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Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
$75,000 Settlement for Shutting Off Water in Seattle Jail Prisoner’s Cell by Washington State’s King County Jail has settled a pre-trial detainee’s claim that he was unconstitutionally punished. The Jail settled the matter for $75,000. The basis of the claim was a guard shutting off the water in the prisoner’s …
Article • July 15, 2009
Slip and Fall Nets $5,000 Settlement by Washington State’s King County Jail paid $5,000 to settle a slip and fall claim filed by former prisoner Clifford Goodwin. The claim alleged that on September 10, 2001, Goodwin fell in urinal waste water that was on the floor due to a broken …
Private Prison Company Cleans Up Texas Creek, Finally Gets Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In July 2008, Louisiana-based private prison company LCS Corrections Services agreed to remove junked cars, appliances and other debris inhibiting the flow of Petronila Creek, which runs close to LCS’s newly-built 1,100-bed Coastal Bend …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
California Prison Fined $40,000 for (Another) Raw Sewage Spill by California Prison Fined $40,000 for (Another) Raw Sewage Spill California water officials fined the California Men’s Colony State Prison (CMC) in San Louis Obispo $40,000 for a 20,000 gallon raw sewage spill into Chorro Creek on January 27, 2008. This …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Prisons Flush Drugs, Contaminate Water Supply by Mark Wilson Each year, tons of unused pharmaceuticals are flushed by America’s state and federal prisons, hospitals and long-term care facilities, contaminating the nation’s drinking water, according to an Associated Press (AP) investigation. “We flush it and flush it and flush it – …
Substandard Pretrial Confinement Conditions Justify Downward Sentence Variance by by David M. Reutter A New Jersey federal district court has granted a downward variance to a federal prisoner’s sentence on the grounds that to do otherwise, when considering the pretrial conditions of confinement, would constitute excessive punishment. The court’s ruling …
Buford-Lewis v. Marion County, IN, Settlement, jail conditions, 2008 Case 1:07-cv-00527-SEB-DML Document 58 Filed 12/01/2008 Page 1 of 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION ANTHONY BUFORD-LEWIS, III, et al., Plaintiffs, v. MARION COUNTY, INDIANA, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Settlement Agreement Reached in Overcrowding Claim Against Florida Jail by Settlement Agreement Reached in Overcrowding Claim Against Florida Jail The parties to a class action suit filed by prisoners at Florida’s St. Lucie County Jail (SLCJ) have reached a settlement. The civil rights complaint alleged constitutional violations caused by overcrowding, …
Article • August 15, 2008
No Federal Right to Safe Workplace for Jail Guards by The plaintiff jail employee alleged that she was injured as a result of contamination in the jail ventilation system (raw sewage was leaking into the air supply). There is no federal constitutional right to a safe workplace. There is no …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Florida Prison Still Beset by Contaminated Water by David Reutter Despite spending millions of dollars on new wells and water treatment systems, the Martin Correctional Institution (MCI) in Indiantown, Florida is still unable to provide uncontaminated water to its 1,400 prisoners. The problem has the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) …
The Poisoned Pen of Fort Lyon Prison by Alan Prendergast Bought by the state for a dollar, Fort Lyon is rich in history, asbestos, sick prisoners and trouble. by Alan Prendergast History Lesson #1 In 1829, William Bent headed west to join his older brother in the fur business. William …
Prison Drinking Water and Wastewater Pollution Threaten Environmental Safety Nationwide by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Aging infrastructure concerns are not limited to America's highways, bridges and dams. Today, crumbling, overcrowded prisons and jails nationwide are bursting at the seams -- literally -- leaking environmentally dangerous effluents not just …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Filed under: Sewage, Water, Media, PLN Litigation
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month's cover story is on what goes in and comes out of prisons in the way of water and sewage. While a lot of attention is paid to the more dramatic effects of prison overcrowding, such as violence, inadequate medical care, prisoners sleeping …
Houston Jail Has Highest Number of Deaths in Texas: 101 by Gary Hunter Between 2001 and 2006, 101 prisoners died while in custody at Houston's Harris County Jail, more than in any other Texas county. Dallas County's jail had 70 deaths over the same period. The Harris County Jail has …
Rhode Island Pays $120,000 To Prisoner Forced To Eat Feces by Michael Rigby The State of Rhode Island has paid $120,000 to settle with a prisoner who was forced by guards to eat his own feces. While serving a six month sentence for shoplifting at the Adult Correctional Institution (ACI) …
United States Sues Georgia County Jail over Unconstitutional Medical and Living Conditions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Using its investigative powers under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) investigated conditions at the Terrell County, Georgia jail …
Summary Judgment of Eighth Amendment Claims Reversed by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed and remanded the summary judgment of a prisoner's Eighth Amendment claim. Robert DeSpain, a Wyoming state prisoner, brought a civil rights action against prison officials alleging cruel and unusual punishment in violation …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York AIDS Patient Jailed in Unsanitary Conditions Wins $1,300,000 by The Plaintiff, a 39-year-old man identified only as Jewell, was arrested by New York City police after a dispute with a tow truck driver in July of 1993. He was placed in a cell where he was exposed to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Qualified Immunity Reversed on Massachusetts Chemical Toilet Claim by The Massachusetts Court of Appeals has reversed a grant of qualified immunity to a prison warden concerning his failure to provide flush toilets to prisoners. As PLN has reported extensively, for years prisoners at the Southeastern Correctional Center (SECC) in Massachusetts …
Double Celling Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the Third circuit affirmed a district court's order, at 719 F. Supp. 126 (WD PA 1989), which held that double celling in Pennsylvania prisons violated the Eighth amendment under a "totality of conditions" analysis. The overall prison conditions consisted of dilapidated, …
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