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Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Massachusetts Guard Accused of Throwing Feces Entitled to Workman’s Compensation by Massachusetts Guard Accused of Throwing Feces Entitled to Workman's Compensation A former Massachusetts prison guard accused of putting feces in a prisoner's cell is entitled to workman's compensation for emotional distress, the state Department of Industrial Accidents Reviewing Board …
Brief • October 12, 2007
Filed under: Employee Litigation
Madrid v. Tilton, CA, Special Masters Final Report, CDCR, Employees Investigation, 2007
CCA Pays $438,626 for Discriminatory Hiring Practices in Arizona by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest private prison operator, has agreed to pay more than $438,000 to settle allegations of discriminatory hiring practices at the company's Central Arizona Detention Center in Florence, according to a February 23, 2007 …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Maryland Closes Decrepit, Scandal-Plagued House of Correction by The dilapidated and violent relic known as the Maryland House of Correction (MHC) has finally closed. MHC?s remaining 842 prisoners were transferred on March 16, 2007. The most troublesome prisoners were moved to various federal prisons around the country; the rest were …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Guards Settle “Sick Building” Claim at Florida Jail for $495,000 by Guards Settle "Sick Building" Claim at Florida Jail for $495,000 A year after John Hauser began working at Florida's Volusia County Jail in 1991, he began getting sick. He wasn't alone. In 2003, over one-third of the jail's 300-plus …
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 …
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 …
Prison Privatization Launders Taxpayer Dollars into Political Contributions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter If you know a company is not saving you money or performing its contractual obligations, why would you continue to use that company? The normal consumer would end the relationship quickly. When it comes to …
MTC Stiffs Guards and Other Employees $169,105 by Prison guards are among the 393 employees of Management and Training Corporation (MTC), a company that shorted $169,105 in wages for work performed. MTC employs more than 2,000 workers at 24 Job Corps Centers and six prisons around the nation. The company …
Federal Court Continues To Enforce Decade-Old California Prison Guards’ “Code-Of-Silence” Ruling by Federal Court Continues To Enforce Decade-Old California Prison Guards' "Code-Of-Silence" Ruling The United States District Court (N.D. Cal.) reviewed progress on its 11-year-old federal court remedial action to eliminate a pernicious code-of-silence by prison guards (most notably at …
Illinois Administrative Remedies Exhausted When Prison Officials Lost Grievance by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that an Illinois prisoner ?took all steps necessary to exhaust? his administrative remedies when prison officials misplaced his timely grievance and did not instruct him to re-file an ?untimely grievance.? On March …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
California Prison Guards Awarded $440 Million Retroactive Pay Increase by California?s 30,000 prison guards, some 6,000 of whom pulled down over $100,000 last year, won an arbitration award on January 19, 2007 for retroactive pay increases totaling $440 million. Funding for this liability was not included in the California Department …
Jane Doe v. McKeithen, FL, Amended Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2007 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR JACKSON COUNTY, FLORIDA JANE DOE, Plaintiff, vs. Case No.:05-509-CA BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF JACKSON COUNTY, FLORIDA, W. FRANK MCKEITHEN, Sheriff of Bay County, Florida (as successor to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Arbitrator Cannot Override Rhode Island DOC Director's Discipline of Guard by The Rhode Island Supreme Court held the Director of the Department of Corrections (DOC) has the ultimate authority to impose discipline on guards and such authority cannot be overridden by an arbitrator. Guard Thomas Ryan was assigned to watch …
Oklahoma: Attacked Employee's Psychological Treatment Claim Compensable by The Supreme Court of Oklahoma held that an employee of a contract health care provider who was stabbed by a prisoner had a compensable psychological injury claim. Sandra Shivel, an employee of Wexford Health Sources (WHS), was attacked and physically injured by …
Private Prison Corporation Not Entitled to 11th Amendment or Sovereign Immunity by Private Prison Corporation Not Entitled to 11th Amendment or Sovereign Immunity The U.S. Northern District Court of Texas determined that a private operator of a state prison was not entitled to 11th Amendment and sovereign immunity. Cynthia Proctor, …
Public Employee Granted Access to Information in Personnel File by In a §1983 action, an Oregon DOC guard brought suit alleging racial discrimination. A federal district court in Oregon held that a guard is entitled to information contained in his personnel file to pursue a discrimination suit against his employer. …
Fired California Prison Guards Awarded $410,000 for Retaliation by On September 29, 1998, a California jury awarded $410,000 to two state prison guards for their retaliatory firing and ordered them reinstated to their previous positions. Plaintiffs, Bonita Weaver, a 30-year-old black female, and R. Keith Williams, a 23-year-old white male, …
Summary Judgment Against Fired Wackenhut Employee Reversed by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing a California federal district court, held that a suspended Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC) employee stated a claim for retaliation and that WCC should not have prevailed on summary judgment. WCC employee John P. Elliott, …
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