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Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Retaliation Claim by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of an Illinois prisoner's retaliation claim. On January 17, 2003, Illinois prisoner Robert Hoskins worked in the Dixon Correctional Center (Dixon) cafeteria when Food Services Supervisor Connie Lenear called him a …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Maryland Prisons MisCalculate Half of All Prisoner Release Dates by by David M. Reutter Up to one half of all Maryland prisoners early release dates at two prisons were erroneous, concluded a report by the Maryland Office of Legislative Audits. The report declined to identify the two prisons it audited, …
Publication • November 4, 2005
Staff Safety Evaluation, California State Prison Solano, 2005 CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION Corrections Standards Authority G.'.).~:.:. 600 Bercut Drive. 8urte A : ~ .~~..:t.-::: ~ .. Sacramento, California 95814 . www.csa.ca.gov .~. ..= ~ .' d II II II II II II -II II TABLE OF CONTENTS i'\ …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
Modern Slavery In North Carolina: Another Peculiar Institution by by Michael Rigby Jean Valjean went to prison for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's seven hungry children. It was only the first of many injustices the protagonist in Victor Hugo's biting social commentary, Les Miserables, would endure. …
Article • October 15, 2005
California Auditor: Prison Industries Loses Money and Fails to Demonstrate Rehabilitative Success by by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) Prison Industry Authority (PIA) loses money in 20 of 28 enterprises it operates in CDCR prisons, provides rehabilitative work for a declining number of prisoners in …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
New York Prisoner Awarded $5,250 for Prison Welding Shop Injury by On July 27, 2004, the Court of Claims in Rochester, New York, awarded Noel Atkinson, a New York state prisoner, $5,250 for past pain and suffering due to an injury he received while working in a welding shop at …
Kentucky State Auditor Blasts Prison Industries After $377K in Undeposited Payments Found in Manager’s Desk by by Matthew T. Clarke It is hard to imagine the surprise of Kentucky Correctional Industries (KCI) employees when they discovered $377,751.86 in undeposited payments in a KCI manager’s desk in April, 2004. As a …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
Alabama Prisoner Awarded $90,000 For Work-Related Eye Injury by by Michael Rigby On February 5, 2004, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) agreed to pay $90,000 to a prisoner who was refused safety glasses and later suffered an eye injury while working at a prison recycling center. Plaintiff Brian Dodd, …
Brief • July 12, 2005
Pettit v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr., Decision, inmate work injury, 2005 [Cite as Pettit v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr., 2005-Ohio-3958.] IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS OF OHIO www.cco.state.oh.us DAVID PETTIT, et al. : Plaintiffs : v. : CASE NO. 2003-11798 Judge Fred J. Shoemaker DECISION DEPARTMENT …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Georgia Sheriffs Illegally Profit From Captive Workforce by by Michael Rigby The great thing about being a county's top lawman is having a cadre of free labor for your own personal use. Or so many Georgia sheriffs think. Although it is a felony under state law to use prisoner labor …
Failure to Protect from HIV-Positive Prisoner Negates Qualified Immunity Defense by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prison officials are not entitled to qualified immunity in a civil rights action filed by three prisoners at South Dakota's Mike Durfee State Prison. The prisoners alleged that prison officials …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Noncompliance With South Carolina Prevailing Wage Statute Grievable by by Michael Rigby The South Carolina Supreme Court upheld the decisions of two circuit courts regarding the application of South Carolina's Prevailing Wage statute to prisoners. South Carolina's prevailing wage statute, S.C. Code Ann. 24-3-40, -410, -430 (Supp. 2002), requires the …
Texas State Equipment and Employees Used for Private Prison Labor Lobbying by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Republican State Representative Ray Allen of Grand Prairie, Texas, Chairman of the Texas House Corrections Committee, has been using his state employees and state equipment to operate a private firm that specializes …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
South Carolina Prison Officials Cheat Charity, Attempt Coverup by South Carolina Prison Officials Cheat Charity, Attempt Coverup by Michael Rigby Officials at South Carolina's Lieber Correctional Institution (LCI) were supposed to be supplying free prison labor to a charity that builds portable housing for the elderly. Instead, they were stealing …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
New York Prisoner Awarded $105,000 for Shoulder Injury by New York Prisoner Awarded $105,000 For Shoulder Injury On December 15, 2003, a court of claims in Syracuse, New York, awarded $105,000 plus interest to a state prisoner who suffered a torn rotator cuff as the result of a construction accident. …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
South Carolina Prison Industry Program Problematic, Audit Finds by Michael Rigby South Carolina Prison Industry Program Problematic, Audit Finds by Michael Rigby The prison industries program of the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) is improperly managed, likely displaces workers in the surrounding community, and creates an unfair advantage in …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Florida's Private Prison Industry Corporation Under Siege by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As early as 1980, drugstore mogul Jack Eckerd was convinced a private company could provide higher profits to Florida if it ran the state's Prison Industries. After Eckerd's lobbying of the Florida Legislature, that Legislature enacted …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Don't Build It Here - The Hype Versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment by Clayton Mosher Don't Build it Here - The Hype Versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment by Clayton Mosher, Gregory Hooks, and Peter Wood Fueled by the war on drugs, Draconian sentencing policies, …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Washington Prison's Water System and Meat Contaminated With Feces by Roger Smith On August 20, 2004, fecal coliform and E. coli were found in the water system at the McNeil Island Correction Center (MICC) near Steilacoom, Washington. E. coli was also found in about 6,000 pounds of ground beef produced …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Qualified Immunity Denied to Supervising Driver's License Examiner in Oklahoma Prisoner's Rape by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a state driver's license examiner who exercised supervisory control over a prisoner acted as a state actor and can be held liable …
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