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$850,000 Settlement in LA County Jail Failure to Medicate Wrongful Death by The County of Los Angeles (LA), California settled a wrongful death claim on March 14, 2003 brought by the wife of an LA County Jail prisoner who died 2 ½ days after incarceration in August, 1999 because he …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
Prison Labor Fuels American War Machine by Ian Urbina On April 16, 2003, George W. Bush visited the shop floor at the Boeing plant in St. Louis, Missouri. His 90-minute appearance drew several hundred men and women who help make the military's $48 million F-18 Hornet fighters, 36 of which …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
Alabama Highway Labor Kills Three Prisoners, Three More Injured by In a sudden surge of mayhem, three Alabama prisoners were killed in separate incidents and three more were injured. Prisoner highway labor was temporarily suspended. On April 11, 2003, Dairron Clark, 33, was struck and killed by a minivan on …
Widespread Prisoner Labor Abuse Requires Reform by Gary Hunter Lonoke Mayor Thomas Privett and police Chief Jay Campbell were caught abusing the state's prisoner work program. Arkansas Department of Corrections requested, in early August 2005, that the program be suspended after learning that state prisoners had been used to repair …
Article • December 15, 2003
Australia Fined $42,500 for Prisoner Work Injury by Australia's Department of Justice was fined $42,500 and ordered to pay $4,870 in costs after pleading guilty to violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act, causing a prisoner severe injury. Maximum security prisoner Justin Adams had three fingers amputated and his right …
Inmate Compensation Program Applies to Federal Pretrial Detainees by Inmate Compensation Program Applies to Federal Pretrial Detainees, Is Exclusive Remedy for Work-Related Injury The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Inmate Compensation Program (ICP) at 18 U.S.C. § 4126(c) applies to pretrial federal detainees. Leo Paschal was a …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
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Cheap Mexican Prison Labor Exploited by U.S. Firms by Even with U.S. laws prohibiting the importation of commodities produced with prison labor, prison officials in northern Mexico report that prisoners there are making furniture headed for Texas. Moreover, they're pursuing more contracts with American companies to produce a variety of …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Eight Washington Prison Premises Liabilities Claims Settled for $35,058 by Premises liabilities claims by injured Washington state prisoners and visitors were settled in eight unrelated claims totaling $35,058 over a two year period in 2001 and 2002. Pro per Walla Walla State Penitentiary prisoner Marcus Ogans filed a 42 U.S.C. …
Washington Retaliation Suit Settled for $2,500 by On February 27, 2002, the Washington DOC settled a prisoner claim of retaliation for his having filed a grievance and a lawsuit, for $2,500. Airway Heights Correctional Center prisoner Douglas Gallagher was employed in the food factory production facility on a day when …
California Taxpayer Action Forces Private Employer to Pay Prisoners Prevailing Wages by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Under California Code of Civil Procedure §526a, a private citizen taxpayer may bring an action to compel an officer or agent of a municipality to restrain him from wasteful or injurious …
Receipt of Federal Funds Waives Eleventh Amendment Immunity for Rehabilitation Act by The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed in part and reversed in part a Pennsylvania Federal District Court's grant of summary judgment to state defendants in a prison employee's claim involving the Rehabilitation Act (RA) and …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Diagnosis, Not Exposure, Triggers Limitation Period in HCV Action by The Iowa Supreme Court held in a workers compensation case that the statute of limitations in a hepatitis C exposure case begins to run on the date of diagnosis, rather than the date of exposure. On October 2, 1990, Diane …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Washington State's Changes to Good Time Laws Benefit Few by Lonnie Burton On May 20, 2003, Washington state governor Gary Locke signed into law Senate Bill 5990, which works numerous changes to the amount of good time prisoners in the state can receive. The new law, passed by 43-4 and …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
$3.2 Million Awarded to New York Jail Prisoner in Work Accident by On October 18, 2002, a Queens county, New York, jury awarded Ronald York, a 21 year old prisoner at the New York City jail on Riker's Island, $3.2 million in damages as compensation for a work injury. Ronald …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Arizona Prisoner Entitled to Workers' Compensation Payments During Period of Incarceration by The Arizona Court of Appeals held that a prisoner may collect workers' compensation benefits during his term of imprisonment, despite a 1997 state statute prohibiting workers' compensation payments "during the period of time that [a claimant] has . …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton Federal Prisoners Enlisted for Dangerous Computer Refurbishing by Lonnie Burton In February 2002, it was announced that prisoners at a new federal prison in California will soon be partnering with companies such as Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard in a program …
America's Prisons Turn a Blind Eye to HCV Epidemic by Mark Wilson The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an insidious and relentless disease which is highly unpredictable and eventually fatal. It is a chronic disease which is the leading cause of cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer which causes an …
Wichita Kansas Pays $6.2 Million to Settle Detainees' Lawsuit by Wichita Kansas Pays $6.2 Million to Settle Detainees' Lawsuit On May 7, 2002, Wichita's City Council approved $6.2 million to be awarded to the 7,000 citizens who had their 14th Amendment rights violated. The suit filed by what the city …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Washington Prisoner L & I Statutes Struck Down by Washington Prisoner L & I Statutes Struck Down The Washington Supreme Court struck down a statutory scheme which denies labor and industries benefits to state prisoners with life sentences and no dependents. RCW 51.32.040(3) and 72.60.102 were declared unconstitutional. because they …
Injury Report Satisfies Texas Tort Claims Actual Notice Requirement by by Matthew T. Clarke A Texas state court of appeals has ruled that the safety investigation and accident report of an accident in which a prisoner was injured gave the prison system actual notice of the prisoner's claim as required …
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