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Article • May 15, 2007
Muslim Prisoners' Allegation Of Forced Pork Handling States Claim by In this brief opinion, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Muslim prisoners who brought a civil rights suit against prison officials for allegedly forcing them to handle pork stated a claim upon which relief could be granted. …
FL Country Club Settles For $475,000 With Golf Cart Driver by On August 6, 2002, Joseph Gautette was driving a golf cart at the Cobblestone Country Club in Stuart, Florida. He was injured when he collided with a maintenance vehicle being driven by a prisoner in a work release program. …
Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Tort Claim Act Notice Requirement by Matthew Clarke by Matthew. T. Clarke The Supreme Court of Texas has held that an accident investigation by a governmental under certain circumstances, suffice for the notice required by the Texas Tort Claims Act, § 101.101, Texas Civil Practice and …
Pilot Light Burn Nets NY Prisoner $225 by A New York State court of claims judge found the New York Department of Correctional Services (DCS) negligent in training and supervising a prisoner who sustained first-degree burns. The court awarded only $225 for past pain and suffering. On July 15, 1999, …
Article • May 15, 2007
$1,500 Awarded in Negligence Suit for MA Prisoner's Work Injury by $1,500 Awarded in Negligence Suit for MA Prisoners Work Injury While performing his prison job at Massachusetts' MCI Concord, Thomas Collier was instructed to clean vents in the prison's kitchen. He was given de-greaser, which he sprayed on the …
Florida Prisoner's Respiratory Injury Nets $112,000 by A 32-year-old female Florida prisoner sued the Department of Corrections (DOC) after she suffered respiratory dysfunction from inhaling chlorine gas while changing a chlorine cylinder at her prison's water/sewage treatment plant. Because she was not trained or certified to perform the work assigned …
Article • May 15, 2007
Burned Foot Nets $9,000 for Florida Jail Prisoner by While incarcerated at Florida's Volusia County Jail in March 1993, the prisoner plaintiff in this case was working in the jail's kitchen, which was operated by Szabo Correctional Services. Boiling water from the steam kettle spilled onto the prisoner's right foot, …
BOP Work Injuries Not Cognizable Under FTCA by A federal prisoner in California who alleged his pre-existing knee injury was exacerbated by prison officials' delay in providing medical treatment could not pursue a Federal Tort Claims Act suit because the re-injury occurred while he was at work and the Prison …
South Carolina Jail Prisoner Awarded $2,000 In Mediation For Work-Related Injury by South Carolina Jail Prisoner Awarded $2,000 In Mediation For Work-Related Injury In December 1997, a Horry County, South Carolina, prisoner was awarded $2,000 in mediation for injuries he sustained while working at a county landfill. The prisoner claimed …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Court Awards $33,000 For Saw-Related Hand Injury by In August 1997, a New York court of claims awarded $33,000 to the estate of a prisoner who lacerated three fingers on his left hand while using a table saw as part of his work assignment at the state prison. …
Arkansas Field Death Suit Dismissed by The decedent died of heat exhaustion on his first day on the hoe squad (on November 6, mid-afternoon temperature 72 degrees). Although overweight, he had been medically cleared for the work detail; there were hourly breaks for rest, water, and smoking; there was no …
Exposure to Smoke, Retaliatory Discipline and Dish Washing Claims Dismissed by Complaints of "sporadic and fleeting" exposure to second hand smoke on bus rides were properly dismissed as frivolous absent "competent evidence that [the plaintiff's] intermittent exposure to smoke during bus rides was an unreasonable risk to his health." (498) …
Article • May 15, 2007
Pro Se Sewage Exposure Claim Dismissed by The plaintiff alleged that inmate workers had to handle quantities of sewage because of the deficiencies of the prison sewage system, and that she got some on her because her protective clothing was the wrong size and wasn't able to wash the sewage …
Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
Early Release Debacle Prompts Nevada Prison Director’s Resignation by Matthew Clarke Early Release Debacle Prompts Nevada Prison Director's Resignation by Matthew T. Clarke Jackie Crawford, director of the Nevada state prison system since May 2000, announced her resignation from the $116,000-a-year position on September 15, 2005. The announcement cited health …
Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
Prisoners In 13 States Allowed Work-Access To Social Security Numbers by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reported that prisoners in thirteen states had access to Social Security numbers (SSNs) during the course of their prison employment. Following a nationwide survey, the …
“To Get Stuff and Sell It for As Much As We Can Get”: Federal Prison Industries and Electronics Recycling by Aaron Shuman "To Get Stuff and Sell It for As Much As We Can Get": Federal Prison Industries and Electronics Recycling by Aaron Shuman In recent months, UNICOR Recycling has …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
ARE YOU IN A PRISON WORK PROGRAM HANDLING TOXIC ELECTRONICS? by At Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and the Prison Activist Resource Center we have been working to end the exposure to toxics of people working in electronic recycling programs in prison, particularly in UNICOR work programs within the Federal Prison …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Colorado Prisoners Caging Prisoners by Gary Hunter Colorado State Penitentiary II (CSP-IT) is slated for construction in early 2007. It will hold the state?s most dangerous prisoners locked down for 23 hours per day. Ironically, the 948 pre-fab cells will be built by prisoners in the Freemont prison facility located …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Three Work-Release Van Drivers Escape from Arkansas Prison; Practice Discontinued by Gary Hunter Two prisoners escaped from Arkansas? Benton Unit prison on July 9, 2006. Tab Delancey and Clifton Sanders were drivers in the prison?s work-release program. Arkansas was one of the few states that, until recently, allowed unsupervised prisoners …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Georgia County Pays $5.1 Million for Community Service Turned Deadly by Michael Rigby On August 21, 2006, a Georgia state court awarded $5.1 Million to the family of a college student who was killed when he fell from a DeKalb County garbage truck while performing community service. Vince Currid, 22, …
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