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Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
From the Editor by Paul Wright As this issue goes to press we are getting settled into our new office in Brattleboro, Vermont. We have successfully consolidated our operations into one location. We also have just hired Adam Cook as our staff attorney who will be representing Prison Legal News …
Dozens of CIA “Ghost” Detainees Unaccounted For by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A U.S. Dept. of Justice memo, released in April 2009, indicated the CIA had 94 people in secret prisons scattered around the world as of mid-2005, and the agency had “employed enhanced techniques to varying degrees in …
ACLU Report Applauds Michigan’s Efforts to Reduce Prison Population by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A November 2009 report by Elizabeth Alexander, Director of the National Prison Project of the ACLU, explores the history and effects of over-incarceration in Michigan and how the state has managed to reduce its …
Report on Prison Privatization Plagued with Political Connections, Conflicts of Interest, Faulty Data by On May 21, 2010, the Private Corrections Institute, a non-profit citizen watchdog group that opposes prison privatization, issued a statement sharply criticizing a joint report by the Reason Foundation, a California-based libertarian think-tank that promotes the …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Habeas Hints: Certificate of Appealability by Kent A. Russell by Kent Russell This column is intended to provide “habeas hints” to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus peti-tions as their own attorneys (“in pro per”). The focus of the column is habeas corpus practice under AEDPA, the 1996 …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
$315,000 Settlement in Illegal Arizona Police Strip Search by The City of Scottsdale, Arizona paid $315,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming that a police officer illegally strip searched a citizen after responding to a 911 call. When Heather Tonarelli, 19, and her friend Chris Smith heard loud knocks on Tonarelli’s …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Salt Lake County Agrees to Pay $75,000 to Settle Jail Suicide Suit by On September 15, 2008, Salt Lake County, Utah agreed to pay $75,000 to the family of an ex-cop who killed himself at the Salt Lake County Metro Jail. Arthur Anderson was arrested in January 2006 after his …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
50,000 Illinois Felons Released Without DNA Collection by Approximately 50,000 felons have been released from Illinois prisons and discharged from probation supervision without having their DNA collected, state officials acknowledged in September 2009. Illinois law requires all felons sentenced on or after August 22, 2002 to provide a DNA sample. …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
California Jail Detainee Attacked by Cellmate, Family Accepts $1.85 Million by Michael Brodheim The family of Jimmy Haws has settled a federal lawsuit against Monterey County and county officials for $1.85 million, two years after initiating litigation following an assault against Haws who, while a pretrial detainee at a jail …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Book Review: Anne-Marie Cusac, Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America, 336 pp, Yale University Press, $27.50 by Amy Vanderwarker Anne-Marie Cusac is probing important questions in her book, Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America. What are the underlying social values that have allowed a …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Georgia’s Privatized Probation System Traps the Poor by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As the prison industrial complex has continued to grow, critics of privatization have adamantly warned that it would lead to financial incentives for for-profit companies to keep people ensnared in the criminal justice system. The privatized …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Judge Finds Unconstitutional Conditions at Massachusetts Jail, 11 Years After Suit is Filed by Brandon Sample On September 24, 2009, Suffolk Superior Court Judge John C. Cratsley held in a class-action lawsuit that Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson in Bristol County, Massachusetts was housing prisoners under cruel and unusual conditions. Originally …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Report Details Societal Effects of High School Dropout Rates – Including Incarceration by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “Dropping out of high school [is] an apprenticeship for prison,” said Illinois State Senator Emil Jones at a 2006 Chicago conference on high school dropouts. An October 2009 report issued by …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Ninth Circuit: California Lifers Have No Inherent U.S. Constitutional Right to Parole by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In a major loss for California lifers, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, in an en banc ruling, held that a second-degree murderer who had served 27 years on a …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Argentina: Prisoners Maximiliano Pereyra, 25, and Ariel Diaz, 28, escaped from a maximum security facility in early April 2010. The men eluded capture by stealing full sheep skins and blending in with a large herd of sheep on a nearby ranch. Police said spotting the pair …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
$1,500 Settlement for Wisconsin Prisoner’s Cold Cell Conditions Claim by The Wisconsin Department of Corrections paid $1,500 to settle a prisoner’s lawsuit alleging violations of his Eighth Amendment rights by being subjected to cold cell temperatures. Waupan Correctional Institution prisoner Jevon D. Jackson filed a civil rights action for being …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
California: Budget Cuts Target Rehabilitation Programs by Michael Brodheim Forced to trim its budget by $1.2 billion, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is cutting back on rehabilitative programs that help reduce recidivism. On October 14, 2009, Donovan State Prison closed its “Right Turn” substance abuse program that …
Pennsylvania Judges Involved in Corruption Case Face Liability; 5,000 Convictions Thrown Out by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Pennsylvania U.S. District Court has granted absolute judicial immunity to two former state court judges in a consolidated class-action civil rights suit. That immunity, however, only applied to judicial acts, …
$2,750 Settlement in California Prisoner’s Denial of Exercise Claim by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) paid $2,750 to settle a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment claim for denial of exercise. The May 7, 2008 settlement came in a lawsuit filed by prisoner Terrell Curry. In his third amended complaint, …
Montana State and County Officials May be Liable for Injuries Caused by Private Prisoner Transport Company by The State of Montana and Montana counties may be held liable for mistreatment and injuries caused by private prisoner transportation companies, the Supreme Court of Montana held. Jaydon Paull was arrested in 2003 …
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