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Crimes of the Heart: Incarceration Collusion by Bob Williams by Bob Williams & G.A.Bowers What would a woman do for her man? Run a frontend loader through a jail wall? Drive her lover out of prison in a food service truck? Murder witnesses? Smuggle in guns and drugs? Melt her …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Illinois Prisoner Raped By Guard Settles For $15,000 by On July 2, 2005, a prisoner who was raped by a guard settled her lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) for $15,000. While imprisoned at the Dixon Correctional Center on May 26, 2000, the plaintiff, Rose Marie Smith 51, …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Guard Out on Bond, Woman He Allegedly Raped Jailed Beyond Her Sentence by Platte County (Wyoming) Detention Center control clerk Jeremy King was charged with two counts of second-degree felony sexual assault for having sex with a female Jamaican prisoner convicted of federal drug offenses. The woman, who was not …
Scandal, Suicides, Corruption and Abuse Abound at New York Citys Rikers Island Jail by Gary Hunter Scandal, Suicides, Corruption and Abuse Abound at New York Citys Rikers Island Jail by Gary Hunter When Rikers Island was purchased in 1884 it was only 87 acres. The city of New York made …
Downey v. CCA, VT, Settlement, guard prisoner assault, 2006 LYPIN 7 THOMAS 8c MIHALICH, P.C. ATTORNEYS AT LAW BARBARA R. BLACKMAN STEVEN C. COLLIER RIETRO J. LYNN JENNIFER G. MIHALICH MATTHEW A. SIEI3E1HEATHER E. THOMAS JEFFREY S. MARLIN May 12, 2006 Devin McLaughlin, Esq. Langrock Sperry & Wool LLP P.O. …
Georgia Prisons: A Blight On The Peach State by Michael Rigby During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Shermans devastating march through the South was a blight on Georgia and all who lived there. Today, the safety of many Georgians particularly the 50,000 confined in the states 37 prisons is …
Cell-Block Beatdown: Do Boston Prisoners Have Any Chance of Holding Abusive Prison Guards Responsible? Signs Are Not Promising by David S. Bernstein Cell-Block Beatdown: Do Boston Prisoners Have Any Chance of Holding Abusive Prison Guards Responsible? Signs Are Not Promising by David S. Bernstein Stories about prison guards beating up …
Prisoner Suit Alleging Sexual Assault By Colorado Sheriffs Staff Reinstated by Prisoner Suit Alleging Sexual Assault By Colorado Sheriffs Staff Reinstated by John E. Dannenberg Reversing the U.S. District Court (D. Colo.), the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a review of the record showed that female prisoners …
Arkansas Juvenile Prisons Cornell Kills a Prisoner, Hires Guard DOC Fired by by Matthew T. Clarke Arkansas paid Cornell Corporations of Houston, Texas, $9.5 million a year to manage the Alexander Youth Services Center in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. What they got for their money was a prison that killed by …
California Enacts Strong Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination" Act by California Enacts Strong Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination" Act by John E. Dannenberg To aid compliance with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003 (Public Law 108-79), California enacted Assembly Bill 550 (AB 550), the Sexual Abuse in …
New Mexico Jail Prisoners Raped by Judge and Guards Settle for $890,000 by On June 3, 2004, ten female prisoners who were allegedly raped by a New Mexico judge and jail guards settled their lawsuit for $890,000. The plaintiffs, who had been confined in the Española City Jail, claimed municipal …
Washington Jail Pays Teenager $400,000 for Rape While Imprisoned by Washington's Franklin County has paid $400,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a former pretrial detainee who was raped in the Franklin County Correctional Center (FCCC) by another detainee. The civil rights claim brought in a Washington federal court alleged …
Florida Closes Scandal Ridden Girls Facility, Takes Over Control of Another Juvenile Facility by Only five years after it was opened, legislators have shut down the scandal ridden Florida Institute for Girls (FIG) built at a cost of $7.9 million, FIG will remain empty until Floridas Department of Juvenile Justice …
Second Circuit Upholds Guard's Rape Sentence Under Federal Guidelines by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that multiple counts of prisoner sexual abuse against a prison guard had been properly grouped under federal sentencing guidelines. While employed as a guard at the federal prison in Danbury, …
Arkansas Considers Prison Rape Law, Problems Evident by by Michael Rigby Nearly two years after the Prison Rape Elimination Act, (PREA) passed unopposed in the U.S. House and Senate, an attitude of indifference and skepticism surrounding prison sexual assaults still permeates the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC). Signed into law …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Oregon Criminalizes Sex with Prisoners; & Other Legislative Developments by In the wake of a huge scandal involving several high ranking, veteran prison officials engaging in sexual activity with female prisoners of the Coffee Creek Correctional Institution, Oregon has enacted legislation criminalizing custodial sexual misconduct. The law, which became effective …
Michigan's Dirty Little Secret: Sexual Abuse of Female Prisoners Pervasive, Ongoing by by Michael Rigby Despite reports of sexual abuse dating back 20 years ... despite a tumultuous decade of lawsuits that cost millions of taxpayer dollars ... and despite a promise by state officials to implement sweeping reforms, the …
Rising Deaths and Violence Among Problems In Illinois Prisons, Jails by by Michael Rigby Imprisonment in Illinois is becoming more perilous, according to the John Howard Association, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that monitors prisons and jails. Between August 2003 and May 2004, according to the association, several state prisoners died …
Guards Rape, Sexually Harass and Smuggle at Colorado Prisons by by Matthew T. Clarke There are new troubles at several prisons in Colorado. At a 250-bed GRW-run private prison in Brush, a tiny town 91 miles northwest of Denver, the newly-resigned ex-warden and two guards have been indicted in relation …
Sexual and Physical Abuse at Florida Girl's Prison Under Investigation by By David Reutter In June, 2003, The State Attorney for Florida's Palm Beach County initiated a grand jury investigation into sexual assaults and physical abuse at the State's only maximum security prison for girls. In April, 2000, the Florida …
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