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Settlement in postcard suit against Sullivan County, TN jail quotes PLN

In-the-News Article • August 17, 2016

Settlement in postcard suit against Sullivan County, TN jail quotes PLN Aug. 17, 2016 Articles with PLN Quotes Times News Sullivan County settles federal lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News MATTHEW ...

Missouri Prisoner Wins $25,000 in Police Excessive Force Case; Attorney Fees Limited to $37,500 by PLRA

Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Excessive Force, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Damages, Excessive Force (Police)

%. Craig Boesing suffered injuries from excessive force by police officers prior to entering state prison. After a foot chase, he claimed police then handcuffed him face down on the ground, pepper sprayed ...

Report to Congress Prison Rape Elimination Act, DOJ NIC, 2007

Publication • May 16, 2016

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Statistics/Trends, Prison Rape Elimination Act

their incarceration and after release; (2) addressing post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues; (3) addressing health issues such as STDs, HIV, and hepatitis C; (4) identifying where gaps in assistance ...

Douthit v. Jones-619 F.2d 527 (5th Cir. 1980).

Case • 1980

of the admission and release of prisoners, contend that the sheriff's office continued to imprison Douthit until he discharged the costs judgments on which he had defaulted in the two prior misdemeanor actions, case ...

Offender Risk Assessment in Virginia, National Institute of Justice, 2002

Publication • February 19, 2016

Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Prisoner Privileges, Rehabilitation/Recidivism

justice system stakeholders perceive the risk assessment program as effective? The majority of judges and probation officers in the pilot sites felt that, given the goal of diverting offenders from prison ...

Policy Manual Culver City, Culver City Pol Dept, 2017

Publication • January 1, 2017

Filed under: Police Department Manuals, Evidence - Admissibility, Police Negligence

and Release Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 - Foreign Diplomatic and Consular Representatives . . . . . . . . . . 414 - Rapid Response and Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 ...

Scott v. Moore-85 F.3d 230 (5th Cir. 1996)

Case • 1996

prisoners. And finally, the regulations provide that "anytime a prisoner is released from his or her cell for any reason other than release from custody, the prisoner shall be searched upon release from ...

Padgett v. Ferrero-294 F.Supp.2d 1338 (N.D.Ga. 2003)

Case • 2003

sample. As required by the statute, Defendants will take a sample and store information from Boulineau's DNA before he is released from prison. (Hitchcock Aff. P 4.) Department of Corrections' policy ...

Rose v. Saginaw County-353 F.Supp.2d 900 (N.D. Mich. 2005)

Case • 2005

was filed; they all had been released. The statute has a temporal element in its language: it is directed to lawsuits by prisoners who are presently confined, not those who were confined at the time the cause ...

Rose v. Saginaw County, Mi, Naked Detention Suit, Order, 2005

Brief • 2005

, was an inmate at the time suit was filed; they all had been released. The statute has a temporal element in its language: it is directed to lawsuits by prisoners who are presently confined, not those who were ...

Rash of North Carolina Jail Deaths Due to Lack of Supervision and Medical Care

Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018

Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

and Human Services (DHHS). When any of the state’s 24,000 prisoners held in its 113 jails dies, DHHS regulations require the death to be reported – but only if it occurred while in custody. Chris ...

Moser v. Frakes, NE, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2019

Brief • March 20, 2019

Filed under: Failure to Protect (General)

. Vera issued a Report on November 1, 2016, which stated that Nebraska’s prison system was “one of the most severely overcrowded prison systems in the United States”, and noted that “prison overcrowding ...

U.S. v. Ryan, et al., settlement in book fraud case, 2018

Brief • June 27, 2018

Filed under: Eighth Amendment, False Claims Act, Publications/Books, First Amendment, Double jeopardy, First Amendment, rights

to libraries, educational institutions, federal and state prisons, and other entities throughout the United States from its location at 1224 General Mercer Avenue, Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. 4. Ryan ...

Halfway to Nowhere - Out of prison, not yet home

Article • September 16, 2015

Filed under: Dismas Charities, Release and Reentry

and manuscripts from a university library. In prison, you start to forget after a while even why you’re there. Who you were, what you wanted—the steady, quotidian punishment grinds it away. For years ...

Ninth Circuit Reinstates Wiccan Prisoner’s Consent Decree

Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017

Filed under: Consent Decrees (PLRA), Denial of Religious Services, Religious Practices

Ninth Circuit Reinstates Wiccan Prisoner’s Consent Decree by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has sharply criticized a district court’s handling of a Wiccan prisoner’s lawsuit ...

Prison Legal News v. Crawford, NV, Settlement, NV DOC Censorship, 2000

Brief • September 27, 2000

Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship, PLN related

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Iowa Supreme Court: Retroactive Good Conduct Time Denial is Unconstitutional, Depending on Date of Conviction

Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010

Filed under: Sentencing, Ex Post Facto, Good Time, Sex Offender Treatment

committed crimes after the 2001 amendment but before the 2005 amendment could not show an ex post facto violation. Denny Propp, then an Iowa state prisoner, brought a petition for post-conviction relief ...

Cate v. Pirtle, US, Reply to Briefs in Opposition, Parole Conditions, 2011

Brief • March 11, 2011

Filed under: Parole, Habeas Corpus, Parole Conditions

was recently released from prison pursuant to the Ninth Circuit's_ judgment; thus, Secretary Matthew _Cat., not Warden. James Hartley, is now the_ proper petitioner as to Sneed. Recently this Court held ...

McQuillion v. Schwarzenegger-369 F.3d 1091 (9th Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

[15] OPINION [16] Carl McQuillion ("McQuillion") and his co-plaintiffs ("co-plaintiffs") appeal the dismissal of their civil rights complaint against the Board of Prison Terms (the "Board ...

New Orleans Jail Medical Review, 2005

Publication

Filed under: Medical

Of Orleans • State CI LOIdirktnct Marlin N. Gunman Sheriff For Immediate Release: May 13, 2005 Canted; Renee Lepeyroleitie 826-7034 SHERIFF GUSMAN REQUESTED INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF MEDICAL OPERATIONS ...