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Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash with Prison Reform by James Ridgeway by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella On January 4, 2013, Tamms supermax in southern Illinois officially closed its doors. The prison, where some men had been in solitary confinement for more than a decade, had become notorious for …
Florida Proceeds with Privatization of Prison Medical Care by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) is moving forward with a legislative mandate to privatize its entire medical system. Whether the plan is implemented, however, may depend on the outcome of a lawsuit filed by prison health care workers challenging the …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Guards/Staff, Guard Unions
Pennsylvania Prison Guards, Sergeants Out-earn Supervisors by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Life in prison has alwayss been far different than life in the free world. An investigation by the Pittsburgh-Gazette into the wages of Pennsylvania prison employees revealed one of those differences – an Alice-in-Wonderland quality to the …
Brief • May 21, 2013
Plata v. Brown, VA, Depo of Black-Dennis, ACA Accreditation, 2013 KATHY BLACK-DENNIS· PLATA vs. BROWN May 21, 2013 1 ·1· · · · · · · ·UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ·2· · · · · ·FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ·3· -----------------------------x ·4· MARCIANO PLATA,· · · · · …
Article • May 15, 2013
California Appellate Court Balks at Permitting Pay Raises for Corrections Medical Employees Without First Obtaining Legislative Approval by In October 2012, the Third District Court of Appeal overturned an arbitrator’s ruling that certain medical employees of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), requested by the Service Employees International …
CCA Warden's Title VII Claims Dismissed by When a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) facility warden failed to establish a discriminatory practice, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the summary judgment dismissing the Title VII claims. After being promoted to warden at a new CCA facility: Red Rock Correctional …
Article • May 15, 2013
Maine Supreme Judicial Court Affirms Sheriff’s Entitlement to Discretionary Function Immunity by In December 2011, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the Superior Court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Washington County Sheriff Donald Smith on the ground that Smith was entitled to discretionary function immunity pursuant to the …
Article • May 15, 2013
Oregon Guards Challenge Schedule Changes Without Collective Bargaining by The Oregon Supreme Court reversed a lower court's holding that the Department of Corrections (DOC) did not commit an unfair labor practice in failing to bargain with its employees' union, the Association of Oregon Corrections Employees (AOCE). AOCE and DOC were …
Article • May 15, 2013
Texas Pays $230,000 to Settle Lawsuit under the Texas Whistleblower Act by In September 2008, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) settled a suit under the Texas Whistleblower Act filed by former employees William Douglas Bloodworth II and John O'Neill Green. In exchange for the lawsuit dismissal, the TDCJ …
Carithers v. CCA, MS, Complaint, wrongful death riot guard hit list, 2013 Case 5:13-cv-00066-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 05/08/13 Page 1 of 7 Case 5:13-cv-00066-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 05/08/13 Page 2 of 7 Case 5:13-cv-00066-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 05/08/13 Page 3 of 7 Case 5:13-cv-00066-DCB-MTP Document 1 Filed 05/08/13 Page 4 …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Iowa Pays Almost $500,000 to Fired Parole, Prison Supervisors by Joe Watson Non-union membership in the Hawkeye State apparently has its privileges, at least for parole and prison officials in management positions. Between August 2011 and early 2012, when Iowa’s Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruled in their favor, 18 …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
CA Prison Guards’ Union Loses Appeal, Must Pay $4.96 Million Judgment by A federal lawsuit filed against the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), the union that represents state prison guards, resulted in a $12.5 million damages award in October 2010. The award was reduced by the district court to …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Court Upholds California Prison Guard’s Termination for Telling Prisoner to Hang Herself by In March 2012, the California Court of Appeal, 4th District, affirmed a lower court’s judgment that reinstated the termination of a former state prison guard, Thomas Norton, who had told a mentally ill female prisoner to hang …
US Court of Appeals Reverses Federal Employee Assault Claim Against Coworker by The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed in March 2012 the sovereign immunity finding of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, and remanded for further proceedings the cause of contract security officer …
Article • April 15, 2013
Nurse Settles Washington DOC Wrongful Termination Suit by In the Superior Court of Snohomish County, State of Washington, Plaintiff Annette Belden settled for $100,000 in May 2004 a wrongful termination suit against the Washington Department of Corrections. Belden, an employee at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, Wash., worked as …
Article • April 15, 2013
Probationary State Employee Legally Terminated by Seventh Circuit of Appeals denied First Amendment retaliatory claim and violation of procedural due process rights. Samone Redd, a probationary employee with the Cook County Department of Correction, witnessed an argument outside of a Chicago residence and rode with Detective Doughty to locate the …
Article • April 15, 2013
Sixth Circuit Court Reverses a First Amendment Retaliation Issue by The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed and remanded in May 2012 a Michigan district court’s decision for the defendant in a prison guard’s suit against prison officials for retaliatory job reassignment at the prison. Ruth …
White v. Lynch, FL, Decision on Class Complaint, Sexual Harassment Female Guards, 2013 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION MIAMI DISTRICT OFFICE HEARINGS UNIT DECISION In the Complaint of Taronica White, Et al., v. EEOC Case No. 510-2012-00077X Eric Holder, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau …
Dangerous Jails - LA Weekly by DANGEROUS JAILS, PART 1 by Matthew Fleischer A Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department whistleblower reveals to the LA Justice Report that groups of rogue deputies have flourished for years inside the nation’s largest jail system while the LASD command staff looked the other way. What …
Tennessee DOC Accused of Covering Up Violent Incidents by Alex Friedmann As previously reported in Prison Legal News, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) has been experiencing higher levels of prisoner-on-prisoner and prisoner-on-staff violence since Commissioner Derrick Schofield was appointed in January 2011. The increased violence coincides with a number …
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