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Article • August 9, 2016
Audit Finds Possible Payroll Fraud at California Prison in Sacramento by Joe Watson Employees at one California prison—including medical and mental health staff and prison guards—received at least $153,000 in illegal payments due to potential payroll fraud between July 2010 and June 2013, according to a state audit. Results of …
Article • August 9, 2016
VAC Greed Brings Oregon Prisoners Lower Rates, MP3s, Email & Video Visits by An overnight spike in prisoner phone rates compelled Oregon prison officials to switch to a new prisoner phone service provider on July 1, 2012. Most prisoners consider the new company's lower rates and enhanced services a major …
Article • August 9, 2016
Washington State Prison Brass Interferes in Release of Senator’s Son by Questions are swirling about whether a Washington State legislator’s son was released 103 days early due to his mother’s political clout. Despite warnings from community corrections officers that the release would violate Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) policy, administrators …
Article • August 9, 2016
Washington DOC Colludes with Employees to Bar Public Records Request; Pays $65,000 by The Washington Coalition for Open Government (the Coalition) obtained a $65,000 payment to settle a lawsuit against two state agencies for violation of the Public Records Act (PRA). The 2010 lawsuit alleged the state Attorney General’s Office …
Article • August 9, 2016
Urban Institute Published Report on Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction by Paresh Patel For decades, law enforcement investigations used forensic evidence (i.e. fingerprints, DNA, and ballistics) to include or eliminate suspects. Scientific advances and improvement in forensic analysis have helped to exonerate those convicted of serious crimes. In many …
Article • August 9, 2016
Texas Rejects GEO Bid to Privatize State Mental Hospital by On October 3, 2012, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) announced that it had rejected a bid by the GEO Group, a private prison company, to operate the Kerrville State Hospital. GEO Care, a GEO Group subsidiary, was …
Sex Offender Residence Restrictions Have Non-Existent Effect on Recidivism by The proximity of schools and daycares to where sex offenders live “explains none of the variation in sexual recidivism,” concludes a study by Levenson, Zandbergen & Hart. The study matched the 165 persons listed on Florida’s sex offender registry in …
Seventh Circuit Holds Indiana Must Provide Process to Appeal Errors in Sex Offender Registry by Matthew Clarke On August 26, 2012, the Seventh Circuit court of appeals held that the Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) must provide a procedure by which persons listed on the state's "Sex and Violent Offender …
Report: Private Probation, Prisons Should Be 'Phased Out' in Georgia by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), GEO Group and other for-profit companies must be driven out of Georgia's criminal justice system for it to be fair and effective, the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) argues in a recent …
Report: CCA, GEO Group Make Millions off Criminalizing Immigrants by Despite the compassionate tone on immigration during the presidential campaign, the federal government continues to prosecute and incarcerate undocumented immigrants not for violent or property offenses, but simply for entering the United States. A September 2012 report from Austin, Texas-based …
New York Woman Raped by Prison Guard Receives $1.1 Million Award by A New York Court of Claims awarded $605,750 to a former prisoner who was the victim of an attempted rape and completed rape by a guard at the Albion Correctional Facility (ACF). The award followed the Court’s grant …
Nebraska Law Limiting Sex Offender Internet Use “Guts” Constitutional Rights by David Reutter Driven by “rage” and “revulsion” of registered sex offenders, the 2009 Nebraska Legislature enacted LB 97, which allowed law enforcement to monitor and restrict Internet usage by those offenders. In an exhaustive order following a trial, U.S. …
Article • August 8, 2016
Montana Jury Awards $80,000 in Jail Suicide by A Montana jury found that Fergus County and the Fergus County Sheriff’s department was partially negligent in a prisoner’s suicide. It awarded the prisoner’s estate nearly $80,000. Carl Odell Stacy, 40, was no stranger to officials at the Fergus County Jail (FCJ). …
Article • August 8, 2016
Las Vegas Man Receives $30,000 for Beating by Jail Guards by The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging jail guards used excessive force on a pretrial detainee. William Nugent was arrested by LVMPD officers on February 17, 2009, on charges of …
DOJ Intervenes in Ohio Jail Taser Class Action; County Settles by On February 4, 2011, Franklin County, Ohio officials agreed to substantially upgrade jail Taser training, use and accountability policies to settle a Class Action law suit in which the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had intervened. On July 16, …
Guard’s Report of Prisoner Abuse Came with a Cost by David Reutter The confines of prison render abuse by guards a virtually impossible crime to prosecute.  The few cases that come to light and successfully prosecuted occur only with video evidence or the testimony of another guard.  Florida Department of …
Cook County Pays $550,000 in Prisoner’s Beating Death by Illinois’ Cook County paid $550,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the widow of a prisoner who was beat to death by three guards at the Bridgeview Courthouse. The prisoner, 40, was arrested in May 2000 for throwing a brick through …
Article • August 8, 2016
Maryland Court of Appeals: Police Must Have Warrant for "Stingray" Phone Tracking by Derek Gilna According to criminal defense attorneys in Baltimore, Maryland, at least 200 individuals are now sitting in prison based upon illegally-obtained cell phone records obtained from the use of "stingray" tracking devices.  The suitcase-sized eavesdropping device …
Article • August 8, 2016
Massachusetts Man's Estate Paid Millions for Wrongful Conviction by The town of Ayer, Massachusetts, and five insurance companies have agreed to pay the estate of a man who spent 18 years in prison for a murder he did not commit a total of $3.4 million. A sixth insurance company, Western …
Man Nearly Executed, Awarded $14M after Exoneration by A former death row inmate who came within weeks of being executed was awarded $14 million by a federal jury in New Orleans after being cleared of his murder conviction. John Thompson, 40, spent 18 years in prison after being convicted of …
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