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Article • February 15, 2009
Civilians Replace Kitchen Guards At New York Correction Center by Nassau County (New York) Sheriff Officer's Association, Inc., and individual guards (plaintiffs), petitioned to prevent the County from replacing guards with civilian workers and supervisors in the kitchens at the Nassau County Correction Center (NCCC) pending the disposition of an …
$40,000 Settlement After BOP Employee Causes Automobile Accident by West Virginia resident Lillian Poindexter brought a federal tort action in 1997 against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and federal agent Mari Higgins after being struck by Higgins' vehicle. The $139,000 suit settled for …
$50,000 Settlement In Memphis Policeman's Training Injury by Memphis (Tennessee) policeman Michael Cockerell and his wife Linda brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1999 after he fell during an obstacle course training exercise at a federal facility. The $1,500,000 suit settled for $50,000. Cockerell was training …
Corruption in Orange County, CA Sheriff’s Department Revealed; Sheriff Resigns, Convicted on Criminal Charges by Marvin Mentor Corruption in Orange County, CA Sheriff’s Department Revealed; Sheriff Resigns, Convicted on Criminal Charges by Marvin Mentor Former Orange County, California Sheriff Michael S. Carona and many of his staff at the Theo …
TDCJ Employee Wins $1,505,000 for Texas Prison System’s Failure to Accommodate by An El Paso jury awarded $1,505,000 to a former employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) for the prison system’s failure to accommodate her severe asthma by refusing to remove automatic air fresheners from an office …
Unemployment Compensation Denied to Guard Who Failed to Stop Prisoner Assault by Unemployment Compensation Denied to Guard Who Failed to Stop Prisoner Assault The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has held that a guard who was fired for willful misconduct for failing to report the planned assault of a prisoner was …
Prisoners Exposed to Toxic Dust at UNICOR Recycling Factories by Brandon Sample Federal Prison Industries (FPI), the largest legal sweatshop in America, has jeopardized the lives and safety of untold numbers of prisoners and staff working in its recycling factories, according to a preliminary report in an investigation by the …
$885,437.24 Award for CMS Massachusetts Jail Nurse Barred for Reporting Prisoner Abuse by $885,437.24 Award for CMS Massachusetts Jail Nurse Barred for Reporting Prisoner Abuse A Massachusetts federal court awarded $885,437.24 in compensatory damages, punitive damages, costs, attorney fees and electronic litigation support fees to a Correctional Medical Services (CMS) …
Florida Prison Employees Awarded $630,000 for Subjection to Prisoner “Gunners” by Florida Prison Employees Awarded $630,000 for ?Subjection to Prisoner “Gunners” On May 15, 2008, a federal jury awarded $45,000 to each of 14 former female employees at Florida’s Martin Correctional Institution, finding the women had been subjected to lewd …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Will California’s $11 Billion Prison Outlay Survive State Budget Cuts? by Marvin Mentor As California deals with a projected $28 billion budget shortfall over the next 18 months, it remains to be seen if the requisite two-thirds of the state legislature has the political courage to make cuts to the …
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 …
Article • January 15, 2009
Virginia Guard Injured in Prison Transport Van Accident Settles for $200,000 by A Virginia State jury awarded $250,000 to a guard who was injured while driving a prisoner transport van. While transporting several prisoners, the van driven by guard Ralph P. Tolbert was hit by a car that drove out …
DC Circuit Rejects Waiver of Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) held that a patient’s communications with his therapist were privileged and not subject to discovery. The Court found that there had been no implied or express waiver of the psychotherapist-patient privilege. …
Article • January 15, 2009
California Prisoner's Misdemeanor Battery Charge Statutorily Enhanced To Felony by The California Supreme Court determined whether a state hospital prisoner was subject to felony charges under § 2684 for attacking a non confined person. Joey Watson was found to be statutorily subject to felony charges. Watson was transferred to the …
Criminal Suspect Policeman's Photo And Address Not Protected From Press by A Michigan State Policeman's wife, Dorothy Bailey, appealed her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 dismissal after Port Huron Police Department personnel revealed her and her husband's personal information to the press. The dismissal was affirmed. Bailey and her inebriated husband, …
Texas: $232,000 Settlement, $82,000 Award in Prison Employees' Discrimination Suits by In 2003 and 2004, plaintiffs in two separate lawsuits prevailed on their claims of racial discrimination against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). In the most recent lawsuit, four auditors in the Community Justice Assistance Division of TDCJ …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Filed under: Guards/Staff, Guard Unions
California Guards Union Investigated for Hiring Parolee for Office Job by California Guards Union Investigated for Hiring Parolee for Office Job In June 2008, California’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which oversees the state prison system, began investigating the prison guards union (CCPOA) for hiring a parolee as an …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Oregon Guards Wrongly Fired Win $1,000,000 by Russell Rice and Larry Lytle, both career employees of the Oregon state Department of Corrections, were fired by Superintendent Frank Thomas of the Santiam Correctional Institute in early 2004. Both had long histories of exemplary performance. But they formally complained that Thomas, who …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Too Many Prisoners, Not Enough Guards Cause Crisis in Texas by Gary Hunter The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) confirmed on January 9, 2008 that an entire wing on the Dalhart Unit was being closed indefinitely. Nearly 300 prisoners were transferred throughout the prison system because the unit had …
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