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State Not Liable for Death of Guards by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that the state of Illinois was not liable for the death of three guards and the injury of three guards during a prison riot. The court held the guards had no constitutional right …
Article • May 15, 2007
Black Voters' Disenfranchisement Claims Dismissed by The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee dismissed claims by a black, Tennessee voter and a public interest law project that a Tennessee law disenfranchising convicted felons, Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.) §2-19-143, violated neither the federal Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Tennessee Disenfranchisement Law Upheld by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal district court's dismissal of a case claiming that the Tennessee Voting Rights Act of 1981 violated the Federal Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982 and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Charles …
$130,000 Settlement In Prison Employee Harassment Suit by In 1999, Thomas G. Bailor, filed a law suit against the Delaware Correctional Center MC, after he was forced to quit his job as an internal affairs investigator, for filing a report accusing prison guards of misconduct. Bailor, was investigating charges that …
Article • May 15, 2007
$4,435 Paid in WA Riot Injuries by Carnell Garden, a prisoner at Washington's McNeil Island State Prison, filed a state tort suit alleging inadequate supervision that resulted in a race riot in September 1992, which caused him unspecified injuries. His complaint also alleged he was denied adequate and timely medical …
$2,632 Paid in WA Riot Caused Damages by James L. Cobb, a prisoner at Washington's McNeil Island State Prison, filed a state tort suit alleging inadequate supervision that resulted in a race riot which caused him unspecified injuries in September 1992. His suit also alleged he was denied adequate and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Mentally Ill PA Prisoner Forced to Accept Medical Treatment to Prevent Death by The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held a prisoner may be force fed to prevent him from starving to death. The prisoner, who was being held at the Fairview State Hospital for treatment of borderline personality Disorder, stated …
Article • May 15, 2007
Third Circuit Upholds Forced Feeding of Pennsylvania Prisoner by On September 28, 2004, the U.S. Third Court of Appeals held that although the admission of a federal litigant's prior robbery conviction during trial was erroneous pursuant to Federal Rules of Evidence, the admission did not affect the trial's outcome. The …
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, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Organizing, Protests
Illinois Residential Picketing Statute Unconstitutional by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a residential picketing statute that makes the picketing of residences or dwellings a misdemeanor, with certain enumerated exceptions, violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiffs in this action were fourteen members …
Article • May 15, 2007
$2,000,000 Settlement in California Excessive Force Prison Shooting by On August 28, 1993, while imprisoned at California's Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Kenneth Newton, 37, found himself in the middle of a riot between African-American and Hispanic prisoners. Many grabbed weapons of opportunity including weights, brooms, sticks, mop handles, and other …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Voting Rights Act Doesn't Apply to NY Prisoners/Parolees by The Voting Rights Act does not apply to the New York statute disenfranchising currently incarcerated felons and parolees. The court initially polled itself sua sponte while petitions for certiorari were pending, then denied rehearing with three judges dissenting and four stating …
Article • May 15, 2007
Federal Deportation Detainees Stage Sit-In to Protest Delayed Hearings by On September 21, 2005, 950 deportation detainees at the federal Mira Loma Detention Center in Lancaster, California refused to return to their barracks for four hours after their 7 a.m. breakfast until prison officials assured them that their concerns regarding …
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 …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Filed under: Voting, Sentencing, Parole
Colorado Parolee’s Disenfranchisement Upheld by Colorado Parolee's Disenfranchisement Upheld The Colorado Supreme Court has held that a person on parole does not have a right to vote. That ruling came in an appeal filed by Pastor Michael Danielson after the District Court for the city and County of Denver dismissed …
Raven v. City of Miami, FL, Motion, Seizure by Physical Force Projectiles Organized Event, 2007 Case 1:06-cv-21182-CMA Document 96 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/16/2007 Page 1 of 30 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA MIAMI DIVISION CASE NO: 06 - 21182 - CIV - JORDAN HOLLEY …
Violence from Racial Tension and Overcrowding Pervades California Jails, Spreads to Prisons by Marvin Mentor by Marvin Mentor Los Angeles (L.A.) County jail prisoners have been locked in interracial gang-controlled violence for the past year, and the unrest has spread to other jails and into California state prisons as prisoners …
200 Dead in Brazil Prison Uprisings, Street Violence by Gary Hunter In May 2006, approximately 200 people were killed in Sao Paulo, Brazil as gang members of the Primerio Comando da Capital ? the First Capital Command, known by its Portuguese initials, PCC ? clashed with police in the streets …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
New Jersey Appeals Court Upholds Statute Disenfranchising Felons by The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, held that a state law prohibiting felons from voting while on parole or probation did not violate equal protection despite its disparate effect on minority voting power. Plaintiffs, the New Jersey National Association …
Floridas Civil Commitment Center Under Funded and Out-of-Control by David Reutter Floridas Civil Commitment Center Under Funded and Out-of-Control by David M. Reutter When first created in 1999, Florida's Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) was hyped as a place to house sexually violent predators for protection of the public while providing …
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