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Michigan DOC Employees Immune From State Court Damages for Raping Women Prisoners by The Michigan Court of Appeals has held that claims for monetary damages from violations of The Michigan Constitution do not exist against individual government employees. Such claims, however, may ensue for violations of Michigan's Civil Rights Act. …
Jail Policy of Cross Gender Guard Doesn’t Establish Liability in Guard Rape by The plaintiff alleged that a male guard had engaged in sex with her, taking advantage of her mental and physical state. The officer was fired and entered an Alford plea to criminal charges. A policy of "cross-gender …
Disciplinary Rule Description Rather than Title Controls by The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has held that "it is the content of what is contained under a title that is critical in most instances, not the title" of a "disciplinary rule"(DR). That ruling comes in the appeal of a …
Article • December 15, 2007
Ohio Probation Violator Entitled to Credit for Time Served in Halfway House by The Ohio Court of Appeals held that after a convicted prison guard violated his probation, he was nonetheless entitled to credit for time served earlier in a halfway house, since it amounted to "confinement." Guard Richard Holda …
California Prison Chaplain’s Sexual Harassment of Female Employee Yields $439,000 Jury Verdict by California Prison Chaplain's Sexual Harassment of Female Employee Yields $439,000 Jury Verdict A California prison employee who was sexually harassed by a Muslim chaplain was awarded $439,000. Sallie Mae Bradley was a temporary social worker at Corcoran …
MDC Brooklyn: Sex Scandal and 11 Staff Indicted for Beating Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 12, 2007, eleven guards at the federal Bureau of Prison's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York " including a captain and three lieutenants" were indicted for abusing prisoners. At …
Texas Jail Pays $200,000 to Settle Rape/Suicide Suit by Val Verde County, Texas and its contract Del Rio jail operator, GEO Group, Inc., agreed in March 2007 to pay $200,000 to the surviving family of a 23-year-old woman prisoner who, upon becoming depressed after being raped in the jail, hung …
Jail Bait - Phoenix New Times article about prisoner badly beaten in Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson Jail Bait A prisoner was nearly beaten to death behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. Was he set up by Sheriff Joe's henchmen? By Robert Nelson Published: December 26, 2002 …
Jailhouse Justice: Phoenix New Times article on failure to protect at Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson Jailhouse Justice: New evidence suggests Sheriff Joe's running his empire as if it were a Mexican prison By Robert Nelson Published: January 23, 2003 If new information in an inmate-beating case is any …
“Liberal” Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim by "Liberal" Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a New York federal district court?s dismissal of claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), finding that the court failed to "liberally" construe the …
$4 Million Settlement In Rape and Beating Death of Mentally Ill New Jersey Prisoner by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby The daughters of a mentally ill man who was raped and beaten to death by another prisoner in New Jersey's Camden County Correctional Facility (CCCF) will receive a combined $4 …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
$1,000,000 Award for Attorney’s Failure to Prosecute Prisoner’s Lawsuit by $1,000,000 Award for Attorney's Failure to Prosecute Prisoner's Lawsuit On January 4, 2006, a Boston Superior Court awarded a $1,000,000 judgment against an attorney for failing to prosecute a lawsuit on behalf of a prisoner at Massachusetts' Suffolk House of …
Sexual Abuse of Women in United States Prisons: A Modern Corollary of Slavery by Brenda Smith Sexual abuse of women in United States prisons: a modern corollary of slavery. Fordham Urban Law Journal January 1, 2006 January 1, 2006 HEADLINE: Sexual abuse of women in United States prisons: a modern …
Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts to run prisons in the United States and Canada. While the private prison industry is dominated by industry giants Corrections Corporation of America, Geo …
Erroneous Jury Instruction Nets Raped Missouri Prisoner New Civil Trial by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a jury verdict against a prisoner-plaintiff, finding that the lower court erred in responding to a jury question during deliberations. Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) prisoner Ronnie Conley was raped repeatedly by …
Six Florida Federal Prison Guards Convicted, Sentenced On Rape and Corruption Charges by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Five former prison guards convicted in federal court on criminal charges stemming from a sex-for-contraband scandal at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Tallahassee, Florida have been sentenced; four received prison …
$27,500 Settlement for Rape of Four Women Prisoners in Pittsburgh Jail by There have been settlements in four separate lawsuits involving the Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Jail. The suits alleged that seven Allegheny County Jail guards sexually assaulted four women prisoners. In May 2006, Allegheny County began settling a series of …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Texas County Jail Settles Sex Assault Suits For Undisclosed Sum by On December 22, 2006, Goliad County, Texas, agreed to settle with a prisoner who claimed she was raped by a guard at the county?s jail in September 2001. Under the agreement the county will pay a confidential amount to …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
$30,000 Settlement For Woman Raped By Missouri Jail Prisoner by In May, 2006, Jefferson County, Missouri, settled a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a female prisoner who was allegedly raped by a male prisoner a guard placed in her cell. Tracy Mundy, 24, a former Jefferson County Jail prisoner, …
Michigan Prisoner Boycotts Rape Trial, Still Acquitted by Facing a sexual assault trial of a fellow prisoner is a pretty serious felony, making one think they would want to be present during the trial. Feeling he could not get a fair trial, Charlie Lee Floyd, 46, boycotted that trial. Despite …
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