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Article • May 15, 2011
Interference With Access to Legal Materials by Federal Prison Officials May Warrant Equitable Tolling by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that interference with a prisoner’s access to legal materials by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) may warrant equitable tolling of the one-year deadline for seeking …
Article • April 15, 2011
Annual Arizona Segregation Reviews Inadequate, Case Remanded by On November 19, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded a suit by a prisoner challenging the frequency of segregation reviews he was receiving. Edward Hernandez sued the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC), claiming that its …
Article • April 15, 2011
Utah Prisoner’s Administrative Confinement May be Unconstitutional by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner’s arbitrary placement in administrative segregation may constitute an “atypical and significant hardship on the prisoner in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.” Utah prisoner Paul Richard Payne filed a …
D.C. Pays $80,000 to Settle Prisoner’s Civil Rights Suit by On August 2, 2006, the District of Columbia paid $80,000 to settle with a prisoner who alleged violations of his civil rights under the 5th and 8th Amendments and D.C.’s Lorton Act. The suit was filed in the U.S. District …
Mass Torture in America: Notes from the Supermax Prisons by Lance Tapley “Exterminate all the brutes!” – Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad “They beat the shit out of you,” said Mike James, hunched near the smeared plexiglass separating us. He was talking about the cell “extractions” he’d endured at the …
Illinois Supermax Placement Procedures Unconstitutional by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Illinois federal district court has held that existing Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) procedures for placing prisoners at the Tamms Correctional Center (Tamms) are inadequate to protect the liberty interest of IDOC prisoners to avoid confinement at …
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Injunction in Florida DOC Mental Health Conditions Pepper Spray Case by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 20, 2010, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s order that found a warden and the secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) had …
Brief • January 27, 2011
Al-Owhall v Hoder, CO, Order dismissing Complaint, ADX restrictions, 2011 Case 1:07-cv-02214-LTB-BNB Document 98 Filed 01/27/11 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 07-cv-02214-LTB-BNB MOHAMED RASHED D. AL-OWHALI, Plaintiff, v. ERIC HOLDER, in his official capacity as …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Budget Deficits Lead to Fewer Supermax Beds by Mark Wilson Throughout the 1990s, “Supermax” prisons and control units – commonly called Security Housing Units (SHUs) or Intensive Management Units (IMUs) – sprang up across the nation. Between 1995 and 2000 the general prison population increased by 28 percent, but according …
Brief • January 11, 2011
Rezaq v. BOP, CO, Resp to Motion for Costs, Solitary Confinement, 2011 Case 1:07-cv-02483-LTB -KLM Document 171 Filed 01/11/11 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 11 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 07-CV-02483-LTB-KLM OMAR REZAQ, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS, et al., …
Audits of Tennessee DOC Reveal Deficiencies by Mark Wilson The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) and several of its contractors violated state law, according to two audit reports issued by the Comptroller of the Treasury’s Division of State Audit. According to an April 2009 financial and compliance audit, the TDOC …
Townsend v. CCA, TN, Settlement, inmate murder in double cell segregation, 2010 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0195 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0196 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0197 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0198 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0199 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0200
Study of Psychological Effects of Administrative Segregation, Colorado DOC, 2010 The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: One Year Longitudinal Study of the Psychological Effects of Administrative Segregation Author: Maureen L. O’Keefe, M.A., Kelli J. …
Ingram v. Turner et al, TN, Settlement, riot snitching assault ad seg retaliation 8th Am, 2012.pdf CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0178 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0179 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0180 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0181 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0182 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0183 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0184 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0185
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Mississippi Stops Segregating HIV-positive Prisoners by On March 17, 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union announced that the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) had agreed to stop segregating prisoners with HIV. The policy change followed two decades of efforts by the ACLU, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other advocacy organizations. …
Westefer v. Snyder, IL, Order, ad seg condition of confinement, 2010 Case 3:00-cv-00162-GPM Document 540 Filed 07/20/10 Page 1 of 94 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ROBERT WESTEFER, et al., Plaintiffs, vs. DONALD SNYDER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Westefer v. Snyder, IL, Judgment, ad seg condition of confinement, 2010 Case 3:00-cv-00162-GPM Document 541 Filed 07/20/10 Page 1 of 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ROBERT WESTEFER, et al., Plaintiffs, vs. DONALD SNYDER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) …
BOP Agrees to Pay $30,000 to Prisoner Assaulted by Guards by On July 14, 2009, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a prisoner who was beaten by guards. On or about April 11, 2006, while being escorted to the Special Housing Unit (SHU) …
Reversal of Summary Judgment on 55-Day New York SHU Placement Claim by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the grant of summary judgment to a prison hearings officer in a lawsuit concerning a prisoner’s improper placement in administrative segregation. On January 3, 2001, New York state prisoner Samuel …
CA Prisoner Erroneously Validated as Prison Gang Member; Clears His Name, Has Records Expunged, $1.04 Million in Fees Awarded by Michael Brodheim On September 30, 2009, more than 16 years after being incorrectly “validated” as an associate of a violent California prison gang, and after having spent eight years in …
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