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Bloated Prison Budget Fuels California's Degenerative Incarceration Spiral by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg California's $5.3 billion prison spending plan was shaved only a miniscule $35 million in the August 2, 2003 $100 billion annual state budget - a "budget" that is admittedly $38.2 billion out of balance …
Over 600 Prisoners Brutalized by New Jersey Prison Guards by Gary Hunter On April 25, 2003, acting Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced he would reopen a criminal investigation in which New Jersey prison guards reportedly brutalized over 600 prisoners. When guard Fred Baker was stabbed to death in 1997, …
Wackenhut's Legacy of Shame in Austin by by Matthew T. Clarke The price of attending the March 1997 South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, came very high for Dallas record producer David Prater. Busted for a minor drug possession, in 1998 Prater was sentenced to 250 days in …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
U.S. Supreme Court: Reviving Expired Statute of Limitations Violates Ex Post Facto by U.S. Supreme Court: Reviving Expired Statute of Limitations Violates Ex Post Facto Clause Reversing the California Court of Appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that California's recent law reviving criminal liability for previously time-barred prosecutions violated the …
BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm for Mobsters by Gary Hunter BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm For Mobsters by Gary Hunter On March 1, 2002, the U.S. District court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania denied the motion of a mobster's wife requesting the return of her incarcerated husband's sperm. Circumstances leading to …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Justice Department Report Decries Smuggling in Federal Prisons by Justice Department Report Decries Smuggling in Federal Prisons The U. S. Justice Department has issued a report decrying the ability of smugglers to get regular shipments of drugs even into the highest security federal prisons. The report blames visitors, mail, and …
U.S. v. Verbickas, CO, Opinion, Prison Conditions, 2003 U.S. v. Verbickas, 75 Fed.Appx. 705 (2003) 75 Fed.Appx. 705 This case was not selected for publication in the Federal Reporter. Not for Publication in West’s Federal Reporter. See Fed. Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 generally governing citation of judicial decisions issued …
Director Out at Scandal-Plagued Washington State Jail by Lonnie Burton Amid numerous scandals and investigations into wrongdoing and prisoner mistreatment by staff, the director of the Snohomish County jail in Everett, WA was relieved of her duties in mid-April 2003. Corrections department director Andrea Bynum was fired due to her …
North Carolina Juvenile Prisons Plagued by Physical, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect by Lonnie Burton North Carolina Juvenile Prisons Plagued by Physical, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect by Lonnie Burton After four separate lawsuits were filed by prisoners serving sentences at two North Carolina juvenile facilities alleging a wide range …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Pregnant Wisconsin Prisoner Punished for Sexual Contact While Guard Walks Free by Lonnie Burton In December, 2002, a mentally ill female prisoner at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution (TCI) in Wisconsin was given a year of solitary confinement after being impregnated by a prison guard, while the guard, Mathew Emery, was …
Louisiana Guards' Conviction Upheld in Prisoner's Beating by A jury's conviction of three guards at the Louisianan State Penitentiary at Angola in the assault and beating of prisoner Raymond Jackson has been affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Sergeant Harrison Daniels was convicted in the assault, and denying …
Sexual Harassment Scandal Rocks Connecticut DOC by by Matthew T. Clarke The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) has been rocked by allegations of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and illegal sex between guards and prisoners. The scandal began on August 8, 2002, when 15 female guards filed two separate federal class-action …
California Prison Guards' Attorneys Convicted in Dog Mauling by Marvin Mentor On March 21, 2002, a San Francisco, California husband and wife attorney team, Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, who for years had defended prison guards at maximum security Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP), were themselves convicted of manslaughter when …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Texas Guard Stabbing Prisoner Not State Action Under § 1983 by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a guard's actions in cutting a prisoner with a knife was not under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Texas prisoner Fred Townsend was working as …
Guard's Prior Misconduct Wrongly Excluded from Rape Trial by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the exclusion of evidence of a guard's prior improper sexual conduct against a former detainee warranted reversal. On Friday, January 31, 1997, Julie Ann Blind-Doan turned herself in to the Taft City Police …
$22,500 Award Upheld in Texas Gang Assault Set-up by Guards by John E Dannenberg $22,500 Award Upheld in Texas Gang Assault Set-Up By Guards by John E. Dannenberg The Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals affirmed a district court's denial of defendant prison officials' summary judgment motion in a prisoner …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Gay Bashing Illinois Guards to Pay $65,000 for Savage Beating by A man who was brutally beaten by jail guards while in custody at the Cook County Jail in Chicago will receive $65,000 in a settlement approved in June 2002. Terry Phalen, now 42 and admittedly gay, was awaiting a …
U.S. v. Lavallee, CO, Order, Prison Conditions, 2003 269 F.Supp.2d 1297 (2003) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Mike LAVALLEE, Rod Schultz, and Robert Verbickas, Defendants. No. CR.A. 00-CR-481-D. United States District Court, D. Colorado. July 2, 2003. 1298 *1298 Mark Blumberg, United States Attorney's Office Criminal Section/CRT, Washington, DC, …
Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Matthew T. Clarke On May 1, 2002, two guards and an assistant warden were convicted in federal court of charges relating to the beating of a …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
$345,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Rape Suit by $345,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Rape Suit On September 11, 2002, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, agreed to settle a federal lawsuit brought by seven female county jail prisoners who were raped by male jail staff by paying them $345,000. The rape of female …
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