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Arbitrator Awards $1 to Prison Worker in Harassment and Retaliation Claim by Lonnie Burton John K. Faber had been employed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) since 1981. He held the position of Specialty Instructor at the Staff Training Academy (STA) in Artesia, New Mexico, when in 1997 he …
AP: Sex Offenders Especially Vulnerable in California's Prisons by Joe Watson As soon as he arrived at Salinas Valley State Prison in northern California, Alan Ager believed his life was in danger. "The very day they let him into the yard, he was filing complaints, 'Get me the hell out …
$60,000 Plus Back-Pay Awarded to Federal Prison Worker to Settle Discrimination Complaint by Lonnie Burton Jai Mutreja worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) South Central Regional Office in Dallas as an electrical engineer. Mutreja is of Indian descent and had filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of …
China Pledges to Stop Taking Organs from Executed Prisoners by Prison officials in China—where prevailing religious beliefs dictate that humans he buried whole after their death—plan to stop taking organs from thousands of prisoners executed every year. But many doubt the practice will entirely cease because the need for organs …
China Vows to Finance Mass Incarceration with Public Funds, Not Prison Profits by Despite its atrocious human rights record, China appears to be trying to ensure prisoner safety while at the same time properly financing its prisons. Wu Aiying, China's Minister of Justice, announced in April 2012 while addressing a …
Article • September 6, 2016
Connecticut Town Raises Stink, Sues DOC for Wastewater Plant's Upgrade by The town of Cheshire, Connecticut, has decided it won't take anymore crap from the state's Department of Corrections. A lawsuit filed by Cheshire officials in July 2012 seeks to renegotiate the terms of an agreement with Connecticut's DOC to …
Article • September 6, 2016
South Carolina TV Crew Tails Warden Driving Across State for Free by South Carolina's prison towns might be great places to work, but apparently, the wardens wouldn't want to live there. A TV news crew discovered that, six months after South Carolina's Department of Corrections was caught by a state …
Article • September 6, 2016
Iowa Gov. Schemes to Keep Juvenile Lifers in Prison After SCOTUS Ruling by When judges make provocative rulings, they're labeled "activists" by peeved politicians. But when those same politicians execute controversial decisions, they purport to be mere protectors of the public interest. In Iowa, Governor Terry Branstad has pitted himself …
Article • September 6, 2016
Supreme Court: No Warrantless Blood Tests for DUI Stops by The Supreme Court has held that warrantless breath tests may be conducted incident to arrests for drunk driving, but warrantless blood tests may not. The Court stated: Blood tests are a different matter. They “require piercing the skin” and extract …
Article • September 6, 2016
Filed under: PLRA
Supreme Court Ruling Addresses Three-judge Court in Non-prison Case by In a case involving the constitutionality of congressional apportionment, which requires a three-judge court, a district judge may not dismiss on the ground of failure to state a claim without convening a three-judge court. If the nature of the case …
Article • September 6, 2016
Supreme Court Rules on Retroactivity of Miller v. Alabama by The Supreme Court’s prior decision in Miller v. Alabama, holding that sentencing juveniles to life without parole violates the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause, is a substantive constitutional rule that must be applied retroactively on state collateral review (unlike a …
Article • September 6, 2016
Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards
Supreme Court: State Courts Must Adhere to Federal Rules as to Attorney Fee Awards under Sec. 1988 by In a state court § 1983 proceeding in which fees were awarded under § 1988, the state courts were bound to apply the Supreme Court’s interpretation of § 1988. Otherwise, as Justice …
Article • September 6, 2016
Supreme Court: Judges Who Were Significantly Involved in Cases as Prosecutors Must Recuse by There is a risk of bias that is impermissible under the Due Process Clause where the judge in a case previously had significant, personal involvement in a critical decision in the case while serving as prosecutor.  …
New Mexico Community Custody House Arrestees Used to Clean Private Land by Matthew Clarke An investigation by Albuquerque television station KRQE revealed that Bernalillo County house arrestees who were assigned to wash cars, pick up trash and pull weeds as part of their community service spent close to the same …
New Study Debunks Common Beliefs of Children of Incarcerated Parents by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A study released by the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy, and in conjunction with the National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated, debunks commonly cited statistics concerning children with incarcerated …
GEO Texas Immigration Facility Hit for Substandard Health Care and Understaffing by Derek Gilna GEO, the world's largest private prison company, has been cited by the United states Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG) for overcharging the Bureau of Prisons for contract services, abusing prisoners with inadequate …
ACLU-Montana Report Paints Ugly Picture of County Jail Conditions by Understaffed. Underfunded. Unsafe. That's the assessment of Montana's jails by the state's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), as published in a February 2015 report based on a statewide investigation of dozens of county lockups. "With over 1,000 …
State Audit Finds Problems at Texas Office of Violent Sex Offender Management by Matthew Clarke The Texas State Auditor's Office released an audit report on the Office of Violent Sex Offender Management (Office) in January 2015. The report listed many problems, including a lack of controls over the management of …
Report Finds Abuse of Blind, Deaf, Elderly and Disabled Texas Prisoners by Matthew Clarke The Prison Justice League (PJL), a group advocating prison reform in Texas, released a report entitled Cruel & Unusual Punishment: Excessive Use of Force at the Estelle Unit. The report found that blind, deaf, elderly and …
Parolees Violated Without New Charges Bloat Wisconsin Prison Population by Matthew Clarke Due to policies and practices which are costly to society and former parolees, well over half the 7,727 people sent to prison in Wisconsin in 2013 were imprisoned for parole rule violations without any new criminal charges. Those …
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