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Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Microsoft Demands $1.5 Million from Texas Prison System for Software Violations by Microsoft Corporation, the computer software giant based in Redmond, Washington, has demanded a $1.5 million payment for software "licensing shortfalls." The demand was made on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), the agency that operates the state's …
Florida Guards Murder Another Prisoner, Get Another Acquittal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A state jury has acquitted three Florida prison guards in the murder of death row inmate Frank Valdes. The guards, Captain Timothy Thornton, Sgt. Jason P. Griffis, and Sgt. Charles A. Brown, were exonerated of …
Hawaiian Women Prisoners File Suit Over Sex Abuse, Torture in Oklahoma Private Prison by Lonnie Burton When the State of Hawaii opted in 1998 to send its female prisoners to a privately run Oklahoma prison, it had no idea what was in store for these women. What ensued over the …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
Texas Prison Warden Pleads Guilty; Prison Workers Arrested in Major Drug Bust by A former Texas prison warden who pled guilty to stealing more than $9,300 from a charity fund was sentenced to 5 years probation by a Coryell County District Court in Gatesville, Texas. On October 18, 2001, Linda …
PLRA Protects Lawless Guards Accused in Prisoner Beating by A lawsuit filed by a federal prisoner in Colorado provides a clear example of how the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) protects lawless prison guards from the consequences of their blatantly illegal actions. William Vance Turner is a Federal Bureau of …
The Cost of Medical Neglect in Washington Prisons by Sam Rutherford By Sam Rutherford The case, Corner v. State of Washington , [see page 6] is only one of many medical neglect suits that the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) has settled. In fact, below is a comprehensive list of …
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
Washington DOC Virtually Uninsurable by In the May, 2001, issue of PLN we reported the soaring cost of negligent parole supervision cases against the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) in the past year, totaling over $50 million in verdicts and settlements at that time .One result of that steady stream …
Idaho's Prison Labor Scandal by Silja JA Talvi by Silja J.A. Talvi Over the past decade, Idaho's state prison system has been rocked by a steady stream of scandals ranging from the sexual abuse of prisoners to the violation of prisoners' First Amendment rights. But nothing has shaken the Idaho …
California Pays for Guard's Sexual Misconduct by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely California taxpayers must pay $154,212 in damages to a former female prison guard sexually harassed on the job, according to the Sacramento Bee . Ray Collie, the lieutenant who couldn't seem to control his urges, owes just $75,000 …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Telemarketing and Computer Programs Crash at Utah Prison by Roger Hummel "Hi, how are you doing? I am fine. My name is David ... If you will be willing to go out with me, will you answer these questions honestly as to what you will be willing to do with …
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Florida DOC Clears Itself of Racism Charges by The September 2001 issue of PLN reported on a series of lawsuits filed by black prison employees against the Florida Department of Corrections, as well as racist brutality by Florida prison guards. Florida DOC Secretary Michael Moore at the time promised to …
Blind Ohio Prisoner Spends Months in Strip Cell by Ronald Young Blind Ohio Prisoner Spends Months In Strip Cell by Ronald Young An investigation by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) revealed that a blind prisoner at the Orient Correctional Institution in Pickaway County was subjected to three …
Not Part of my Sentence: The Rape of Washington Prisoners by Silja JA Talvi Gig Harbor, Wash.: Annette Guzman-White, a 32-year-old minimum-security prisoner incarcerated on a second-degree burglary charge at the Washington Correction Center for Women (WCCW), is eager to get out of prison. It's something that could probably be …
The Cost of Running Washington's Rape Camps by Paul Wright As the accompanying article, Not Part of My Sentence , makes clear, the sexual abuse of female prisoners by male prison employees is an endemic problem. As past issues of PLN show, this problem is not confined to any single …
Cowboys and Prisoners by Willie Wisely Trumpeted as the pinnacle of high-tech prison architecture when it opened in 1993, the Federal Correctional Complex in Florence, Colorado, contains two lower security facilities, one maximum security prison, and, since 1994, the Clockwork Orange inspired U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum. The steel and concrete …
FPI Has Sovereign Immunity in Fraud Action by The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI) is entitled to sovereign immunity in a qui tam suit brought under the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq. Gilbert W. Galvan, a federal …
Prison Doctor Wins $654,471 in Retaliation Suit by John E Dannenberg Prison Doctor Wins $654,471 In Retaliation Suit by John E. Dannenberg Dr. Terence Allen, prison physician at Halawa (Hawai'i) prison, was awarded $111,000 in damages plus $543,360 in attorney fees/costs against prison officials who retaliated against him for speaking …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
South Carolina Rapes Exposed by Bill Dunne South Carolina is reaping a crop of corruption and scandal from the desolate fields of its prison system. Predatory guards wield power with few checks on their using it to seek gratification through exploitation and oppression. Prisoners, especially women, are stripped of the …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
South Carolina Prison Chief Fired as Scandal Widens by Dan Pens Governor Jim Hodges angrily fired South Carolina's prisons chief January 11, 2001 after two guards were charged with allowing four minimumsecurity prisoners (2 male, 2 female) to have sex inside the governor's mansion. The charges deepened a prison scandal …
Texas and Florida Prisoners Used in Medical Experiments by Julia Lutsky When the AIDS epidemic struck in the mid eighties and pharmaceutical companies wished to test new and promising drugs, what better place than in the nation's prison systems? AIDS has no known cure and test subjects in the prison …
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