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Article • September 6, 2016
New York Local Governments’ Sex Offender Residency Restrictions Invalid by Matthew Clarke On February 17, 2015, the New York Court of Appeals held that sex offender residency restrictions enacted by local governments were invalid because the state had already created a comprehensive and detailed regulatory scheme. Michael Diack was convicted …
Article • September 6, 2016
Man Detained in Dallas Jail without Trial Longer Than Maximum Sentence by Matthew Clarke A man who was arrested for criminal trespass spent 200 days in the Dallas County Jail awaiting a court date on a charge that carries a maximum of 180 days in jail. The 37-year-old unidentified man …
Article • September 6, 2016
Georgia Prison CERT Members Sentenced to Prison for Beating Prisoners by  A Georgia Federal District Court sentenced former members of a Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Macon State Prison (MSP) to serve prison time for their actions in beating prisoners and covering up the assaults with false reports. The …
Article • September 6, 2016
New York Dentist Sentenced to Jail for Upcoding Billing of Prisoner Care by An oral surgeon who had a contract to provide care to prisoners at 26 upstate New York prisons was sentenced to jail for stealing $14,000 from the state. Dr. Timothy O’Keefe was charged in May 2014 in …
Article • September 6, 2016
Federal Clemency Initiative Granting Relief At Slow Pace by Christopher Zoukis The Obama administration's "Clemency Initiative 2014," a highly-touted program designed to grant clemency to non-violent offenders and other federal prisoners, has yet to make a substantial impact on the exploding federal prison population. While some 16 percent of the …
Should Spend Less Violating Parolees, Probationers by A recent report argues that California's parolees and probationers are proportionally far less of the population arrested for new crimes and, thus, law-enforcement resources should target the overwhelming majority of offenders who aren't under community supervision. The study, released in 2013 by the …
Article • September 6, 2016
Nine Maryland Prison Guards Federally Indicted in 2008 Beatings by On Feb. 27, 2013, nine current and former prison guards at the Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Maryland, were charged in a federal indictment accusing them of conspiring to assault a prisoner and then covering up the attacks. The …
Arizona Protects Juvenile Rehabs, Destroys Reports of Abuse and Neglect by   A recent newspaper investigation revealed that Arizona's would-be oversight of residential treatment centers (RTCs) for at-risk children is as duplicitous and unjust as the state's prisons and jails. A February report from The Arizona Republic found that the …
Article • September 6, 2016
Bureau of Justice Statistics Study on Reentry Released by Derek Gilna In 2012, the last year for which statistics are available, "there were ...over two million people incarcerated in prisons and jails across the country," according to the Bureau of Justice (BJS) statistics on offender reentry published in 2015. The …
UN Committee Against Torture Issues Report on United States by Matthew Clarke The United Nations Committee Against Torture issued a combined report encompassing its third to fifth periodic reports on the United States at its 1276th and 1277th meetings held on November 20, 2014. The report lauded some improvements under …
Article • September 6, 2016
National Park Service Lockups Improperly Managed by Matthew Clarke A report by the Office of the Inspector General (IG) of the U.S. Department of Interior released in May 2014, found that the lockups at Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks were out-of-compliance with the Departmental Manual and National Park Service (NPS) …
Guards Falsifying Texas Jail Records Leads to Resignations and Demotions by Matthew Clarke An investigation into staff falsifying records of prisoner welfare checks at the Smith County Jail in Tyler, Texas, has led to the resignation of four guards and the demotion of one jail lieutenant to sergeant. Another guard …
Female Montana Prison Nurse Receives 25 Years for Mixing Business With Pleasure by Derek Gilna A former nurse at a Montana men’s prisons said  “I still claim my innocence” that she was guilty of having unauthorized sexual contact with male prisoners at a drug treatment facility at which she worked, …
Sexual Discrimination Suit Against Bureau of Prisons Settled by Christopher Zoukis A complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regarding sexual harassment, abuse and intimidation brought against the Bureau of Prisons has been settled. Lynda Kay Laurin, a Human Resource Specialist at Federal Correctional Institution Allenwood, Pennsylvania, filed her …
Article • September 6, 2016
Discrimination Complaint Against Bureau of Prisons Settled by Christopher Zoukis A discrimination complaint filed by a Mexican-American female employee of the Bureau of Prisons was settled in August 2001. Maria Elena Carnera, a Mexican-American woman, was employed as a prison guard at Metropolitan Correctional Center New York when she filed …
Bureau of Prisons Pays $300,000 for Claim Relating to Beating of Prisoner by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons agreed to settle claims relating to the severe beating of one inmate by another in February 1993. The plaintiff, Mark D. Lang, was beaten unconscious on the first day of an …
Bureau of Prisons Pays $40,000 to Settle Prisoner's Injury Claim by Christopher Zoukis Lai Chiem Saelee, a prisoner at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, California, settled her claim for injuries caused by the negligence of the Bureau of Prisons in July 1999. Saelee sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 29 …
BOP Settles Sexual Orientation and Reprisal Discrimination Claims by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled multiple claims of discrimination brought by an employee in July 2001. Kimberly Ann Chermock filed a discrimination claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation at …
BOP Settles Reverse Discrimination Suit for $2,250 by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled a discrimination claim brought by Thomas R. Sniezek, a 48-year-old white male, in April 2003. Sniezek, a former associate warden at United States Penitentiary Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, brought an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint against …
BOP Settles Religious and Gender Discrimination Claim for $1,000 by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claim of religious and gender discrimination for $1,000.00 in March 2003. The complaint, brought by senior prison guard Wallace L. Austin, alleged discrimination by the staff at …
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