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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 …
Bag'm, Tag'm and Bury'm; Wisconsin Prisoners Dying for Health Care by Dan Pens [The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (www.jsonline.com) published an investigative series titled: "Wisconsin's Death Penalty," by Mary Zahn and Jessica McBride, October 22-24, 2000. Wisconsin doesn't have capital punishment, but the Journal Sentinel revealed the routine "execution" of state …
Fraud Charged by Washington DOC Whistleblower by Dan Pens An employee of the Washington Department of Corrections Office of Correctional Operations contacted the state auditor's office in August 1997 pursuant to the State Whistleblower Act. The unnamed whistleblower [we'll call him/her "Doe"] told the auditor that the DOC used improper …
WA DOC Whistleblowers Speak Out: Is Anyone Listening? by Paul Wright Hollywood has glamorized whistleblowers as selfless, dedicated employees with the public interest at heart. It has also implied that when government or corporate employees expose wrongdoing there is someone there to investigate their claims. A veteran investigative journalist writing …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
CA Medical Lab Faked Prison Tests by Marvin Mentor A scandal has unfolded wherein a contract medical laboratory faked critical test results of at least 4000 state prisoners in 11 California prisons between 1995 and 1996. Moreover, a search of prisoners' medical records uncovered at least 650 cases, where, as …
Ohio Abandons Private Food Service Experiment by In October 2000, the Ohio prison system decided to abandon its controversial two-year pilot project to privatize the food service at the Nobel Correctional Institution (NCI). In October, 1998, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) awarded a two-year contract to ARAMARK …
Dying For Profits: CMS and the Privatization of Prisoner Health Care by Ronald Young By Ronald Young Marvin Johnson, a 28-years-old diabetic, required 100 units of insulin per day to stay alive. On the morning of July 27, 1995, he was arrested and jailed in Little Rock, Arkansas for driving …
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