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For-Profit Transportation Companies: Taking Prisoners, and the Public, for a Ride by Alex Friedmann According to the latest report from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, as of June 2005 approximately 2.2 million people were incarcerated in prisons and jails nationwide not including immigration detention centers and …
Brownsville Texas Border Corruption Continues by Gary Hunter Coronado Cantu took over the Cameron County Sheriff's office in January 2001. He took up residence inside the Texas jail in June 2005. Cantu was charged with heading a crime ring that included drug trafficking, extortion and prostitution of female prisoners. Animo …
No Room in Prison? Ship Em Off Prisoners have become unwitting pawns in a lowest-bidder- gets-the-convict shuffle game by Silja JA Talvi No Room in Prison? Ship Em Off Prisoners have become unwitting pawns in a lowest-bidder- gets-the-convict shuffle game by Silja J.A. Talvi It has been an arduous, surreal …
Sexually Abused Texas Prisoner Loses Federal Lawsuit, Returns To Prison by Michael Rigby Roderick Keith Johnson, a prisoner who garnered national attention with allegations that Texas prison officials allowed him to be bought and sold as a sex slave, has lost his federal lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Guards Rape of Prisoners Rampant, No Solution in Sight by Gary Hunter Psychologists will quickly tell you that rape is not about sex. It's about power. It's about imposing one's will on another. It's about masking feelings of inadequacy with intimidation about artificially inflating one's low self esteem by abusing …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
From the Editor by Paul Wright The sexual assault of prisoners is one of the largest problems in American prisons and jails today (the lack of adequate medical care is probably the biggest). As regular readers of PLN know, we have had extensive and ongoing coverage of prison rape issues …
Prisoner Rape Is Torture by Stop Prisoner Rape The U.S. has arrived at a critical moment of truth in addressing the sexual violence that plagues its prisons and jails. The failure of Departments of Corrections nationwide to prevent sexual abuse behind bars and to adequately respond to those who have …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Ohio Woman Raped by Guard Awarded $625,000 by On September 15, 2005, a federal jury in Columbus, Ohio, awarded $625,000 to a woman who was fondled and digitally raped by a guard at the Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW). In November 1996, while serving a 1-year sentence at ORW for …
CCA Florida Jail Operations: An Experiment in Mismanagement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After being in business for twenty-three years, one would think that Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) would have refined the art of running prisons and jails. Yet an examination of CCA's three jails in Florida …
Crimes of the Heart: Incarceration Collusion by Bob Williams by Bob Williams & G.A.Bowers What would a woman do for her man? Run a frontend loader through a jail wall? Drive her lover out of prison in a food service truck? Murder witnesses? Smuggle in guns and drugs? Melt her …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Illinois Prisoner Raped By Guard Settles For $15,000 by On July 2, 2005, a prisoner who was raped by a guard settled her lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) for $15,000. While imprisoned at the Dixon Correctional Center on May 26, 2000, the plaintiff, Rose Marie Smith 51, …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Guard Out on Bond, Woman He Allegedly Raped Jailed Beyond Her Sentence by Platte County (Wyoming) Detention Center control clerk Jeremy King was charged with two counts of second-degree felony sexual assault for having sex with a female Jamaican prisoner convicted of federal drug offenses. The woman, who was not …
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
Qualified Immunity Denied in Illinois Jail Rape Case by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity for failing to protect a pretrial detainee from being raped by his cellmate. In 1999, David Velez was confined in the Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Jail. In late August, Velez …
Scandal, Suicides, Corruption and Abuse Abound at New York Citys Rikers Island Jail by Gary Hunter Scandal, Suicides, Corruption and Abuse Abound at New York Citys Rikers Island Jail by Gary Hunter When Rikers Island was purchased in 1884 it was only 87 acres. The city of New York made …
Florida's Juvenile Justice: Convicted Sex Offender Rapes Disabled Youth in His Care by Once again, Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) is under close scrutiny for failing to protect a severely mentally disabled teenager from sexual abuse. At the center of this scandal is Robert, an orphan with the mind …
$150,000 Paid to Indiana Juvenile Jail Detainee for Sexual Assault by Following an Indiana federal district courts denial of summary judgment to the Marion County Sheriff, the Sheriff settled the matter by giving $150,000 to a pretrial juvenile detainee that was raped in the Marion County Jail (MCJ). Seventeen-year-old Ryan …
Downey v. CCA, VT, Settlement, guard prisoner assault, 2006 LYPIN 7 THOMAS 8c MIHALICH, P.C. ATTORNEYS AT LAW BARBARA R. BLACKMAN STEVEN C. COLLIER RIETRO J. LYNN JENNIFER G. MIHALICH MATTHEW A. SIEI3E1HEATHER E. THOMAS JEFFREY S. MARLIN May 12, 2006 Devin McLaughlin, Esq. Langrock Sperry & Wool LLP P.O. …
Georgia Prisons: A Blight On The Peach State by Michael Rigby During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Shermans devastating march through the South was a blight on Georgia and all who lived there. Today, the safety of many Georgians particularly the 50,000 confined in the states 37 prisons is …
CSC Pays Public Defender Social Worker $125,000 for Rape in Juvenile Facility by A former social worker with the Baltimore public defenders office in Maryland, who said she was raped by a 15-year-old boy she was a visiting at the Charles H. Hickley, Jr. School settled a civil lawsuit on …
Cell-Block Beatdown: Do Boston Prisoners Have Any Chance of Holding Abusive Prison Guards Responsible? Signs Are Not Promising by David S. Bernstein Cell-Block Beatdown: Do Boston Prisoners Have Any Chance of Holding Abusive Prison Guards Responsible? Signs Are Not Promising by David S. Bernstein Stories about prison guards beating up …
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