Federal Supermax Terrorist's New Home and Bargaining Chip; $1 Million Cells Planned by Bob Williams Federal Supermax Terrorist's New Home and Bargaining Chip; $1 Million Cells Planned by Bob Williams The United States PenitentiaryAdministrative Maximum Facility goes by many names: ADX, Supermax, Alcatraz of the Rockies. It has been the …
Administrative Hearings and Judicial Reviews Mandated for Sex Offender Classifications Without Current Felony Conviction. by Bob Williams Mandating administrative hearings and allowing for judicial review, the Colorado Court of Appeals has reversed a state district court's dismissal of a prisoner's challenge to his Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) sex offender …
Dismissal Sanction for Prisoner's Refusal to Be Deposed Without Court Order Reversed by Dismissal Sanction for Prisoner's Refusal to be Deposed Without Court Order Reversed The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that considering a prisoner's refusal to be deposed absent a court order, as a factor to enter a …
Jailhouse Snitch Enlisted in War on Terrorism Behind Bars by Bob Williams Scott Lee Martin couldn't help himself. After a decade locked up in a half-dozen federal prisons where snitches, rats, informantsor whatever the regional prison slang calls those who tell on othersare detested, spat upon, beaten, even killed for …
$50,000 HCV Settlement and New Treatment Protocol Approved in Colorado by Bob Williams $50,000 HCV Settlement and New Treatment Protocol Approved in Colorado by Bob Williams The federal district court in Colorado has approved a settlement awarding $50,000 and treatment for hepatitis-C (HCV) infection to six named plaintiffs. The Colorado …
Colorado Slammed by West Nile Virus But Ignores Prisoners by Bob Williams Loren Gasiorowski, 41, awoke one morning with a big mosquito bite on his forearm and one on his shoulder. Within days he couldn't leave his cell. After being sick for two weeks he couldn't take it any more. …
Third-Party Beneficiaries Can Enforce Terms of Settlement by Bob Williams The Tenth Circuit court of appeals has held that a prisoner was entitled to seek enforcement of a two-decade old settlement agreement as a third-party beneficiary and invoke the court's continuing jurisdiction. In 1981, Kenneth Floyd and nine other Colorado …
Disarray in Colorado: Prisoners Hurt by Host of Problems by Bob Williams Society is dynamic, in a state of con-stant flux where change is the only constant, but recent changes in Colorado are turning up the pressure in Colorado's prison system. Prisoner pay has been nearly eliminated while hygiene items …
PLN Sues Bureau of Prisons Over ADX Censorship by On December 10, 2003, PLN sued Harry Lappin, director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), former director Kathleen Hawk Sawyer; Robert Hood and Michael Pugh, the current and former wardens, respectively, of the Administrative Maximum (ADX) facility in Florence, Colorado. The …
Private Transport Company Settles Female Prisoner's Sexual Assault Suit by Private Transport Company Settles Female Prisoner's Sexual Assault Suit Extraditions International, Inc., now defunct, and its successor company, American Extraditions, Inc., settled with a female prisoner who claimed she had been sexually harassed and sexually assaulted by a company guard …
Religious Garments May Be Worn During Prisoner Transport by Bob Williams By Bob Williams The United States District Court for the District of Colorado rejected a plea for qualified immunity by the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) over their refusal to transport a Jewish prisoner while wearing religious Garments. Russell …
Audit Finds Colorado DOC Loses Large Quantities of Drugs by by Matthew T. Clarke A $436,484 shortage in the Colorado Department of Corrections's pharmacy budget in 2003 prompted an internal audit. The audit found that close to a half-million dollars worth of drugs have been lost by the prison system. …
U.S. v. Verbickas, CO, Opinion, Prison Conditions, 2003 U.S. v. Verbickas, 75 Fed.Appx. 705 (2003) 75 Fed.Appx. 705 This case was not selected for publication in the Federal Reporter. Not for Publication in West’s Federal Reporter. See Fed. Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 generally governing citation of judicial decisions issued …
U.S. v. Lavallee, CO, Order, Prison Conditions, 2003 269 F.Supp.2d 1297 (2003) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Mike LAVALLEE, Rod Schultz, and Robert Verbickas, Defendants. No. CR.A. 00-CR-481-D. United States District Court, D. Colorado. July 2, 2003. 1298 *1298 Mark Blumberg, United States Attorney's Office Criminal Section/CRT, Washington, DC, …
Kosher Diets for Prisoners Upheld in Tenth Circuit by Bob Williams The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the Colorado Federal District Court's permanent injunction directing the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) to provide kosher meals to qualified prisoners in accordance with Orthodox Jewish law and rejected the CDOC's …
Murder, Mayhem, Corruption and Snitches: BOP Florence Exposed by Bob Williams Located in the gently rolling hills of Southern Colorado, dotted with juniper, poplar and cedar trees, Florence is a quiet, small town that was once a prison town without a prison. At just over 5,000 town residents, Florence shares …
U.S. v. Lavallee, CO, Opinion, Prison Conditions, 2003 U.S. v. Lavallee, 61 Fed.Appx. 631 (2003) 61 Fed.Appx. 631 This case was not selected for publication in the Federal Reporter. Not for Publication in West’s Federal Reporter See Fed. Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 generally governing citation of judicial decisions issued …
Maryland Pays $700,000 to Settle Suit Over Murder Committed by Parolee in Colorado by In May 2002, the State of Maryland agreed to pay $700,000 to a Denver woman whose daughter was murdered by a parolee released from a Maryland prison and sent to a drug treatment center in Colorado. …
