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Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
Sentence Commuted for Sexually Assaulted New Mexico Prisoner by Sentence Commuted For Sexually Assaulted New Mexico Prisoner On May 30, 2002, New Mexico governor Gary Johnson (R) commuted the sentence of Belinda Dillon, a prisoner at the New Mexico State Women's Correctional Facility. The commutation came after several guards at …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Defendants' Convenience Justifies Transfer of Venue by California Department of Corrections (CDC) defendants successfully moved to transfer the original venue of a prisoner's civil rights lawsuit to another district - based upon convenience. Lisa Williams, a prisoner at Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW) near Fresno, CA sued prison officials …
Boot Camp or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel Boot Camp Or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel On February 15, 2002, Charles Long II was arrested on murder and child abuse charges growing from the …
Girls Sue Alabama Juvenile Prison for Abuse by Five girls who were incarcerated at the Chalkville juvenile lockup in Alabama have filed a massive $171 million lawsuit against the agency that runs the jail, the Department of Youth Services (DYS). The suit charges, among other things, that the girls were …
$287,500 Awarded in Texas Jail Rape by On February 19, 2002, a federal jury in Lubbock, Texas, awarded $287,500 to a former prisoner raped in the Lamb county jail. The plaintiff, who used the pseudonym, J.L., suffers from scoliosis and brain damage. He was serving a 29-day sentence on unspecified …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Washington PDA May Be Used for Pre-Trial Discovery by The Washington State Supreme Court held that the Washington Public Disclosure Act (PDA) at RCW § 42.17 et seq, may be used as a pretrial discovery tool to obtain caserelated documents from agencies against whom parties are litigating civil cases. The …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Judge Awards $2.8 Million to Victims of CSC Texas Boot Camp Sexual Abuse by Judge Awards $2.8 million to Victims of CSC Texas Boot Camp Sexual Abuse On March 5, 2001, State District Court Judge Paul Enlow found Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) criminally liable for the actions of two former …
Criminal Guards in Texas by Four female guards were each freed from Jefferson County Jail on $6,000 bond early in January 2002 after being charged with crimes involving sex with Texas prisoners. The four women were employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) at the Mark W. Stiles …
Texas Jail Chaplain Rapes Female Prisoners by A federal district court in Texas held that genuine issues of material fact precluded summary judgment on a female prisoner's claims under 42 U.S.C Section 1983 arising from her being raped by a jail chaplain and retaliated against for speaking out about the …
Sanction for Lawyers' Exposing Secret Wackenhut Sexual Abuse Settlement Upheld by by Matthew T. Clarke The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the district court's sanctions against the prisoners' lawyers in a suit against Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC) after the lawyers revealed the terms of a secret settlement …
Hawaiian Women Prisoners File Suit Over Sex Abuse, Torture in Oklahoma Private Prison by Lonnie Burton When the State of Hawaii opted in 1998 to send its female prisoners to a privately run Oklahoma prison, it had no idea what was in store for these women. What ensued over the …
U.S. Cited for Human Rights Violations by Gary Hunter ( On May 15, 2001, at a human rights conference in Geneva, the United States was denounced for its inhumane and discriminatory practices. Amnesty International and the U.N. Committee Against Torture cited the U.S. for oppressive tactics by both public law …
Rape and Racism in Washington Prisons by The Second Division of the Court of Appeals of Washington overturned a jury verdict against the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) in which a prison sergeant sued DOC for racially discriminatory treatment against him. Geronimo Subia is a male prison sergeant of Native …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
Pennsylvania Ban on Sex Between Staff and Prisoners Struck Down by On December 10, 2001, Montgomery county court judge Marino Rossanese struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 Pennsylvania law that bans sex between prisoners and prison and jail employees. The ruling came in the case of Eileen Mayfield, 43, a …
South Carolina Guards Plead Guilty in Sex Cases by In the April 2001 issue of PLN we reported at length on a series of investigations into allegations of drug smuggling by staff, as well as sexual activity between prisoners and staff, in South Carolina prisons. The investigation was started by …
Jail Not a Dwelling Under Federal Housing Act by A federal district court in New Mexico ruled that a city jail is not a dwelling for purposes of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and granted defendants' motion for dismissal of plaintiff's claim of sexual discrimination in the provision of housing. …
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
U.S. Marshal's Conviction for Raping Prisoners Affirmed by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a United States Marshal's conviction and sentence for raping female detainees and a court security officer in a federal courthouse. As a Deputy United States Marshal, Richard Urrabazo supervised detainees in the cell block of …
Complaint Claims Texas Psychiatrist Molested Prisoner Patients by A complaint has been filed in the 87th Judicial District Court of Anderson County, Texas, alleging that John W. Goodman, M.D., a former prison psychiatrist at the Gurney Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), sexually assaulted many of his …
America's Jails: The Dungeons of the New Millenium by Sam Rutherford At any given time there are approximately 500,000 people incarcerated in the more than 3,500 city and county jails across the United States. Some of these individuals are confined while awaiting trial, others are serving relatively short sentences for …
Not Part of my Sentence: The Rape of Washington Prisoners by Silja JA Talvi Gig Harbor, Wash.: Annette Guzman-White, a 32-year-old minimum-security prisoner incarcerated on a second-degree burglary charge at the Washington Correction Center for Women (WCCW), is eager to get out of prison. It's something that could probably be …
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