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Article • January 3, 2018
Filed under: Parole, Parole Conditions
California High-Risk Sex Offender Parole Not Limited to Current Offense by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The California Court of Appeals held that a lower court erred in holding that failing to register as a sex offender does not authorize parole supervision as a high-risk sex offender. In 1989, Charles …
Article • January 3, 2018
Filed under: Juveniles, Juvenile Prisons
Social Impact Bond Flounders in Rikers Island Youth Project by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Social impact bonds (SIBs) are investment vehicles by which  charitable organizations or individuals can invest in a project to benefit a government agency. If the government agency reaches a pre-determined goal with it bond investment, the …
Michigan DOC Creates Contract Compliance Unit by On the heels of a controversy involving its food service vendor, the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) is creating a unit to monitor contract compliance. As PLN reported, MDOC tossed Aramark Correctional Services as its food service vendor following a  highly publicized failure …
Article • January 3, 2018
Texas Jail Officials Disciplined, Indicted for Leaving Prisoner in Squalor by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 10, 2013, a Texas jail compliance team discovered mentally ill Harris County jail prisoner Terry Goodwin, 54, in a cell "amid heaps of trash, swarms of bugs, and piles of his own …
Article • January 3, 2018
Third Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Pennsylvania Guard's FLSA Suit by Sandra Babcock, a guard at the Butler County Prison in Butler, Pennsylvania, filed a putative class-action in federal court alleging Butler County was in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-209, et seq., for failing to …
$4,000 for Injuries After Prison Staff Ignore Bottom Bunk Directive by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On August 18, 2015, the state of Michigan agreed to pay a prisoner $4,000 to settle a lawsuit in which prison staff deliberately ignored a medically-issued "bottom bunk detail" and the prisoner later fell …
Article • January 3, 2018
$5,000 to Transgender Prisoner in Maryland Sexual Harassment Lawsuit by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On August 17, 2015, an administrative law judge in Maryland ruled that state prison officials were guilty of sexually harassing and mistreating a transgender prisoner and awarded her $5,000 in damages. The ruling was the …
Article • January 3, 2018
Filed under: Escapes, Magazines
$4,000 Awarded to Subject of Esquire Article by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton Timothy Murphy and Joe Hoffman dug a makeshift tunnel in an attempt to escape from Michigan's Kinross prison in March 2007. While their effort was ultimately foiled at the last minute, a feature article in the August …
$5.75 Million Payout in Death of Rikers' Prisoner Denied Medical by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton In a settlement of a lawsuit previously mentioned in Prison Legal News, New York City agreed on September 27, 2016, to pay $5.75 million to the mother of a mentally ill Rikers Island prisoner …
Article • January 3, 2018
South Carolina S.C. Refuses to Order Defendant Maimed from Jail to Psych Hospital by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On November 16, 2016, the South Carolina Supreme Court reversed a lower court order involuntarily committing a defendant who was found incompetent to stand trial to a psychiatric hospital. The state …
Article • January 3, 2018
Filed under: Prison Industries
Investigation: Washington State Correctional Industries a "Broken Program" by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton Washington State Correctional Industries (CI) ranks as the fourth largest prison labor program in the United States, with revenues north of $70 million in fiscal year 2014. However, the program, which employs about 1,600 state prisoners, …
Article • January 3, 2018
$200 Damages in Kansas Postcard-Only Policy by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court's judgment that a Kansas jail's postcard-only policy violated the First Amendment. Nicholas Cox was detained in the Johnson County Adult Detention Center awaiting trial …
Article • January 3, 2018
Filed under: Injury -- Misc.
$9,000 Settles Ohio Prisoner's Trip-and-Fall Suit by On December 9, 2015, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) settled for $9,000 a lawsuit brought by a DOR prisoner who fell and injured himself. Dale Tackett, then in his 40s, was transferred to Richland Correctional Institution on July 10, 2012. As he …
$3,802,000 Settlement, Rikers' Guard Conviction in Prisoner Death by On December 17, 2014, former Rikers Island Guard Captain Terrence Pendergrass, 52, was sentenced to five years in a federal prison for violating the civil rights of deceased prisoner Jason Echevarria, 25. Echevarria’s estate received a $3,802,000 settlement from the City …
Article • January 3, 2018
Seventh Circuit Approves Use of "Correctional Cure-All" and Insensitive Treatment of Sick Prisoner by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled against a prisoner who claimed that his serious medical needs were treated with deliberate indifference at an Illinois prison. …
Brief • January 3, 2018
Hilliard v. Southern Health Partners, SC Deposition of Jonathan Fish, Medical Neglect, 2018 1 1 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE COURT OF 2 COUNTY OF MARLBORO COMMON PLEAS 3 Civil Action No.: 4 2016-CP-34-00202 5 ROBERT KENNETH HILLIARD 6 Plaintiff 7 vs. 8 SOUTHERN HEALTH PARTNERS, 9 INC., et …
Brief • January 2, 2018
Jones v. City of Cleveland, OH, Complaint, 2018 Case: 1:18-cv-00007-DCN Doc #: 1 Filed: 01/02/18 1 of 8. PageID #: 1 Case: 1:18-cv-00007-DCN Doc #: 1 Filed: 01/02/18 2 of 8. PageID #: 2 Case: 1:18-cv-00007-DCN Doc #: 1 Filed: 01/02/18 3 of 8. PageID #: 3 Case: 1:18-cv-00007-DCN Doc …
Estrada v. Otero County, NM, Settlement Agreement, 2018 RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT PRISCILLA SANCHEZ, as Next Friend of Roxanne Estrada, and ROXANNE ESTRADA ("SANCHEZ/ESTRADA") desire to settle and discharge any and all claims which have or could have been asserted by Sanchez/Estrada against the Otero County Board of County Commissioners …
Brief • January 1, 2018
Cole et al. v. Collier, TX, Settlement Agreement-Release, ADA-Rehabilitation Act Violation, 2018 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION KEITH COLE, JACKIE BRANNUM, RICHARD KING, MICHAEL DENTON, FRED WALLACE, and MARVIN RAY YATES, individually and on behalf of those similarly situated, Plaintiffs, § § § § § …
Brief • January 1, 2018
Kansas v. Ward, KS, Syllabus, False Information, 2018 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 111,640 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. CHRISTOPHER R. WARD, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. On the facts of this case, there was insufficient evidence to support the defendant's conviction of theft …
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