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Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Arkansas Sheriff Took Kickbacks for Card Fees, Class-Action Suit Says by Erik De La Garza An Arkansas Sheriff received kickbacks from a company hired to convert cash seized from county jail prisoners to prepaid debit cards “with numerous exorbitant fees,” a federal class-action lawsuit claims. More than 2,200 people who …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Governmental Highway Robbery: Asset Forfeiture and the Pillaging of the American People by John W. Whitehead This is the problem when police officers and police departments have a financial interest in doing their job. We got rid of bounty hunters because they were not a good thing. This is modern …
Article • May 15, 2013
Mississippi Supreme Court Reverses $12.7 Million Tax Overpayment Award in AT&T’s Favor by Mississippi Supreme Court Reverses $12.7 Million Tax Overpayment Award in AT&T’s Favor In September 2012, the Supreme Court of Mississippi reversed a Hinds County Chancery Court ruling that awarded AT&T nearly $13 million as a result of …
Brief • May 10, 2013
Filed under: Booking Fees
Markadonatos v. Village Woolridge, IL, Pltf. Reply Brief, Jail Booking Fees, 2013 Case: 12-2619 Document: 37 Filed: 05/10/2013 Pages: 32 No. 12-2619 _____________________________________________________________________________ IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT _____________________________________________________________________________ JERRY G. MARKADONATOS, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VILLAGE …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Seventh Circuit: Cost Bond Improper Tool to Address Prisoner’s Frivolous Filings by On May 30, 2012, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an Illinois federal district court’s order that imposed a cost bond on an indigent prisoner which the court knew he could not afford, holding that such an …
Article • April 15, 2013
Minnesota Supreme Court Halts Confinement Fees for Pre-Conviction Inmates by The Minnesota Supreme Court held in December 2009 that pre-conviction prisoners residing in county jails or similar facilities could not be required to pay costs of confinement. Andrew Tyler Jones stayed 286 days in Olmsted County Jail awaiting resolution of …
Brief • April 9, 2013
Adams v. Benton Sheriff, AR, Exhibit, debit card program, 2013 https://ecf.arwd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?428684206464829-L_1_0-1 U. S. District Court Western District of Arkansas (Fayetteville) CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 5:13-cv-05074-PKH Adams v. Cradduck et al Assigned to: Honorable P. K. Holmes, III Cause: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act Date Filed: 04/09/2013 Jury Demand: Both Nature …
Brief • April 9, 2013
Adams v. Benton Sheriff, AR, Docket, debit card program, 2014 https://ecf.arwd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?428684206464829-L_1_0-1 U. S. District Court Western District of Arkansas (Fayetteville) CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 5:13-cv-05074-PKH Adams v. Cradduck et al Assigned to: Honorable P. K. Holmes, III Cause: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act Date Filed: 04/09/2013 Jury Demand: Both Nature …
Brief • April 5, 2013
Filed under: Booking Fees
Markadonatos v. Village Woolridge, IL, Dfdt. Appeal Brief, Jail Booking Fees, 2013 Case: 12-2619 Document: 30 Filed: 04/05/2013 Pages: 44 No. 12-2619 In the United States Court of Appeals For The Seventh Circuit Jerry G. Markadonatos, on behalf of himself and all other similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. Village of Woodridge, …
Brief • March 25, 2013
Lehr et al v. City of Sacramento, CA, Order, homeless anti-camping rules property seizure, 2013 Case 2:07-cv-01565-MCE-EFB Document 237 Filed 03/25/13 Page 1 of 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 ANTHONY LEHR, et al., 12 Plaintiffs, …
Article • March 15, 2013
Tenth Circuit: No Clearly-Established Right to Oklahoma Trust Fund Money by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 22, 2010, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Oklahoma state prisoners had no clearly-established right to the funds in their trust fund accounts in 2007. Herman T. Clark, an Oklahoma …
Article • March 15, 2013
Washington Prisoner's Judgment Garnished to Pay Conviction Related Expenses by In an unpublished opinion, the State of Washington Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s order of garnishment that eradicates a prisoner’s award for violations of the state’s Public Records Act (PRA). Previously, prisoner Alan Parmelee obtained a $19,170 judgment …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
7th Circuit Reaffirms Voluntariness of BOP’s Inmate Financial Responsibility Program by Derek Gilna In a ruling of significance to the approximately 218,000 prisoners in the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the Seventh Circuit has reaffirmed that a federal prisoner cannot be ordered by his or her sentencing court to participate in …
Tenth Circuit Faults Kansas Prisoners' Representation; Upholds Dismissal of Compulsory Savings Account Challenge by Thanks largely to profoundly incompetent representation, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a constitutional challenge to compulsory Kansas prison savings account policies. The Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) adopted policies requiring that …
Washington Appeals Court Denies Prisoner's Prison Account Funds Suit by The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington has upheld the state superior court's grant of summary judgment in which James A. Boyd had challenged the authority of Washington State to deduct funds from his prison account for an …
Article • March 15, 2013
Idaho Supreme Court Denies Bail Bondsmen Damage Claims by Derek Gilna In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho has ruled against Allied Bail Bonds, Inc., who had appealed a lower state court decision denying it relief for several claims, including the alleged breach of a …
Publication • March 1, 2013
Healthcare Copay Report, 2012 - Bureau of Prisons Federal Prisoner Health Care Co payment Act of 2000 Report to Congress Status Report: March 2013 Legislative Summary: On October 12, 2000, the President signed into law the Federal Prisoner Health Care Copayment Act of2000 {P.L. 106-294~ codified at Title 18 U.S.C. …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
Pay-to-Stay Jail Programs Growing by Due in part to stressed government budgets, “pay-to-stay” fees imposed on prisoners in county jails are becoming more prevalent. Two counties, one in Ohio and the other in California, are now collecting incarceration costs from detainees. After Keller Blackburn became prosecutor for Athens County, Ohio, …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
New York Jail Profits from TV Ads by Joe Watson How does a small business like Chico’s Bail Bonds increase its odds of reaching its target demographic? By advertising to people who have just been arrested and jailed, of course. While being booked and photographed within hours of their arrest, …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
FBI Loses Prisoner’s Property but Sovereign Immunity Foils Recovery by Derek Gilna On May 29, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals barred Galo Alejandro Ordonez from compensation after the FBI and the federal government acknowledged that property that had been previously seized from him and ordered returned was “presumed …
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