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A Primer on Prisoners’ Constitutional Rights by Alex Friedmann Prison Legal News (PLN) regularly reports on prison and jail-related court decisions involving violations of prisoners’ constitutional rights. Those who are new to the arena of civil rights litigation and unfamiliar with prisoners’ few remaining rights may need a basic introduction …
Rico v. Butler, IL, Merit Review, Failure to Protect Informant, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00877-MJR-SCW Document 11 Filed 11/14/16 Page 1 of 19 Page ID #87 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) MIGUEL RICO, Plaintiff, vs. …
Brief • November 12, 2016
Parker v. City of New York, NY, Amended Complaint, Solitary Confinement, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-06733-CLP Document 30-1 Filed 11/12/16 Page 1 of 1 PageID #: 97 ALEXANDER A. REINERT ATTORNEY AT LAW c/o Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law* 55 Fifth Avenue, Room 938 New York, New York 10003 (212) 790-0403 …
Brief • November 12, 2016
Mays v. Deschutes County, OR, Amended Complaint, Meth Overdose, 2016 Case 6:15-cv-00898-AA Document 58 Filed 11/21/16 Page 1 of 30 JENNIFER L. COUGHLIN OSB 065781 Brothers Hawn & Coughlin, LLP 974 NW Riverside Blvd. Bend, OR 97703 Telephone: 541-382-5885 Facsimile: 541-382-3328 jlc@brotherslaw.com MICHELLE R. BURROWS OSB 896160 420 SW Washington …
Brief • November 11, 2016
Murango v. Hain, IL, Settlement, False Arrest & Strip Search, 2016 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE Mai-co Murango v. Sgt. Hain, et al., ND IL Case No. 16 CV 2238 This Settlement Agreement and General Release ("Agreement") is made by and between Marco Murango ("Plaintiff'') and the County of Kane, …
Brief • November 10, 2016
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
PayTel v. FCC, DC, Petition for Review, Interstate ICS Rates, 2016 FOR DI$ThCT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT NOV — 0 FILED j? IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPE AL FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUI , U ) ) ) PAY TEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Petitioner, ) ) 1G—1332 Case No. …
Brief • November 10, 2016
County of Los Angeles v. Castro, CA, Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Pretrial Detainees, 2016 NO. 16-_____ In the Supreme Court of the United States COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ET AL., Petitioners, –v– JONATHAN MICHAEL CASTRO, Respondent. On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals …
Brief • November 10, 2016
Centurylink v. FCC, DC, Petition for Review of FCC Order In re Interstate ICS Rates, 2016 FOR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT fihb btFkftb °T OFAPPEAL COR DISTRICT OF COLUMA cIHeuit IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APP 16 IOZO EOR THE DISThCT OF COLUMBIA CIR - bGER/ED CENTURYLINK PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS, …
Brief • November 9, 2016
Thompson v. Fullmore, AZ, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2016 Page 1 of 5 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS Marshall Thompson, ADC Inmate No. ("Plaintiff' or "Releasor"), hereby enters into this Settlement Agreement and Release of all Claims ("Settlement Agreement") with the State of Arizona and all of its past, …
When Prison is Not Enough: The Rise (and Perhaps the Fall) of the Supermax Prison by by Keramet Reiter In 1986, the Security Management Unit opened in Florence, Arizona. It was a new kind of prison designed for long-term, total isolation, for prisoners whom prison officials said simply could not …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Local Jails Increasingly Refuse to Comply with ICE Detainers by Joe Watson Hundreds of municipalities across the country – including major cities such as Los Angeles and others with large populations of immigrants – are refusing to honor requests from federal officials to hold undocumented immigrants in jail for possible …
Maryland DOC Suspends Volunteer, Drops Literature Program by Mikita Brottman led a reading and discussion group for nine Maryland prisoners serving life sentences at the Jessup Correctional Institution. A professor of literature at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a psychoanalyst, Brottman volunteered her time for two hours a …
Oregon “Incorrigible Masturbator’s” Life Sentence Unconstitutionally Disproportionate by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals held on June 17, 2015 that a true life sentence for “an incorrigible masturbator” was an unconstitutionally disproportionate punishment – a decision subsequently upheld by the state Supreme Court. Under ORS 137.719(1), certain recidivist sex …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Ohio Federal Court Dismisses Suit Against Doctor Over Prisoner’s Suicide by On September 4, 2015, an Ohio federal district court dismissed a lawsuit brought against a former prison doctor following the suicide of a prisoner under his care. Ohio prisoner Gregory Stamper was in extreme pain due to damage to …
Maryland Prisoner’s Death Occurs Under Unusual Circumstances by The death of prisoner Louis S. Leysath III, 35, at Maryland’s Jessup Correctional Institution was the subject of an investigation after he was found dead in a steam-filled cell on February 20, 2015. Leysath, serving a 30-year sentence after pleading guilty to …
Rare Corporate Prosecution: West Virginia’s “King of Coal” Sentenced for Conspiracy in Mine Deaths by Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, conspired to “willfully violate mandatory mine health and safety standards” to maximize his personal profits, and on April 5, 2010, an explosion attributed to safety violations claimed …
Alabama Prisoner Exonerated after Serving 30 Years on Death Row by After almost 30 years, Alabama death row prisoner Anthony Ray Hinton was freed on April 3, 2015 – at the age of 58 – when prosecutors dropped the charges against him. At the time of his release, Hinton, who …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Former Pennsylvania Prison Doctor Sentenced for Fraud; Accomplices Convicted by The former medical director of Pennsylvania’s Lehigh County Prison (LCP) was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to numerous schemes to defraud the government. Dennis Erik Fluck Von Kiel was employed as LCP’s medical director from …
Mold-infested Prisons Sicken Guards and Prisoners by by Spencer Woodman, The Intercept During much of her three years awaiting trial in New York’s Rikers Island jail, Candie Hailey was locked in a solitary confinement cell ventilated by a mold-covered air duct. The purpose of the vent was, of course, to …
Nevada Attorney General Investigates Shooting of Two Handcuffed Prisoners by Derek Gilna Two handcuffed Nevada state prisoners held in administrative segregation at the high-security High Desert State Prison were shot by guards on November 12, 2014 after they began fighting, allegedly after those same guards deliberately encouraged them to fight. …
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