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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 …
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
Florida Jury Awards $390,000 Over Defective Prison-Produced Chair by A Pinellas County (Florida) jury found that an office chair assembled by the Florida DOC's prison industries was defective, and the proximate cause of a state office worker's injuries. The jury awarded the woman $390,000 in damages; however, the recovery was …
Florida PLN Writer Settles Retaliation Suit for $3,000 by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A 42 U. S. C. § 1983 action filed in a Florida State Court alleging retaliatory job changes for the filing of grievances and lawsuits that challenged the general living conditions at Glades Correctional Institution …
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
Prison Labor Losing Popularity in Oregon by Gary Hunter Since the 19th century prisoners in Oregon have literally labored under a policy that insisted prisoners should work as hard as taxpayers. But the prevailing philosophy is falling prey to fiscal realities. Oregon's evaporating economy has enhanced employment concerns among its …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
Filed under: Reviews, Work, Prison Industries
Gender and Incarceration: How Men and Women Experience Life Behind Bars by Silja JA Talvi Gender and Incarceration: How Men and Women Experience Life Behind Bars Reviews by Silja J.A. Talvi Prison Masculinities, edited by Don Sabo, Terry A. Kupers, and Willie London. Temple University Press, Philadelphia: 2001. Counseling Female …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Jury Awards $20,000 to Nurse Stuck by Needle from HIV Positive Prisoner by On November 26, 2003, a Massachusetts jury awarded a nurse at a medical center, which treated prisoners from a nearby Worcester County prison, $20,000 for emotional distress that resulted from being stuck by a needle from an …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Mismanaged, Money-Losing Folsom City Prison Closed by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Faced with losing $1.4 million in the following year, the City of Folsom, California, closed its 14 year-old, 380 bed minimum security prison and laid off most of the 70 city workers on June 30, 2003. …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Prison Labor, Organizing, Voting
Democratic Organization Gives Some Felons Second Chance by America Coming Together (ACT)--a democratic group working to ensure that George W. Bush is not reelected--is employing felons to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in Missouri, Florida, Ohio, and possibly 14 other states crucial to the November 2004 elections. ACT contends that …
$90,169 Plus Injunction in California Retaliation Suit by by John E. Dannenberg In a jailhouse lawyer retaliation suit where both expungement of prison records and $9,000 in damages were awarded, the US District Court (E.D. Calif.) awarded $2,000 for expenses, $8,447 in costs and $70,812 in attorney fees because the …
Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003
Washington Jail Settles Work Release Suit by Lonnie Burton On April 25, 2002, United States District Judge Barbara J. Rothstein approved a settlement agreement reached between the King County Jail in Kent, Washington, and a class of female prisoners who had sued alleging discriminatory practices in relation to access to …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
FLSA Inapplicable to Oklahoma Prisoners in Private Prisons by An Oklahoma appellate court held that the Fair Labor Standards Act, (FLSA) does not apply to prisoners in private prisons. Michael Washington, a prisoner of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, (ODOC), was transferred to the Great Plains Correctional Facility, (GPCF), a …
Alabama DOC Quickly Settles Prison Working Conditions Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On January 8, 2002, a scant two months after being sued, Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) officials settled a class action complaint filed on behalf of 200 prison workers at the Elmore Correctional Facility …
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