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Injunction in PA Re-Arrest Class Action Reversed by The Philadelphia DA has a practice of rearresting persons whose charges have been dismissed at a preliminary hearing without seeking a prior judicial determination of probable cause. The named plaintiff was rearrested on a new charge worded identically to the first one …
Disciplinary Rule Description Rather than Title Controls by The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has held that "it is the content of what is contained under a title that is critical in most instances, not the title" of a "disciplinary rule"(DR). That ruling comes in the appeal of a …
Article • May 15, 2007
NY Prisoners Entitled to Assistant to Help Prepare Their Defenses in Tier 3 Disciplinary Hearings by NY Prisoners Entitled to Assistant to Help Prepare Their Defenses in Tier 3 Disciplinary Hearings Louis Avincola, a New York state prisoner, was infracted for fighting. At the ensuing Tier 3 disciplinary hearing the …
Exposure to Smoke, Retaliatory Discipline and Dish Washing Claims Dismissed by Complaints of "sporadic and fleeting" exposure to second hand smoke on bus rides were properly dismissed as frivolous absent "competent evidence that [the plaintiff's] intermittent exposure to smoke during bus rides was an unreasonable risk to his health." (498) …
Hearing Officer Immune in Barring Witness Questioning by The plaintiff was disciplined, on appeal the tape of the hearing was damaged and unintelligible, so the charge and incident were expunged. The officers who reported the plaintiff's conduct did not violate the plaintiff's rights. At 791: ". . . [A] correctional …
Wolff Applies to Jail Prisoner Disciplinary Hearings by At 678: "Pre-trial detainees may not be punished without due process of law. . . . A pre-trial detainee is entitled to the procedural protections of Wolff v. McDonnell . . ., before imposition of punishment for a disciplinary infraction." At 679: …
Article • May 15, 2007
State Court Ruling on Good Time Calculating Creates Liberty Interest by The defendants failed to credit the plaintiff properly for good time, even though they had obtained a decision in prior litigation with him stating the correct way of calculating it. As a result he spent six extra months in …
Assault Victims Statements Must Be Evaluated at Disciplinary Hearing by The plaintiff was convicted of assaulting another prisoner who wrote an initial statement that the plaintiff did it but then refused to testify. There was no evidence of guilt that did not derive from the victim's statement. The plaintiff's disciplinary …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Summary Judgment in NJ Control Unit Retaliation Case by The plaintiff alleged that after a Behavioral Modification Unit was discontinued, he (unlike almost everybody else there) was returned to administrative segregation. He alleged this was in response to his having filed a grievance about excessive force against another prisoner. …
Jury Finds CT Prisoner Denied Disciplinary Due Process by The plaintiff was summoned to a disciplinary hearing, got there late, and discovered it had been held without him and he had been found guilty. He asked to be heard and tried to get the hearing officer's attention; he was maced …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Disciplinary Procedures Violate Due Process, Prisoner Awarded $750 by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York held that disciplinary procedures extending prisoners' time in punitive segregation violated due process and that the prison's strip search policy violated the Fourth Amendment. Prisoners Zachary Morgan, Born-Allah, …
El Paso County Jail Conditions Unconstitutional by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed a district court's order that found conditions at Texas' El Paso County Jail were unconstitutional and ordered injunctive relief to correct the violations. The district court ordered that exercise and recreational areas be installed; prisoner diets …
Article • May 15, 2007
Federal Deportation Detainees Stage Sit-In to Protest Delayed Hearings by On September 21, 2005, 950 deportation detainees at the federal Mira Loma Detention Center in Lancaster, California refused to return to their barracks for four hours after their 7 a.m. breakfast until prison officials assured them that their concerns regarding …
Expungement, Not Rehearing, Mandated in Colorado Disciplinary Reversals by Bob Williams In an unpublished opinion, the Colorado Court of Appeals has held that expungement of a prisoner?s disciplinary record, not a rehearing, is an appropriate remedy when reversed on administrative or judicial review. Colorado prisoner Lewis Simpson was convicted of …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Ninth Circuit: California Lifers Have A Liberty Interest In Parole by Marvin Mentor The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals crushed a determined attempt by the California Board of Prison Terms (BPT-- now called the Board of Parole Hearings) to transmogrify the California Supreme Court?s decision in In re Dannenberg, …
Bureau of Prisons Begins Certifying Sexually Dangerous Persons by David Beneman BOP has a new tool authorized this summer as part of the Adam Walsh Act. BOP may now ?certify? prisoners as ?sexually dangerous persons? (SDP). Certification can occur prior to sentencing, or at any time after the commencement of …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Oklahoma Regulation Confiscating Money Order From Other Prisoner’s Family Upheld by Oklahoma Regulation Confiscating Money Order From Other Prisoner's Family Upheld The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP) regulation that allows money sent to prisoners by a person on another prisoner's visitation list to …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Vermont DOC Agrees To Stop Punishing Self-Harming Prisoners by Michael Rigby On May 18, 2006, the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) settled a class-action lawsuit by agreeing to stop punishing prisoners who harm themselves. The VDOC further agreed to implement training, retain consultants, and document the mental health assessments of …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Washington Prisoner Sues Over Bogus Disciplinary Actions; State Settles for $1,500 by The Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) has paid one of its prisoners $1,500 to dismiss a civil rights action he filed after disciplinary actions taken against him were vacated for being unlawful. Lonnie Burton is a Washington …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
5th Circuit Reverses Texas Prisoner’s Disciplinary Conviction For “Non-Existent” Offense by Michael Rigby 5th Circuit Reverses Texas Prisoner's Disciplinary Conviction For "Non-Existent" Offense by Michael Rigby The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held there was no evidence to sustain a Texas prisoner's disciplinary conviction for assaulting a guard and …
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