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Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
$300,000 Settlement for New York Guard’s Fondling of Prisoner by The New York State Department of Correctional Services agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment claim involving a sexual assault. Arthur Kill Correctional Facility prisoner Stephen Lewis advised his unit guard on November 8, 2007 that he …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Cavity Searches of Civil Commitment Patients for Cellphone Upheld by Eighth Circuit by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a strip search of 150 Minnesota civil commitment patients, but warned that it was “a close question of constitutional law,” which reached the outer limits of acceptable conduct. On October …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches
$389,548.55 Total Award in Texas Jail Strip Search Suit by On February 5, 2009, a former jail prisoner in Wood County, Texas was awarded $60,000 by a federal jury after being subjected to an unlawful strip search. She had previously settled claims against the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) for …
Brief • January 5, 2011
Willis v. Vasquez, CA, 4th Amended Complaint, Brutal Beating by Jail Guard Gang, 2011 1 Sonia M. Mercado (SBN: 117069) SONIA MERCADO & ASSOCIATES 2 5711 W. Slauson Avenue, Suite 100 Culver City, California 90230 3 Tel: 310-410-2981 - Fax: 310-410-2957 E-mail: Soniamer2002@yahoo.com 4 Counsel for Plaintiff Tyler H. Willis …
Suit Filed Against Use of Rapiscan on Detention Facility Visitor by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In partially denying state officials’ motion for summary judgment, an Illinois federal district court discussed the constitutional parameters involved in the use of a Rapiscan Secure 1000 device, which uses “back-scatter” X-ray technology …
Brief • October 22, 2010
Allison v. GEO Group, PA, Order granting Settlement, strip search, 2010 10/20/2010 18:08 2158511420 REED SMITH 26 S Case 2:08-cv-00467-JD Document 74 Filed 10/22/10 Page 1 of 2 PAGE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNY ALLISON and ZORAN HOCEVAR, individually and on behalf …
Crime Labs in Crisis: Shoddy Forensics Used to Secure Convictions by Matthew Clarke To millions of people whose knowledge of crime labs comes from television shows such as CSI, Bones, Crossing Jordan and the venerable Quincy M.E., the forensic experts who work at such labs seem to be infallible scientists …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
Fake Rape Claim Puts Woman in Prison by Brandon Sample A New York woman who falsely claimed she had been raped was sentenced in February 2010 to 1 to 3 years in prison on perjury charges. In 2005, Biurny Peguero Gonzalez told investigators that William McCaffrey, a Bronx construction worker, …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
Exhaustion Excused Where Warden Misled Prisoner During Grievance Process by Brandon Sample Failure to exhaust administrative remedies may be excused when prison officials mislead a prisoner during the grievance process, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided on January 11, 2010. In May 2002, prisoner Gerson Nunez …
Brief • September 22, 2010
Hicks v. CCA, LA, Complaint, Unlawful Strip Search, 2010 Case 1:10-cv-00020-JTT-JDK Document 37 Filed 09/22/10 Page 1 of 9 PageID #: 118 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION JAMES HOUSTON HICKS § CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:10CV00020 § VERSUS § JUDGE TRIMBLE § INSURANCE CO. OF CORRECTIONS …
$10 Million Settlement for Former Colorado Prisoner Cleared by DNA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 16, 2010, Colorado’s Larimer County Commission approved a $4.1 million settlement with a former prisoner who served 10 years of a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit. The settlement …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
$2 Million in Settlements for Wrongful Arrest, Conviction in Ohio by Two former Ohio prisoners have accepted settlements totaling $2 million after being wrongly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. One of the men, Derris Lewis, spent 18 months in jail pending trial on murder charges. The other, Robert …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Technology, Budget Cuts Make Sex Offender Monitoring More Difficult by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Technological innovations and tech-savvy sex offenders, combined with budget cuts, have made it harder for law enforcement authorities to monitor the nation’s estimated 716,750 registered sex offenders (RSOs). That does not include all RSOs, as …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
$2.9 Million Settlement in Suit against GEO over Suspicionless Strip Searches by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 20, 2010, a $2.9 million settlement was reached in a Pennsylvania federal civil rights lawsuit against GEO Group for performing suspicionless strip searches of people arrested for minor, non-violent, non-drug offenses. …
Innocence Project Report on Compensation and Reentry Services for Exonerated Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at New York’s Yeshiva University. Since that time the Innocence …
Brief • September 9, 2010
Solis v. Baca, CA, Expert Report - Martin, Body Cavity Strip Search, 2010 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA MARLENE SOLIS, et aI., Plaintiffs, vs. SHERlFF LEROY D. BACA, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. CV 06-01135 SVW (CTx) …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
Incomplete DNA Databases Result in Tragic Consequences by Justin Miller A review by the Associated Press has found that state crime lab databanks are missing thousands of DNA samples. The missing samples and backlogs in processing those that have been collected raise questions concerning serious crimes that otherwise might have …
Brief • August 3, 2010
Cianfaglione v. Rogers et al, IL, Complaint, qualified immunity unreasonable strip search, 2010 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS URBANA DIVISION ANGELINA CIANFAGLIONE, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) TERRY ROGERS in his individual capacity, ) DEE BURGIN, in his individual capacity, …
Brief • July 20, 2010
Filed under: Police Searches
Carter v. United States, NY, Order ATF Raid Wrongful Search, 2010 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ------------------------------------------------------x LILLIAN CARTER, RUSSELL CARTER, CHAD CARTER, TERRANCE WILSON, and VIRGIL WILLIAMS, Plaintiffs, MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Case No. 04-CV-4880 (FB) (JMA) -againstUNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant. --------------------------------------------------------x Appearances For Plaintiffs: …
Article • July 15, 2010 • from PLN July, 2010
Texas Youth Commission Ombudsman Resigns Following Smuggling Indictment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 30, 2009, Catherine S. Evans, a former Dallas state district judge and the newly-appointed ombudsman for the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), resigned after she was indicted on a third-degree felony charge for smuggling a …
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