PLN v. CCA, AZ, Settlement Agreement, censorship, 2010 08/02/2010 17:18 FAX 2 3 4 5 6 7 8152833020 ~ CCA BUSINESS DEU 001/004 Daniel P. Struck, Bar #012377 Liana], Garcia, Bar #027452 JONES, SKELTON & HOCHULI, P.L.C. 2901 North Central Avenue, Suite 800 Phoenix, Arizona 85012 . Telephone: (602) 263-1700 …
Cornell Wins $19.5 Million Alaska Contract; CCA Protest Denied by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2009, Alaskan officials denied a protest filed by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which was the final hurdle before awarding Cornell Corrections of Alaska (a subsidiary of Cornell Corrections) a contract worth $19,446,000 …
Arizona State Jury Awards $275,000 for Negligent Medical Care by An Arizona State Jury awarded $275,000 in a lawsuit claiming negligence in medical care. While housed in a tent at Maricopa County Jail in December 2001, prisoner “Talbow,” a 63-year-old male with diabetes, suffered a diabetic episode. Talbow’s complaint alleged …
Arizona Sheriff to Pay $275,000 for Negligence of Jail Staff by In a complaint lodged in September 2009 by Phoenix attorney Joel B. Robbins, Esq., Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joseph Arpaio was held liable for the negligence of his staff. The Plaintiff, Jerome Talbow, was a prisoner in the Maricopa …
Indian Country Gets Stimulus Money ... to Build More Jails by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Department of Justice, through the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, has brought stimulus money to Indian reservations – awarding $224 million to build and renovate tribal jails. The funding …
The Maricopa Courthouse WAR by Terry Carter Posted Apr 1, 2010 4:45 AM CDT On Dec. 21, in the afternoon sunshine that passes for winter in Phoenix, several hundred well-dressed protesters—most of them lawyers—gathered on the Maricopa County courthouse plaza. Summoned by an e-mail from a local lawyer, they brought …
Arizona Prisoner, Abandoned in Outdoor Cage, Bakes to Death by Gary Hunter On May 19, 2009, Arizona state prisoner Marcia Powell, 48, collapsed after being left in an unshaded outdoor chain-link cage for four hours under a scorching summer sun. She later died. Temperatures at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Perryville …
District Court May Order Martinez Report, Ninth Circuit Holds by A federal district court has the discretion to order the preparation of a Martinez report, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decide. Robert Tuzon, an Arizona prisoner, sued various state prison officials alleging that (1) staff had …
Federal Court Awards $1.47 Million in Attorney Fees and Costs against Sheriff Arpaio by Last May, PLN reported that a U.S. District Court in Arizona had found that jails in Maricopa County, managed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, continued to violate the civil rights of pretrial detainees. That ruling came in …
Judge Approves Sherriff Arpaio’s Draconian Postcard-Only Mail Policy by On September 24, 2009, U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell entered summary judgment for Sheriff Joe Arpaio on a First Amendment challenge to a mail policy prohibiting prisoners from receiving incoming letters. Due to a purported rise in contraband coming through …
Goins v. Aguilar, AZ, Complaint, Conditions of Confinement, 2009 Gdkffi#§f ½UiW Document 1 Filed 12/22/09 p aae 1 0 f 2 5· Case FILED RECEIVED 2 BY LODGED COPY DEC 2 2 2009. 2 CLERK U S DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF ARIZONA DEPUTY City, Stale, Zip Code in dismissal of …
Arizona Jury Awards $125,000 to Family of Sudanese Killed By DPS Officer by In March 2009, an Arizona jury awarded $125,000 to the family of a former "lost boy" from Sudan who was brought to the United States as a teenage refugee and shot to death by a Department of …
Experts Designated and Defendants Ordered to Give Plaintiffs' Attorneys Access to Jails and Records in Maricopa County Jail Medical Suit by On January 28, 2009, a Phoenix federal judge appointed experts to evaluate medical and mental health care in the Maricopa County, Arizona jails, and assist in developing a remedial …
Arizona Jail’s Medical Failures Due to Inadequate Record Keeping, Understaffing by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Medical care for approximately 10,000 prisoners in the Maricopa County jail system is an abject failure. That may explain why the Arizona county, which is the fourth largest in the nation, has had to …
Sexton v. Richards, AZ, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2009 Doc ume nt 1 Cas e Joel B. Robbins, Esq. (011065) Ann e E. Findling, Esq. (010871) 1 2 p.l.l.c. ROBBINS & CUR TIN , . 6 301 Eas t Bethany Home Road, Suite B-1 00 · Pho enix ,Ari zon …
$500,000 Settlement for Fatal Beating of Phoenix Jail Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 3, 2009, the Maricopa County (Arizona) Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 to settle for $500,000 a lawsuit brought by survivors of a man beat to death in the Fourth Avenue Jail of the …
Violence on the Rise in Arizona Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The level of violence in Arizona prisons is increasing – at least that is the conclusion to be drawn from recent reports. In 2008 alone there were four homicides in the state’s prison system, and with …
Arizona DOC May Be Held Accountable for Not Protecting Prisoners from Asbestos by A federal magistrate judge in Arizona has recommended denying a motion for summary judgment filed by the State of Arizona in a lawsuit brought by a group of current and former prisoners. The suit was filed after …
