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Wyoming Sheriff Granted Qualified Immunity for Jail Guard’s Sexual Assault by The Wyoming Supreme Court has held that a county sheriff was improperly denied qualified immunity on claims that a guard in his employ sexually assaulted a female prisoner. While working as a jail guard in Utah, Todd Hoover underwent …
Smith v. Pope, NC, Verdict, Sexual Assault & Retaliation by Prison Superintendent, 2013 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA S. SHANE SMITH, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. EDITH T. POPE and GEORGE POPE, Defendants. 1:08-CV-00166 VERDICT We, …
Anonymous PREA Hotlines Not So Anonymous by Following a decade of delays, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards, promulgated by the U.S. Department of Justice, went into effect in August 2013. [See: PLN, September 2013, p.1]. One of the PREA rules, 115.51, states that correctional agencies “shall provide multiple …
Hell on Earth: Sexual Victimization of the Criminally Insane by David Rosen Jan Brewer is the governor of Arizona and one of her three sons, Ronald, was charged in 1989 with the sexual assault and kidnapping of a Phoenix woman. He was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and, in 1990, …
GEO Group Pulls out of Mississippi Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Last year, the GEO Group – the nation’s second-largest for-profit prison company – announced that it was pulling out of its contracts to operate three Mississippi prisons. That development came shortly after a federal court announced …
Brief • November 13, 2013
Saylor v. Nebraska, NE, Order Denying MtD, Failure to Treat PTSD, 2013 4:12-cv-03115-JFB-TDT Doc # 124 Filed: 11/13/13 Page 1 of 12 - Page ID # 959 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA JAMES SAYLOR, Plaintiff, 4:12CV3115 v. STATE OF NEBRASKA, RANDY KOHL, M.D.; DENNIS …
Publication • November 7, 2013
Testimony of Shay re Sexual Victimization of Gay Prisoners to Review Panel on Prison Rape 2013 Testimony Submitted to the Review Panel on Prison Rape Sexual Victimization of Jail Inmates with Non-Heterosexual Orientations Giovanna Shay, Professor of Law Western New England University School of Law gshay@law.wne.edu November 7, 2013 I …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Widespread Sexual Abuse Alleged at Alabama Women’s Prison by On March 4, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division launched a formal inquiry into widespread sexual abuse of female prisoners by male guards at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. The investigation was opened following …
Brief • October 15, 2013
Doe v. MDOC, MI, Complaint, Juveniles Housed with Adult Prisoners Sexually Assaulted, 2013 2:13-cv-14356-RHC-RSW Doc # 1 Filed 10/15/13 Pg 1 of 38 Pg ID 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION JOHN DOE 1; JOHN DOE 2; JOHN DOE 3; JOHN DOE 5; JOHN DOE …
J.U. V. GEO Group, NM, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2013 Case 1:13-cv-00968-KBM-LAM Document 1 Filed 10/07/13 Page 1 of 24 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO J.U. and R.S., Plaintiffs, v. THE GEO GROUP, Inc.; CORIZON, Inc.; WARDEN ERASMO BRAVO, in his individual and official …
Brief • September 16, 2013
J.O. (Oates) v. Dorsey, NM, Prelim. Settlement Agreement, Forced to Strip at Gunpoint Group Punishment, 2013 Case 1:11-cv-00254-MCA-GBW Document 139 Filed 09/16/13 Page 1 of 28 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO J.O. and ROBERT SALAZAR on behalf of themselves and a Class of …
Prison Rape Elimination Act Standards Finally in Effect, but Will They be Effective? by Alex Friedmann "Sexual abuse is not an inevitable feature of incarceration. Leadership matters because corrections administrators can create a culture within facilities that promotes safety instead of one that tolerates abuse." – National Prison Rape Elimination …
Prisoners Raped and Sexually Abused While PREA Standards Pending by As described in this issue’s cover story, in May 2012 the U.S. Department of Justice issued a final rule adopting national standards pursuant to the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). The rule was published in the Federal Register and became …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Seventh Circuit Retires “De Minimis” Standard for Use of Physical Force by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court’s application of a “de minimis harm” standard in dismissing a Wisconsin detainee’s claim that he was sexually groped. In April 2008, James Washington, Jr. was a pretrial …
Article • August 15, 2013
California: City Not Liable for Police Officer’s Sexual Assaults on Minor by In January, 2013, the California Court of Appeal held that a statute providing that a “mandated reporter” reporting suspected child abuse to specified agencies cannot be constitutionally construed to require a mandated reporter to report his or her …
Article • August 15, 2013
A Federal Prisoner Found Guilty of Making False Statements by A federal jury convicted a prisoner of making false statements against guards at a federal prison in Florida. A jury in the U.S. District Court in Miami, Florida, convicted Dalin Pico Rodriguez under Title 18, U.S.C., Section 1001 of two …
Article • August 15, 2013
Comingling of Meanest and Greenest Prisoners Ordered to Cease in Maryland Prisons by A Maryland federal district court ordered prison officials at the Maryland State Penitentiary and the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center (MRDCC) to devise an efficient classification system to identify prisoners at risk of rape, and to …
Saylor v. Nebraska, NE, 2nd Amended Complaint, PTSD Prisoner Sexual Assault, 2013 4:12-cv-03115-JFB-TDT Doc # 113 Filed: 07/18/13 Page 1 of 30 - Page ID # 750 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA JAMES SAYLOR, Plaintiff, vs. STATE OF NEBRASKA, NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, …
Former Mississippi Mayor Sent to Prison by A federal judge in Mississippi has sentenced William Grady Sims, 61, the former mayor of Walnut Grove who also served as warden of a privately-operated correctional facility, to 7 months in federal prison for telling a prisoner to lie to investigators about a …
Oklahoma Prison Employees Disciplined by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke An investigation by the Tulsa World newspaper revealed that more than 130 disciplinary actions were taken against Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) employees at men's prisons from 2009 through mid-2011. Most of the disciplined employees received a few days suspension …
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