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Article • May 15, 2007
Seizure Of Federal Benefits By State Unconstitutional by The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that no part of a prisoner's Social Security benefits or Veterans Administration benefits could be confiscated by the state as reimbursement for incarceration costs. After the Arkansas legislature passed the State Prison Inmate Care and Custody Reimbursement …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Fourteenth Amendment Violation Resulting From Losses During Cell Search by The U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment does not protect a prisoner's possessions and that prisoners have no reasonable expectation of privacy" in their cells. A Virginia prisoner filed suit in response to a cell search by …
Social Security Application Claims Estop Fired Jailer's ADA Claims by The U .S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, held that a former jail guard's claim, brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that he was terminated because he …
Prisoner's Damages from Civil Suit May Not Be Taken for Recovery of Incarceration by Prisoner's Damages from Civil Suit May Not Be Taken for Recovery of Incarceration Ronald Hankins (plaintiff), a prisoner at the Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP), filed a lawsuit against William Finnel (defendant), a teacher at MSP, for …
California-Based Prison Supplier Awarded $2,250,000 For Fraud, Unfair Competition by California-Based Prison Supplier Awarded $2,250,000 For Fraud, Unfair Competition On April 30, 2002, a federal jury in San Jose, California, awarded Ferguson Safety Products (FSP)--a small Santa Cruz based manufacturer of jail and prison supplies--$2,250,000 against Defendant Bob Barker Company …
Article • May 15, 2007
Eighth Circuit rules that BOP has discretion to place prisoners in IFRP by The Eight Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has the discretion to place prisoners in the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program (IFRP) when the sentencing court orders immediate payment of court-imposed fines. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Pension Fund Garnished to Satisfy Criminal Restitution Order. by A Michigan federal District Court held the government may garnish a criminal defendant's pension fund to satisfy a criminal restitution order. Both the Employee's Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1056 (d)(1), and the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U. S.C.§ …
Article • May 15, 2007
$500 Paid in WA Work release Lost Property Claim by Cynthia M. McGinnis had property stored at the Reynolds Work Release Center, and upon her return the property cage was open as were her property boxes. Stored inside were a new stereo and various clothing and personal items which were …
Article • May 15, 2007
OK Prisoner Has Right To File Civil Complaint To Enforce Property Rights by The Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Division 3, held that the Ottowa County, District Court, erred when it dismissed a prisoner's complaint citing a statute that suspends a prisoners civil rights. A prisoner serving a life …
Article • May 15, 2007
CA Supreme Court Strikes Down Prison Ban On Union Buttons by The California Supreme Court held that the Department of Corrections violated prisoners' right to freedom of speech by not allowing them to wear union lapel buttons. A California prisoner filed a habeas corpus petition against the CA DOC for …
Article • May 15, 2007
Mailing Out Property Protects Property Interest by The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit held that requiring a federal prisoner to mail out property he was not allowed to have in prison did not deprive the prisoner of his property interest in the property. The court noted that prisoners …
WA Mail Theft Whistleblower's Emotional Distress Award Vacated by A Washington Appeals Court reversed a jury's award of $4,891 for emotional distress in favor of a Washington Department of Correction's employee and dismissed the case. The employee had reported to supervisors that theft of money from prisoner's mail was occurring. …
Article • May 15, 2007
$60.00 Paid in Destroyed WA Prisoner's Property by Washington State Penitentiary prisoner Vincent L. Fields filed a tort suit in the Walla Walla Superior Court alleging negligence for the destruction or theft of unspecified personal property. Fields was placed in segregation and his property was placed in the property room. …
Article • May 15, 2007
$510.00 Awarded In Prisoner Property Loss Suit by In 2000 the New York, Court of Claims awarded $510.00 to a prisoner at the Wyoming Correctional Facility in New York for theft of his property. On 6/24/97 the prisoner's locker was broken into and his property stolen while he was at …
Private Industries Employee Liable for using Disciplinary Hearing to Secure Restitution by Private Industries Employee Liable for using Disciplinary Hearing to Secure Restitution A Kansas federal district court denied in part and granted in part a motion for summary judgment filed by defendants in a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 action …
Article • May 15, 2007
Due Process Required Before Prisoners' Wages Seized by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that prisoners are entitled to due process before their wages are seized and prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity for seizing prisoners' wages without due process. The court also upheld denial …
Article • May 15, 2007
WA Restitution Statue Amendments Retroactive by The Washington Supreme Court reversed a Superior Court's order that held the 1994 and 1997 amendments to RCW 9.94A.142 violate ex post facto as applied; to defendant convicted of 16 Counts of arson in 1986 Pursuant to the amendments the State moved the Superior …
Article • May 15, 2007
$194.50 Awarded To Prisoner in Loss of Property Suit by Stephen Grant, a prisoner at the Gowanda Correctional Facility (GCF), filed a pro se law suit against GCF, for depriving him of certain privileges and for the loss of his personal property. In September 1996, Grant, was placed in the …
Soverign Immunity Bars Prisoners ADA Damage Claim by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner is not entitled to bring a claim for damages in a suit under Title II of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). This lawsuit was brought by New Jersey prisoner Oliver …
Article • May 15, 2007
OH Prison Guards Liable for Destroying Prisoner's TV by Anthony Mayfield, a state prisoner, exchanged his personal 11-year-old television for one owned by the prison that worked better. Guards destroyed Mayfield's TV without documented authorization. Mayfield filed a negligence claim against the guards in the Court of Claims of Ohio. …
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