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Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Top Texas Judge Breaks the Law but Gets Special Treatment by Sharon Keller is the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals – the state’s highest court for criminal cases. In April 2010, Keller was fined $100,000 after it was discovered that she had failed to report a …
Filing • December 19, 2013
Prison Legal News v. Sheriff Betterton & Upshur County, TX, Agreed Final Judgment 2013 Case 2:12-cv-00699-JRG Document 98 Filed 12/19/13 Page 1 of 7 PageID #: 1583 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS MARSHALL DIVISION PRISON LEGAL NEWS, Plaintiff, v. ANTHONY BETTERTON, et al., …
Acosta v. McMillan, TX, Amended Complaint, School Tasing Causes Brain Injury, 2013 Case 1:13-­cv-­01016-­SS Document 4 Filed 12/05/13 Page 1 of 9 ! !"#$%&#'"!$&(#)$*$&)#(!)$+!,$#,-'+$# .-+#$%&#/&)$&+"#(!)$+!,$#-.#$&0*)# *')$!"#(!1!)!-"# 2*+!*#*,-)$*3#!45676589::;#945#9<#"=>?# .@6=45#AB#"(+C3#9#264A@D#945## -),*+#"!E-#(&#+!1&+*3#!45676589::;3#945#9<# "=>?#.@6=45#AB#"(+3#9#264A@3# # F:964?6BB<3# # 7C# # +*"(G#2,2!HH*"D#I*)$+-F#,-'"$GD#945# I*)$+-F#,-'"$G#!"(&F&"(&"$#),%--H# (!)$+!,$D## # (=B=4594?<C# J# # J# # J# # J# # J# # …
Brief • December 5, 2013
Acosta v. McMillan, TX, Complaint, School Tasing Causes Brain Injury, 2013 Case 1:13-­cv-­01016-­SS Document 4 Filed 12/05/13 Page 1 of 9 ! !"#$%&#'"!$&(#)$*$&)#(!)$+!,$#,-'+$# .-+#$%&#/&)$&+"#(!)$+!,$#-.#$&0*)# *')$!"#(!1!)!-"# 2*+!*#*,-)$*3#!45676589::;#945#9<#"=>?# .@6=45#AB#"(+C3#9#264A@D#945## -),*+#"!E-#(&#+!1&+*3#!45676589::;3#945#9<# "=>?#.@6=45#AB#"(+3#9#264A@3# # F:964?6BB<3# # 7C# # +*"(G#2,2!HH*"D#I*)$+-F#,-'"$GD#945# I*)$+-F#,-'"$G#!"(&F&"(&"$#),%--H# (!)$+!,$D## # (=B=4594?<C# J# # J# # J# # J# # J# # J# …
McCollum v. Livingston, TX, Brief in Support of Mot, Wrongful Death Heat, 2013 Case 4:14-cv-03253 Document 103-1 Filed in TXSD on 12/04/13 Page 1 of 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DALLAS DIVISION STEPHEN McCOLLUM, STEPHANIE KINGREY, and SANDRA McCOLLUM, individually and as heirs at law to …
Brief • November 20, 2013
McCollum v. Livingston, TX, Deposition of Owen Murray, Heat Stroke Death, 2013 · · · · · ··IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT · · · · · ··FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS · · · · · · · · · · ··DALLAS DIVISION · ·......................................................... · · …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Fifth Circuit: No Right to RDAP for Non-citizen Federal Prisoner by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held last year that a non-citizen federal prisoner had no constitutional right to participate in a substance abuse rehabilitation program that could reduce his sentence by up to a year. Ricardo Gallegos-Hernandez, a …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Texas Prison Population Drops but Savings Evaporate by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The prospects for cost savings in the operation of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), now the nation’s largest state prison system, seemed optimistic in 2011 when the state made the unprecedented decision to close a …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Prisoners in Texas Jail Providing Less Slave Labor by According to Taylor County, Texas Sheriff Les Bruce, prisoners at the county jail in Abilene are performing less free labor than in the past. Bruce allowed low-risk prisoners convicted of non-violent offenses to perform work for the county in exchange for …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Texas Judges Rarely Disciplined, Seldom Publicly by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2009, former Harris County, Texas state district judge Woodrow “Woody” Densen was caught on surveillance video keying a neighbor’s car, causing significant damage. The video received widespread media coverage. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Declining Prison Populations Leave Towns with Empty Jails, Debt by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Several Texas towns are bemoaning their bad business decision to enter into the for-profit incarceration industry as the bottom began dropping out of that market 5 or 6 years ago. Over a two-decade boom …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Texas Prison Burials Surprisingly Well Done by If a Texas state prisoner dies or is executed, relatives or friends can pick up the body. If they don’t, he or she is buried in the largest prison graveyard in the United States – the Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas. …
Mantano v. Orange County, TX, Complaint, Mental Patient Dehydrates and Dies in Jail Segregation, 2013 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS BEAUMONT DIVISION JOSHUA MONTANO, DANIEL MONTANO, KAYLYNN MONTANO, MARIA MONTANO, BONNIE WALLACE AS NEXT FRIEND OF M.A.C., A MINOR, AND JOSHUA MONTANO AS THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF …
Filing • September 30, 2013
Filed under: Injunctions
Prison Legal News v. Sheriff Betterton &amp; Upshur County, TX, Order Granting in Part Preliminary Injunction 2013 Case 2:12-cv-00699-JRG Document 59 Filed 09/30/13 Page 1 of 15 PageID #: 810 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS MARSHALL DIVISION PRISON LEGAL NEWS, Plaintiff, v. ANTHONY …
Publication • September 30, 2013
Filed under: Public Defenders
Evaluation of Harris County TX Pub. Defender Justice Center 2013 Improving Indigent Defense: Evaluation of the Harris County Public Defender S ep t emb er 3 0 , 2 0 13 Dr. Tony Fabelo Carl Reynolds Jessica Tyler Prepared by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, with the support …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Employee Disciplinary Problems Persist at Houston Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Misconduct by employees in the Harris County jail system in Houston, Texas remains persistent and problematic. A Houston Chronicle review of employee disciplinary actions from 2008 through 2010 found there was an average of 67 disciplinary cases …
Brief • August 19, 2013
Steward v. Perry, TX, Interim Settlement, Institutionalization of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Fifth Circuit Says Private Prisons Liable Under Section 1983 by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that private prison-management corporations and their employees may be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. “Billy Rosborough is a prisoner of the Bradford State Jail, a Texas prison owned and operated by…Management and …
Article • August 15, 2013
Texas Lie Detectors Go Without Effective Regulation by Texas polygraph examiners are not subject to effective regulation, according to a recent report by the Sunset Advisory Commission, which reports to the Texas Legislature. Passing a lie-detector test can be crucial to getting or keeping a job. Key to ensuring the …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Fifth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of PLN's Censorship Suit Against TDCJ by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In a rare litigation loss for Prison Legal News, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's (TDCJ) censorship of books distributed by …
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