Shabazz v. Kailer, NY, Order Denying Def. MTD, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-02798-JGK Document 37 Filed 08/12/16 Page 1 of 27 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ──────────────────────────────────── OMAR SHABAZZ, ET AL., Plaintiffs, 15-CV-2798 (JGK) OPINION & ORDER - against – KIERAN KAILER, ET AL., Defendants. ──────────────────────────────────── JOHN G. …
Report and Recommendations on the Treatment of Individuals with Disabilities at Sullivan Correctional Facility, DRNY, 2016 New York’s Protection & Advocacy System and Client Assistance Program Report and Recommendations on the Treatment of Individuals with Intellectual, Developmental, and Mental Health Disabilities at Sullivan Correctional Facility July 2016 725 Broadway, Suite …
New York Police IA Records in Camera Inspection Improperly Denied by Mark Wilson The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division reversed a lower court's denial of in camera inspection of police internal affairs records in a wrongful death action. Christine Cea and others brought a state court wrongful death action …
New York Man Paid $120,000 for Police Shove through Storefront Window by Mark Wilson A New York man was paid $120,000 to settle his claims that a police officer pushed him through a storefront window. On May 6, 2012, Brett Fasulo, 31, hailed a taxicab in Queens, New York. Soon …
Legislators Support TV over Education in New York State Prisons by Christopher Zoukis While combating idleness and restlessness in America's prisons is certainly necessary to avoid disruptions and violence, how this is accomplished is up for debate. Lawmakers in New York State said no to a proposal this month, during …
Federal Guard Has Sex with Coworkers and Impregnated by Prisoner by Gary Hunter Nancy Gonzalez was a guard at New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) when she became pregnant with a prisoner’s baby. The father Ronell Wilson was convicted in 2006, of the point-blank shooting of two undercover policemen. Ms. …
Prisoner at Manhattan Detention Complex Wins Excessive Force Award from New York by Derek Gilna Plaintiff Wilfred Rosado brought a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 lawsuit against the City of New York for excessive force used against her at the Manhattan Detention Complex (MDC) in 2010. After several failed settlement attempts, …
Reporter 'Breaks' 25-Year-Old Story on N.Y. Prison Call Centers by Local TV reporters often overcome slow news days by spreading paranoia at someone else's expense, before telling viewers to stop being so paranoid. Reporter Dave McKinley of Buffalo, N.Y.'s WGRZ-TV followed that familiar script in October 2012 when he broke …
State of Injustice - How New York State Turns its Back on the Right to Counsel for the Poor, NYCLU, 2014 STATE OF INJUSTICE: How New York State Turns its Back on the Right to Counsel for the Poor “The amount of money someone makes should not determine how justice …
From Protection to Punishment - Post-Conviction Barriers to Justice for Domestic Violence Survivor-Defendants in New York State, Cornell Law and CANY, 2013 Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School & The Women in Prison Project of the Correctional Association of New York From Protection to Punishment …
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 …
DNA Keeps Overturning Convictions, But Spike in Exonerations Owed to Other Factors by Joe Watson Nicole Harris, Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown have lived through their own nightmares of injustice. All three were wrongfully convicted of the heinous murders of children. Combined, they spent nearly 70 years in prison …
New York Pushing Enforcement of Law Prohibiting Discrimination in Felon Hiring by The New York Attorney General’s Office (AG) reached a settlement with a national retailer doing business in the state to end discrimination in the hiring of individuals with criminal records. the terms of settlement provide the company will …
California, New York & New Jersey Crime Rates & Prisoners Plunge by Mark Wilson As the nation’s prison population increased 10 percent, from 1.2 million prisoners in 1999 to 1.3 million in 2012, the New York and New Jersey prison populations dropped 26 percent, according to a report released by …
New York Based Ex-Offender Assistance Program Sues Landlord for Discrimination by Gary Hunter On October 30, 2014 the Fortune Society filed suit in United States District Court for the Eastern District in Brooklyn alleging that a New York City apartment complex’s refusal to rent to ex-offenders amounts to racial discrimination …
Rikers Island Guards Treat Mental Illness with Violence by Matthew Clarke With around 4,000 of its 11,000 prisoners classified as mentally ill, Rikers Island jail holds more psychiatric patients than all 24 of the psychiatric hospitals in New York State combined. In 2006, prisoners with mental illness comprised about 20% …
OSHA Cites Corizon for Inadequate Workplace Safety on Rikers Island by Matthew Clarke Listing numerous instances of its medical, mental health and dentistry employees being assaulted by Rikers Island prisoners, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Corizon Health, Inc. for willful violation of Section 5(a)(1) of the …
New York Holds Sex Offenders Past Their Release Dates Because of 2005 Law by Joe Watson New York's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) is reinterpreting statutes governing where sex offenders can live post incarceration to keep scores of them behind bars past their release dates. Since February 2014, …
Annual Report on the Implementation of Mental Hygiene Law Article 10 - Sex Offender Management and Treatment, New York State, 2009 2008 Annual Report on the Implementation of Mental Hygiene Law Article 10 Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act of 2007 January 2009 New York State Office of Mental Health …
NYC Know Your Rights Project - An Innovative Pro Bono Response to the Lack of Counsel for Indigent Immigrant Detainees, City Bar Justice Center, 2009 NYC Know Your Rights Project An Innovative Pro Bono Response to the Lack of Counsel for Indigent Immigrant Detainees City Bar Justice Center 42 West …
