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Brief • February 11, 2013
Filed under: Booking Fees
Markadonatos v. Village Woolridge, IL, Pltf. Appeal Brief, Jail Booking Fees, 2013 Case: 12-2619 Document: 22 Filed: 02/11/2013 Pages: 106 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 • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013
Massachusetts Prisoners Receive Refunds for Illegal Fees Imposed by Sheriff by A class of prisoners at the Bristol County House of Correction in Massachusetts has received settlement checks from a lawsuit challenging an illegal $5-a-day fee imposed by the sheriff for room-and-board. The checks were mailed out on May 3, …
Bailing on Justice: The Dysfunctional System of Using Money to Buy Pretrial Freedom by Tracy Velázquez by Tracy Velázquez, Melissa Neal and Spike Bradford* The practice of requiring someone to pay money to a court in order to remain free while awaiting trial is known as “money bail.” While considerable …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Oregon Adopts 5% Prison Trust Fund Account “Service Fee” by Tasked with cutting $28 million from its massive $1.36 billion budget, Oregon prison officials had to look under every couch cushion for loose change. That means they once again turned their focus to prisoners and their loved ones, who present …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Bail Bond Companies Profit While Poorest Defendants Remain in Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As America’s prison population has swelled over the past three decades to become the largest per capita in the world, the number of special interests that feed off the so-called prison industrial complex …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Hawaii Audit Finds Offenders Rarely Pay Restitution Owed by Thirteen years after the Hawaii Office of the Auditor issued a report critical of the state judiciary’s efforts to collect restitution payments from offenders, only a small fraction of tens of millions of dollars in restitution has been collected, which has …
Article • July 15, 2012
Washington DOC Can Collect Incarceration Fees Waived by Trial Court by The Washington State Supreme Court has held that the Department of Corrections (DOC) “has independent statutory authority to collect costs of incarceration regardless of the trial court’s waiver of costs of incarceration in the judgment and sentence.” Additionally, it …
Brief • May 17, 2012
The Swatch Group Management Services v. Bloomberg, NY, Opinion and Order, Infringement of Record, 2012 Case 1:11-cv-01006-AKH Document 53 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK --------------------------------------------------------------- x Filed 05/17/12 Page 1 of 12 USDC ~Il'\ \' D0CL.\1 L'\T ELECTRONICALLY FILED DOC#: DATF F-I-L-Em"'~"".- - ' - - …
Pennsylvania Prisoner’s $185,000 Jury Award Reduced to $75,005 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 7, 2011, a Pennsylvania federal judge issued an order reducing a prisoner’s jury award for destruction of legal materials to $75,005. The award had previously been reduced from $185,000 to $115,000. Andre Jacobs, a …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Third Circuit: § 2241 is Proper Vehicle for BOP IFRP Challenges by Mark Wilson Third Circuit: § 2241 is Proper Vehicle for BOP IFRP Challenges by Mark Wilson The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held on December 2, 2010 that a federal habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Filed under: Tax Law, Visiting
Arizona DOC Makes Visitors Pay for Prison Maintenance, Repairs by Joe Watson Two lawsuits have challenged the Arizona Department of Corrections’ newly-adopted policies of imposing a background check fee on prison visitors and deducting a fee from deposits made into prisoners’ accounts. On July 20, 2011, Arizona began charging visitors …
California Settles Suit over Damage to Prisoner's Medical Prostheses by Larry Edwards, a California state prisoner filed a federal civil rights action after a guard at the California State Prison-Solano allegedly damaged his medical brace and glasses and then, along with other guards, threatened him with retaliatory disciplinary action and …
Article • May 15, 2012
California Settles Prisoner's Retaliation and Loss of Property Suit for $500 by California prison officials paid a prisoner $500 to settle his federal retaliation suit. On November 14, 2000, Henry Murray was transferred to the Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP) from another California facility. On December 5, 2000, he was …
Article • May 15, 2012
California Settles Prisoner's Improperly Confiscated Property Suit for $200 by Lorenzo Fosselman, Jr., a California state prisoner, filed a state civil action alleging that R. Morring, a guard at the Salinas Valley State Prison, confiscated 10 compact discs and 10 cassette tapes from him and failed to record the confiscation. …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Indiana Prosecutor Disciplined for Conflict of Interest by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Delaware County, Indiana prosecutor Mark R. McKinney was suspended from practicing law for 120 days beginning on July 28, 2011. He was disciplined for engaging in professional misconduct by handling criminal prosecutions and civil forfeiture cases involving …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Ohio Jails Find Loophole to Again Charge Booking Fees by Lockups in suburban Cincinnati just aren’t as profitable as they once were. So sheriff’s offices in southwestern Ohio’s Hamilton and Butler counties are charging prisoners for the time they’re forced to spend in jail. More than 10 years ago, a …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Idaho Jail Institutes Pay-to-Stay-Out Program by A jail in Canyon County, Idaho has taken the concept of pay-to-stay one step further by charging certain convicted prisoners to stay out of jail. First-time offenders with a non-violent crime who are compliant may have the opportunity to pay up to $15 a …
Brief • February 27, 2012
Brown v. City of New York, Order on Interest on Settlement, False Arrest, 2012 Case 1:09-cv-01809-RJD-MDG Document 46 Filed 02/27/12 Page 1 of 1 PageID #: 212 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------)( PRINCE BROWN, ARTHUR DOWLING, DAVID PETERSON, HASSAAN RAMKISSON and ARMANDO SWABY, Plaintiffs, ORDER …
Article • February 15, 2012
Prisoner Who Faces No Irreparable Injury Not Entitled to Preliminary Injunction by In March 2011, the California Court of Appeal affirmed a trial court’s denial of preliminary injunctive relief to a prisoner who alleged that Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) officials were not complying with the Approved Personal Property Schedule …
Brief • February 14, 2012
Filed under: Bankruptcy, Police, Property
Novey Bankruptcy Filing, CA, CCPOA opposition, 2012 Case 11-32246 Doc 114 Page 1 of 3 UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA CIVIL MINUTES Case Title: Donald Louis Novey and Carol Lee Novey Case No: 11-32246 - B - 13J Date: Time: Matter: [87] - Motion/Application to Confirm Chapter …
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