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Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Suspicionless Maine Jail Strip Searches Set for Trial; Settles for $455,000 by The court of appeals for the First circuit held that disputed fact issues required a trial to determine if a Maine jail's practice of strip-searching all arrestees was unconstitutional. Carmen Miller was arrested on a restricted warrant and …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Indiana Jail Settles Strip Search Case for $300,000 by Indiana Jail Settles Strip Search Case For $300,000 On June 6, 2000 Harrison County, Indiana, Jail officials agreed to settle a class action lawsuit involving nearly 200 people who sued in an Indiana federal district court after they were illegally strip …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Second Circuit Holds Staged Perp Walks Unconstitutional, Grants Qualified Immunity by The court of appeals for the Second Circuit has held that staged "perp walks" are unconstitional violations of an arrestee's Fourth Amendment's rights. However, the Second Circuit also held that the law was not sufficiently established in September 1995 …
New York Strip Search Punitive Damage Award Vacated by The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the award of $5 million in punitive damage award against the City of New York for an unlawful strip and body cavity search of a misdemeanant arrestee. The court held that punitive …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
New York Strip Search Suit Settled for $50 Million by On January 9, 2001, it was announced that New York City would pay $50 million to settle a class action lawsuit involving the suspicionless strip searches of some 58,000 people arrested on minor charges. For ten months in 1996 and …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Software Glitch Frees Washington Probationers by A computer error at the Washington state Department of Corrections prematurely released about 70 people from criminal supervision or restitution payments. People convicted of crimes such as robbery, drug possession and assault were suddenly freed from supervision on April 21, 2000, said DOC spokesman …
Brief • May 9, 2001
Filed under: Strip Searches
Lee v. District of Columbia, DC, Settlement, Strip Search Sex Abuse, 2001 Q, h, i'l l§;1.W .(:.u , , RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I. John Lee, Jr. S S # _ s i d i n g at the HA M L\ N S-f N. {;. …
No Qualified Immunity for Illinois Visitor Strip Searches by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that Illinois prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity from money damages for strip-searching prison visitors in the absence of any individualized suspicion that they were carrying contraband. Between 1995 and …
FTCA, Bivens Claims in Beating Suit Proceed in Bifurcated Trial by Orlando Ortiz, a pretrial detainee, brought action for use of excessive force during a pat search under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §26722680 (FTCA), and Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, …
$1.18 Million in Santa Clara Co. Sexual Assault/Harassment Suit by $1.18 Million In Santa Clara Co. Sexual Assault/Harassment Suit Female prisoners were awarded a total of $1,180,000 in damages and attorney's fees in the settlement of a suit filed against the Santa Clara County, California, Board of Supervisors and Department …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
No Qualified Immunity for Alabama Blanket Strip-Search Policy by A federal district court in Alabama held that a County Sheriff was not entitled to qualified immunity for a policy of strip-searching all jail admittees, regardless of personal circumstances. DeAngela Wilson, an 18-year-old high school student, was arrested at a drivers' …
Pubic Hair Search of Released Jail Detainee Unconstitutional by A federal district court in Alabama held that a sheriff's policy of searching prisoners' pubic hair as they were released from jail was unconstitutional. The court also held that jail officials were entitled to qualified immunity from money damages for strip …
PA Prisoner Awarded $300,000 in Guard Beating by On February 29, 2000, a federal jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania awarded Pennsylvania prisoner Raymond Pryer $300,000 in damages for a beating he suffered at the hands of prison guards. On September 27, 1990, Pryer complained that a guard at the State Correctional …
Actual Innocence--Five Days to Execution and other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted by Roger Hummel By Barry Scheck, Peter Nuefeld, and Jim Dwyer Review by Roger Hummel Since 1963, at least 381 murder convictions across the nation have been reversed because of police or prosecutorial misconduct yet not one of …
$586,000 to Settle KY Jail Strip Search Suit by On January 25, 2000, Jefferson County, Kentucky, announced it would pay $586,000 to 31 people strip searched after being booked into the Jefferson county jail on minor traffic offenses in 1993. Previously, PLN reported that Jefferson County had paid $11.5 million …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Washington Ends Prison Telemarketing by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On May 13, 1999, the Washington Department of Corrections ended its last remaining prison telemarketing program. As reported in the August, 1998, issue of PLN, prison telemarketing has had a controversial history in Washington prisons. In 1998 the Washington DOC …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Marijuana Law, 2nd Edition by Allan Parmelee By Richard Glen Boire, Ronin, 271 pages Review by Allan Parmelee This book is must reading for anyone interested in knowing what their rights are when dealing with police in general as well as every aspect of the law as it concerns the …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Testing Testing: Sweat Patch Under Scrutiny by Lara A. Bazelon Sheryl Woodhall a California woman in her late 30s, first lost custody of her four children in 1995, when her youngest tested positive for methamphetamine at birth. The state's Child Protective Services intervened and sent her two older children to …
2003 Washington Legislative Round-up by Lonnie Burton In its 2003 session the Washington leg-islature enacted numerous laws affecting prisoners. Highlights of the most relevant laws are as follows: Regional Jails Substitute House Bill 1609 instructs the Sentencing Guidelines Commission to present a plan by Dec. 31, 2003, for creating "pilot …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
$115,000 Settlement in Seattle Jail Strip-Search Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg King County and the City of Seattle settled a wrongful strip-search suit for $115,000 on May 21, 2003 and also agreed to change strip-search policies at King County jails. Jasmine Wells and Brian Walton, college …
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