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Article • May 12, 2016
Medicare Again Embarrassed by Funding Drugs For Prisoners by Derek Gilna At a time when both federal and state governments are struggling to pay their bills, a new government report by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) reveals that Medicare has improperly paid out …
Central California Women’s Prison Criticized for Inadequate Medical Care by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A 57-page report issued under the auspices of a federal district court in Plata v. Brown strongly criticizing the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) has highlighted the problems that the overcrowded California prison system has …
Article • May 12, 2016
Spokane County Facing Overcrowding Crisis in Crumbling Jail by Christopher Zoukis Spokane County (WA) is facing an overcrowding crisis at its 28-year-old jail, which is in desperate need of renovation as it processes nearly double the annual bookings it was designed to handle. While Spokane County's overcrowding problem is hardly …
Article • May 12, 2016
New Ohio Jail Regulations Limit Prisoners to Shower Every Other Day, Two Meals a Day on Weekends by Christopher Zoukis An Ohio regulatory panel imposed new standards for the 90 full-service jails in the state, which detain some 20,000 prisoners in the state's county and municipal jails. On April 15, …
Article • May 12, 2016
Former NJ Prosecutor Disbarred After Imprisonment by Christopher Zoukis A former Essex County (NJ) prosecutor and municipal judge has been barred from practicing law by the State Supreme Court.  Clifford Minor, 68, who in 2011 was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment in the United States District Court for the District …
DOJ Increases Budget Even as Americans Tire of Costs of Drug War by Derek Gilna Sometimes the federal government just can’t help itself.  At a time when the majority of Americans still feel that their country is headed in the wrong direction, and have expressed their weariness of the “war …
Article • May 12, 2016
Proposals Aim to End Debtor’s Prison in Pennsylvania by David Reutter Pennsylvania courts are frequently imprisoning people who are unable to pay fines. Proposed rule changes aim to end debtor’s prisons, but the real problem may be a lack of oversight for the local courts that oversee such cases. Ann …
Article • May 12, 2016
Maine Legislators Not Informed Of Murder At Secure Mental Health Unit Occurring Before Funding Vote by Christopher Zoukis Members of the Maine Legislature voted to enlarge the Mental Health Unit at Maine State Prison's Supermax facility last August, doubling its size to 32 beds.  What they did not know when …
Article • May 12, 2016
Louisiana Drug Offender Program Leaves $5 Million Shortfall by David Reutter A 2013 law passed by Louisiana lawmakers was expected to save $6 million by diverting drug offenders to treatment and shortening the prison sentences of such offenders by having them complete a drug treatment program. The law has not …
Washington’s McNeil Island Prison Workers Pose Unique Problem by Gary Hunter Washington state legislators face a unique problem with the prison workers it uses to maintain McNeil Island economy. Juveniles from the Oakridge Community group home work in groups of two to six as dockworkers. The youths are paid $7.16 …
Article • May 12, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Escapes
Colorado Sheriff’s Deputy Sentenced for Helping a Prisoner Escape by Colorado Sheriff’s Deputy Sentenced for Helping a Prisoner Escape      On April 7, 2013, Colorado prisoner Feliz Trujillo walked out of the Denver Detention Center unchallenged, dressed in a police uniform. Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Andrews supplied Trujillo with the disguise …
Article • May 12, 2016
Texas Remains Leader in Exonerations of Wrongfully Convicted by Derek Gilna A new report by a national prisoner-rights organization says that once again the state of Texas led the nation in 2013 in exonerations, with 13 cases, and Illinois and New York were not far behind with 9 and 8, …
USP Allenwood Prisoner Wins Over $775,000 in Deliberate Indifference Claim by Christopher Zoukis Nunzio DeCarlo, a federal prisoner serving a 20-year sentence at the United States Penitentiary Allenwood, Pennsylvania for racketeering prevailed on a deliberate indifference and medical neglect claim against the United States of America. He was awarded over …
U.S. District Court Judge Awards Prisoner $1 in FCI Phoenix Retaliation Suit by Christopher Zoukis Federal District Court Judge Earl H. Carroll found that prisoner Nancy Ann Blum was retaliated against by Federal Correctional Institution Phoenix Warden C. E. Floyd and awarded her $1.00. Blum, a prisoner at the women's …
Article • May 12, 2016
Prisoner Settles for $10,000 in Slip and Fall at FCI Elkton by Christopher Zoukis William L. Bonhart, a federal prisoner housed at Federal Correctional Institution Elkton, Ohio settled his negligence claim related to a slip and fall on the stairs of his housing unit. According to Bonhart's complaint, filed on …
Prison Guard Re-Hired by Bureau of Prisons After Discriminatory Firing by Christopher Zoukis Connie L. Thomas, a prison guard at Federal Correctional Institution Bastrop, Texas, agreed to settle her Title VII Civil Rights Act Lawsuit for discrimination on the basis of sex against the Federal Bureau of Prisons. She had …
Memphis Police Officer Settles Negligence Suit Against USA by Christopher Zoukis City of Memphis Police Department officer Michael Cockerell and the United States of America agreed to settle a negligence claim brought by Cockerell relating to an obstacle course accident in April, 1998 at a Federal Bureau of Prisons training …
Federal Prisoner Awarded $7,500 After Beating by Goon Squad by Christopher Zoukis Marion Bryant, Jr., a federal prisoner housed at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution Florence, Colorado, received $7,500.00 in a lawsuit for damages against several prison officials who allegedly assaulted him on two occasions in October, 1995. In the …
FCI Phoenix Physician's Assistant Settles EEOC Discrimination Claim by Christopher Zoukis Cynthia O. Sumayo settled an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) racial discrimination claim against the Federal Bureau of Prisons on March 21, 2001. Sumayo agreed to accept back pay for 21 days, to remain resigned from her position as …
FCI Bastrop Prison Guard Settles EEOC Racial Discrimination Suit Against DOJ by Christopher Zoukis Charles Drew Quarles, a veteran prison guard stationed at Federal Correctional Institution Bastrop, Texas settled his claim for racial discrimination with the Department of Justice in April, 2002. Mr. Quarles agreed to accept the restoration of …
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