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Article • April 15, 2009
$1.5 Million Award Against Newspaper for Defaming Indiana Police Officer by An Indiana jury has ordered The Tribune Star in Terre Haute, Indiana, to pay $1.5 million to a police officer who claimed the newspaper defamed him by stories it published. The jury’s verdict on July 28, 2004, awarded Clay …
$1.35 Million Settlement in Fatal California Police Shooting by California’s Alameda County has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit that claimed police were liable for killing a bystander to a confrontation with police for $1.35 million. Officers David Taylor and Tara Russell responded to a Dublin house on August 11, …
Article • April 15, 2009
Judge Excludes Evidence of Criminal Conduct in Prisoner Civil Rights Action by U.S. District Judge John E. Steele has granted a motion in limine in a civil rights action over the adequacy of medical care provided to a prisoner whose baby died at birth. Michelle Goebert sought to exclude evidence …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Economic Crisis Prompts Prison Closures Nationwide, but Savings (and Reforms) are Elusive by David Reutter Economic Crisis Prompts Prison Closures Nationwide, but Savings (and Reforms) are Elusive by David M. Reutter With the current economic crisis adversely affecting state tax revenues, lawmakers across the nation are seeking ways to cut …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Imprisoned Connecticut Politician Gets Special Privileges by Matthew Clarke Imprisoned Connecticut Politician Gets Special Privileges by Matt Clarke In October 2008, the Hartford Courant reported that former Connecticut State Representative Jesse G. Stratton had received special privileges from Department of Corrections officials. Stratton, a 61-year-old widow with three grown children, …
$3.1 Million Awarded to FBI Informant's Family by On October 16, 2008, the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the September 2006 findings of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in awarding approximately $3.1 million to the estate of an FBI informant, John McEntyre, who was murdered after the …
Article • February 15, 2009
Ninth Circuit Upholds Admission of Statements to Police in Phone Conversation Absent Miranda Warning by Washington State prisoner Habib Saleh sought review of his federal habeas corpus denial challenging the admission of statements made in a voluntary phone conversation he initiated at his trial for first degree murder. The court …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Welcome to Fun Day: Crime and Punishment in the United States by Marie Gottschalk Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison. By Megan Comfort. University of Chicago Press. 256 pp. $55.00 cloth. $22.00 paper. Race, Incarceration, and American Values. By Glenn C. Loury with Pamela …
Rape of Child by Former Washington DOC Director’s Son Spawns Departmental Crisis by John Dannenberg Rape of Child by Former Washington DOC Director’s Son Spawns Departmental Crisis by John E. Dannenberg The Washington State Court of Appeals has upheld the firing of the Department of Corrections’ (WDOC) chief personnel counselor …
Ex-Con Exposed – Had Posed as a Lawyer by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A former prisoner who posed as an attorney in at least 16 cases in ten federal courts since 2004 has admitted to a federal judge that he is not a lawyer and didn’t graduate from …
New Jersey Police's Negligent Duty Performance Induces City Liability by New Jersey resident Shana Massachi, estate administratrix for Sohayla Massachi, appealed her state tort suit dismissal after inadequate police procedures allegedly resulted in Sohayla's death. The dismissal was reversed because statutory immunity does not apply to negligently preformed ministerial duties …
California Police Officer's Disciplinary Records Ordered Produced In Excessive Force Case by The San Diego (California) Police Department (SDPD) sought review of an appellate court order to produce derivative information, discovered in an earlier case, regarding a police officer accused of using excessive force. The order was affirmed. Tariq Chambers …
Use of Questionable “Lie Detectors" by Law Enforcement Expands Nationwide by Matthew Clarke Use of Questionable “Lie Detectors” by Law Enforcement Expands Nationwide by Matt Clarke In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, law enforcement and other government agencies implemented new practices to obtain information from suspects …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
StopMax: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons Heats Up by Jessica Pupovac “When I left Angola,” says Robert King Wilkerson, who spent 29 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary for a crime he was later found innocent of, “I said, ‘I may be free of Angola, but …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Prison Population Continues Exponential Growth by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Two reports by the Department of Justice‘s Bureau of Justice Statistics examined the growth rate of America’s jails and prisons, which are burgeoning at a yearly pace of 2%. That growth resulted in an all-time record of 2.3 …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Sexual Abuse and Violence in Texas Prisons Eclipses National Average by Gary Hunter Citing figures issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) a preliminary report by the Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) initiative shows that Texas has five of the nation’s ten worst prisons for reported sexual violence. [SPR has …
New Jersey Fires 52 Prison Guards in 2007 by Gary Hunter Guards in New Jersey prisons have been found guilty of everything from smuggling drugs and cell phones to simply failing to show up for work. From 2005 to 2007, the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) had to fire …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
GEO Group Consultant Civilly Charged With Insider Trading by The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a civil action that alleges a consultant for private prisoner operator the GEO Group used information obtained through his contracts to engage in insider trading. Zachariah P. Zachariah, a prominent cardiologist and Republican …
Florida Jail Supervisors Investigated in Fraudulent Overtime Scheme by Florida Jail Supervisors Investigated in Fraudulent Overtime Scheme An investigation at Florida’s West Palm Beach County Jail has revealed that top-ranked officials used their positions to obtain fraudulent overtime payments. What started as an internal investigation into a deputy’s complaint has …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Justice Policy Institute Brief Links Crime, Wages and Unemployment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 1, 2007, the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, published a research brief linking crime rates to wages and unemployment levels. In general terms, JPI found that higher crime rates …
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