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Less Than Equal: State officials, including prejudiced human-rights commissioners, block Prisoner complaints by Lance Tapley This story has a bias. It’s in favor of human rights for all people. So if you think it’s proper for prison guards to call African-American prisoners “niggers” and gay prisoners “fags,” then this story …
Tenth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Failure to Protect Suit by Brandon Sample The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a Colorado prisoner who requested but was denied protection from prison gang members. Scott L. Howard, a self-described “openly homosexual” …
Lesbian Guard Awarded $200,000 for Unlawful Discrimination, Retaliation by A New York appellate court has upheld an award of damages for a lesbian guard who was subjected to unlawful discrimination and retaliation. Alicia Humig, the only female guard on her cell block at the Wende Correctional Facilitiy, filed a complaint …
No Constitutional Violation For Wyoming Hermaphrodite's Ad Seg Placement by Bob Williams By Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeal for the Tenth Circuit has found no liberty interest arising from the placement of a hermaphrodite in administrative segregation (ad seg) for no other reason than sexual characteristics. The …
Kenneth H v. State of New York, NY, Decision, Rikers inmate-inmate rape PTSD protective custody homosexual, 2008 01/09/2009 " 11:18 ~~jr-mt~J 10 STATE OF NEW YORK· PAGE DIVIS/Lon 12129258774 01 5)1" RECEIVED JUN 2 3 • COURT OF CLAIMS KENNETH H.\ Clalm,nt, DECISION "vTHE STATE OF NEW YORK, Claim No. …
Sentenced to rape: LGBT inmates face unusually high risk of sexual assault in prison by Meghann Myers Sentenced to rape LGBT inmates face unusually high risk of sexual assault in prison BY MEGHANN MYERS It's been 60 years since the United Nations General Assembly issued the Universal Declaration of Human …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue’s cover story on the rights and treatment of gay and lesbian prisoners stems from the dearth of such coverage everywhere else. In February of this year I was a speaker on a panel in Manhattan on the rights of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual …
Gay and Lesbian Prisoners: Recent Developments and a Call for More Research by Zachary Wolfe, Esq. by Zachary Wolfe, Esq.1 This is an interesting time in the changing legal landscape relating to gay and lesbian prisoners, but public and scholarly attention is lacking. Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered …
Article • August 15, 2008
Kansas Prison Double Bunking Approved if ACA Standards Met by Thomas Porter and other Kansas state prisoners filed suit against the state and prison officials (defendants) alleging prison overcrowding, and subsequently objected to a proposed increase in the prison population by double bunking. The action alleged too little space per …
Alabama Guard Wins $205,000 in Sexual Harassment Suit by Mark Dempsey, a guard at an Alabama state prison, complained that his supervisor, Jim Gates was sexually harassing him. Gates, among other things, had made inappropriate homosexual remarks and jabbed Dempsey in the anal area with his nightstick. They met with …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
California Homosexual Prisoner Family Visits Policy Draws Fire by California’s newly adopted state prison policy permitting overnight conjugal visits for registered domestic partners who are in prison has been praised by homosexual advocacy groups but has drawn fire from religious conservatives. Prison conjugal visiting began in 1918 in Mississippi as …
Transsexuals Treated Poorly in New York Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) has issued a report on the treatment of transgender and intersex people in New York state men?s prisons. That report finds that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) prisoners experience …
California Jail Settles Gender-Identity-Disorder Discrimination Suit by John Dannenberg by John F. Dannenberg Orange County and its Sheriff, Michael Carona, settled a discrimination suit brought by a prisoner whom they denied treatment for Gender Identity Disorder (GID). They now provide such individuals specialized medical treatment for their disorders, educate Sheriff's …
Gay NJ Guard Awarded $2.8 Million for Sexual Harassment, Discrimination by A New Jersey gay female jail guard was awarded $2,847,188, for discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation. Karen Caggiano began working in the prison transport unit of the Essex County Sheriff's Department in August 1993. "Caggiano, a lesbian and one …
Article • December 15, 2007
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Gay Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner’s Discrimination Suit Settled for $750 by Gay Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner's Discrimination Suit Settled for $750 A Pennsylvania prisoner was paid $750 to settle a discrimination suit. Mr. Roache, a prisoner at the Delaware County prison, was denied a job and was harassed by guards because he …
Article • May 15, 2007
Publisher and Prisoner Entitled to Due Process by A federal court in Rhode Island noted that the Supreme Court established minimum due process rights in prison mail cases in Procunier v. Martinez, 416 U.S. 396, 94 S.Ct. 1800 (1974) holding that prisoners are entitled to "be notified of the rejection …
Article • May 15, 2007
$345,000 Awarded To Gay California Prison Guard For Sexual Orientation Harassment And Discrimination by $345,000 Awarded To Gay California Prison Guard For Sexual Orientation Harassment And Discrimination A gay California prison guard sued the California Department of Corrections (CDC) for on-the-job sexual orientation discrimination and harassment he had suffered at …
Article • May 15, 2007
Gay New York Prison Guard Sues over Harassment by The plaintiff complained of a course of severe anti-gay harassment of him in his employment by the prison system, apparently as a correction officer. Claims against DOCS and prison personnel in their official capacities were barred by the Eleventh Amendment, but …
Article • May 15, 2007
Gay Massachusetts Jailer Awarded $623,600 For Hostile Work Environment by On June 30, 2003, a jury in an unknown Massachusetts court awarded $623,600 to a jailer at the Suffolk County House of Corrections who claimed he suffered harassment due to his sexual orientation. The male plaintiff claimed that in late …
Article • May 15, 2007
Warden Liable for $25,000 Damage Award in Mail Censorship Suit by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit affirmed a jury verdict and damage award in favor of a Texas citizen who sued Missouri prison officials for censoring his mail to a Missouri prisoner. Plaintiff was a gay Catholic …
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