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California: ADA Protections Again Extended to Disabled State Prisoners Held in County Jails by On January 13, 2012, sixteen months following remand from the Ninth Circuit in the case of Armstrong v. Schwarzenegger, U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken issued an order that again extended the protections of the Americans …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
New York Court of Appeals Holds Sex Offense Does Not Prove Parental Neglect by The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, has held that the fact that a defendant was convicted of a sex offense against a minor, was a level-three registered sex offender and had not …
City of Philadelphia v. Corizon, PA, Settlement, PHS Affirmative Action Fraud for City Contracts, 2012
Washington Cop Retaliation Nets $1.65 Million by On September 4, 2008, Vancouver, Washington officials agreed to pay a nationally decorated police officer $1,650,000 to settle racial discrimination and retaliation claims. In 2000, Officer Navin Sharma of the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) filed a racial discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment …
Article • July 15, 2012
Texas Gang Member Lockdown Without Hearing Upheld by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld summary Judgment to prison officials on a Texas prisoner's involuntary administrative segregation claims. In March 2002, Texas prison officials learned that rival Hispanic gangs the Texas Syndicate (TS) and Raza Unida (RU), were planning a …
Article • July 15, 2012
United States District Court in New York Sides with Prisoners in § 1983 Action against Former New York Governor George Pataki and Others by Derek Gilna United States District Court in New York Sides with Prisoners in § 1983 Action against Former New York Governor George Pataki and Others By …
Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow by James Forman, Jr. by James Forman, Jr.* In the last decade, a number of scholars have called the American criminal justice system a new form of Jim Crow. These writers have effectively drawn attention to the injustices created by …
Minnesota Man Settles Lawsuit for $229,500 and Policy Changes to Assist Deaf Arrestees by A deaf Minnesota man has agreed to accept $229,500 and policy changes to settle a lawsuit that alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act (RA) and the Minnesota Human Rights Act …
California Prisoners Seek End to Long-Term Segregation, Oppressive SHU Conditions by There are many forms of political and social protest. They can be purely for the sake of being disruptive or they can aim for resolution of a particular issue. Of course, even when they seek the latter they invariably …
Texas Parole Board Removes Onerous Sex Offender Conditions from 176 Parolees by In November 2011, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles removed the sex offender designations from 176 parolees who were subject to stringent parole restrictions known as Condition “X,” but had never been convicted of a sex offense. …
Yahnke v. County of Kane, IL, Complaint, Employment Discrimination & Retaliation, 2012 Case: 1:12-cv-05151 Document #: 1 Filed: 06/27/12 Page 1 of 11 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION Steven Yahnke, Plaintiff, v. County of Kane, Kane County Sheriff, Patrick …
Michigan Sex Offender’s Suicide Results in Changes to Sex Offender Registry Law by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When 17-year-old Justin Fawcett admitted to having consensual sex with a 14-year-old student at the same high school he attended in West Bloomfield, Michigan, he probably never thought that that youthful dalliance …
Background Checks that Bar Employment of Ex-offenders May Violate Civil Rights by A report by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) released in March 2011 concluded that the growth in background checks by employers, combined with a lack of enforcement of civil rights and consumer protections for an estimated 65 …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
Oregon Increases Sex Offender Registration Requirements by The State of Oregon posts online, in a publicly-accessible registry, information related to around 700 “predatory” or sexually violent sex offenders. A bill introduced in the state legislature in 2011 would have increased the number of sex offenders listed online to more than …
Ninth Circuit Rules that Washington DOC Religious Contractor Not a “State Actor” by Congregation Pidyon Shevuyim, N.A., a private Jewish organization that contracted with the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC), may not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 or the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), the …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
Tenth Circuit Voids Albuquerque’s Attempt to Ban Sex Offenders from Libraries by Derek Gilna In a case of first impression, on January 20, 2012 the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s judgment invalidating an ordinance of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico that prohibited registered sex offenders …
God’s Own Warden: If you ever find yourself inside Louisiana’s Angola prison, Burl Cain will make sure you find Jesus – or regret ever crossing his path by James Ridgeway God’s Own Warden: If you ever find yourself inside Louisiana’s Angola prison, Burl Cain will make sure you find Jesus …
Gupta v. Cate, CA, Complaint, Race-Based Lockdown, 2012 l 2 3 4 RAJ CHRISTOPHER GUPTA AE9278 CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA North Fork Correctional Facility Building GA, Cell 120 1605 East Main Sayre, Oklahoma 73662 PLAINTIFF, In Propria Persona 5 UNITED STATES DISTRIC' 6 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 (Sacramento Division) …
Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases, Journal Article by Sonja Starr, 2012 LAW AND ECONOMICS RESEARCH PAPER SERIES PAPER NO. 12-018 AUGUST 2012 ESTIMATING GENER DISPARITIES IN FEDERAL CRIMINAL CASES SONJA B. STARR THE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK ELECTRONIC PAPER COLLECTION: HTTP://SSRN.COM/ABSTRACT=2144002 FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAM IN …
Hall et al v. Mims, CA, Order Def MTD, jail disabled inmates inadequate health care protection, 2012 Case 1:11-cv-02047-LJO-BAM Document 32 Filed 05/16/12 Page 1 of 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 …
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