DNA Keeps Overturning Convictions, But Spike in Exonerations Owed to Other Factors by Joe Watson Nicole Harris, Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown have lived through their own nightmares of injustice. All three were wrongfully convicted of the heinous murders of children. Combined, they spent nearly 70 years in prison …
Meriden, Connecticut Police Officer Remains in Prison as Appeal Denied by Derek Gilna In May, 2010, Evan Cossette, a former Meriden police officer, pushed a handcuffed and helpless prisoner Pedro Temich backwards into a concrete bench, knocking him unconscious. That was bad enough, but what Officer Cossette did thereafter was …
EEOC Finds White Male BOP Guard Discriminated Against in Promotion Denial by An Administrative Law Judge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found The Bureau of Prisons discriminated against Samuel M. Rissitelli, Jr., “on the basis of his gender (“Male”) and race (“White”)” when he “was not selected for the …
$198,000 Settlement in Officers’ Excessive Force upon Connecticut Man by The City of Bridgeport, Connecticut paid a $198,000 to settle a civil rights action claiming police officers used excessive force during the May 20, 2011, arrest of Orlando Lopez. Lopez led police on a high speed chase after they tried …
Connecticut Prisoner Wins Motion for Sanctions over Destruction of Evidence; Case Settles for $40,000 by Derek Gilna Connecticut state prisoner Tye Thomas won an important pretrial motion that found employees of the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) were “grossly negligent” in failing to preserve key video surveillance footage of assaults …
Williams v. Murphy, CT, Fifth Amended Complaint, 2016 Case 3:13-cv-01154-MPS Document 156 Filed 07/07/16 Page 1 of 11 F'It. E D ?0lb JUL -l P l'0Q UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT i:S DISTRICT COURT II,ARTFORD CT CiVIL NO.: 3:13CV01 I 54 (MPS) RASHAD WILLIAMS V. MAY 1 3,2016 …
Yale Law School - Letter to BOP Director re Prison Phone Access, 2016 ~ 1 Yale Law School ARTHUR LIMAN P U BLIC INTEREST PROGRAM ANNA VANCLEAVE Director Associate Research Scholar October 27, 2016 203 436-3520 anna.vancleave@yale.edu CHRISTINE DONAHUE MULLEN Program Coordinator 203 432-9165 christine.mullen@yale.edu JUDITH RESNIK Arthur Liman Professor …
INS Detention Standards Compliance Audit - York Correctional Institution, Niantic, CT, 2003 MEMORANDUM TO: Anthony S. Tangeman, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner Office of Detention and Removal FROM: Lawyers Without Borders, Inc. Delegation to the York Correctional Institution 1 RE: Report on Observations during a General Tour of the Niantic, CT …
Thomas v. Butkiewicus et al, CT, Settlement, 8th Am, 2016 T-790 P0002/0007 F-822. 05�25�118 12:08 FROM- UNITED STAiE$ DISTRICT COURT . DISTRICT OF CONN�CTICUT . . CfVIL NO, ·3:13CV00747(JCH) TYE THOMAS ,. . v. 1 DAVE BUTKIEWICUS, ET AL. SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL REI.J:ASE \. ' I ,• , . …
Connecticut State Prisoner Settles with DOC, Receives Cash and Art Supplies by Derek Gilna Ian Cooke, a Connecticut state prisoner, filed a federal action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 to protest his lack of medical and psychiatric treatment while he was in custody awaiting trial, has settled with the Connecticut Department …
Second Circuit: Truth of Arrest Remains Despite Connecticut “Erasure” Law by Mark Wilson The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that Connecticut’s “Erasure Statute” does not render factually-true statements about a person’s arrest false. Connecticut law allows for the destruction of arrest records if an individual is found not guilty, …
Thomas. v. Butkiewicus, CT, Ruling re: Plaintiff's Motion for Sanctions, Spoliation of Evidence, 2016 Case 3:13-cv-00747-JCH Document 134 Filed 04/29/16 Page 1 of 41 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT : : : : : : : : : TYE THOMAS, Plaintiff, v. DAVE BUTKIEWICUS et al., Defendants. CIVIL …
Wayne World v. Correctional Managed Health Care, CT, medical malpractice and neglect complaint, 2016 r!! 1 of 10 Case 3:16-cv-00519-JCH Document 1 Filed 04/01/16 Page UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT tr'layne Prisoner Civil lJorld Number: March 22 2016 \rS ?,25 ÇLU st7 -rd? ?¡l!, ( ,.) Correctíonal Managed …
Inmate Visits - Directives, CT DOC, 2004 State of Connecticut Department of Correction ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVE Approved By Directive Number 10.6 Effective Date Page 1 of 11 8/15/2006 Supersedes Inmate Visits, dated 6/15/2004 Title Inmate Visits Section 5(E)(1)(a) on page 6 updated on 11/14/2006. 1. Policy. The Department of Correction shall …
Senate Letter to Director of FBOP re relocation of female inmates Danbury FCI, US Senate, 2013 tinitnl �tatrs �rnatr WASHINGTON. DC 20510 October 4, 2013 The Honorable Charles E. Samuels, Jr. Director Federal Bureau of Prisons 320 First Street NW Washington, DC 20534 Dear Director Samuels: Thank you for your …
CT Juvenile Training School & Pueblo Unit, Office of the Child Advocate, 2015 S TA T E O F C O N N E C T I C U T OFFICE OF THE CHILD ADVOCATE INVESTIGATIVE FACILITY REPORT CONNECTICUT JUVENILE TRAINING SCHOOL AND PUEBLO UNIT July 22, 2015 Principal Investigators, …
Correctional Mental Health Best Practices, 9th Cir Corrections Summit, 2015 Correctional Mental Health: Best Practices: What Works? Presentation to the 2015 Ninth Circuit Corrections Summit Robert L Trestman PhD MD Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Nursing Executive Director, Correctional Managed Health Care Interim Director, Center for Public Health and Health …
