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New Jersey Joins Other States in Restricting Internet Use by Sex Offenders by New Jersey Joins Other States in Restricting ?Internet Use by Sex Offenders On December 27, 2007, New Jersey enacted legislation to restrict convicted sex offenders’ Internet use. Acting Governor Richard J. Codey relied on public hysteria over …
Florida DOC Ends Unofficial Transfer-for-Sale Policy by David Reutter by David M. Reutter It has long been an established fact among Florida prisoners that if you wanted a transfer to a certain prison, you could pay well-connected lawyers to make that transfer happen. After Florida then Department of Corrections (FDOC) …
Arizona DOC Guard Reinstated Despite Error Resulting in Prisoner’s Murder by Arizona’s state personnel board has overturned disciplinary actions against two prison employees who were implicated in errors leading to the murder of a prisoner at ASPC Florence. The board determined that although mistakes occurred, they should not have resulted …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Survivors Guide to Medical Research in Prison by Greg Dober When one thinks of all the “Survivor Guides” that could be written for prisoners, the last one that comes to mind is for participating as a trial subject in medical research experiments. Yet medicine is science. Scientific theories and developments …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Perfecting the Death Penalty by David R. Dow When the death penalty was resurrected in 1976, following a brief four-year hiatus, death penalty lawyers made a fateful tactical decision. They decided to abandon the goal of abolition and instead elected to chip away gradually. Rather than arguing that the death …
PLN Wins Kansas Censorship Suit by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby On October 1, 2007, in a lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News (PLN), the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas held that a Kansas prison policy limiting the amount of money prisoners can spend on publications, a …
Judgment in Florida’s Closed Management Conditions Lawsuit Terminated Under the PLRA by David Reutter Judgment in Florida’s Closed Management Conditions Lawsuit Terminated Under the PLRA by David M. Reutter Nearly seven years after it was entered, a Florida federal district court has terminated a revised offer of judgment that was …
Texas Federal Judge Acquits VitaPro Defendants by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 22, 2008, Houston, Texas, federal judge Lynn Hughes acquitted former Texas prison chief James “Andy” Collins, 57, and former president and CEO of VitaPro Foods Yank Barry of federal charges for bribery, money laundering, conspiracy and …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
New Jersey Prisoners’ Jail Escape Leads to Firings and Suicide by Gary Hunter About an hour into his shift on December 15, 2007, Union County, New Jersey jail guard Rudolph Zurick discovered that prisoners Jose Espinosa and Otis Blunt were missing. Zurick immediately took steps to have the jail locked …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
California DOC Whistleblower Promoted to Head of Audit/Compliance Department by California DOC Whistleblower Promoted to Head of Audit/Compliance Department What goes around apparently comes around. In 2004, a 35-year veteran California civil servant received $500,000 in a whistleblower lawsuit against his employer, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), …
Burgeoning Immigration Detainee Population Stresses ICE by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Bush administration’s hard-nosed approach to immigration enforcement has caused an explosion in the immigrant detainee population, which has grown from a daily average of 19,600 in 2005 to 29,700 in 2007. This increase parallels a rise in …
Failure to Treat Immigrant Detainee’s Fatal Penile Cancer Ruled “Beyond Cruel” by John Dannenberg Failure to Treat Immigrant Detainee’s Fatal Penile Cancer Ruled “Beyond Cruel” by John E. Dannenberg A U.S. District Court (C.D. Cal.) has ruled that the repeated failure of U.S. immigration authorities over an eleven-month period to …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Massive Beef Recall Reaches California Prisons by A major meat processor, Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company of Chino, California, recalled 143.3 million pounds of beef in early February 2008 after undercover video showed sick and “downed” cows being forced to get up so they could be processed. Workers were observed prodding …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Virginia Felons Notified of Possible Exculpatory DNA Evidence – Eventually by Gary Hunter Virginia Felons Notified of Possible Exculpatory DNA Evidence – Eventually by Gary Hunter On January 9, 2008, Virginia’s state Forensic Science Board (FSB) voted 6 to 5 against notifying convicted defendants that DNA evidence had been discovered …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Settlement Agreement Reached in Overcrowding Claim Against Florida Jail by Settlement Agreement Reached in Overcrowding Claim Against Florida Jail The parties to a class action suit filed by prisoners at Florida’s St. Lucie County Jail (SLCJ) have reached a settlement. The civil rights complaint alleged constitutional violations caused by overcrowding, …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Physical, Mental and Substance Abuse Problems Fuel Recidivism by by Gary Hunter In February 2008 the Urban Institute Justice Policy Center issued a report detailing three major factors fueling the high recidivism rate in U.S. prisons. These factors included Physical Health and Reentry, Mental Health and Reentry and Substance Abuse …
Former Immigration Detainee Awarded $100,001 Against CSC/Esmor, Plus $137,808 in Attorney’s Fees and Expenses by A federal jury has awarded a former detainee $100,001 against a private company that operated a New Jersey detention center for the U.S. government. The jury found for the plaintiff on her negligent supervision and …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
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CMS Found Liable for Inadequate Hep C Medical Care of Delaware Prisoner by The federal district court in Delaware has held that Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the medical provider for the Delaware Department of Corrections (DDOC), was deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s medical needs. The ruling should come as no …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Vermont DOC Settles Religious Practice Denial Suit For $25,000 by The Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) settled a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by a former prisoner claiming he had been denied traditional food for Jewish holidays that had been donated by an outside philanthropic organization. Gordon Bock, 53, was incarcerated …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
New York Man Wins $640,000 for Unjust Incarceration by The state of New York has agreed to pay $640,000 to a man who it unjustly incarcerated for five years to dismiss the lawsuit he filed after his convictions were vacated because the evidence clearly indicated that he wasn’t involved in …
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