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Article • December 15, 2007
Alabama Prisoners Must Be Afforded Access To The Courts by The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled a lower court abused its discretion when it dismissed a prisoner's civil action for failure to prosecute, despite pending motions moving for three alternatives for the prisoner to access the court. Alabama state …
Article • December 15, 2007
$57,700 Verdict for Attack on Sleeping NY Jail Prisoner by The New York Supreme Court upheld a $57,700 verdict for a 31-year-old Jail prisoner who was attacked as he slept. Mr. Morales was a New York prisoner when he was assaulted while he slept. He suffered "a fractured zygoma, requiring …
Article • December 15, 2007
Attack by Fellow Prisoner Nets South Carolina Prisoner $30,000 by A South Carolina Court awarded a prisoner $30,000 for injuries he suffered when attacked by another prisoner at the Greenville County Jail. Mr. Edwards was a prisoner at the Greenville County Jail when he was attacked by another prisoner. He …
Article • December 15, 2007
Female Montana Prisoner Attacked by Male Prisoner Paid $30,000 by A female Montana prisoner who was attacked by a male prisoner during a prison altercation was paid $30,000. Ms. Perez, a female Montana prisoner, was attacked by a male prisoner during a prison altercation. She suffered facial contusions and emotional …
Article • December 15, 2007
DC Prisoner Assaulted by Other Prisoners Suffers Brain Damage, Awarded $1.6 Million by A District of Columbia (DC) prisoner who was assaulted by other prisoners was awarded $1.6 million. Brown sued in state court alleging that only one guard was on duty and that he was in a different section …
Federal Prisoner Beaten On Texas Recreation Yard Awarded $350,000 by On March 12, 2007, a federal district court awarded $350,000 to a prisoner who was beaten by about 40 other prisoners on the recreation yard of a federal prison in Texas. Plaintiff Luis Garza claimed that while on the recreation …
March Madness in Georgia Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke March 2007 was an unusually bloody month in Georgia prisons, with three murders of prisoners by other prisoners and one severe beating of a mentally ill, handcuffed prisoner by guards. Since 2005 there have been five homicides in the …
Texas Jail Pays $200,000 to Settle Rape/Suicide Suit by Val Verde County, Texas and its contract Del Rio jail operator, GEO Group, Inc., agreed in March 2007 to pay $200,000 to the surviving family of a 23-year-old woman prisoner who, upon becoming depressed after being raped in the jail, hung …
Hambrick v. CCA, TN, Settlement, slip fall water, 2007 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0006 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0007 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0009 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0010
Jailhouse Justice: Phoenix New Times article on failure to protect at Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson Jailhouse Justice: New evidence suggests Sheriff Joe's running his empire as if it were a Mexican prison By Robert Nelson Published: January 23, 2003 If new information in an inmate-beating case is any …
“Liberal” Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim by "Liberal" Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a New York federal district court?s dismissal of claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), finding that the court failed to "liberally" construe the …
$4 Million Settlement In Rape and Beating Death of Mentally Ill New Jersey Prisoner by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby The daughters of a mentally ill man who was raped and beaten to death by another prisoner in New Jersey's Camden County Correctional Facility (CCCF) will receive a combined $4 …
Adams v. CCA, CO, Plf App Reply Brief, prison riot, 2007 Certific:ltion of Word Count: 5,690 , i COURT OF APPEALS, STATE OF COLORADO 2 East 14'h Avenue, 3'd Floor I Denver, CO 80203 1 ! I i, Appeal from order entered by Judge Michael Schi ferl, i Crowley County …
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
Maryland Closes Decrepit, Scandal-Plagued House of Correction by The dilapidated and violent relic known as the Maryland House of Correction (MHC) has finally closed. MHC?s remaining 842 prisoners were transferred on March 16, 2007. The most troublesome prisoners were moved to various federal prisons around the country; the rest were …
Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts to run prisons in the United States and Canada. While the private prison industry is dominated by industry giants Corrections Corporation of America, Geo …
Florida’s Civil Commitment Center Exhibits Little Change Despite New Contractor by David Reutter Florida's Civil Commitment Center Exhibits Little Change Despite New Contractor by David M. Reutter Despite recent scandals and a new private contractor, the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) is still a facility with little direction other than …
Erroneous Jury Instruction Nets Raped Missouri Prisoner New Civil Trial by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a jury verdict against a prisoner-plaintiff, finding that the lower court erred in responding to a jury question during deliberations. Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) prisoner Ronnie Conley was raped repeatedly by …
Bivens Claims Against Private Prison Employees May Fail When Other Remedies Available by In an evenly divided en banc rehearing, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit was unable to decide whether a Bivens action is available against employees of a privately?operated prison. In 2001, Cornelius E. …
United States Sues Georgia County Jail over Unconstitutional Medical and Living Conditions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Using its investigative powers under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) investigated conditions at the Terrell County, Georgia jail …
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