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Article • May 15, 2007
Ohio Prison Officials get Qualified Immunity in Guard Strip Searches by The plaintiff, a prison employee, was strip searched without reasonable suspicion of illegal activity. The reasonable suspicion standard was not clearly established and the defendants are entitled to qualified immunity. Three cases from other circuits did not establish the …
Qualified Immunity for Body Cavity Search of Prison Guard by The plaintiff correctional employee was subjected to a visual body cavity search after a prisoner informant said that the employee was going to smuggle in some drugs in a tampon. Conducting the search was within the outer perimeter of the …
Article • May 15, 2007
$183,000 Awarded To California Deputy District Attorney Attacked During Parole Hearing by $183,000 Awarded To California Deputy District Attorney Attacked During Parole Hearing In 1980, a California Deputy District Attorney (Savitt) was attacked and stabbed multiple times by a maximum security prisoner during a parole hearing. The prisoner had a …
Article • May 15, 2007
White Police Man's Discrimination Suit Dismissed by A white deputy sheriff terminated for excessive force against a black arrestee after a high-speed chase failed to prove racial discrimination absent evidence that he was treated more harshly than others because of his race. The fact that he might have been treated …
$2,000,000 Jury Verdict in Negligence Suit in Hospital for Failure to Protect by When a New York City police officer took an arrestee to St. Vincent's Hospital for treatment of superficial hear wounds, emergency room personnel instructed the officer to remove the arrestee's handcuffs because he would be considered a …
Article • May 15, 2007
WA Prisoners Who Assault Guards Knowing That They're Guards are Guilty of Custodial Assault by WA Prisoners Who Assault Guards Knowing That They're Guards are Guilty of Custodial Assault While incarcerated in the Spokane County Jail, Perry Ashelman splashed urine under his cell door onto Shaun Campbell's shoes and pants. …
Article • May 15, 2007
GA Prisoner Gets 5 Years Fed Time for Mailing Threatening Letter to Judge by In March of 2005, Tracey Dudley, a Georgia State prisoner, mailed a threatening letter from the prison to Judge Louisa Abbot. In it was talcum powder which he claimed was anthrax. Half of the courthouse was …
Article • May 15, 2007
CA Prison Supervisors Not Entitled to Pay Raise Identical to that of Subordinates by CA Prison Supervisors Not Entitled to Pay Raise Identical to that of Subordinates In 2003-04, California prison guards received a pay raise of 6.8%. Due to financial problems with the state Dept. of Personnel Admin. (DPA), …
PA Female Lt. Awarded $37,234 in Faulty Sex Termination by A female Lieutenant at the Allegheny County Jail was awarded $37,234 and reinstated to her job after a County Personnel Board found she was improperly terminated for allegedly having sex with a prisoner. While in the Allegheny County Jail, prisoner …
Article • May 15, 2007
Doctor Employed by Private Medical Company's Firing Upheld by The plaintiff physician complained that she was fired by a private corporation providing medical care to prisoners because she gave a prisoner a 7-Up to drink. Prison officials denied her further access to the prison and the corporation cited that fact …
Exhaustion Required in Title VII Suits by The plaintiff asserted hostile work environment and violation of merit system claims under Title VII, and defendants asserted she did not exhaust them. However, the plaintiff said that she had grieved her alleged retaliatory discharge and that the arbitrator heard all the underlying …
Corruption and Violence Plague South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Prisons by Gary Hunter Corruption and Violence Plague South Africa's Post-Apartheid Prisons by Gary Hunter Corruption plagues South African (SA) prisons at every level as prisoners suffer violence and torture from both prisoners and warders alike. Former high court judge Thabani Jali was …
Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
Sensitive Illinois DOC Personnel Records Compromised by The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) recently mishandled personnel information on ?virtually all? of its 13,500 employees. Additionally, the Department of Transportation lost data on 40 of its employees. An angry public employees? union demanded to know when the breach occurred, what had …
Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
California Corrections Standards Authority Chided by Inspector General for Failure to Develop Prison Guard Selection and Training Standards by Marvin Mentor The California Inspector General (IG) reviewed progress in October, 2006 on his seven earlier (2005) recommendations to the 19-member Corrections Standards Authority pertaining to development of selection and training …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
California DOC Wage Audit: Guards Overcharged State $12 Million for Union Business Leave by Marvin Mentor California?s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the state Legislature?s watchdog over prison operations, reviewed guards? use of leave for union-related business and found that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) accounting controls …
Still More Murder and Mayhem in Maryland by Michael Rigby "Lock them up and throw away the key." Like the rest of the nation, this overriding penal philosophy in Maryland has led to a criminal justice system that is defunct at every level. The state's adult prisons are "in crisis." …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Fulton County Reinstates Deputies Fired in Killing Rampage by After the March 11, 2005 killing rampage by Brian G. Nichols at an Atlanta courthouse, Fulton County Sheriff Myron Freeman talked tough about punishing officers who failed to perform their duties or lied during the ensuing investigation. He initially followed through …
Cleaning up Mississippi’s Supermax: Conditions Suit Settled by David Reutter Cleaning up Mississippi's Supermax: Conditions Suit Settled by David M. Reutter A class action lawsuit filed on behalf of prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman charged that the totality of conditions are so "hellish" that it makes "Unit …
200 Dead in Brazil Prison Uprisings, Street Violence by Gary Hunter In May 2006, approximately 200 people were killed in Sao Paulo, Brazil as gang members of the Primerio Comando da Capital ? the First Capital Command, known by its Portuguese initials, PCC ? clashed with police in the streets …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
New York Prison Worker Not Kidnapped/Raped Long Enough For Compensation by Gary Hunter On December 28, 2004, a 52-year old female employee at New York?s Camp Cass juvenile facility was accosted by 16-year old Michael Elston who choked her, banged her head against a wall and raped her at knife-point. …
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