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Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Stipulated Order Desegregates Arizona Prisons; $195,000 in Attorney Fees Awarded by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Decades after prisons in the Deep South were desegregated by the federal courts, a federal judge has approved a stipulated order desegregating housing and job assignments in Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) facilities. The …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Failure to Accommodate Deaf Prisoner Costs Oregon DOC $400,000 by On November 3, 2016, a federal jury awarded a deaf former Oregon prisoner $400,000, finding prison officials had violated his civil rights by failing to accommodate his hearing disability. David VanValkenburg, 51, is deaf and must communicate through a sign …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Vigilantes Assault, Rob and Murder Registered Sex Offenders by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke As repeatedly reported in Prison Legal News, for over a decade registered sex offenders have been targeted by vigilantes and assaulted, robbed and murdered due to their past crimes. And as noted in this issue’s cover …
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue marks the 27th anniversary of Prison Legal News and our parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center. When I first started publishing PLN from my prison cell in Clallam Bay, Washington in 1990, I didn’t think I would still be doing so …
Ware v. Lake County Sheriff's Office, IL, Settlement, Employment Discrimination, 2017 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT A.N'DMUTUAL GENERAL RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Mutual General Release ("Agreement"), is made and entered into by and between LANCE WARE (hereinafter "Ware"), Lhe COUNTY OF LAKE ("County") a11dthe SHERJFF OF LAKE COUNTY lLLlNOJS ("Sheriff') (l1ereafter,Ware, the …
Lacy v. Dart, IL, Order, Violations of ADA, 2017 Case: 1:14-cv-06259 Document #: 368 Filed: 05/02/17 Page 1 of 8 PageID #:8440 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JOHNATHAN LACY, KENNETH FARRIS, MARQUE BOWERS, MAURICE BOSTON, KEVIN DAWSON, individually and for all …
Americas Increasing Use of Life, The Sentencing Project, 2017 STILL LIFE America’s Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org twitter.com/sentencingproj facebook.com/thesentencingproject This report was written by Ashley Nellis, Ph.D., Senior Research …
Article • April 26, 2017
$6,750 Settlement in BOP Racial, Age Discrimination Complaint by The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) paid $6,750 to settle an employee’s age and racial discrimination claim.  The April 7, 2000, complaint of Sally Williams, a Secretary GS-6 at the BOP office in Washington D.C., alleged denial of promotions. Williams asserted that younger …
Article • April 26, 2017
EEOC Judge Holds BOP Retaliated Against Employee for Prior EEO Activities by On May 1, 2002, an administrative law judge for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) retaliated against an employee who had filed previous complaints with the EEOC when they terminated …
Department of Justice Opposes Finding of Racial Discrimination against BOP by Donald Ernest Thompson, who is black, was a correctional supervisor (GS-11 Lieutenant) at FCI Englewood in Littleton, Colorado when he was made Disturbance Control Team Leader. Two white members of the team objected to his appointment, claiming he had …
Florida’s Prison System Agrees to Upgrade Care of Mentally Ill by David Reutter by David Reutter In 2015, Disability Rights of Florida obtained a settlement that requires the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) to more humanely care for mentally ill prisoners at Dade Correctional Institution (DCI), the same prison where …
Human Rights Clinic - Designed to Break You, UT School of Law, 2017 Designed to Break You HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ON TEXAS’ DEATH ROW APRIL 2017 A R E P O RT F R O M T H E H U M A N R I G H T S …
Article • April 13, 2017
Study: Public Misperceptions About Sex Offenders Skew Policy-Making by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton Public opinion toward crime is complex. Research shows that Americans strongly favor punitive measures to address criminal behavior while also demanding the rehabilitation and treatment of offenders. When it comes to sex offenses, it gets even …
Osegueda v. Stanislaus County Public Safety Center, CA, Order on 2nd MTD - Gang Segregation, 2017 Case 1:16-cv-01218-LJO-BAM Document 30 Filed 04/11/17 Page 1 of 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 ARMANDO OSEGUEDA, et al., …
Brief • April 7, 2017
Brian v. New Jersey Dept of Corrections, NJ, Amended Class Action Complaint, Disabled Prisoners' Right to Education, 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00188-FLW-LHG Document 26 Filed 04/07/17 Page 1 of 60 PageID: 162 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY ______________________________________ ADAM X., BRIAN Y., CASEY Z., on …
Article • April 5, 2017
Pennsylvania Sees Rash of Corrupt Guards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Between 2012 and 2014, at least 14 Pennsylvania jail and prison guards were arrested. Most of the arrests stem from corrupt acts while on duty, and the seriousness of the acts ranger from tawdry to downright predatory …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Washington Sex Offender Records Not Exempt from PRA Disclosure by On April 7, 2016, the en banc Washington Supreme Court held that sex offender registration information is not exempt from blanket disclosure through requests filed under the state’s Public Records Act (PRA). Washington resident Donna Zink submitted several PRA requests …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Oregon: Muslim Prison Visitor Receives $40,000 for Discrimination, Retaliation by The Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) agreed to pay a female Muslim visitor $40,000 for religious discrimination and retaliation by state prison guards. Myell Thompson, who converted to the Islamic faith, wears a traditional head covering known as a hijab. …
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Supreme Court Reverses Criminal Conviction for Racial Bias by Juror by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In a decision sure to reverberate throughout the nation’s criminal courts, in March 2017 the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a Colorado defendant charged with sexual battery due to a juror’s racially …
Article • March 31, 2017
Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People by Sam Mitrani by Sam Mitrani, The Labor and Working-Class History Association In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to …
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