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Reflections on Katrina’s First Year: The Story of Chaos and Continuing Abuse in One of America’s Worst Justice Systems by Bob Williams Reflections on Katrina's First Year: The Story of Chaos and Continuing Abuse in One of America's Worst Justice Systems by Bob Williams As America reflected on Hurricane Katrina's …
No Qualified Immunity for Michigan Prisoner’s Heat-Dehydration Death by No Qualified Immunity for Michigan Prisoner's Heat-Dehydration Death The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to eleven prison officials in the isolation, dehydration and death of a Michigan prisoner. A "heat alert" was issued for Ionia …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
Wisconsin Must Install Air Conditioning in Supermax by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order requiring prison officials to take immediate steps to air condition the cells of Wisconsin's supermax prison. In 2000, two prisoners confined in the Supermax prison in Boschobel, Wisconsin brought suit alleging …
Settlements Reached In Alabama Women Prisoners' Class-Action Suit by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 23, 2004, U. S. District Judge Myron Thompson signed a settlement order in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit brought by prisoners at three Alabama Department of Corrections women's prisons challenging their conditions of confinement. The suit …
Court Holds Temperatures on Florida's Death Row Constitutional; Class Action Exhaustion Explained by David Reutter By David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Florida District Court's order denying that prisoners' cell temperatures on Florida's death row constitute cruel and unusual punishment. This civil rights action was …
Texas Boot Camp Denied Immunity for Ignoring Serious Medical Needs by Texas Boot Camp Denied Immunity for Ignoring Serious Medical Needs The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of official immunity for boot camp operators who were negligent and deliberately indifferent to a …
Court Continues Oversight and Orders Corrections in Georgia Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter "The Court is totally out of patience with the assurances and promises that compliance will be achieved" with the Final Settlement Agreement signed on January 24, 2000. So said Judge Shoeb, U.S. District Court …
Detainees Positive Response, FBI, 2004 | Detainees Positive Responses 1. W . SUMMARY CODED CATEGO ares OF JUSTIFICATION CATEGORIES INFORMATIONWITHHELI! S ' l f I INFORlV_1ATION_ Category Category."b! ! AGENCY PERSONNEL RULES AND PRACTICES b! !-1 Internal FBITelephone Numbers. ' Category h! ! CLEARLY UNWARRANTED PERSONAL i g INVASION OF …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Excessive Heat Still Plagues Baltimore Women Detainees by Bob Williams Despite a 2002 federal district court Consent Order finding conditions at the Women's Detention Center of the Baltimore City Detention Center (WDC) unconstitutional due to excessive heat and despite an injunction issued to immediately remedy the problem, WDC women continue …
Mississippi Death Row Conditions Unconstitutional; Sweeping Reforms Ordered by Bob Williams Mississippi Death Row Conditions Unconstitutional; Sweeping Reforms Ordered by Bob Williams Hailed as the broadest ruling ever is-sued by a federal judge in a death row conditions of confinement case, and a precedent setting breakthrough in prisoners' rights, conditions …
Phoenix Sheriff Arpaio Liable for Tent City Assault, Prisoner Awarded $635,532 by The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict awarding a prisoner compensatory damages totaling $440,532 and punitive damages totaling $195,000, against Maricopa County, Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, his wife, and other defendants, for failing to protect him from …
Alabama's Women Prisoners Moved to Louisiana to Ease Overcrowding by Alabama's Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women at Wetumpka was built in 1942 to house 364 prisoners. In 2002, Tutwiler's population rose beyond 1,000 with overcrowding so severe that a group of women prisoners sought relief by filing a lawsuit in …
Washington Jail Sued Over Conditions by Lonnie Burton On February 25, 2002, a county jail prisoner in Port Hadlock, Washington brought a class action lawsuit against the Jefferson County jail alleging near barbaric jail conditions that include inadequate health care, frigidly cold cells, broken plumbing, flooding, and inadequate clothing and …
Settlement Agreement Reached in Wisconsin Supermax Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) officials settled the 42 USC § 1983 class action civil rights suit brought by seriously mentally ill prisoners housed in the Boscobel, WI Supermax state prison by agreeing not to …
Brief • August 22, 2002
Filed under: Exposure to Heat
Duvall v. Glendening, MD, Consent Order, Excessive Heat, 2002 08 122 102 .. 15:55 FA.X J10 J66 7838 A C L t: ~016 ., IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND ) JEROME DUVALL, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) ) Civil Action No. JFM-94-2541 …
Puerto Rico Prison Officials Fined $10 Million by A federal court in Puerto Rico held prison officials in contempt for failing to comply with court orders governing prison conditions and imposed a contempt sanction of $10 million. More than 20 years ago the court first dealt with prison overcrowding in …
Hitching Post Unconstitutional by David Reutter The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has held that handcuffing a prisoner to a hitching post for prolonged periods violates the Eighth Amendment, but granted guards qualified immunity. Alabama prisoner Larry Hope was assigned to the chain gang at Limestone Correctional Facility …
Maynor v. Morgan County, AL, Consent Decree, Inmate Funds Misappropriation, 2001 Case 5:01-cv-00851-AKK Document 45 Filed 09/25/01 Page 1 of 18 F·- 11'··~ L::. ·-.. r·) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA 01SEP25 PM 3: 32 NORTHEASTERN DMSION U.S. DiS: r.;~: N.O. OF AL …
Alabama Ends Chain Gang Experiment by A federal district court in Alabama has approved a settlement between Alabama state prisoners and the prison system, effectively ending Alabama's flirtation with chain gangs. The court also held that the practice of chaining prisoners to a "hitching post" is unconstitutional, cruel and unusual …
DC Prisoner Wins $175,000 in Conditions Case by David C Fathi by David C. Fathi On January 25, 2001, a federal jury in Washington, D.C. awarded nearly $175,000 to D.C. prisoner Lawrence Caldwell in his challenge to conditions at the District of Columbia's Maximum Security Facility (MSF) in Lorton, Virginia. …
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