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Michigan DOC Sex Abuse Suit Nets Nearly $4 Million by Roger Smith On February 7, 2000, Michigan DOC officials agreed to settle a lawsuit with 32 women prisoners for $3,787,000 in damages, costs, and attorney fees. The women sued in a Michigan federal district court after being sexually abused by …
Brief • July 31, 2001
Witherspoon v. Pierce County, WA, Settlement, Jail Guard Rape, 2001 RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the Undersigned, being 01 lawful age, lor sole consideration 01 FIFTEEN THOUSAND and Non 00 Dollars ($15,000.00) to be paid to SHAWNETTE WITHERSPOON AND TIM R. TESH, HER ATTORNEY …
Texas Prisoner Takes Hostages by On January 5th at approximately 10:30 pm a Texas prisoner used a fake gun to back down an armed guard and hold an entire SWAT team at bay for over an hour. Dekenya Nelson used a hairbrush, soap, a deodorant bottle, and pages from the …
$1.4 Million Awarded to Raped Alaska Women Prisoners by $1.4 Million Awarded To Raped Alaska Women Prisoners On January 22, 2001 an Anchorage, Alaska superior court jury awarded nearly $1.4 million to five women in a civil action arising from their being sexually assaulted by a guard at an Anchorage …
Women Behind Bars by Silja JA Talvi It's the kind of statistic that deserves repeated mention: America's prisons and jails now hold just under two million persons, or 1 in every 142 U.S. residents. To put America's incarceration rates into perspective, it's worth bearing in mind from 1990 to 2000, …
$3 Million Award Not Excessive in Prisoner Beating Death by The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a $778,000 verdict and $2.2 million punitive damage award against Shelby County, Tenn. deputy sheriff Rhett Shearin and life prisoner Jerry Ellis in a county jail beating death where Shearin …
Washington DOC Hit with almost $50 Million in Verdicts and Settlements in Parole Victim Suits by Paul Wright In a four-month period between September, 2000 and January, 2001, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) was hit with separate jury verdicts for $22.4 and $15 million and settled two additional cases …
Texas Prisoner Raped By Wackenhut Guard Entitled To Discovery Protection by An appeals court in Texas has held that, under the Texas rape victims shield laws, Rule 412, 509(c)(1) and 510(b)(1), Texas Rules of Evidence, a prisoner who was raped by a guard and is suing Wackenhut may not be …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
South Carolina Rapes Exposed by Bill Dunne South Carolina is reaping a crop of corruption and scandal from the desolate fields of its prison system. Predatory guards wield power with few checks on their using it to seek gratification through exploitation and oppression. Prisoners, especially women, are stripped of the …
Mystery Surrounds Texas Prison Rape/Suicide by A prisoner at the French Robertson Unit near Abilene, TX, hanged himself August 16, 2000, shortly after sexually assaulting a female prison employee, prison authorities say. A few minutes after 4:00 p.m., the female recreational staff (whose name and age were not released) confronted …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Consent No Defense For Guard Accused of Raping Prisoner by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in Delaware has held that a prison guard may not use consent as a defense in a suit by a prisoner alleging he raped her. Dorothy Carrigan, a Delaware state prisoner, filed …
$1.18 Million in Santa Clara Co. Sexual Assault/Harassment Suit by $1.18 Million In Santa Clara Co. Sexual Assault/Harassment Suit Female prisoners were awarded a total of $1,180,000 in damages and attorney's fees in the settlement of a suit filed against the Santa Clara County, California, Board of Supervisors and Department …
A.I. Reports on US Compliance with UN Convention Against Torture by Julia Lutsky In May 2000, a United States government delegation appeared before the UN Committee against Torture in Geneva to present its first report on the implementation of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading …
Brief • January 29, 2001
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Qualified Immunity Denied in CO Rape Case; Suit Settled for $70,000 by In an unpublished ruling, the Tenth Circuit has denied qualified immunity to prison officials who failed to protect a prisoner from being raped by another prisoner. Marvin Gray, a "large and powerful individual with a violent past," was …
Sexual Assault, Beatings State Claim by The court of appeals for the Second circuit held that a district court erred when it, sua sponte, dismissed a prisoner's claim that he was beaten and sexually assaulted by guards. The court also held that the lower court erred when it dismissed the …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Deviant Doctors Dumped on Prisoners by How does a psychiatrist come by the "qualifications" required to work in a state prison? Not all prison doctors have questionable pedigrees, but the case of Dr. Valentino Andres is all too common. According to a California prisoner and PLN subscriber, Dr. Andres is …
Counsel Awarded High EAJA Fee Despite Contingency Fee in BOP Rape Suit by Mark Cook Counsel Awarded High EAJA Fee Despite Contingency Fee in BOP Rape suit By Mark Cook The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held: (1) prisoners' action was not one sounding in tort, …
SC Prisoners Settle Rape Suits by On October 16, 1999, an unidentified former woman prisoner settled a lawsuit for $115,000. The woman claimed that in 1995 while she was imprisoned at the Women's Correctional Center in Broad River, South Carolina, prison guard Anthony Green raped her and South Carolina prison …
Wackenhut Wracked by Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ronald Young Wackenhut Wracked By Sexual Abuse Scandals by Ron Young After a decade as a leading operator of corporate-owned prisons, Wackenhut Corrections has become a prisoner of its own problems. In New Mexico, a 500-page legislative report written by five consultants calls …
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