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Washington Appeals Court Denies Prisoner's Prison Account Funds Suit by The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington has upheld the state superior court's grant of summary judgment in which James A. Boyd had challenged the authority of Washington State to deduct funds from his prison account for an …
Seventh Circuit Affirms Imprisonment Does Not Promote Correction and Rehabilitation by Derek Gilna The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the above-guidelines sentence wherein the sentencing judge stated he wanted the defendant to "get mental health treatment." In so ruling, the Seventh Circuit followed the case of Tapia v. United …
Article • March 15, 2013
Idaho Supreme Court Denies Bail Bondsmen Damage Claims by Derek Gilna In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho has ruled against Allied Bail Bonds, Inc., who had appealed a lower state court decision denying it relief for several claims, including the alleged breach of a …
Article • March 15, 2013
Seventh Circuit Rules for State Officials in Prisoner Medical Co-pay Dispute by Derek Gilna The Seventh Circuit has upheld the district court dismissal of prisoner Peter Poole III’s complaint again the Big Muddy River Correctional Center in downstate Illinois over its refusal to waive what he felt was an unnecessary …
Article • March 15, 2013
Sixth Circuit Remands Wrongful Death Case to Reduce Punitive Damage Award by Derek Gilna Dorothy V. Freudeman was an elderly lady in poor health who was a resident of the Landing of Canton, (Ohio), an assisted living facility. While there she was apparently mistakenly given anti-diabetic medication, which resulted in …
Article • March 15, 2013
South Carolina Prisoner's Case Dismissed Under Three Strikes Rule of PLRA by Derek Gilna Prisoner James G. Blakely, according to the decision, “has pursued over forty cases in federal district court, ten appeals in this Court, and numerous suits in state court.” The case before the Fourth Circuit Court of …
Article • March 15, 2013
Filed under: Media, Censorship
NAACP Sues over Censorship of Criminal Justice Reform Ad by The NAACP has partnered with the ACLU of Pennsylvania to sue the city of Philadelphia, charging its rejection of an advertisement promoting criminal justice reform to appear at the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) violates the First Amendment. The ad was …
Article • March 15, 2013
Filed under: Private Prisons
Israeli Supreme Court: Private Prisons Violate Human Dignity by "The very existence of a prison that operates on a profit making basis reflects a lack of respect for the status of (prisoners) as human beings," the Israeli Supreme Court found in invalidating a law authorizing the country's first private prison. …
Article • March 15, 2013
Wisconsin Prisoner Injured Dismantling Horse Stalls Awarded $14,000 by On July 2, 2010, the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed an award of about $14,000 to a prisoner injured while disassembling metal horse stalls at the state fair. The award followed the trial court’s finding a state fair supervisor was negligent in …
Article • March 15, 2013
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Prepaid Telephone Credits Theft Leads to Change of Provider in Wisconsin Jail by On September 21, 2011, the Lake County, Wisconsin, Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to change the telephone service provider at the Lake County Jail from Public Communications Service (PCS) of Los Angeles to Telemate, LLC of Ontario, …
Article • March 15, 2013
California: Confidential Lifer Files Found Discarded in Dumpster Outside Prison by Mysteriously, the files of eight California prisoners serving life sentences turned up in a dumpster at a Shell gas station outside the California Men’s Colony (CMC) in San Luis Obispo. The files were found by a homeless couple looking …
Article • March 15, 2013
California: Corrections Department Donates Confiscated Cell Phones to Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Organizations by In recognition of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced plans to donate thousands of confiscated cell phones to organizations that help victims of domestic violence. In …
Article • March 15, 2013
Denial of Satanic Bible Results in $100 Settlement by Brandon Sample Yellowstone County, Montana agreed to pay $100 to settle First Amendment and RLUIPA claims brought by a prisoner who was denied a Satanic Bible. While incarcerated at the Yellowstone County Detention Facility, Jason Indreland, a practicing Satanist, requested that …
Article • March 15, 2013
California: CDCR Pays $5,000 to Settle Failure-to-Protect Suit Brought by Pre-Operative Transsexual Prisoner by In April 2010, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) signed off on a settlement agreement of $5,000 to Lorenzo Carl Paynes in exchange for a voluntary dismissal of Paynes’ federal lawsuit alleging that CDCR …
Article • March 15, 2013
Conflict of Interest Alleged in Termination of Probation Services Contract by Georgia’s Dekalb County has a $1 million contract with Judicial Correctional Services (JCS) to operate the County’s probation services. With the recommendation of his campaign manager, County CEO Burrell Ellis terminated JCS’s contract; a termination shrouded in controversy when …
LaSalle Corrections: A Family-Run Prison Firm by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Unique circumstances have combined to make northern Louisiana a prime location for private prisons, as Louisiana sheriffs can profit by letting a private company build and operate facilities that house both local prisoners and prisoners from other jurisdictions. …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright I would like to thank everyone who has donated to the Human Rights Defense Center/Prison Legal News annual fundraiser. As of mid-January 2013 we had raised a little over $29,000 of our $60,000 goal to continue the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice, and still …
Tenth Circuit: Terrorism Prisoners Lack Liberty Interest in Transfer to ADX by Derek Gilna Omar Rezaq, Mohammed Saleh, El-Sayyid Nosair and Ibrahim Elgabrowny, convicted of terrorism-related offenses and confined at the federal supermax ADX facility in Florence, Colorado, filed suit contending they had a liberty interest in “avoiding transfer without …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
The Battle to Open Prisons to Journalists by Jessica Pupovac Many states make it extremely difficult for journalists to visit their prisons, interview prisoners and report with any regularity or authority on what goes on inside America’s prison system. Take the case of Illinois. In March 2012, after hearing reports …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Two Companies Acknowledge Exporting U.S. Prisoner-Made Goods to Canada by David Reutter by David M. Reutter South Carolina-based Anderson Hardwood Floors formally announced in January 2012 that it had been violating Canadian law by exporting products partly manufactured by prisoners into Canada for the past 15 years. The announcement implicitly …
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