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Article • May 15, 2007
$334,432 Award for Woman Raped In Georgia Jail by In December 1992, a federal jury in Fulton County, Georgia, awarded $334,432 to a woman who claimed she was raped by a guard while imprisoned in the Forest Park city jail. The plaintiff, Mary Isdell, claimed that while imprisoned in the …
Article • May 15, 2007
New Jersey Juvenile Raped By Guards Settles For $500,000 by On May 24, 2002, Morris County, New Jersey, paid $500,000 to settle with a former prisoner who was sexually assaulted by two guards at the Morris County Juvenile Detention Center. While imprisoned in the detention center in September 1997, Mary …
Article • May 15, 2007
Los Angeles County Settles Minor's Sexual Assault Claim While In Custody by On November 2, 2005, Los Angeles County recommended a $300,000 settlement and an assumption of a $21,520.25 Medi-Cal lien for a claim that 17-year-old Kiana M. was sexually assaulted while alone with a County Probation Officer, in Juvenile Hall. Kiana M. …
Aliens May Sue Private Detention Companies Under ATCA by A federal court in New Jersey became the first court to hold that corporations which operate privatized immigration detention facilities may be sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA). The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) contracted with Esmor Correctional Services, …
$125,000 Awarded in Illinois Prisoner's Rape; Jury Instruction Explaining Directed Verdict Harmless by $125,000 Awarded in Illinois Prisone's Rape; Jury Instruction Explaining Directed Verdict Harmless The Seventh Circuit of Appeal upheld a jury instruction that explained the directed verdict in favor of the supervisory defendants, and held that even if …
Article • May 15, 2007
Arkansas Guards Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Rape of Female Prisoner by Erma Trammell, an Arkansas state prisoner, was raped at the Tucker Women's Unit by a guard named Lee Davis. Trammell sued Davis and a host of prison officials in federal district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, …
Article • May 15, 2007
$27,000 Paid in Florida Jail Prisoner's Sexual Harassment by Guard by Kayren Burns was a prisoner at Florida's Flagler County Jail on August 8, 1996, when guard Paul Chambrey requested that Burns have sex with him. When she refused, he masturbated, in front of her. Burns brought suit alleging psychological …
PA Female Lt. Awarded $37,234 in Faulty Sex Termination by A female Lieutenant at the Allegheny County Jail was awarded $37,234 and reinstated to her job after a County Personnel Board found she was improperly terminated for allegedly having sex with a prisoner. While in the Allegheny County Jail, prisoner …
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 …
Attempted Rape by Cop States Claim by The plaintiff alleged that the defendant police officer stopped him, conducted an unlawful pat down search, handcuffed him, took him to a remote location, and tried to sodomize him. The allegations state a constitutional claim under the Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful searches …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Claim for Guard Ordering Prisoner to Touch his Penis by The plaintiff alleged that on two occasions an officer unzipped his clothing and instructed the plaintiff to grab his penis. He further alleged that the same officer turned off his water and power for five hours in connection with …
Raped Prisoner's § 1983 Suit States Claim by Raped Prisoner's § 1983 Suit States Claim The U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada held that a prisoner's civil rights suit against county commissioners stated a claim. After allegedly being raped by fellow prisoners in the Washoe County (Nevada) Jail, …
Corruption and Violence Plague South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Prisons by Gary Hunter Corruption and Violence Plague South Africa's Post-Apartheid Prisons by Gary Hunter Corruption plagues South African (SA) prisons at every level as prisoners suffer violence and torture from both prisoners and warders alike. Former high court judge Thabani Jali was …
Sexual Victimization in Prison Statistically Analyzed by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The New York Academy of Medicine published a study in June 2006 on rates of sexual victimization of state prisoners. Contrasted with earlier studies that only used small population samples, this study covered all adult prisoners (22,231) …
Brief • April 12, 2007
S.R. v. United States, FL, Complaint, lesbian prisoner guard sexual abuse, 2007 Case 1:07-cv-20648-CMA Document 13 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/12/2007 Page 1 of 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No.: 07-20648-civ-Altonaga/Turnoff S.R., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DAMIOUN COLE, in his individual capacity, CHARLES …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Vermont, the Last State to Pass Sex Abuse Laws by Gary Hunter On May 23, 2006, Vermont became the fiftieth and final state to outlaw sex between detention facility employees and prisoners. The proposed measure had been under debate for five years before Governor James Douglas finally signed the bill …
Galloway v TYC, TX, 3rd Amended Complaint, juveniles disabilities legal aid assault, 2007 EXHIBIT “A” UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS JOSEPH GALLOWAY, individually, § § DANA BROCKWAY, as next friend of her § minor child, A.B., on behalf of all those similarly § situated, § § GLORIA …
Sacramento Jail Rampant with Excessive Force and Brutality by Gary Hunter Imagine six million candles of light and the noise level of a jet plane taking off inside an average 6'x10' jail cell. That's what Courtney Countee, Jessie Kerwin, Daniel Lucas, Jason Morrison, Cladius Jefferson and Michael Toro endured at …
Virginia Prison Minister Indicted on Sex Charges; Ministries Under Fire by Gary Hunter Toney Leon McDonald, an ex-sheriff?s deputy and now ex-prison minister, was arrested on May 17, 2006 on four counts of sexual misconduct with a 23-year-old female prisoner. After posting a $25,000 bond, McDonald surrendered to authorities a …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
New York Prison Worker Not Kidnapped/Raped Long Enough For Compensation by Gary Hunter On December 28, 2004, a 52-year old female employee at New York?s Camp Cass juvenile facility was accosted by 16-year old Michael Elston who choked her, banged her head against a wall and raped her at knife-point. …
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