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Fifth Circuit Upholds Convictions of Three INS Officers by The Fifth Circuit has upheld the convictions and sentences of three Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) deportation officers for excessive use of force and deliberate indifference to the serious medical needs of a prisoner. Richard Gonzales, Louis Gomez and Carlos Reyna …
Federal Court Rules RFRA Applies to Guantanamo by by Matthew T. Clarke The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. 2000bb, et seq., applied to the detention facilities at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Shafiq …
PRISON IS A CENTRAL FEATURE OF PALESTINIAN LIFE by Audrey Bomse, Esq. Since 1967, when the West Bank and Gaza were first occupied by Israel, over 650,000 Palestinians have been detained for resisting the Israeli Occupation by political, military and other means. This constitutes approximately 20% of the total Palestinian …
Federal Prison Guard Suspended Indefinitely for Active Duty Assault in Iraq by Former Metropolitan Detention Center (New York) federal prison guard Gary Pittman sought review of a 2006 Merit Systems Protection Board's (Board) affirmation of his release from federal employment upon return from active military duty in Iraq. He alleged …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Maryland Juvenile Justice Official Resigns Over Past Abuse Allegations by David Reutter Just seven months after he was hired as director over Maryland’s juvenile detention facilities, Chris Perkins, 38, resigned his $76,000 a year position when a Montana judge unsealed a report that found Perkins had abused children at a …
$64,900 Award in Arkansas Excessive Force Claim; Warden Held Not Liable by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a judgment against the warden of Arkansas’ Cummins Unit, finding he did not have sufficient knowledge that the guards under his supervision were inflicting …
Article • August 15, 2008
Losing Brutality Suit in State Court Bars Federal Claim by The plaintiff lost his use of force claim in the state Court of Claims; the court held that the preponderance of evidence showed that the officers followed DOCS routine. That decision precludes the plaintiff from relitigating the use of force …
Jail Guards Get Qualified Immunity for Beating, Pepper Spraying Prisoner Who Commits Suicide by The decedent was arrested for public intoxication; there was a fight when he was booked, resulting in his being sprayed with pepper spray or other chemical restraint. The officers carried him to a cell and sprayed …
Class Certified in Conditions Suit at SD Juvenile Prison by Plaintiffs challenged conditions in a juvenile training school, including the use of mechanical restraints, strip searches by opposite sex guards, excessive force, arbitrary lockdown or isolation, lack of disciplinary due process, etc. The court certifies a class of a present …
Prison Beating Claim Subject to Exhaustion by Use of force claims are prison conditions claims for purposes of exhaustion. At 1365: The court treats exhaustion as jurisdictional, interpreting a line in Alexander v. Hawk for more than it probably is worth and ignoring all contrary case law. A statement from …
Article • August 15, 2008
Excessive Force Kansas Juvenile Death Case Settled for $185,000 by A 17-year-old Kansas prisoner’s estate was paid $185,000 to settle claims related to his death. Mr. Mapes, a 17-year-old juvenile detainee, had an altercation with a guard, who restrained him by handcuffing him and sitting on his chest. Mapes died …
PA Prisoner’s Civil Rights Action Viable Because Factual Dispute Exists by Vincent Cortlessa, a Pennsylvania state prisoner, sued guards and Primecare Medical, a private health care company, in federal district court after the guards beat him and the health care company failed to provide adequate care. He argued that these …
McGriff v. Hall, FL, Plf Second Request for Inspection, Guard Excessive Force, 2008 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA PENSACOLA DIVISION VINCENT McGRIFF, Plaintiff, v. CASE NO. 3:07-cv-00085-RV-MD CORRECTIONS OFFICER C.L. HALL and CORRECTIONS OFFICER R.A. COWAN, Defendants. PLAINTIFF’S SECOND REQUEST FOR INSPECTION COMES …
Squalor, Corruption Cause Cancellation of GEO Group’s TYC Contract by Gary Hunter When Texas Youth Commission (TYC) ombudsman Will Harrell toured the privately-operated Coke County Juvenile Justice Center in Bronte, Texas on September 24, 2007, he found children sleeping on dirty bed sheets, walls covered with smeared feces, urine-stained walls …
Once Again, Former Florida DOC Secretary Faces Liability in Prisoner Beating; Case Settled for $400,000 by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the former warden of the Florida State Prison (FSP) was not entitled to qualified immunity in a civil rights …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
Two BOP Guards, One Beaten Prisoner: One Guilty Plea, One Acquittal by Disparate outcomes resulting from charges brought against two federal prison guards accused of assaulting a prisoner reveal the public’s lackluster attitude toward such abuse. The charges stemmed from the Sept. 29, 2004 beating of prisoner John Clark, who …
No Safety or Security for Maryland Prisoners by Michael Rigby Twenty-five guards have been fired amid allegations that they beat prisoners at two Maryland prisons. The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) initially terminated the employment of eight guards on April 4, 2008. Another nine were fired …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
Ohio Prisoner Wins $4,525 Award For Assault By Guard by On May 12, 2007, the Court of Claims of Ohio issued a judgment in favor of an Ohio state prisoner awarding him $4,525 for an assault by a guard. Daniel Booth, an Ohio state prisoner, was working in the kitchen …
Article • July 15, 2008
Massachusetts Action to Compel Medical Treatment Dismissed; Lacked Eighth Amendment Claim, Diagnosis by Massachusetts State pro se prisoner Kenneth Mocks brought an action to compel the State Department of Corrections Director of Health Services, John Noonan, to provide allegedly needed medical care. Also named as a defendant, but judicially dismissed, …
$250,000 Awarded To Virginia Guard After Stabbing By Prisoner Upheld by Virginia State pro se prisoner Lament Douglas appealed a prison guard's counterclaim grant and the dismissal of the denial of medical care allegations in a federal action resulting from a 1999 mutually injurious altercation. The judgment was affirmed. Douglas …
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