Imprisoned Author Denied Access to His Own Published Writing by In order to survive being subjected to nearly three decades of solitary confinement, William “Billy” Blake turned to reading and, more importantly, writing. “A Sentence Worse than Death” is an essay Blake wrote for inclusion in an anthology of narratives …
New York: Nearly $10 Million in Settlements Over Denial of Medical Care at Rikers Island by On November 13, 2015, the City of New York entered into a $3.8 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by the estate of a Rikers Island prisoner who swallowed caustic chemicals and died due …
FCI Danbury Prisoners Finally Transferred to New Women’s Facility by Three years after a “temporary” move from FCI Danbury in Connecticut, over 100 women prisoners found themselves incarcerated in a Brooklyn jail instead of a promised new federal facility. The women were told the move, which occurred after Danbury was …
New York DA Supervisor Engages in Kinky Fetishes, Wife Claims by Derek Gilna The estranged wife of Jeffrey Stein, the top administrative supervisor in the prosecutor’s office for Nassau County, New York, filed a civil divorce petition claiming her husband’s kinky sexual preferences gave her post traumatic stress disorder. According …
Correctional Medical Care Pays $425,000 Settlement in Prisoner’s Opiate Withdrawal Death by Correctional Medical Care (CMC) agreed to a $425,000 settlement in a lawsuit alleging the company’s practice of putting profit before patient care resulted in the opiate withdrawal death of a prisoner at New York’s Schenectady County Jail (SCJ). …
State University of New York “Bans the Box” on Student Applications by On September 14, 2016, the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York voted to “ban the box” from the school’s student application form. The move revised the university’s prior policy which required applicants to declare …
Dear Librarian: Filling the Information Gap for Prisoners with No Internet Access by Christopher Zoukis For most Americans, life without Google or Wikipedia would be quite different, and living without Internet access probably unimaginable. One might ask, “How would I obtain the information I need to live my life?” Yet …
Second Circuit Expands Protections from Sexual Abuse by Prison Staff by Derek Gilna In an October 7, 2015 corrected ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by two New York state prisoners alleging they had been sexually abused …
New York Prison Scrutinized, Employees Charged Following High-profile Escape by Derek Gilna The June 6, 2015 escape of two New York state prisoners from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora revealed troublesome issues that will not soon go away. While many news outlets focused on the spectacular nature of the …
New York State Police, Trooper Joseph P. Santopietro Letter of Censure, 2017 ---- \,_.; GEORGE P. BEACH SUPERINTENDENT MAJOR JOSEPH A. TRIPODO TROOP COMMANDER STATE OF NEW YORK NEW YORK STATE POLICE TROOP "F" HEADQUARTERS 55 CRYSTAL RUN ROAD MIDDLETOWN, NY 10941 (845) 344-5300 January 9, 2017 Trooper Joseph P. …
Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion 1062 (62915), New York State Bar Association, 2015 ETHICS OPINION 1062 New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion 1062 (6/29/15) Topic: Financing a law practice; crowdfunding websites. Digest: A law firm may engage in certain types of crowdfunding but not others. Any …
Better by Half - The New York City Story of Winning Large-Scale Decarceration while Increasing Public Safety, Greene & Schiraldi, 2016 Better by Half: The New York City Story of Winning Large-Scale Decarceration while Increasing Public Safety JUDITH A. GREENE* Director, Justice Strategies VINCENT SCHIRALDI Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy …
Blank UF-250 Form - Stop, Question and Frisk Report Worksheet, NYPD, 2016 Case 1:12-cv-02274-AT-HBP Document 105 Filed 02/14/13 Page 157 of 158 APPENDIX B Blank UF-250 Form 157
Violation of New York Disciplinary Witness Regulation Merits Rehearing by On October 27, 2015, the New York Court of Appeals held a prisoner’s challenge to a disciplinary hearing determination required remand for determination of whether the facts warranted a rehearing or expungement. While at Attica Correctional Facility, prisoner George Texeira …
John v. Demaio, NY, Memo and Order, Affirming 'Fee on Fee' Award, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-06094-NGG-CLP Document 42 Filed 12/22/16 Page 1 of 7 PageID #: 260 Vlf UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -X ADRIAN JOHN,SHANTEE WILLIAMS,and LUIS GOMEZ, MEMORANDUM & ORDER 15-CV-6094(NGG)(CLP) Plaintiffs, -against- Police Officer …
Another Appeal in New York Post-Release Supervision Case by Matthew Clarke On October 14, 2015, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin held she would retain jurisdiction over a class-action civil rights lawsuit in order to determine the damages to be awarded former prisoners for the imposition or continuation of post-release …
If the Risk is Low, Let Them Go by by Renee Feltz, The Indypendent Back in 1978, Mujahid Farid had already decided to turn his life around when he entered the New York prison system to begin a 15-year-to-life sentence for attempted murder of an NYPD officer. Held in Rikers Island …
Attica Prison Guards Who Viciously Beat Prisoner Avoid Jail Time but Lose Jobs by George Williams, now 33, was in his prison cell watching TV as the scene that would lead to his brutal beating unfolded below him. Williams’ ordeal began during mail call in New York’s Attica Correctional Facility. …
No Place Like Home - A Preliminary Report on Police Interactions with Public Housing Residents in New York City, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, 2008 NO PLACE LIKE HOME A Preliminary Report on Police Interactions with Public Housing Residents in New York City September 2008 New York Lawyers …
Lilly v. City of New York, NY, Rothman Declaration in Support of Attorney's Fees, 2016 Case 1:16-cv-00322-ER Document 27 Filed 11/29/16 Page 1 of 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------------------X KAYHEEM LILLY, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) -against) ) THE CITY OF NEW YORK; NYPD …
