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$11.3 Million Jury Award for Former Colorado Jail Prisoner by Matthew Clarke A federal jury awarded a former Jefferson County Detention Center prisoner more than $11 million against the sheriff and the jail’s privately-contracted medical provider, Correctional Healthcare Companies (CHC) – now Correct Care Solutions – after he was denied …
Lifetime Registration of Low-level Sex Offenders found Excessive, Unconstitutional in New Hampshire by The New Hampshire Supreme Court held in February 2015 that requiring lifetime registration without review of the risk that low-level sex offenders present to the public is unconstitutional. The Court ordered that such offenders must be provided …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
New Federal Law that Brands Sex Offenders’ Passports Faces Court Challenge by Derek Gilna   First it was the so-called “War on Drugs,” complete with military-themed anti-drug task forces and disproportionately long prison sentences primarily reserved for poor people of color, which had little impact on U.S. drug consumption. Now …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: Food, Eighth Amendment
Use of Nutraloaf on the Decline in U.S. Prisons by Christopher Zoukis After decades of using food as a means of discipline, prison officials across the country are increasingly turning away from punitive diets as a response to misbehavior by prisoners. One food that has been commonly used as punishment …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Idaho Supreme Court, Asserts “Federal Supremacy” by Derek Gilna Melene James sued the City of Boise and other defendants in Idaho state court in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, alleging assault, battery, false arrest, wrongful imprisonment and other claims against city police officers, but failed …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Texas Parole Records Mistake Could Cost Taxpayers Millions by Gary Hunter Prisoners in Texas and their families are still feeling the impact of a botched Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) policy change in 2012 that led to the destruction of documents for some 86,000 parole-eligible prisoners, whose files were …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
2015 Annual Anti-Private Prison Awards Announced by On March 1, 2016, the Private Corrections Institute (PCI), a non-profit citizen watchdog organization, announced its 2015 awardees for individual activism, organizational advocacy and excellence in news reporting related to the private prison industry. PCI opposes the privatization of correctional services, including the …
Settlement in California Jail Suit Includes $4.8 Million in Attorney Fees, Costs by Derek Gilna After four prisoners committed suicide in the Salinas branch of the Monterey County, California jail system within a five-year period, a class-action lawsuit was filed in 2013 against both the jail and California Forensic Medical …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
California Lifers Paroled in Record Numbers by Christopher Zoukis Prisoners serving life sentences in California have been paroled at a record rate since Governor Jerry Brown took office in January 2011 – a positive trend in the view of many advocacy groups, but one that causes worry among victims’ rights …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: Telephone Rates
D.C. Circuit Court Partially Stays FCC Order Capping Prison and Jail Phone Rates by Over 1.5 million families with loved ones in state and federal prisons will experience significant financial relief with respect to the costs of Inmate Calling Services (ICS) beginning March 17, 2016, despite the best efforts of …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: On October 28, 2015, Maricopa County youth detention guard Patrice Dawson was arrested on felony charges of sexual misconduct. Dawson, who supervised juvenile offenders, was accused of having sexual relations with an underage prisoner; she was fired from the department after confessing to the relationship. …
Article • March 31, 2016
Holder Orders U.S. Attorneys Not to Use Appeal Waivers by Derek Gilna Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder followed up his announcement restricting the usage of 851’s to coerce plea bargains with an announcement directing, not suggesting, that all U.S. Attorneys refrain from asking for appeal and habeas waivers in …
Article • March 31, 2016
Bids for Florida DOC Video Visitation Technology Result in Lawsuit by On March 7, 2014, the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) released a request for proposal (RFP) seeking a five-year contract with a vendor to install telecommunications services in its prisons. Proposals were submitted by Century Link to Public Communications, …
Article • March 31, 2016
Prisoner’s Suicide Costs Los Angeles County $450,000 by The County of Los Angeles paid $350,000 to settle a federal civil rights action alleging the indifference of jail staff to the serious medical needs of prisoner Steven Cardenas resulted in his death by suicide. Cardenas was sentenced in May 2007 to …
Article • March 31, 2016
New Jersey’s SOMA Violates Ex Post Facto Prohibitions by Mark Wilson The New Jersey Supreme Court held that the retroactive application of the 2007 Sex Offender Monitoring Act (SOMA) violates state and federal ex post facto prohibitions. In 1986, George Riley was convicted of sex offenses against a child and …
Article • March 31, 2016
Iowa Court Effectively Bars Lifer From Spending Any Money While In Prison by Christopher Zoukis Tracey Richter, serving a life sentence at the Mitchellville women's prison in Iowa, learned in April 2014 that she faces a new punishment as to her 2001 murder conviction: a garnishment order from the state …
Brief • March 31, 2016
Filed under: Excessive Force
Balle v. City of Corpus Christi, TX,Settlement, Excessive Force, 2016 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made by and among the following: • • • • Adam Balle; The City of Corpus Christi and its insurer Star Insurance Company; CCPD Officer Alberto Salinas; CCPD Officer Benjamin Perriraz; The individuals …
Williams v. Snohomish County, WA, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death TASER, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-00455-RSL Document 4-17 Filed 03/31/16 Page 1 of 13 1 Honorable Judge Hollis Hill 2 3 4 5 6 7 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF KING 8 9 …
Brief • March 31, 2016
ACLU Michigan v. Livingston County et al, MI, Order, Livingston Co Jail post-card only mail policy, 2016 2:14-cv-11213-DPH-RSW Doc # 82 Filed 03/31/16 Pg 1 of 20 Pg ID 1206 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FUND OF MICHIGAN, Civil Action No. …
Brief • March 31, 2016
Nealman v. Laughlin, PA, Memorandum on Motions, Medical Negligence and Wrongful Death from Suicide, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-01579-CCC Document 47 Filed 08/31/16 Page 1 of 34 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA TAWNA Z. NEALMAN, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Shelley …
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