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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 …
NH Corrections Officer, Suspended After Fight, Obtains Back Pay Plus $250,000 in Damages and Attorney Fees by NH Corrections Officer, Suspended After Fight, Obtains Back Pay Plus $250,000 in Damages and Attorney Fees On October 31, 2011, a state court jury found that the New Hampshire Department of Corrections (NHDOC) …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Michigan DOC Taser Experiment Touted; Prison Perimeter Patrols to End by Michigan prison officials are proclaiming their experiment to arm guards with Tasers a success. An announced end to round-the-clock patrols of prison perimeters, however, was denounced as a threat to security by the union that represents Michigan Department of …
Article • November 15, 2012 • from PLN November, 2012
California Settles Suit with Prison Guards’ Union for $3.5 Million, Interest-Free by Avoiding the uncertainty of litigation, in January 2012 the State of California settled a lawsuit it had initiated two years earlier against the prison guards’ union, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA). According to the suit, the …
Article • July 15, 2012
Oregon Guard/Police Unions Sue over Healthcare Surcharges by "It's basically financial extortion," declared Oregon Department of Corrections Sergeant Michael Van Patten, of a new surcharge of up to $420 a year for state employees who do not participate in Oregon's new health program. In January 2012, Oregon implemented its Health …
Article • May 15, 2012
California: Guards and Other Prison Workers Agree to Contract Changes in Effort to Avoid Losing Jobs by In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Plata v. Brown, which mandated that California comply with a lower-court order to reduce its prison population to 137.5 percent of the design …
Seventh Circuit Dismisses Wisconsin Deputy Sheriff’s Retaliation Claim by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a Wisconsin deputy sheriff's retaliation and state law claims against his boss. On May 17, 2007, Milwaukee County Deputy Sheriff David Hutchins called into a popular talk radio show and made critical comments about …
BOP Staff at FMC Lexington Recover Monetary Damages and Attorney Fees for Privacy Act Violations by Derek Gilna In a lengthy decision, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that approximately 100 employees of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) could recover damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act …
Florida Senate Rejects Privatization of 27 State Prisons – but Just Barely by PLN’s February 2012 cover story described how the Florida legislature tried to privatize almost thirty state prisons, work camps and work release centers in 2011 by slipping proviso language into the state’s budget appropriations bill. That wholesale …
Article • February 15, 2012
California: Guard Union Members Not Entitled to Back Pay for Furloughed Days by The California Court of Appeal has reversed an order by the Superior Court of Alameda County that would have resulted in back pay for approximately 30,000-35,000 state civil service employees working at correctional facilities operated by the …
Florida Provides Lesson in How Not to Privatize State Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When Florida lawmakers used a backdoor approach to try to privatize almost 30 state detention facilities in 2011, they likely did not anticipate the outcome. By the time the political dust had settled, …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
California Governor Cozies up to Prison Guards and Crime Victim Advocates by In April 2011, in apparent repayment of a political debt for helping him get elected, California Governor Jerry Brown approved a 200-page labor contract that gives the 31,000-strong California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) a number of benefits …
California: Prisoners May Be Transferred Out of State To Alleviate Severe Prison Overcrowding by In 2008, the California Court of Appeal upheld the Governor's authority, under the California Emergency Services Act (Government Code, § 8550 et seq.), to proclaim a state of emergency because of severe overcrowding in the state's …
Article • November 15, 2011
CDCR Cannot Avoid Paying Officers in Training by In a case of purely statutory construction, the Fourth District Court of Appeal held in June 2011 that Penal Code § 13602, subd. (a), authorizes California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) employment training for correctional peace officers at its academies in …
Article • November 15, 2011
D.C. Circuit Reverses Arbitration Discussion for Guards by On July 8, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit set-aside an arbitration award obtained by federal prison guards against the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In order to cut down on overtime costs, the BOP in 2004 reconfigured the …
Contributions to California Politicians Rewarded with Lucrative Private Prison Contracts by In politics, sometimes a little monetary grease goes a long way. No doubt, that’s why Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison operator, based in Nashville, Tennessee, has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to lawmakers …
Article • April 15, 2011
NYPD Cops Can Be Subjected to Drug Testing Without Collective Bargaining by The Police Commissioner of New York City may require NYPD officers to submit to drug testing of their hair without undergoing collective bargaining, New York’s highest court decided December 17, 2009. The officers’ union had argued that the …
Article • April 15, 2011
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California: District Court Denies CCPOA’s Motion for Summary Judgment by In February 2010, in a case alleging breach of contract and defamation on the part of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), the nation’s largest union of correctional officers and an organizational member of Corrections USA (CUSA), a non-profit …
Article • April 15, 2011
California: Renewed Motion for Attorney Fees Properly Denied When Correct Authority Not Diligently Raised by The California Court of Appeal has affirmed the denial of two requests for attorney fees brought by the state of California, two state agencies and three state officials (collectively, the state), after they successfully defended …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
BOP’s Furlough Notification Policy Not to be Addressed for Seven Years by Derek Gilna A September 2010 report by the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice cast light on deficiencies with the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) furlough policy, and in doing so inadvertently highlighted the …
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