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Ninth Circuit: Kicking Shackled Prisoner In Genitals Is Cruel And Unusual Punishment by When California Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) prisoner Christopher Watts filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against guards J. McKinney and S.J. Steinberg for kicking Watts in the genitals after an unsuccessful interrogation regarding PBSP guards …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Shocked and Stunned: The Growing Use of Tasers by Anne-Marie Cusac by Anne Marie Cusac High-powered tasers are the new fad in law enforcement. They are becoming ever more prevalent even as their safety is increasingly in question. The proliferation of tasers in police departments across the country has led …
Immigration Detainee Wins Appointed Counsel And New Trial In Brutality Suit Against CCA by by John E Dannenberg An immigration detainee of seven years, who had unsuccessfully sued his jailer, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and its employees for severely beating him during a medical emergency transport, was granted a …
Abu Ghraib's Stain on Military Medicine by Steven Miles by Steven H. Miles, MD This article examines the relationship of military medical personnel to abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. It is based on testimony before the US Senate and …
Washington Jail Settles Wrongful Death Suit For $1.6 Million by Michael Rigby On October 12, 2004, Jefferson County, Washington, agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit arising from the wrongful death of Kevin Bledsoe in the Jefferson County Jail. The settlement is one of the largest ever for …
Death Exposes Inadequate Mental Health Care in Oregon Prisons by Mark Wilson On April 29, 2002, the tormented life of 45-year-old Oregon prisoner William Owens came to a tragic end in the Disciplinary Segregation Unit (DSU) of the Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI). His death exposed numerous problems with the …
Untimely Grievances Satisfy PLRA; $70,000 Beating Verdict Upheld by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that even an untimely grievance satisfied the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) so long as the prisoner goes through every step of the grievance process. In doing so, the court …
No Restraint, No Consequences: Privatizing Overseas Intelligence Extraction by by Matthew T. Clarke The Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based nonprofit legal center, helped Iraqi prisoners file a class-action lawsuit against private "interrogation services" contractors Titan Corporation and CACI International Incorporated alleging that Iraqi citizens being held without charges …
Connecticut Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit for $2.9 Million by Michael Rigby Connecticut Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit For $2.9 Million by Michael Rigby On April 4, 2002, the State of Connecticut agreed to settle for $2.9 million a lawsuit arising from the wrongful death of Timothy Perry, a mentally ill man …
Survivors of Prisoner Killed in Texas County Jail Awarded $2,500,000 by On May 20, 2003, a state district court in El Paso, Texas, awarded $2.5 million in damages plus attorney fees and court costs of $393,518 to the surviving spouse, daughter and estate of a man who died while imprisoned …
Abu Ghraib, USA by Anne-Marie Cusac When I first saw the photo, taken at the Abu Ghraib prison, of a hooded and robed figure strung with electrical wiring, I thought of the Sacramento, California, city jail. When I heard that dogs had been used to intimidate and bite at least …
Videotapes Prove Abuse of 9/11 Detainees by Federal Guards by by Matthew T. Clarke On December 18, 2003, Glenn A. Finer, Inspector General of the U.S. Justice Department, released a report which found that guards at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York, physically and verbally abused detainees …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Los Angeles County Pays $2.75 Million for Illegal Strip Searches by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The County of Los Angeles settled for $2.75 million the complaints of illegal strip searches and body cavity searches of female demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention in August, 2000, and the …
Detainees Positive Response, FBI, 2004 | Detainees Positive Responses 1. W . SUMMARY CODED CATEGO ares OF JUSTIFICATION CATEGORIES INFORMATIONWITHHELI! S ' l f I INFORlV_1ATION_ Category Category."b! ! AGENCY PERSONNEL RULES AND PRACTICES b! !-1 Internal FBITelephone Numbers. ' Category h! ! CLEARLY UNWARRANTED PERSONAL i g INVASION OF …
DOJ Investigation: Conditions in Arkansas Prisons Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby Conditions at the McPherson and Grimes Correctional Units in Newport, Arkansas are unconstitutional, the U.S. Department of Justice concluded after an 18-month investigation. According to the investigation report, dated November 25, 2003, investigators found that prisoners at both units experienced …
Beating Judgment for Jail Affirmed on Appeal; Costs Issue Remanded by The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court grant of judgment as a matter of law to a Kansas county in an excessive use of force claim brought against county jailers after a jury ruled against …
Death at North Carolina Lock Up Spotlights Troubled Jail System by Michael Rigby Death At North Carolina Lock Up Spotlights Troubled Jail System by Michael Rigby The death of Christopher Lee Wood at North Carolina's Cherokee County jail has served to illuminate a sordid history of prisoner abuse, FBI investigations …
No Constitutional Right to Privacy for Naked Woman Arrestee by In a 2-to-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a U.S. District Court's grant of relief on three federal privacy claims but upheld judgment under state law for an Iowa arrestee who was strapped naked …
Sentences Upheld for TransCor Driver Who Raped and Terrorized Prisoners by Sentences Upheld for TransCor Driver Who Raped and Terrorized Prisoners by Matthew T. Clarke A Texas court of appeals has upheld a TransCor driver's two-year sentence for having sex with a prisoner and ten-year sentence for sexual assault of …
Maryland Detainee Chained to Pole Awarded Damages, but No Fees by The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed in part a jury award of damages against Maryland police officers who left an arrestee tied to a pole in a deserted parking lot. The court also affirmed denial of …
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