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Article • May 15, 2007
$180 Award in Prisoner Excessive Keeplock Confinement Suit by Gregory Pratt, a prisoner at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility (SSCF) in New York, filed a pro se law suit against SSCF, for keeping him on keeplock confinement for 18 days without a hearing. On March 11, 2000, Pratt was, issued …
$135 Award in Prisoner Wrongful Confinement Suit by William Mingues (Underwood), a prisoner at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility (SSCF), filed a pro se law suit against SSCF, for wrongfully placing him in the Special Housing Unit (SHU), for an excessive amount of time. In August of 2000, Mingues, was …
Ad Seg for Death-Eligible Detainee Is Unconstitutional by A federal court in Puerto Rico held that confinement of a federal pretrial detainee in segregation solely because he faced the death penalty was unconstitutional punishment. It also held that the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, (PLRA) was inapplicable …
Exhaustion Required for Retaliatory Transfer Claim by The plaintiff complained that after he won a lawsuit for the denial of a liver transplant, he became the object of a blitz of disciplinary reports and was then transferred to a maximum security prison. The district court dismissed for nonexhaustion. The court …
Hearing Officer Not Required to Identify Favorable Witnesses by The plaintiff alleged that the tape of his disciplinary hearing was tampered with to obfuscate a favorable answer from a witness. Since no tape is required by due process, and the plaintiff got the written statement setting forth the reasons for …
Disciplinary Charges Immaterial to Criminal Trial for Same Incident by The criminal defendant was placed in administrative segregation after he was discovered to have ingested 25 balloons of marijuana. Five months later, he was indicted. He alleged that he was not given a copy of his incident report or adequate …
7th Circuit Reverses SJ Retaliatory Transfer Claims by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's grant of summary judgment to prison officials on due process and retaliatory transfer claims. The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) operates the Tamms Correctional Center (Tamms). It is the highest security IDOC …
Fed Prisoner's Five Years in Segregation During Murder Investigation Not Unconstitutional by Fed Prisoner's Five Years in Segregation During Murder Investigation Not Unconstitutional Mark Jordan, a federal prisoner, was housed in a segregation unit for five years while his involvement in a prison murder was investigated. Prison officials testified that …
Article • May 15, 2007
Segregation Prisoners Entitled to Exercise and Showers by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit modified and affirmed a district court injunction requiring that Illinois prisoners in segregation for more than 90 days receive at least five hours of outdoor exercise and three showers per week. The suit was …
Article • May 15, 2007
$4,226 Awarded in Missouri Filthy Cell Suit by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit affirmed a jury verdict of $4,226 in favor of a Missouri prisoner confined in a filthy cell. Plaintiff was confined for two years in the segregation unit of the Missouri State Penitentiary in a …
Maryland Prisoner Awarded $750 for Book Confiscation, Wrongful Segregation by A federal district court in Maryland held that Maryland prison guards had violated a prisoner's First and Fourteenth amendment rights when they wrongfully confiscated the prisoner's books, including a litigation manual. The court awarded $50 in damages for the book …
Article • May 15, 2007
$680 in Damages Awarded for Ad-Seg Placement by A federal district court in Delaware awarded a prisoner $680 in damages after the plaintiff was placed in administrative segregation for six days without due process. The plaintiff, a Delaware prisoner, was placed in ad seg after a prison riot. He was …
Paraplegic States Claim over Ad-Seg Conditions by Paraplegic States Claim Over Ad-Seg Conditions The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit affirmed in part, reversed and remanded in part, numerous claims made by a paraplegic Texas state prisoner in administrative segregation. Prior panel rulings in this case are reported at …
Article • May 15, 2007
BOP Ad-Seg Conditions on Political Prisoner Limited by Rita Brown was a member of the George Jackson Brigade (GJB), a Marxist urban guerrilla group that was active in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1970's and early 1098's. The group carried out bombings and bank robberies. Brown was imprisoned in …
Ban on Sharing Literature in Seg Unit Questioned by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit reversed and remanded the dismissal of a suit by Alabama prisoners in protective custody challenging a segregation rule prohibiting prisoners from giving anything to prisoners in the segregation unit. The court held prison …
Due Process Required for Disciplinary Segregation by A federal district court in Nevada granted partial summary judgment to a Nevada state prisoner holding that the plaintiff's right to due process was violated when he was placed in disciplinary segregation from administrative segregation without notice of the charges or a hearing …
Article • May 15, 2007
Political Beliefs Merit Control Unit Placement by The court of appeals for the District of Columbia reversed and remanded a lower court's injunction against the Bureau of Prisons that had prohibited the placement of political prisoners in a special control unit for women prisoners based solely on their political beliefs …
Jail Newspaper Ban Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that a jail ban on newspapers violates the First amendment. The appeals court reversed the trial court verdict in favor of Adams County, Mississippi, jail prisoners on the issues of laundry services, outdoor and indoor exercise …
No Qualified Immunity for Rectal Searches by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit upheld the denial of qualified immunity to Washington prison officials who bad promulgated a policy requiring that all prisoners in Intensive Management Units (IMU) be subjected to digital, rectal probes by prison medical staff. Thousands …
Article • May 15, 2007
Charges Alone Don't Justify Ad-Seg for Detainees by A federal district court in New York held that there was no reason to keep mafia boss John Gotti in ad seg pending trial solely because he was accused of witness tampering and murder. Court ordered the defendants released into the jail's …
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