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Bloated Prison Budget Fuels California's Degenerative Incarceration Spiral by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg California's $5.3 billion prison spending plan was shaved only a miniscule $35 million in the August 2, 2003 $100 billion annual state budget - a "budget" that is admittedly $38.2 billion out of balance …
Washington Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Negligent Parole Supervision Claim by The Washington State Supreme Court upheld a trial court's judgment for the State in a negligent parole supervision case, brought by a woman who was abducted and raped by a paroled sex offender. In 1993, Byron Schref was paroled …
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
$4.47 Million in Washington Negligent Supervision Settlements and Verdicts by Washington State recently settled or was found liable in three separate law suits alleging that it negligently supervised probationers or parolees. Negligent supervision cases are not new in Washington. Since 2000, the State either settled or was ordered to pay …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Son of Sam II Law Enacted in California by Son Of Sam II Law Enacted in California In a legislative move designed to circumvent a recent California Supreme Court ruling holding that California's "Son of Sam" law (which prohibited prisoners from profiting from their crime stories) was unconstitutional, Senate Bill …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
California's "Son of Sam" Law Held Unconstitutional by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The California Supreme Court overturned the state law confiscating a convicted felon's profits derived from any form of expressive material that recounted the exploits connected with his/her conviction. Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
New York's Revised "Son of Sam" Law Leads to $100 Million Verdict Against Cop Killer by Lonnie Burton New York's Revised "Son of Sam" Law Leads to $100 Million Verdict Against Cop Killer by Lonnie Burton The 2001 revisions to New York's so-called "Son of Sam" law, which now allows …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Advocacy Groups Challenge Arizona Internet Communications Ban by On July 18, 2002, the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty(CCADP), Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty(CUADP) and Stop Prisoner Rape(SPR), filed a federal law suit against Terry L. Stewart Director of the Arizona Department Of Corrections(ADOC) pursuant to 42 …
Ex-Ohio Sheriff's Deputy Wins $650,000 Verdict Against CMS for Prisoner Escape by Franklin County (Ohio) prisoner Alva Campbell was escorted to court in April 1997 while in his wheelchair, unable to walk. He was not handcuffed or otherwise restrained and was being guarded only by then-Franklin County Deputy Sheriff M. …
Montana Supreme Court Upholds Refusal to Seal Settlement Agreement by The Montana Supreme Court held that prevailing party did not establish that privacy rights of parties outweighed the public's right to know what costs it incurred in a settlement agreement. Steve Pengra brought suit against Montana, contending that the State's …
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
New York Court Limits "Son of Sam" Law by New York Court Limits "Son of Sam" Law A New York appellate court affirmed a trial court ruling that, absent a state felony conviction and a complaint by the victim, the Crime Victims Board lacked authority to compel criminals to forfeit …
New York Expands "Son of Sam" Law Giving Crime Victims More "Clout" by Lonnie Burton New York Expands "Son of Sam" Law Giving Crime Victims More "Clout" by Lonnie Burton In June 2001, the State of New York amended its socalled "Son of Sam" law to allow crime victims to …
Washington DOC Suffers Yet Another Multi-Million Dollar Negligent Supervision Settlement by Lonnie Burton On May 16, 2001, the State of Washington and King County agreed to pay $5.5 million to the family of a man stabbed to death by a mentally ill man who was mistakenly released from the King …
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
Missouri and Benetton Settle Lawsuit Over Death Row Advertisements by On June 15, 2001, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon announced that Italian clothes making company Benetton had agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the state of Missouri by paying $50,000 to a victims compensation fund. In February 2000, Nixon …
Washington DOC Hit with almost $50 Million in Verdicts and Settlements in Parole Victim Suits by Paul Wright In a four-month period between September, 2000 and January, 2001, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) was hit with separate jury verdicts for $22.4 and $15 million and settled two additional cases …
Closing Washington's Window of Parole Liability by Paul Wright In addition to almost $50 million in settlements and verdicts assessed against the Washington DOC in recent months, the Washington DOC has paid an additional $20.6 million to settle 25 parole liability cases and pay one jury verdict since 1994. Apparently, …
Fired Washington Parole Officer Wins $250,000 Settlement by Washington state parole officer Barbara A. Nelson was fired in 1998 after the state was hit for more than $6.4 million to pay off lawsuits alleging negligence for her failure to property supervise parolees. Three men whose cases Nelson handled killed three …
Article • November 15, 2000 • from PLN November, 2000
Reconsidering Restorative Justice: The Corruption of Benevolence Revisited? by A A Condensed by David Rhys Adapted from an article by Sharon Levrant, Francis T. Cullen, Betsy Fulton and John F. Wozniak which appeared in the journal Crime & Delinquency, Vol. 45 No. 1, January 1999. Three decades have passed since …
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Washington Prison Slavery Runs Competitors Out of Business by Paul Wright PLN has extensively reported that, contrary to the claims of its supporters, prison slave labor has historically cost free world workers their jobs and eliminated businesses who are unable to compete with prison slave wages. Prison slave labor also …
Oregon DOC Liable for Attacks by Parolees by The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a trial court judgment against the Department of Corrections (DOC), concluding that violent crimes committed by a parolee were a reasonably foreseeable consequence of inadequate parole supervision. In 1984, Cal Brown was convicted of assaulting an …
Washington Municipalities Liable for Attacks by Probationers by The Washington state Supreme Court held that municipalities have a duty to protect others from reasonably foreseeable harm resulting from the dangerous propensities of probationers and pretrial releasees under their supervision. In 1990 Barry Krantz raped a 6 year old little girl …
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