unwanted touch. The plaintiff submits no evidence except his own characterization to …
Article • August 15, 2008
Arizona Prisoner Wins $10,000 for Sexual Battery by Nurse by Leanna Johnson, a Pima County, Arizona prisoner, was subjected to a less than professional pelvic exam by a male nurse at the Pima County, Arizona jail. She sued in state court where the jury awarded her $10,000 in 2001. See: …
No Sexual Assault Claim Based on Abusive Metal Detector Search by The plaintiff alleged that an officer shoved a hand-held metal detector between his buttocks. He was fully clothed. He was later issued a one-day deprivation order and a misbehavior report for refusing a direct order, violating frisk procedures, and …
Jail Liable for Rape of Women Prisoners; Short Duration of Bad Conditions Okay by The two female plaintiffs were sexually assaulted by a jailer while serving 48-hour sentences for minor offenses. The jailer was subsequently fired and pled guilty to criminal charges as to one plaintiff. At 1307 n. 5: …
Article • August 15, 2008
California Court's Award of Attorney Fees to Sheriff's Deputies Investigated for Raping Prisoners Upheld by Several unidentified deputies of the Sheriff Department of Riverside County, California sued the county for not providing them with lawyers while they were being investigated for sexual misconduct involving prisoners. They prevailed and the court …
Federal Prison Guard's Drug Smuggling and Sexual Activities Warrant 46 Month Sentence by Former federal prison guard Celeste Akers appealed her sentence after smuggling drugs into a Bureau of Prisons facility in Forest City, Arkansas. The judgment was affirmed. Akers’ federal employment lasted from 2001 to 2005. A 2004 Department …
Article • August 15, 2008
Delaware DOC Not Liable for Rape, Impregnation of Prisoner by Guard by The plaintiff alleged that she was raped by a guard, resulting in pregnancy; the officer was confirmed as 96% likely to be the father. At 420: "... [R]umors and innuendoes of sexual impropriety between inmates and prison guards …
Improper Jury Instruction Vacates Four Aggravated Rape Charges Against Oklahoma Sheriff by Federal prisoner and ex-Larimer County (Oklahoma) Sheriff Melvin Holly appealed his conviction for five counts of felony deprivation of rights related to numerous incidents of sexual abuse. He claimed that an inappropriate jury instruction had resulted in the …
Squalor, Corruption Cause Cancellation of GEO Group’s TYC Contract by Gary Hunter When Texas Youth Commission (TYC) ombudsman Will Harrell toured the privately-operated Coke County Juvenile Justice Center in Bronte, Texas on September 24, 2007, he found children sleeping on dirty bed sheets, walls covered with smeared feces, urine-stained walls …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
$100,000 Settlement in Illinois Jail Guard’s Forced Oral Sex of Female Prisoner by To settle a prisoner’s equal protection claim based upon sexual harassment, Illinois’ Tazewell County has agreed to pay the prisoner $100,000. The same prisoner also had consensual sex with another off-duty guard, resulting in his firing. The …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
$35,00 Settlement in Sexual Assault of Pennsylvania Female Prisoner by Guard by The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) has settled a female prisoner’s federal lawsuit that claimed she was sexually assaulted by two male guards and videotaped naked by a female guard for $35,000. The settlement came in the case …
Article • July 15, 2008
Washington Guard Wins $72,000 in Race Discrimination Suit by Geronimo Subia, a guard at the Washington state women's prison at Purdy, sued in state court after he was placed on administrative leave for allegedly having sex with a female prisoner. Evidence that Caucasian guards pressured the prisoner to make the …
Article • July 15, 2008
Seven California Women Prisoners Settle Sexual Assault Suit for $160,000 by Seven women between 25 and 60 years old settled their sexual assault suit against California for $160,000. Plaintiffs were confined at the Avenal State Prison, near Fresno in 1989 and 1990. Avenal was a male prison and most of …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
$900,000 Settlement in Illinois Jail Guard’s Sexual Assault of Juvenile by Another case of sexual abuse upon a minor by a custodial person has hit the taxpayer’s coffers. This time, a guard at Illinois’ St. Clair County juvenile custody center sexually assaulted a 15-year-old boy, causing the County to settle …
Son of Illinois Congressman Fired, Charged With Raping Prisoners by On September 10, 2007, the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) fired Jeffery M. Rush, son of U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-IL). Jeffrey Rush, 42, who was employed as an assistant supervisor at the Fox Valley Adult Transition Center in …
Prison Doctors, Tainted by Regulatory Board Discipline, Administer Wisconsin Prisoner Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Whenever prisoners complain about inept healthcare, prison officials accuse them of being manipulating whiners, or assert they are being administered the ?community standard of care? by competent medical professionals. A review by …
Washington Jail Prisoners Suffer from Overcrowding, Abusive Guards, Inadequate Health Care and Indifferent Politicians by Roger Smith Since the mid-1990s, Washington State jail populations have increased exponentially. Obsolete facilities built decades ago to hold a handful of prisoners are now packed like sardine tins, with as many prisoners sleeping on …
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