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Article • July 15, 2008
Nurses Use of Prisoner Medical Information for Personal Reasons Merits Salary Reduction by The State of Washington Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held a temporary salary reduction as sanction for a prison nurses act of accessing a prisoner’s medical file and using the information from the file for personal reasons …
Article • July 15, 2008
Off Duty Conduct of Sexual Comments to Co-Worker Warrants Discipline, but not Termination by The State of Washington Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held that termination of a state employee for conduct occurring off-duty that adversely effects a co-workers work environment is too severe of a punishment. Before the PAB …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Record Number of Disciplinary Actions Against Texas Prison Guards by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke As previously reported in PLN, a record number of Texas prison guards have been arrested in recent years [see: PLN, May 2007, p. 26]. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has now confirmed that …
California DOC Federal Master: Continued Court Oversight Needed on “Code of Silence” by Marvin Mentor John Hagar, the Special Master assigned by the U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) to monitor the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) staff investigations and disciplinary process has opined, in an October 2007 Final …
Son of Illinois Congressman Fired, Charged With Raping Prisoners by On September 10, 2007, the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) fired Jeffery M. Rush, son of U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-IL). Jeffrey Rush, 42, who was employed as an assistant supervisor at the Fox Valley Adult Transition Center in …
Article • June 15, 2008
Evidence Fails to Support Charges of Washington State Employee; Reinstatement Ordered by The Washington State Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that an employee merited dismissal for failing to report an arrest and for pulling …
Article • June 15, 2008
Failure to Comply in the Home Assignment Resulted in Washington Employee’s Termination by The Washington State Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held that dismissal of a Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) employee was appropriate where the employee neglected his duty, was insubordinate, engaged in gross misconduct, and willfully violated WDOC …
Article • June 15, 2008
Failure to Report Absences Merits Dismissal for Washington Prison Guard by The Washington State Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has denied the appeal of a Washington Department of Corrections guard who was suspended and dismissed for repeated failures to report to work and call in his absences. Clallam Bay Corrections Center …
Article • June 15, 2008
Giving Prisoner Security Merits Dismissal of Washington Guard by The Washington State Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held that dismissal is the appropriate sanction for a guard’s willful act of giving a prisoner his state issued keys. Before the PAB was the appeal of Jevan Combs, a guard at Mc …
Montana Guards' Disciplinary Sanctions and Names Held Disclosable by Several guards at the Montana State Prison were disciplined for their behavior during a riot in which several prisoners in protective custody were killed. Numerous newspapers' requests for a copy of the report outlining the guards' discipline was granted, but the …
My Space Becomes “No Space” for Online Sex Offenders by David Reutter My Space Becomes "No Space" for Online Sex Offenders by David M. Reutter After online social networking giant MySpace.com, under pressure, disclosed on July 24, 2007 that it had purged 29,000 sex offender profiles from its website, state …
Washington Jail Prisoners Suffer from Overcrowding, Abusive Guards, Inadequate Health Care and Indifferent Politicians by Roger Smith Since the mid-1990s, Washington State jail populations have increased exponentially. Obsolete facilities built decades ago to hold a handful of prisoners are now packed like sardine tins, with as many prisoners sleeping on …
Fired California Guard’s Termination Suit Reinstated by Fired California Guard's Termination Suit Reinstated The plaintiff jailer was terminated for excessive force and mistreatment of women and minority prisoners without being allowed to see the documents on which the decision was based. He was reinstated by a state court with back …
Three Murders in Three Months at Mississippi Control Unit Lead to Improvements And New Consent Decree by "Taken as a whole, I am convinced the conditions in Unit 32 are as bad as anywhere in the whole country," observed Margaret Winter, a lawyer with the National Prison Project of the …
Meet Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Villainous Nominee for a Lifetime Judgeship by Silja JA Talvi This exclusive article was first published on Alternet, at: www.alternet.org/rights/84388 and www.alternet.org/rights/84491 By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet Posted on May 5, 2008, Printed on May 7, 2008 Editor's Note: In 2004, Estelle Richardson's lifeless and …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Privately Run Seal Beach, California Jail Closed Following Checkered Past by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg With salacious tales of murderous and thieving former guards splashed across local headlines, Seal Beach, California officials shut down their privately-run jail on June 15, 2007. The city claimed that the jail?s for-profit …
First Circuit Upholds Ex-Boston Guard’s 46-Month Prisoner-Abuse Sentence by Matthew Clarke First Circuit Upholds Ex-Boston Guard's 46-Month Prisoner-Abuse Sentence by Matthew T. Clarke The First Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a 46-month prison sentence imposed on a former guard at the Nassau Street Jail in Boston, Massachusetts for beating …
First Circuit Upholds $500,000 Award for Whistle-Blowing Boston Guard by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On March 29, 2005, the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $500,000 jury award in favor of a former guard at a Boston jail who was harassed by fellow guards after he reported …
Eighth Circuit Upholds Arkansas Jailer’s 78-Month Sentence for Brutalizing Prisoners by Eighth Circuit Upholds Arkansas Jailer's 78-Month Sentence for Brutalizing Prisoners The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the criminal conviction of an Arkansas jailer for violation of the civil rights of two prisoners whom he beat maliciously and …
Pennsylvania County Jail System Overcrowded, Under-Regulated by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Almost everyone with experience on the incarceration side of America's criminal justice system will tell you they would rather do time in prison than in a jail. The primary reason is that the overall conditions of confinement …
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