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Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Ohio Parole Hearing Officer Acquitted in Bribe Case by After a three-day trial, a jury acquitted an Ohio parole-hearing officer of charges that he sold early parole releases to prisoners. On Nov. 9, 2000, as Lorain Co. Common Pleas Judge Lynett M. McGough read the verdict, parole hearing officer Harold …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
New Jersey Guard Unions Charged with Telemarketing Fraud by New Jersey Guard Unions Charged With Telemarketing Fraud The New Jersey Attorney General's Office charged four "correctionsofficer" unions and a forprofit fundraising company with diverting nearly $2 million from police charities over a threeyear period. In a 12count complaint filed in …
Cook County Deputies Charged in Beating Death by Three Cook County (Chicago, IL.) deputies were charged with murder for allegedly beating a prisoner in a courthouse holding cell May 5, 2000. The prisoner died two days later from injuries sustained in the beating. Louis Schmude, 40, was awaiting a court …
Texas Deputy Pays Price for Testifying by Without the testimony of former Bexar County (TX) Jail guard Linda Grady, one of her former colleagues would never have been indicted for striking a prisoner, prosecutors say. As it was, Charles Mizell was convicted June 8, 2000 on one count each of …
BOP Possession Offense Requires Specific Intent by The U.S. court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1791(a)(2), which makes it unlawful for federal a prisoner to possess a "prohibited object," is a specific intent crime, and intent to use the object as …
Louisiana Abandons Private Juvenile Prisons by The state of Louisiana agreed to a settlement in federal court September 7, 2000 designed to radically alter the way it operates its juvenile prisons. The agreement was intended to settle several lawsuits against the state, including one by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
BOP Prisoners' Convictions for Destroying Military Factory Upheld by In October, 1995, riots broke out in more than a dozen federal prisons after Congress voted down sentencing guideline commission rules that would have equalized the penalties for possession of crack and powder cocaine. [PLN Jan. 1996] As is historically the …
Build Jails, Not Schools: Ohio Prison Building Corruption by Bill Dunne The apparatus of repression provides frequent examples of the corruption endemic to late capitalism. It is hugely expensive, miniminaly accountable, and has no clear product by which to gauge its performance. Military fraud and waste are cliche. Endless police …
Florida X-Wing Guard Acquitted in Valdes Beating by The first of five Florida State Prison guards to be tried in connection with the beating death of "XWing" prisoner Frank Valdes was acquitted by a jury in a rural county dominated by the state "corrections" industry. In the October 1999 PLN …
Actual Innocence--Five Days to Execution and other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted by Roger Hummel By Barry Scheck, Peter Nuefeld, and Jim Dwyer Review by Roger Hummel Since 1963, at least 381 murder convictions across the nation have been reversed because of police or prosecutorial misconduct yet not one of …
Alabama Officials Guilty in Phone Scam by A former Alabama state auditor, County commissioner and another man pleaded guilty in July 1999 to federal charges stemming from a prison pay phone scam operated in Alabama and Louisiana by Global Tel*Link, a Mobile-based company. Former state auditor Terry Ellis pleaded guilty …
Corcoran Show Trial Ends with Acquittals by Dan Pens Corcoran Show Trial Ends With Acquittals The saga of Corcoran's infamous SHU shootings ended June 8, 2000 when a jury acquitted eight California prison guards of federal charges that they entertained themselves by staging gladiator-style fights among prisoners from rival gangs. …
Nassau Jail Guards Convicted, Sentenced for Fatal Beating by Two Nassau County (NY) jail guards who fatally beat an unarmed jail detainee were sentenced May 26, 1999, to 11 years in federal prison, and a jail supervisor who tried to cover up for them received nearly 6 years. In the …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Penis Stomping Guard Loses Appeal by In the July '99 issue of PLN we reported the conviction of former Orleans County Jail (Albion, NY) Lieutenant John Walsh on three counts of violating the civil rights of jail detainee Norvin Fowlks. Walsh was alleged to have tormented and abused Fowlks, who …
Pro Se Tips and Tactics by John Midgley Supreme Court on Kind and Quality of Appellate Counsel by John Midgley In three recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the kind and quality of representation to which people are entitled on appeal of their criminal convictions. If your conviction is …
SC Prisoners Settle Rape Suits by On October 16, 1999, an unidentified former woman prisoner settled a lawsuit for $115,000. The woman claimed that in 1995 while she was imprisoned at the Women's Correctional Center in Broad River, South Carolina, prison guard Anthony Green raped her and South Carolina prison …
Wackenhut Wracked by Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ronald Young Wackenhut Wracked By Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ron Young After a decade as a leading operator of corporate-owned prisons, Wackenhut Corrections has become a prisoner of its own problems. In New Mexico, a 500-page legislative report written by five consultants calls …
Rockwall, TX Jailers Indicted in Sex-For-Contraband Case by Rockwall, TX Jailers Indicted In Sex-For-Contraband Case Three Rockwall County, Texas jailers were indicted and all plead guilty after allegations that jailers gave drugs and alcohol to female prisoners in exchange for sex. A jail captain also resigned in lieu of prosecution. …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Right to Counsel Violated by Intrusive Guards by A federal district court ruled that a criminal defendant's right to counsel was violated by the refusal of guards to allow unmonitored communication between him and his attorney. On January 26, 1990 David Lakin and four other prisoners abducted two guards while …
Arizona Jury Acquits CCA Escapees by Two Alaska state prisoners on trial for a 1996 escape from a private prison were acquitted by an Arizona jury. The prosecution was undoubtedly stunned by the verdict in what was considered to be an open and shut case. However, the prosecutor in the …
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