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Brief • June 6, 2016
Garcia v. City of New York, NY, Stipulation, NYPD disclosure of records police personnel files, 2016 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COL|NTY OF BRONX MAURICE GARCIA Plaintiff(s), - against - STIPULATION Index No.: 305329-2015 THE CITY OF NEW YORK,'LIEUTENANT PATRICK HENNESSY - TAX 901681, CAPTAIN LOUIS DECEGLIE, …
Brief • June 6, 2016
Ross v. Blake, US, Syllabus, guard brutality grievance, 2015 (Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2015 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the …
Brief • June 6, 2016
Levy v. Harrington & City of Buffalo, NY, Plf Trial Memo, police misconduct false arrest wrongful imprisonment, 2016 Case 1:09-cv-00720-LJV-HBS Document 60 Filed 06/06/16 Page 1 of 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK JUSTIN LEVY, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No.: 09-CV-0720A RAYMOND HARRINGTON and CITY OF …
Publication • June 6, 2016
PREA Audit Report, National PREA Resource Center, 2016 PREA AUDIT REPORT ☐ Interim ☒ Final ADULT PRISONS & JAILS Date of report: June 6, 2016 Auditor Information Auditor name: Amy Fairbanks Address: P. O. Box 16054 Lansing, MI 48901 Email: fairbaa@comcast.net Telephone number: (517) 303-4081 Date of facility visit: May …
List of major for-profit prison services and companies U.S. FOR-PROFIT PRIVATIZED CORRECTIONAL SERVICES January 2017 – Not a full listing Facility Operations CoreCivic (Corrections Corp. of America) The GEO Group Management & Training Corp. Community Education Centers LaSalle Corrections Emerald Companies Medical / Mental Health Care Corizon Health (Beecken Petty …
Incarceration, Justice and the Planet: How the Fight Against Toxic Prisons May Shape the Future of Environmentalism by Panagioti Tsolkas Prisons inspire little in terms of natural wonder. It might be a weed rises through a crack and blooms for a moment. It might be a prisoner notices. But prisoners, …
U.S. Prisons Filled with America’s Mentally Ill by Derek Gilna In April 2014, the National Sheriffs’ Association and Treatment Advocacy Center released a comprehensive joint report titled “The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey.” Authored by both experts in mental illness and law …
$8,000 Settlement for Medical Maltreatment by BOP; Court Finds Experts Not Required by Derek Gilna Federal prisoner Michael Alan Crooker filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act alleging “malicious prosecution, negligence, and medical maltreatment by the United States Marshal’s Service (USMS) and the United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP).” …
Three California Jail Guards Charged in “Fight Club” Case by Scott Neu, the San Francisco deputy identified as the ringleader of a gladiator-style jailhouse “fight club,” was charged with four felony counts of assault under color of authority, four felony counts of making threats, four misdemeanor counts of inhumanity to …
No Place for Old Men by Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill — at enormous expense. by Dick J. Reavis, Texas Observer Benito Alonzo is a short, 140-pound 80-year-old. His quiet-spoken manner, drooping jowls and gray hair, trimmed in a buzz, give him the appearance …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
California: City Council Hears Proposal to Repurpose Empty Prison as Pot Farm by The Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga houses around 2,300 prisoners and employs about 1,000 area residents, but the local economy was hit hard by the 2011 closure of the smaller, city-owned Claremont Custody Center. In a …
San Bernardino County Jail Named in Federal Lawsuit by Christopher Zoukis On May 7, 2014, six detainees held at the West Valley Detention Center in San Bernardino filed a civil rights complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Their lawsuit alleged that they were repeatedly …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Illinois Prisoner Wins $125,000 Civil Rights Jury Verdict by Derek Gilna Illinois state prisoner Lincoln Lee had a bad feeling about his new cellmate, who was bigger and younger than him, and prone to repeated verbal threats. The Illinois River Correctional Center, like most state prisons, was overcrowded – so …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Seventh Circuit Reverses Denial of Former Prison Guard’s Marriage to Prisoner by Derek Gilna Rebecca Riker, a kitchen supervisor at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Indiana, became romantically involved with prisoner Paul Vest, who also worked in the kitchen. When their relationship was exposed, Riker resigned her position and …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Bail Bond Payment Plans Face Scrutiny, Criticism in New Jersey by Joe Watson In May 2014, New Jersey’s State Commission of Investigation (SCI) concluded a “broad-based” probe into the state’s bail bond industry for allowing criminal defendants to get out of jail with lower upfront costs and weekly or monthly …
Private Prison Firms Reap Large Profits from Immigration Detention by Gary Hunter Federal immigrant detention has long been a boon to private prison companies Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, the nation’s two largest private prison firms, both of which trade on the New York Stock Exchange. …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Illinois Prisoner’s § 1983 Action by Derek Gilna William Nally, incarcerated at the Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, was given eleven diabetes tests by prison medical staff over a period of five years starting in 2005. Despite the fact that several of those tests showed …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Crime, Incarceration Rates Decline in New York City by Mark Wilson Over the past five years the crime rate has steadily declined in New York City. Meanwhile, the city’s incarceration rate has decreased, too. “New York’s crime rate has gone down more quickly and more steeply than the rest of …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Tenth Circuit Affirms Murder Conviction Called into Question by New DNA Evidence by Derek Gilna In 2005, federal prisoner Mark Jordan was convicted of the June 1999 recreation-yard murder of fellow prisoner David Stone at USP Florence in Florence, Colorado. In 2012, another prisoner who had been present at the …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Fifth Circuit Holds Texas Prisoner Has Right to Grow “Fist-Length” Beard by Pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Holt v. Hobbs, 135 S.Ct. 853 (2015) [PLN, Aug. 2015, p.50], the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) changed its grooming policy on August 1, 2015. The new policy …
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