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Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Over Sexual Abuse of Female Detainees at CCA Facility in Texas by A guard at a privately-run immigration detention facility in Texas has pleaded guilty to sexually molesting numerous female immigration detainees while they were being transported to the bus station or airport for release. The facility, …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Prospect of Prison Rape Used to Deter DUIs in South Africa by Brandon Sample A South African ad campaign intended to prevent drinking and driving has garnered the ire of human rights groups. The ads – the idea of Brandhouse Beverages – show a group of men talking about the …
ICE, CCA Settle ACLU Lawsuit Regarding Health Care for Immigration Detainees by Derek Gilna A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union that alleged deficiencies in health care at the San Diego Correctional Facility (SDCF) in Otay Mesa, California has been settled, according to a December 16, 2010 press …
Doe v. Neveleff, TX, Complaint, ICE Detainee Sexual Abuse, 2011 Case 1:11-cv-00907 Document 1 Filed 10/19/11 Page 1 of 76 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS AUSTIN DIVISION SARAH DOE; KIMBERLY DOE; and RAQUEL DOE, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. …
ICE, CCA Settle ACLU Lawsuit Regarding Health Care for Immigration Detainees by Derek Gilna A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union that alleged deficiencies in health care at the San Diego Correctional Facility (SDCF) in Otay Mesa, California has been settled, according to a December 16, 2010 press …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Prisons Are Breeding Ground for Terrorists? by Mark Wilson “Prisons are often described as ‘hotbeds’ of terrorism,” but they can also become important “net contributors in the struggle against terrorism” according to a July 2010 joint study by the London-based International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence …
The Sun Never Sets On Torture in American Military Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke PLN has reported extensively on some of the issues surrounding the treatment of prisoners in the American military prisons which were set up to hold people suspected of committing or supporting terrorism. This …
Iraqi Refugee Awarded $88 Million for Torture by Iraqi Refugee Awarded $88 Million for Torture by Hussein Regime An Iraqi refugee who was detained and tortured by Saddam Hussein’s regime was awarded $88 million in 2004. In 1991, 20-year-old Abdullah K. Alkhuzai was arrested by the Iraqi government following a …
Article • September 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit: No § 1983 Private Right Of Action Accrues From Failure To Notify Alien Prisoner’s Consulate by Ninth Circuit: No § 1983 Private Right of Action Accrues from Failure to Notify Foreign National Prisoner’s Consulate by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a …
State Secrets Doctrine Requires Dismissal of Suit Involving CIA Torture Flights by On September 8, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held the “valid assertion of the state secrets privilege” warranted dismissal of a lawsuit filed by suspects apprehended as part of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. The suit …
New Allegations of Widespread Prisoner Abuse in Iraq Emerge As Abu Ghraib Soldiers Sentenced; Abu Ghraib General Writes Book by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke PLN has previously reported the abuse of prisoners in American military prisons in Iraq. [PLN June 2004, p. 1; Nov. 2004, p. 36; Dec. …
California Federal Court Refuses to Dissolve Most of Orantes Injunction by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke On July 23, 2007, a federal district court in California issued an opinion declining to dissolve the injunction issued in Orantes-Hernandez v. Meese, 685 F.Supp. 1488 (C.D.CA 1988), 919 F.2d 549 (9th Cir. 1990), …
Article • July 15, 2011
California: Appellate Disentitlement Doctrine Not Applicable To Defendant Deported By ICE by Michael Brodheim By Michael Brodheim The California Court of Appeal has held that appellate disentitlement, a reviewing court’s inherent power to dismiss an appeal by a party who has refused to comply with a court’s orders, does not …
Article • July 15, 2011
No Right to Compensation for Work in Prison under the Constitution or International Law by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample Federal prisoners do not have a right to be compensated for their work under the U.S. Constitution or under international law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit …
Fire at Overcrowded Chilean Prison Kills Over 80 Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke At around 5:30 a.m. on December 8, 2010, prisoners set fire to mattresses, blankets and clothing during a fight at the San Miguel prison in Santiago, Chile. The fire grew, killing at least 81 prisoners …
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
U.S. Deportations Set Record in 2010 by Derek Gilna According to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano in an October 2010 statement, the United States set a record for deporting immigrants in the fiscal year that ended last September, reaching 392,862 deportations. More than half of those …
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Hopes Dashed for Criminal Defendants Facing Deportation in Virginia by Derek Gilna In an interesting development resulting from the case of Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S.Ct. 1473 (2010) [PLN, Aug. 2010, p.11], a General District Court in Loudoun County, Virginia reopened four cases involving defendants who said they would not …
Family of California Immigration Prisoner Who Died Due to Untreated Cancer Gets $3.68 Million by Brandon Sample The family of an illegal immigrant who died from untreated penile cancer was awarded $1.73 million in damages against state prison officials by a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury on November 10, …
Publication • 2011
Death Review of Detainee Irene Bamenga ICE Report 2011 Office of Professional Responsibility U.S. Department of Homeland Security 950 L’ Enfant Plaza Washington, DC 20024 DETAINEE DEATH REVIEW Case Number Detainee Alien Number Citizenship Date of Death Detention Facility Facility Type 201111495 Irene BAMENGA (b)(6), (b)(7)c France July 27, 2011 …
Mexican Prison Officials Arm and Release Prisoners for Hit Squad Duties by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Mexican prison director, Margarita Rojas Rodriguez, and three other prison employees were detained in August 2010 while their role in arming and releasing prisoners to kill rival gang members was investigated. [See: …
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