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Reversal of Summary Judgment to BOP Doctor Accused of Deliberate Indifference by Brandon Sample The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reversed a grant of summary judgment to a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) doctor accused of denying a death row prisoner needed eye surgery. Arboleda Ortiz, a …
Catholic Mass and Sacraments Made Available to Louisiana’s Death Row by Officials at the Louisiana State Prison (LSP), better known as Angola, have agreed to a settlement agreement in a lawsuit alleging a prisoner’s rights were violated by the officials’ mandating of Baptist religious television to the exclusion of all …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
California Death Row Court Monitoring Discontinued by Michael Brodheim Almost thirty years after it began, federal court supervision over conditions at San Quentin’s death row – the nation’s largest, now housing 685 condemned prisoners – came to an end in April 2009. A group of death-sentenced prisoners filed suit in …
Article • October 15, 2009
Delaware Prisoners May Sue Over Secure Housing Placement Pending Sentencing by The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that three Delaware prisoners who were awaiting trial/sentencing could sue the state for having allegedly improperly housed them in a restrictive Security Housing Unit (SHU). David Stevenson and Michael Manley had …
$25,000 Award to Utah Muslim Prisoner Attacked by Death Row Prisoner Following 9/11 by A Utah federal jury awarded $25,000 to a Muslim prisoner who claimed guards set him up for a beating following the 9/11 guerrilla attacks. The oddest part of the situation is the prisoner was beat by …
Consent Decree Improving Conditions on Louisiana Death Row Terminated by A landmark 1990s consent decree improving conditions on death row has been terminated under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). In 1991, the warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of current and future …
State, Not County, Required to Pay Attorney Fees in Georgia Death Penalty Cases by On March 9, 2009, the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s order holding the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council (“Council”), in contempt for refusing to pay two defense lawyers in a death penalty case. The …
Court Halts Missouri Physician-Overseen Lethal Injection Execution; Blows Doctor’s Cover by A “secret” Missouri surgeon who has supervised 54 prisoner executions had his cover pulled and suffered immediate peer criticism, court restriction, and a media barrage. In tension were the Hippocratic Oath of doctors to sustain the life of their …
Conditions on Federal Death Row “Horrendous,” ACLU Finds by Brandon Sample The conditions of confinement on federal death row fall below minimum constitutional standards and jeopardize the lives and safety of condemned prisoners, according to an investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The results of the ACLU’s investigation …
Entire Texas Prison System Locked Down to Search for Phones; Prison Cell Phone Problem is Pandemic by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 20, 2008, Texas Governor Rick Perry placed all 112 prisons and 155,000 prisoners in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) on lockdown to search for …
Article • March 15, 2009
32 Years on Death Row by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi When William Lee Thompson committed the murder that landed him on Florida's death row, Gerald Ford was president. Thompson has now been incarcerated for almost 33 years, most of it under sentence of death. He has spent …
Article • March 15, 2009
Executing the Innocent? by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi At 7 p.m. on September 23, the state of Georgia plans to execute Troy Anthony Davis. That by itself is unremarkable; Georgia has carried out 42 executions since 1983, including two since May of this year. What makes this …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Costs for San Quentin’s Proposed New Death Row Spiral Upward by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg As delays mount, San Quentin’s proposed replacement Death Row facility is growing in cost while shrinking in size. In a June 2008 report to the Governor and Legislature, the state Auditor’s office made …
Article • January 15, 2009
Pennsylvania Prisoners Remain On Death Row After Death Sentences Vacated by Bob Williams By: Bob Williams Pennsylvania State death row prisoners appealed the dismissal of their 2005 § 1983 and mandamus complaint regarding restrictive confinement and the medical conditions it caused. Their death sentences were either vacated or overturned but …
Article • January 15, 2009
ACLU Says Federal Death Penalty Prosecutions Racially Biased by Bob Williams By: Bob Williams The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleged that racial disparities exist surrounding the implementation of the federal death penalty (FDP). They claim that United States Attorney Generals (AG) Reno, Ashcroft and Gonzales seek the FDP for …
Brief • July 14, 2008
Lancaster v. Cate, CA, Order Granting Atty Fees, Death Row Conditions, 2008 Case 3:79-cv-01630-WHA Document 1555 Filed 07/14/2008 Page 1 of 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 9 11 For the Northern District of California …
Nevada Prisoner Health Care So Atrocious, Prisoners Volunteer for Execution to Avoid Suffering by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “It is my opinion that the medical care provided at Ely State Prison amounts to the grossest possible medical malpractice, and the most shocking and callous disregard for human life …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
When Courts Get it Wrong: Clark v. Beard by Mumia Abu-Jamal by Mumia Abu Jamal When courts decide cases, the most important elements are the law, the facts and how to apply the relevant law to the facts. When courts err in any of these elements the result is usually …
Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons and Jails by David Reutter Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona's Prisons and Jails Review by David M. Reutter "There have been a couple of times that I've tried to end my life in here, but they keep reviving me and bringing me …
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 …
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