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Article • August 15, 2008
Illinois Police Brutality Suit Settles for $180,000 by The City of Waukegan (Illinois) settled a civil rights action against police for $180,000 after the 2005 macing and beating of concerned citizen Rogelio Rios Castillo. Castillo verbally tried to prevent police from excessively beating an arrestee in front of his home. …
Article • August 15, 2008
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Parole Denied After 33 Years Based on California Prisoner's Original Crimes by California Corrections Secretary James Tilton appealed a Superior Court’s reversal of parole denial to state prisoner Paul Hyde. He argued that Hyde's violent robbery and murders in 1972 and 1973 constituted "some evidence" to support the denial of …
Article • August 15, 2008
AEDPA One Year Time Limitation Applies to Denial of Parole Habeas Petition by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the one-year time limitation set by the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) applies to challenges to a parole board’s denial of parole. The appellate court’s ruling …
Article • August 15, 2008
AEDPA One Year Time Limitation Applies to Denial of Parole Habeas Petition by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the one-year time limitation set by the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) applies to challenges to a parole board’s denial of parole. The appellate court’s ruling …
Alabama Prisoner’s Estate Loses Product Liability Suit by Louis Horn, an Alabama state prisoner, was killed by three other prisoners who picked his cell door lock and beat him to death. His estate filed a product liability case in state court against Southern Steel Co., the firm that made the …
Oregon DOC Food Manager Takes Over $1 Million in Bribes, Feeds Prisoners “Distressed” Food by Mark Wilson During a 2002 interview, Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) Food Services Administrator Farhad “Fred” Monem, 49, shook his head in disgust as he criticized government employees who feel a sense of entitlement. “People …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright One of the little noted facts and realities of the massive explosion of mass imprisonment, and the corresponding increase in money spent on prisons and jails, is the inherent corruption that accompanies it. This month’s cover story on the Oregon DOC’s corrupt food manager, …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Los Angeles County Pays $40,000 Damages to Assaulted Prisoner Informant Witness by The County of Los Angeles, California paid $40,000 to a prisoner who was badly beaten in the county jail upon returning from court, by friends of the defendant he had just testified against in a murder trial. In …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
C O R R E C T I O N by Since PLN began publishing in 1990, we have never had to make a retraction based on our own factual mistake. While we’ve run corrections before, they were based on errors in the original news articles or reports that were …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Deal to Reconsider 1,000 Paroles Scotched When New York Governor Capitulates Over Cop Killer’s Case by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Faced with a pending federal class action lawsuit brought by New York state prisoners seeking relief from being denied parole based solely on the nature of their crimes, …
Phoenix New Times Executives Arrested for Reporting About Sheriff Joe Arpaio by Matthew T. Clarke by Matt Clarke On the night of October 18, 2007, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, founders and owners of the Phoenix New Times, an independent weekly publication in Phoenix, Arizona, were arrested and charged with …
Mississippi Jail Prisoner Wins $3,000,000 in Failure to Protect Suit by The Hinds County Board of Supervisors (Board) agreed to settle a three-million-dollar federal lawsuit filed by a former prisoner in the Hinds County Jail after he was left paralyzed by a beating at the hands of other prisoners in …
Oklahoma Pays $844,000 for Comprehensive Performance Audit of DOC by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 4, 2008, MGT of America, Inc. released a performance audit of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC). The 285-page report cost $844,000 and provided several clues as to how the prison system could …
$300,000 Settlement in Murder of College Student by Released Sexual Predator by The State of Minnesota has paid $300,000 to the family of a University of North Dakota student who was kidnapped, raped and killed by a recently-released sexual predator. The payment was offered as a pre-litigation settlement before a …
Human Rights Watch Report: Most Sex Offender Laws Misguided and Ineffective by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2007, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US. The report concluded that most sex offender laws are ineffective and misguided in that …
More Prisoners Murdered in Texas Federal Prisons by Gary Hunter Until February 13, 2008, Ronald Joseph, 29, was serving time at a federal penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas for firearm and drug-related convictions. On that date he was found dead in his cell; a preliminary autopsy report indicated he had been …
Fifth Circuit: Federal Prisoner Loses Retaliation Suit but U.S. Attorney Sanctioned by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A federal prisoner in Texas sued prison officials for retaliating against him for filing grievances. While the court found for the defendants, it nonetheless sanctioned two Assistant U.S. Attorneys $500 for procedural …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis, Damages
Illinois Prisoners Win $8 Million for Failure to Treat Hep C by A federal jury has awarded four Illinois prisoners over $2 million apiece in a civil rights action filed against state prison officials for denying treatment for Hepatitis C (Hep C). In 2005, Edward J. Roe, Anthony P. Stasiak, …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Over $6 Million Awarded in Oakland, California Parolee’s False Arrest Suit by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A federal jury awarded $6,058,000 in damages to a parolee and his girlfriend for outrageous conduct by Oakland, California city police (OPD) when they broke into his residence, told him they had …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Washington Inter-Prison Property-Shipping-Fee Class Action Suit Settles For $1,262,500 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Between 1995 and 2005, Washington State Department of Corrections (WADOC) policy 440.000 required prisoners who were being transferred between WADOC prisons to pre-pay the shipping costs of their personal property in excess of two …
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