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Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
UTMB Challenges Texas State Audit, while Legislature Imposes $100 Prisoner Health Care Co-Pay by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) has challenged the findings of a state audit of the prisoner health care services it provides. The challenged audit reported that UTMB …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
North Dakota Farmers Help Flush Out Escaped Florida Sex Offender by A Florida prisoner picked the wrong state when he fled from a private transport van and ran into a 310-acre corn field. “This is unique in the sense that, God bless North Dakota, we bring everybody together to solve …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Oregon Adopts 5% Prison Trust Fund Account “Service Fee” by Tasked with cutting $28 million from its massive $1.36 billion budget, Oregon prison officials had to look under every couch cushion for loose change. That means they once again turned their focus to prisoners and their loved ones, who present …
New Hampshire Court Invalidates City’s Sex Offender Residency Ordinance by A New Hampshire Superior Court has invalidated a local ordinance that prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of a school, day care center, playground, athletic field, public beach or ski area, finding that it violated the Equal Protection …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Fourth Circuit Upholds North Carolina Sheriff’s Bribery Conviction by On November 7, 2011, former Buncombe County, North Carolina Sheriff Bobby Lee Medford’s conviction on federal bribery and conspiracy charges was upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision highlighted a scheme in which Medford and his co-conspirators misused …
Texas Compensates Exonerees Unequally by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A succession of laws, cumulating in the most generous compensation package for wrongly convicted prisoners in the nation, has left Texas exonerees stuck at different levels of compensation depending on when they were proven innocent. Consequently, some earlier exonerees now …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Criminal Law in a Nutshell, 5th Ed., by Arnold H. Loewy (West Law School, 2009). 387 pages, $38.00 by John Dannenberg Book review by John E. Dannenberg Loewy, a law professor, warns his students not to substitute reading this book for doing the hard work of mastering course material in …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
Former Delaware Prisoner Settles Sexual Assault Suit for $287,500 and Policy Changes by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna and Brandon Sample Former Delaware state prisoner Michelle Bloothoofd has settled a federal lawsuit filed against the Delaware Department of Correction (DOC), the Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution (BWCI), Warden Patrick Ryan, guard …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Interview with Conrad Black, Former Federal Prisoner and Millionaire Media Magnate by Paul Wright “I never ask for mercy and seek no one’s sympathy. I would never, as was once needlessly feared in this court, be a fugitive from justice in this country, only a seeker of it.” – Conrad …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s cover story continues our series of interviews with some of the more prominent survivors of the American criminal justice system (for our first interview with former prisoner and famous movie actor Danny Trejo, see the August 2011 issue of PLN). Prior to …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Birthing Behind Bars: A Campaign for Reproductive Justice in Prisons by Victoria Law by Victoria Law and Tina Reynolds “I never thought of advocating outside of prison. I just wanted to have some semblance of a normal life once I was released,” stated Tina Reynolds, a mother and formerly incarcerated …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Ex-Warden’s Wife Sentenced to One Year for Assisting Prisoner’s Escape by On November 7, 2011, the wife of a former Oklahoma warden was sentenced to one year in prison for helping a prisoner escape 17 years earlier. Bobbi L. Parker, 49, was married to Randy Parker, assistant warden at the …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Prisoner Medical Care Costs Oregon Taxpayers Over $100 Million Annually by As of July 1, 2011, the first day of Oregon’s most recent budget cycle, the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) had a population of just over 14,000 prisoners and a shiny new $1.36 billion budget for the 2011-2013 biennium. …
Habeas Hints: 2012 Supreme Court Habeas Highlights: Plea Bargaining Cases by Kent A. Russell by Kent Russell This column provides “habeas hints” to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys (“in pro per”). The focus of the column is on “AEDPA” (Antiterrorism and Effective …
PHS Hit with $312,000 Verdict for Inadequate Care of Pennsylvania Prisoner by PHS Hit with $312,000 Verdict for Inadequate Care of Pennsylvania Prisoner On February 17, 2012, a Pennsylvania state jury slapped Prison Health Services (PHS) with a $400,000 verdict for inadequate medical care of a prisoner at State Correctional …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Ventura County, California Settles Wrongful Arrest Class-action Suit for $350,000 by In September 2011, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office (VCSO) agreed to settle a class-action civil rights lawsuit alleging that innocent people had been jailed when VCSO officials failed and/or refused to use readily available technological means (such as fingerprint …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
$657,670 Settlement in Ohio Juvenile Facility Class-action Suit by Less than a year after the filing of a federal civil rights class-action, a settlement was reached in the lawsuit, which challenged conditions of confinement at the Washington County Juvenile Center (WCJC) in Marietta, Ohio. In October 2011, the parties to …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
$93,000 Settlement for Georgia State Prisoners Beaten by Guards by The Georgia Department of Corrections has paid $93,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by four state prisoners who were subjected to retaliatory beatings by guards at Hays State Prison. At approximately 2:00 p.m. on August 12, 2010, the plaintiff …
Iowa SOTP Requirement Does Not Violate Fifth Amendment by The Iowa Supreme Court has held that prison officials do not violate the Fifth Amendment by depriving convicted sex offenders of earned-time sentence reductions when they refuse to participate in a sex offender treatment program (SOTP) that requires them to admit …
Bureau of Prisons Houses More “Terrorists” than Guantanamo by Derek Gilna According to the New York Times, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) confines more than twice as many prisoners for “terrorism-related” offenses than the controversial and oft-maligned U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “As of October 1, …
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