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Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Ohio Jail Prisoner’s Excessive Force Lawsuit Settles For $100,000 by On May 24, 2007, an Ohio prisoner who claimed he suffered permanent back injury after guards beat him at the Delaware County Jail accepted a $100,000 settlement to end his lawsuit against the county and others. Plaintiff Steven Foster, 23, …
Article • June 15, 2008
The Torture Election: Fighting for the Soul of the American Psychological Association by Jeffrey S. Kaye By Jeffrey S. Kaye, AlterNet Posted on April 23, 2008 Printed on June 23, 2008 In a surprising turn of events, New York psychologist Steven Reisner won over 30% of the votes in the …
Article • June 15, 2008
Ohio Prisoner May be Entitled Under PRA to Documents Identifying Guards Who Beat Him by Timothy Conley, an Ohio state prisoner, petitioned for a Writ of Mandamus in state court to compel prison officials to disclose documents identifying guards who had beaten him several times. The trial court dismissed the …
Brief • May 16, 2008
Reuther v. Chapman, MI, Discovery Order, Jail Guard Brutality, 2008 2:07-cv-12249-GER-MKM Doc # 53 Filed 05/16/08 Pg 1 of 8 Pg ID 533 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION ROBERT REUTHER, Plaintiff, CIVIL ACTION NO. 07-CV-12249-DT VS. DISTRICT JUDGE GERALD E. ROSEN LONNIE CHAPMAN, et al., …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
$100,000 Damage Award Vacated for Seven-Year Service Delay by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a $100,000 excessive force judgment, and ordered dismissal of the action due to a seven-year delay in service on the defendants. On August 9, 1995, Robert Efaw was confined in the Navajo County Jail …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Georgia Prisoner Assaulted By Jailer Awarded $5,300 by On June 21, 2007, a federal jury in Georgia awarded $5,300 to a prisoner who claimed he was assaulted by a jailer while imprisoned in the Dougherty County Jail. Plaintiff Kelvin Boyd alleged that in 2000 jailer Santos Ruiz-Gonzalez hit him on …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Michigan Prisoner Beaten By Guards Awarded $6,004 by On November 17, 2006, a Michigan jury awarded state prisoner Robert Brooks $6,004 for a beating he received at the hands of two guards. Brooks, who was serving time in a maximum-security Michigan prison for a 1982 murder, claimed he was attacked …
$200,000 Settlement for Negligent Medical Care/ Treatment of Federal Prisoner by The Bureau of Prisons has agreed to pay Beatrice Codianni-Robles, a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Connecticut, $200,000 to settle a federal tort claims suit. After concluding a job on the prison yard on September 12, …
Fired California Guard’s Termination Suit Reinstated by Fired California Guard's Termination Suit Reinstated The plaintiff jailer was terminated for excessive force and mistreatment of women and minority prisoners without being allowed to see the documents on which the decision was based. He was reinstated by a state court with back …
Three Murders in Three Months at Mississippi Control Unit Lead to Improvements And New Consent Decree by "Taken as a whole, I am convinced the conditions in Unit 32 are as bad as anywhere in the whole country," observed Margaret Winter, a lawyer with the National Prison Project of the …
Meet Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Villainous Nominee for a Lifetime Judgeship by Silja JA Talvi This exclusive article was first published on Alternet, at: www.alternet.org/rights/84388 and www.alternet.org/rights/84491 By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet Posted on May 5, 2008, Printed on May 7, 2008 Editor's Note: In 2004, Estelle Richardson's lifeless and …
Egurido v. Geo Group Inc., NY, Complaint, Guard Brutality, 2008 08 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK .J i) REX EGURIDO. r AP? 11lainliff, 1388 • ZOO~ .~OMI'LAINT BR:OOl<lYN OFFICE: Index No. -agaillst- THE GEO GROUP,INC., WILLIAM ZERILLO, "JOliN" WALL, "JANE" MARK, "JANE" ANDREWS, and .101 IN …
Fabian et al v. Dunn et al, TX, Complaint, juvenile immigrant guard brutality denial of counsel, 2008
Brief • March 20, 2008
Lugo v. City of New York, NY, Complaint, Excessive Force Causing Fractured Orbital, 2008 UNITED STATES DISTRlCT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRlCT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------------------------)C JUAN PABLO LUGO, aJk/a NALDO REYES, Plaintiff, - againstCITY OF NEW YORK; Commissioner MARTIN F. HORN; Chief of Department CAROLYN THOMAS; Deputy Commissioner RlCHARD R. WHITE; …
City Of San Leandro, California Pays $395,000 To Family Of Detainee Who Died After 21 Taser Shocks by The two minor children of Jose Perez settled his wrongful death action with the City of San Leandro, California in May 2007 for $395,000. While the children?s mother was also included in …
Brief • February 27, 2008
Ross v. Blake, US, Respondent's Lodging, guard brutality grievance, 2008 No. 15-339 In the Supreme Court of the United States MICHAEL ROSS, Petitioner, v. SHAIDON BLAKE, Respondent. On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit RESPONDENT’S LODGING JEFFREY J. VANDAM Mayer Brown LLP …
Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
Death Sentence: The Feds Throw the Book at King County'sJail as Prisoner Fatalities Skyrocket by Rick Anderson Death Sentence: The Feds Throw the Book at King County's Jail as Prisoner Fatalities Skyrocket by Rick Anderson A few months after two prisoners in the downtown King County Jail in Seattle, Washington …
California Appellate Court Overturns $177,000 Prisoner Beating Verdict by by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeal (4th District) has reversed a $177,000 jury verdict against Orange County and its Sheriff, Michael Carona, finding that no substantial evidence supported the verdict and that the award of punitive damages violated …
First Circuit Upholds Ex-Boston Guard’s 46-Month Prisoner-Abuse Sentence by Matthew Clarke First Circuit Upholds Ex-Boston Guard's 46-Month Prisoner-Abuse Sentence by Matthew T. Clarke The First Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a 46-month prison sentence imposed on a former guard at the Nassau Street Jail in Boston, Massachusetts for beating …
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