Prison Legal News v. Spokane County, WA, Order Entry of Consent Decree, 2011 Case 2:11-cv-00029-RHW Document 108 Filed 08/03/11 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 6 7 PRISON LEGAL NEWS, 8 Plaintiff, 9 v. 10 NO. CV-II-029-RHW SPOKANE COUNTY, et aI., 11 ORDER …
Mount Hope Church v. Bash Back et al, WA, judge fee award, discovery subpoena, 2011 Case 2:11-cv-00536-RAJ Document 34 1 Filed 07/20/11 Page 1 of 5 HONORABLE RICHARD A. JONES 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 8 9 10 MOUNT …
Washington Disciplinary Hearing Violates Due Process; Written Submissions Must be Considered by Mark Wilson By Mark Wilson The Washington State Court of Appeals held that a prisoner was deprived of a constitutionally adequate disciplinary hearing when a hearings officer refused to read the documentary evidence he offered. Washington prisoner Allan …
Washington Supreme Court Says Commutations Implicate Due Process by Mark Wilson By Mark Wilson The Washington state Supreme Court held that due process protections attach to conditional commutation decisions and the liberty interest at stake “is indistinguishable from the interest in parole and probation.” In 1997, Jayson Bush was convicted …
Washington Trial Courts May Sanction Community Custody Violations by Mark Wilson By Mark Wilson The Washington State Court Appeals held that the legislature did not remove the trial courts’ jurisdiction to punish community custody violations when it granted the Department of Corrections (DOC) to also punish those violations. Karen Gamble …
$7,500 Settlement for Excessive Force by Washington State’s King County Jail has paid $7,500 to settle the excessive force claim of Sean T. Tandberg. While at the Jail on May 20, 2002, Tandberg was taken to the “hole” by guard “Robles.” At the time, Tandberg was on crutches. Robles “threw” …
Deficient Medical Care Leads to Preventable Death of Seattle, Washington Jail Prisoner by The State of Washington’s Medical Quality Assurance Commission (MQAC) has charged a former King County jail doctor with providing substandard care. According to a statement of charges filed on December 29, 2010, Dr. Anthony Rains engaged in …
Pierce County, Washington Pays $1,500 for Vehicle Damage by Washington State’s Pierce County paid $1,500 for vehicle damage caused by a county prisoner transport vehicle. On April 8, 2008 Robert B. Smith IV was stopped with traffic in the city of Tacoma. Guard Mitchell Andreasen, who was driving a Peirce …
Pierce County, Washington Personal Injury Results in $1,200 Settlement by Washington State’s Pierce County paid $1,200 to settle a prisoner’s personal injury claim. In October 2001, prisoner James E. Thomas had a grand mal seizure, which caused him to have a spinal injury, while in court at the Pierce County …
Washington: Eye Gouging Assault Severely Injures Airway Heights Prisoner by Derek Gilna A prisoner who killed his cellmate six years ago has assaulted and severely injured another prisoner at the Airway Heights Corrections Center near Spokane, Washington, according to police. The victim, Chad Bolstad, was attacked by his cellmate, Michael …
Washington DOC Agrees to Change Sexual Abuse Policies by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) has agreed to change its policies that relate to preventing, reporting and investigating sexual abuse of prisoners by staff members. The changes resulted from a settlement in a class-action …
Ninth Circuit Upholds Washington’s “Two Strikes Law” for Repeat Sex Offenders by On September 23, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the State of Washington’s “two strikes” law for repeat sex offenders, which results in a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole, …
Washington Prisoner Discovers Good Time Error; County Officials Admit and Correct Mistake by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Washington State’s Kitsap County Jail (KCJ) has corrected an error in how it calculates and awards “good time” to prisoners, after a former prisoner discovered the mistake and brought it to …
Washington: Pierce County Jail Suit Ends After 15 Years by In a report and recommendation to partly deny the defendants’ motion to terminate a consent decree related to conditions of confinement at Washington State’s Pierce County Jail, U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Kelley Arnold cited conditions that contributed to the deaths …
Wilbur v. City of Mount Vernon, WA, Complaint, Indigent Counsel Services, 2011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SKAGIT 8 9 10 11 12 JOSEPH JEROME WILBUR, a Washington resident; JEREMIAH RAY MOON, a Washington resident; and ANGELA …
Alley-Barnes v. Sackman, WA, Motion to Compel Discovery, Police False Arrest Beating, 2011 1 Hon. Thomas S. Zilly 2 Noted for Friday December 8, 2006 (Without Argument) 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 …
Staff Smuggle Drugs and Porn to Washington Civil Commitment Prisoners by Mark Wilson A Washington Special Commitment Center (SCC) nurse who fell in love with a civilly committed violent sex offender pleaded guilty to smuggling him drugs and homemade pornographic videos; the offender and two other people were charged with …
WA DOC Employee’s Federal Maritime Claims Not Precluded by State Law by The Court of Appeals for the State of Washington, Division II, has reversed and remanded a Department of Corrections (DOC) employee’s federal maritime claim against the DOC. One day while Scott Maziar was riding the ferry home from …
No Right to Washington Sex Offender Treatment Program Records in Public Records Case by The Washington State Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court’s order that rejected Monroe Correctional Facility prisoner Ronnie Hick’s claim against the Department of Corrections (DOC) for violations of the Public Records Act (PRA). Hicks …
