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Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
L.A. County Jail Gets $20,000 from State for Pruno-Sniffing Dogs; Inmate Welfare Funds Tapped to Mai by L.A. County Jail Gets $20,000 from State for Pruno-Sniffing Dogs; Inmate Welfare Funds Tapped to Maintain Program On September 30, 2005, the Los Angeles (L.A.) County Board of Supervisors approved a Sheriffs funding …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
Ohio Man Awarded $618,000 for Nearly 16 Years Wrongful Imprisonment by On August 15, 2005, the Ohio Court of Claims awarded $618,683.33 to a man who spent nearly 16 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. Donte L. Booker was arrested for a carjacking outside a Beachwood, …
Article • April 15, 2006 • from PLN April, 2006
Phoenix, Arizona, Settles Krone Wrongful Imprisonment Suit for $3 Million by The city of Phoenix, Arizona, will pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who spent more than a decade in prison for a murder he did not commit. The settlement, approved by the city council …
Seventh Circuit Reverses Jail Lockdown Dismissal; Day After Christmas = Legal Holiday by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district courts dismissal of a conditions of confinement suit for failure to state a claim. Female pretrial detainees of the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois, sued the jail …
Michigan Jail's Disproportionate Treatment of Women Results in $855,000 Settlement Agreement by A Michigan federal district court has approved a settlement awarding $855,000 in a class action alleging the conditions of confinement for women at the Livingston County Jail were disproportionate to that of men held at the jail. The …
New York City Jail Strip Search Suit Settles For $30 Million by by John E. Dannenberg On April 27, 2005, the City of New York agreed to settle a federal court class action 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights suit with 57,634 past misdemeanant prisoners at its city jails, paying …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Florida Awards $2 Million to Wrongfully Convicted Man by At its special session in December 2005, the Florida Legislature passed a bill to pay 44-year-old Wilton Dedge $2 million as compensation for a rape he did not commit. Dedge spent 22 years in Florida prisons for the sexual assault and …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
BOP Secret Squirrel Photo File" Suit Remanded by BOP Secret Squirrel Photo File" Suit Remanded The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has reinstated a prisoner lawsuit under the federal Privacy Act (Act) at 5 U.S.C. § 552a, et seq. The District Court for the District of Columbia …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
Appointment Of Counsel Ordered To Determine California Prisoner's Request For Post-Appeal DNA Testin by Appointment Of Counsel Ordered To Determine California Prisoner's Request For Post-Appeal DNA Testing In a case of first impression, the California Court of Appeal strictly construed Penal Code § 1405 to require that the Superior Court …
Nebraska Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Prisoners Drug Testing § 1983 Claim by Nebraska Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Prisoners Drug Testing § 1983 Claim The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed a lower courts dismissal of a prisoners 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, finding that he stated a cognizable claim for …
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
York County, Maine, Settles Class Action Strip-Search Suit for $3,300,000 by In April 2005, York County, Maine, agreed to settle for $3,300,000 a class action lawsuit alleging the county maintained an unconstitutional policy of strip-searching all pre-arraignment detainees in the York County Jail regardless of the charge against them. Plaintiffs …
Pre-Trial Defendant Released on Recognizance Is Not Subject to Warrantless Search Without Probable C by Pre-Trial Defendant Released on Recognizance Is Not Subject to Warrantless Search Without Probable Cause by John E. Dannenberg In a case of national first impression, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that when …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Habeas Hints: How to Get DNA Testing by Kent Russell This column is intended to provide 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 habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA, the 1996 habeas …
Incompetence, Brutality and Scandal Infest Tennessee Prisons and Jails by by Michael Rigby Tennessee isn't known for its huge prison system, like Texas or California. Nor is the state's capital city, Nashville, recognized for massively overcrowded jails such as the ones in Los Angeles or New York City. But one …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Massachusetts Prisoner Awarded $250,000 for Assault During Strip Search by On March 25, 2005, a federal jury awarded a Massachusetts prisoner $250,000 in damages for injuries sustained when he was assaulted by a guard during a strip search. Guards William Shugrue and a Jeffrey Padula were members all the Inner …
North Carolina Pays $43,500 to Women Strip-Searched By Prisoners by by Michael Rigby The North Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) has paid $43,500 to four women who were subjected to strip and body-cavity searches performed by other prisoners and to a fifth who was beaten when she refused to undress. …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Los Angeles County Jail Tests Prisoner Radio ID Tags by by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles (L.A.) County Sheriff's Department will spend $1.5 million to install a computerized radio ID tag system in 2006 to monitor the location of 1,900 prisoners at the Pitchess Detention Center (county jail) in …
Florida Awards Contracts Putting Sex Offenders on GPS Supervision; Other States to Follow by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has awarded three contracts for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite monitoring of sex offenders. The contracts come on the heels on legislation that allocated $3.9 million over a three-year period …
Brief • December 6, 2005
Gallagher, et al. v. San Mateo County Sheriff ‘s Office, et al, CA, Order, 2006 FIDLER v. SAN MATEO COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, No. C-04-1404 SC. (N.D. Cal. Dec 06, 2005) United States District Court, N.D. California. FIDLER v. SAN MATEO COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE No. C-04-1404 SC. (N.D. Cal. Dec 06, …
Brief • November 23, 2005
McCloud v. Fortune, FL, Plf Omnibus Memo, Unwarranted Invasive Bodily Search, 2005 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION ARNETTA McCLOUD, FREDDY McCLOUD, CYNTHIA McCLOUD, MARCUS FRASIER, BARBARA KING, BERNARD KING and CHESLEY KING, CASE NO: 4:05cv-101-RH-WCH Plaintiffs, vs. KENNETH W. FORTUNE, Sheriff of Jefferson County, in …
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