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Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009
Sheriff and Guards Indicted: Sex, Misconduct and Contraband Scandal at Texas Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 27, 2009, a grand jury in Montague County, Texas returned a 106-count indictment against former Sheriff Bill Keating and ten jail guards, four prisoners and two other people in connection …
Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009
Sixth Circuit Overturns $625,000 Verdict for Ohio Prisoner Sexually Abused by Guard by Brandon Sample In what one judge described as a “legal travesty,” on March 13, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned a jury verdict in favor of a prisoner who had been sexually …
Article • September 15, 2009
$9,000 Settlement for Sexual Assault by Seattle Jail Chaplain by Washington State’s King County paid $8,935.92 to settle the law suit of Terry Shanklin, who claimed he was sexually assaulted by Regional Justice Center Chaplain Warren Ungles from April 30 to May 10, 2001. Shanklin says he was coerced into …
$75,000 Settlement in Sexual Harassment Suit Against Seattle Jail by Washington’s King County paid $75,000 to settle the sexual harassment and hostile work environment lawsuit of Dolores Riganti-Curtiss. She claimed that while working at the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention from November 1997 until she was “constructively discharged” in …
Article • September 15, 2009
$18,000 Settlement in Female Guard’s Sexual Assault on Male Juvenile by Washington State’s King County paid $18,000 to settle the civil rights suit by Jose Hernandez, alleging he was sexually assaulted at the King County Youth Services Detention Facility between April 2002 and May 2003. He claimed that guard Lydia …
Massachusetts Federal Court Dismisses DOC from Prisoner's Rape Suit; Amendment Allowed by On October 24, 2008, a Massachusetts federal court dismissed the claims against prison official defendants (defendants) by a former Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner who allegedly had between 50 and 100 sexual encounters with a former guard. …
Federal Prison Guards’ Convictions Affirmed in Sex Scandal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the convictions of two guards convicted in a sex-for-contraband scheme at the Women’s Federal Correctional Institute in Tallahassee, Florida. PLN previously reported the arrests and indictments in …
Judge Not: Judges Benched for Personal Misconduct by by Gary Hunter & Alex Friedmann They decide hot-button topics ranging from abortion and racial discrimination to religious freedoms and contested elections. They can put you in prison or vindicate your civil rights. They can even sentence you to death. Who am …
Spurlock v. Townes, NM, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2009 Case 1:09-cv-00786-LH-DJS Document 1 Filed 08/12/2009 Page 1 of 12 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO HEATHER SPURLOCK, & SOPHIA CARRASCO, Plaintiff, v. No. 1:09-cv-00786 ANTHONY TOWNES & BARBARA WAGNER in their individual capacities, & CORRECTIONS …
Palton v Remley, AR, Verdict, sexual abuse, 2009 Case 5:06-cv-00198-SWW-HLJ Document 223 Filed 07/16/2009 JURY INTERROGATORIES Page 1 of 3 NOTE: Complete the following interrogatories by writing in the names required by your verdict. 1. On plaintiff Jason Palton' s claim against defendant Antonio Remley, as submitted in Jury Instruction …
Preserving the Rule of Law in America’s Jails and Prisons: The Case for Amending the Prison Litigation Reform Act by Margo Schlanger by Margo Schlanger and Giovanna Shay** Prisons and jails pose a significant challenge to the rule of law within American boundaries. As a nation, we are committed to …
ADA Routinely Violated by Prisons in the case of Deaf Prisoners by McCay Vernon, Ph.D. Over the last forty years, Congress has enacted numerous laws specifically designed to assure disabled individuals access to the programs, activities, services, public facilities and other resources available to the general population. This access was …
$500,000 Awarded to New York Prisoner Raped by Jail Guard; Vacated on Post-Trial Motion by A New York federal jury awarded a woman $500,000 in a lawsuit claiming that her constitutional rights were violated when a guard forcibly raped her. The verdict, however, found the sheriff was not guilty of …
Positive Correlation between Mental Illness and Prison Victimization by Jimmy Franks In September 2008, the Center for Behavioral Health Services & Criminal Justice Research (the Center) published its Policy Brief regarding a recent survey conducted to determine the quality of life for prisoners in New Jersey’s Department of Corrections (DOC). …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
$10,000 Verdict in Sexual Assault by Virginia Guard by On October 20, 2008, a Virginia federal jury awarded a former Pittsylvania County Jail prisoner $10,000 in a lawsuit that claimed a guard had “sexually molested, harassed, and assaulted” her. The suit alleged that jail guard Hank Hazelwood violated Sheril Ann …
Bureau of Justice Publishes Report on Sexual Misconduct at Juvenile Facilities by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report on the prevalence of sexual misconduct and violence at juvenile residential facilities. The report, entitled Sexual Violence Reported by Juvenile Correctional Authorities 2005-06, is in accordance with the Prison …
BOP Failed to Protect Female Prisoner Informant from Rape, Sexual Abuse by Guards by Brandon Sample The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was “woefully deficient” in failing to protect a female prisoner from sexual abuse by BOP guards, U.S. District Court Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga concluded in November 2008, following …
Florida and Oregon Prison Employees Face Sex Charges by On November 7, 2008, prison guard Geno Lewis Hawkins was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and the Inspector General’s Office of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) on a charge of sexual battery. In August 2008, FDLE …
An unfair prison litigation system by David C Fathi By David Fathi | August 25, 2009 IN 2004, a teenage girl incarcerated at the Illinois Youth Center in Warrenville was sexually abused by a male employee at the facility. The abuse consisted of repeated acts of oral sex and sexual …
Neal et al v. Michigan DOC, MI, Plan of Allocation - Settlement, sexually hostile prison guard sexual misconduct, 2009 STATE OF MICHIGAN IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF WASHTENAW NEAL, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 96-6986-CZ Hon. Timothy P. Connors vs. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., Defendants. …
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