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Rockwall, TX Jailers Indicted in Sex-For-Contraband Case by Rockwall, TX Jailers Indicted In Sex-For-Contraband Case Three Rockwall County, Texas jailers were indicted and all plead guilty after allegations that jailers gave drugs and alcohol to female prisoners in exchange for sex. A jail captain also resigned in lieu of prosecution. …
Administrative Exhaustion not Jurisdictional Satisfied by Letters to Defendants by The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit reiterated that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requires administrative exhaustion in all cases, even where prisoners seek money damages not available via prison grievance systems. The court also held that the …
Showing Of Malice Under Eighth Amendment Excessive Force Test Not Required For Sexual Assault Claim by Ronald Young By Ronald Young The court of appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that it was plain error to instruct a jury that, to find a prison guard liable on excessive force claim …
Women in Prison: GAO Report by Julia Lutsky Reviewed by Julia Lutsky During the calendar years 1995 to 1998, approximately 31,400 women prisoners in the three largest U.S. jurisdictions made a total of 506 allegations of staff sexual misconduct; of these only 92, or 18 percent, were sustained. "Because many …
New York Jail Guards Charged with Raping Prisoners by New York Jail Guards Charged With Raping Prisoners On January 26, 2000, Westchester county, New York, jail guards Carlos Aldarondo, 33, Javier Corona, 31, Michael Downey, 39 and Robert Escalera, 39, were charged in Westchester county court with assorted felony charges …
Exhaustion Not Required for Claims of Assault by A federal district court held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) exhaustion requirement does not apply to assault claims. It also held that a cause of action under the Violence Against Women Act, (VAWA), is analogous to a cause of action …
CCA Prison Under Gang Control: Death and Injury Suits Filed by Gary Hunter Two suits were filed against Corrections Corp. of America (CCA) in less than a week. On April 15, 2003 the family of Iulai Amani sued CCA and the state of Hawaii for "wrongful conduct" resulting in Amani's …
City Liable for Jail Sex Shows and Nude Dancing by PLN has extensively reported on the prevalence of sexual assault and sexual harassment of women prisoners in District of Columbia prisons and jails. In "Our Sisters Keepers," by Daniel Burton Rose, [PLN, Feb. 1999] we reported on women prisoners in …
Summary Judgment Reversed on Fact Issues of Guards' Failure to Protect Prisoner by Bob Williams The Seventh Circuit court of appeals has reversed summary judgment where issues of material fact remain concerning guards' deliberate indifference to a prisoner's safety in a failure to protect case. Bryan Case, an Illinois state …
Jury Awards $700,000 to Chicago Jail Worker for Sexual Harassment by On July 2, 2003, a federal jury in Chicago, Illinois, awarded $700,000 in damages to a female employee of the Chicago jail in Illinois who was sexually harassed and assaulted by a male co-worker. Kathleen Kessel, 35, and Beverly …
Guards Fired in Massachusetts Sex Abuse Cases by Four guards were fired from the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston in August and October 1999 on charges that they had sexual contact with female prisoners. One of the prisoners became pregnant in what was described by the Boston Globe …
Virginia DOC Says 'No Pattern' of Sexual Abuse by In 1999 the Virginia Department of Corrections conducted an internal review of 44 complaints of sexual assault, harassment and fraternization between prisoners and staff of the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, all since the prison opened in April 1998. Even though …
$4.1 Million Award In Suit Over Sexual Assault of Prisoners by Official by $4.1 Million Award In Suit Over Sexual Assault of Prisoners By Official by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in Texas has awarded two female prisoners who were the victims of sexual assault by a prison …
Guarding Their Silence: Corcoran Guards Acquitted of Rape by Christian Parenti The acquittal in November, 1999, of four California prison Guards charged with arranging for a young prisoner to be raped by Corcoran State Prison's notorious "Booty Bandit" was the result of a massive legal and political show of force …
Michigan Legislature Kills Class Action Suit by Female Prisoners by Maia Justine Storm In March, 1996, seven women pris- oners filed suit in the Washtenaw County Circuit Court against the Michigan Department of Corrections, Director Kenneth McGinnis, and ten individual wardens and officers. (96-6986 CZ) The complaint alleged that the …
CCA Facility Cited for Sex Scandal by On Sept. 17, 1999, Colorado Dept. of Corrections officials confirmed that they are investigating allegations of brutality, sexual misconduct and drug trafficking involving guards at the CCA-operated Kit Carson Corr. Facility in Burlington, which houses around 650 state prisoners. The investigation began in …
Michigan DOC Settles DOJ Sexual Abuse Lawsuit by Maia Justine Storm This past May, the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) which alleged a pattern and practice of sexual misconduct and invasions of privacy at the women's prisons …
Oregon DOC Liable for Attacks by Parolees by The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a trial court judgment against the Department of Corrections (DOC), concluding that violent crimes committed by a parolee were a reasonably foreseeable consequence of inadequate parole supervision. In 1984, Cal Brown was convicted of assaulting an …
Washington Municipalities Liable for Attacks by Probationers by The Washington state Supreme Court held that municipalities have a duty to protect others from reasonably foreseeable harm resulting from the dangerous propensities of probationers and pretrial releasees under their supervision. In 1990 Barry Krantz raped a 6 year old little girl …
1999 Washington State Legislative Roundup by The 1999 Washington legislature created or amended far too many statutes of interest to our readers to adequately summarize, but here are some highlights: Custodial Misconduct makes it a class C felony for an employee or contract personnel of a correctional agency [or] law …
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