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California Guards Convicted of Arranging Prison Beatings, New Conspiracy Accusations Leveled by by Marvin Mentor On May 15, 2002, a federal criminal jury convicted two Pelican Bay State Prison (CA) guards of violating the civil rights of eight prisoners whom they conspired to have beaten and stabbed - two fatally; …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Texas Syndicate Gang Members Busted - Again by C.C. Simmons by C. C. Simmons Deep in the bowels of the 4,000-man H. H. Coffield State Prison in east Texas, a young prisoner is locked in a telephone-booth-size holding cage. He screams obscenities at everyone. In the next corridor, a squad …
U.S. Supreme Court: Guantanamo Detainees and "Enemy Combatants" Have Access to Habeas Corpus by John E Dannenberg U.S. Supreme Court: Guantanamo Detainees and "Enemy Combatants" Have Access To Habeas Corpus by John E. Dannenberg In three interrelated decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that "enemy combatant" detainees held at Guantanamo …
Report Downplays Wrongful Convictions in U.S. by Hans Sherrer A report by University of Michigan staffers and law students _ Exonerations in the United States: 1989 through 2003 _ was released to the public on April 23, 2004. The report analyzed data from 328 cases during that 15 year period …
Tulia Travesty Settled for $6 Million by Hans Sherrer Tulia Travesty Settled For $6 Million by Hans Sherrer On August 22, 2003, Texas Governor Rick Perry pardoned 35 people whose convictions stemmed from a Swisher County drug investigation that began in 1998. The prosecution of those people began with the …
Georgia Parole Corruption Deepens by Gary Hunter A trail of corruption, greed, and cronyism has led to the indictment of a Georgia senator, the dismissal of an assistant attorney general and the resignation of six parole board members including the director and the chairman. Van Streat was suspended from his …
Criminal Guards and Escaping Prisoners in Texas by On July 21, 2002, Lt. Rick McCullough was arrested for assaulting two female guards at the Riverside State Prison for women in the central Texas town of Gatesville. McCullough, 41, a Texas prison guard assigned to the nearby Woodman State Jail for …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
Vehicle Forfeited for Smuggling Drugs into Arizona Prison by The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld the forfeiture of a vehicle involved in smuggling drugs into prison. Arizona prisoner Dennis Day convinced his mother Teruko Simmons, to smuggle three grams of marijuana into the prison for him. Simmons drove her 1996 …
Woman Gang Raped in Back of Jail Van by In August 1999, four Connecticut men sexually assaulted an unnamed female prisoner while being transported together in a New Haven County Sheriff's Department van. The men, who were also prisoners, allegedly broke down a metal gate separating them from the woman, …
Sex, Drugs, and Beatings at Boston Jails by by Matthew T. Clarke A pattern of sexual abuse, bru-tality, drug smuggling, improper guard/prisoner relationships, and other official malfeasance at the jails in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, has raised serious questions about the leadership abilities of Suffolk County Sheriff Richard J. Rouse. Sex, …
Third Circuit Sets High Standard for Supervisory Liability by by Matthew T. Clarke The court of appeals for the Third Circuit has set a very high standard for proving supervisory liability in a case involving a guard who repeatedly sexually assaulted female juvenile prisoners over the course of several years. …
Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003
No Probation in Arizona Jail Drug Possession by The Arizona court of appeals held that Proposition 200, which mandates probation for drug possession offenses, does not apply to drug possessions that occur in detention facilities. Edwin Roman was convicted of promoting prison contraband and possessing dangerous drugs after guards in …
$56.5 Million Jury Verdict in Indiana Jail Murder by On May 9, 2002, a federal jury in Indiana awarded $56.5 million dollars in damages to the estate of a jail detainee who was beaten to death by jail guards. This is believed to be the largest jury verdict in Indiana …
Wackenhut Warden and Six Guards Convicted In New Mexico Prisoner Beatings by by Matthew T. Clarke Six guards and a warden have been convicted in federal court of charges stemming from brutal beatings and subsequent cover up attempts at the 1,200 man Lea County Correctional Facility in Hoots, New Mexico, …
Virginia Guards Acquitted of Assaulting Prisoner by Michael Rigby Three former prison guards were acquitted March 27, 2002 on charges of beating a shackled prisoner at the Wallens Ridge State Prison, a Virginia supermax. Lt. Jeffrey Compton, Sgt. Mathew Hamilton and Michael Bliley were charged with felonious assault and fired …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
Trial in Prison Violates Oregon's "Public Trial" Guarantee by The Oregon Court of Appeals held that a trial conducted within the confines of a prison that was not open to the public violated Oregon's constitutional guarantee of a public trial. James Jackson, a prisoner at the Snake River Correctional Institution, …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Ex-Georgia Sheriff Convicted in Ambush Killing of Successor by Lonnie Burton Former Georgia Sheriff Sidney Dorsey was convicted on July 10 for ordering the assassination of his political rival, a man who defeated him for sheriff in the 2000 elections. Dorsey was convicted of first-degree murder for the slaying of …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
The Unmourned Death of Felony Murder by Assault in Washington by David Zuckerman by Suzanne Lee Elliott and David B. Zuckerman For at least 36 years, Washington has permitted defendants to be convicted of felony murder in the second degree when the underlying felony is assault. Prisoners rightly complained that …
Illinois Jail Guards Acquitted in Killings; California Jail Guard Acquitted in Beating by Sgt. Patricia Pultz and deputies Lawrence Koscianski and William Spatz of the Cook County, Ill. sheriff's dept. were acquitted on March 12, 2002 in the murder of Louis Schmude. Prosecutors allege Schmude's death on May 7, 2000, …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Into the Twilight Zone by Mumia Abu-Jamal by Mumia Abu Jamal With the seizure of the person (one can't say "arrest," for the government has announced it has no intention of prosecuting) of the American citizen alleged to have been planning "dirty bomb" strikes against U.S. targets, Abdullah AlMuhajir (formerly …
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