WA Guard's Denial of Out-of-Cell Exercise to Prisoner for 105 Days States 8th Amendment Claim by WA Guard's Denial of Out-of-Cell Exercise to Prisoner for 105 Days States 8th Amendment Claim John Headrick, a Washington state prisoner, sued the superintendent of the state penitentiary after guards in the segregation unit …
Washington DOC Exonerated in Negligent Supervision Case by On April 11, 1998, Cynthia Bordon died in an auto accident caused by Richard Jones, a Washington State parolee, who was driving while intoxicated. Jones was on parole, in part, for attempting to elude police. He was not to drive without a …
Washington Prisoner Awarded $16,695 For Back Injury by In April 1998, a Snohomish County, Washington, prisoner was awarded $16,695 in arbitration for injuries sustained when he fell from a County vehicle. The plaintiff claimed that in April 1996 while laboring on a work crew for the county jail he fell …
Missing Finger Tips Cost Washington DOC $2,500 by In February of 1997, the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections paid Richard L. Campbell $2,500. On January 18th, 1996, Campbell, a prisoner residing at Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, Washington, was working in the kitchen's meat room when he …
WI DOC Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Holding Prisoner Past His Release Date by WI DOC Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Holding Prisoner Past His Release Date James Allen, a Wisconsin state prisoner, was held 377 days beyond his mandatory release date because he didn't have a Department …
WA City Liable for Jail Doctor's Negligence by IN 1975, Michael Shea, a prisoner in the Spokane County Jail in Spokane, Washington repeatedly complained of severe back pain. Even though he was in jail for drunk driving after being in an auto accident, the jail physician only treated Shea for …
PLRA Filing Fees Don't Apply to Immigration Detainees by At 885-86: . . . [T]he filing fee provisions of the PLRA, . . .do not apply to an alien detainee who proceeds in forma pauperis to petition for review from a BIA decision, so long as he does not also …
WA Gift Subscription Ban Settled for $443.46 by In 1997, William J.R Embrey, a federal prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary (W.S.P) accepted $443.46 to settle a lawsuit. In 1985 the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) sent Embrey to the Washington Department of Corrections WDOC, pursuant to a contract between …
Immigration Detention Class Certified by For numerosity purposes, the court need not know the exact size of the class "so long as general knowledge and common sense indicate that it is large." (408, citation omitted) Where the class includes unnamed, unknown future members, joinder of such unknown individuals is impracticable …
$1,500 Paid in False WA DOC Disciplinary Action by Thomas B. Armstrong III, a telemarketer clerk at Washington State Penitentiary, was accused of losing a wrench and consequently was given a disciplinary report and placed in segregation. Two weeks later, he was released from segregation and the charges were dropped. …
Crawford Inapplicable to Washington Sentence Modification Hearings; Good Cause Must be Established for Hearsay Admission by Crawford Inapplicable to Washington Sentence Modification Hearings; Good Cause Must be Established for Hearsay Admission The Washington State Supreme Court, sitting en banc, held that Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354 …
Washington Banishment Order Vacated by A division of the Washington Court of Appeals vacated a trial court's banishment order, concluding that the ban "fails strict scrutiny" because "it is not sufficiently tailored and therefore impermissibly infringes on [the] right to travel." David Schimelpfenig was convicted of murdering Marjorie Benner inside …
Trial Court Lacks Authority to Deny Washington Earned Credits by The Washington State Supreme Court, sitting en banc, held that the trial court has no authority to restrict the grant of earned early release time credits. Brenda Louise West robbed a motel. "In exchange for a reduction of the charge …
Washington Sex Offender Parole Violated for Possessing "The Blue Lagoon" DVD by The Washington Court of Appeals upheld a sex offender's community placement sanction for possessing the film "The Blue Lagoon," which starred a young Brooke Shields. Mark Smith pled guilty to molesting his 5 and 7-year-old stepdaughters. He was …
No Right To Halal Meat for Washington State Prisoner If Kosher Fits Religious Needs by No Right To Halal Meat for Washington State Prisoner If Kosher Fits Religious Needs Pro se Washington State prisoner and Muslim Linniell Phipps claimed constitutional violations when his facility substituted Kosher meals for Halal meat. …
Single EMIT Test Result Enough To Convict WA Prisoners by The Washington state supreme court held that a single positive EMIT test for drug use constituted sufficient basis to convict and punish Washington state prisoners for drug use. The court also held that Washington prisoners have a constitutionally protected liberty …
WA Disciplinary Hearings Exempt from APA by The Washington state Supreme Court held that prison disciplinary hearings are immune from judicial review under the Washington Administrative Procedures Act. Court notes that judicial review of prison disciplinary hearings is available in state court under habeas corpus, certiorari, mandamus and Personal Restraint …
No Right to Medical Care beyond that Given by Prison by No Right to Medical Care Beyond that Given by Prison The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that a Washington prisoner who died of a heart attack had no constitutional right to medical care beyond that given …
Washington DOC Pays $10,810 in Wheelchair Discrimination Suit by In 1999, the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections paid Travis Sparr $10,810 dollars. Sparr, a double amputee above the knee, resided at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington, when he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment(s). …
Washington DOC Settles Retaliation Suit for $815 by In October of 1999, the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections paid Robert James Miller $551.52 and $264.00 in costs. Miller, a prisoner confined at Airway Heights, Washington, filed a civil suit in 1998 alleging that the State of Washington …
