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Unlocking America, Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population, The JFA Institute, November 2007, 32 pp. by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Unlocking America is a study on how to approach the task of reducing America’s prison population (“decarceration”) without compromising public safety. Key factors recommended to …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Former North Carolina Lawmaker’s Son Submits Highest Bid, Gets Prison Contract by David Reutter Last year, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation began examining the award of a prison pest control contract to the son of the state’s former House Speaker. The contract raised questions because the winning bid …
Complaint Against Utah DOC for Non-Delivery of PLN Fails Because Defendants Only Negligent; Jail Publication Ban Illegal by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has rejected several Utah-based civil rights complaints concerning the denial of reading material to prisoners, including issues of Prison …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Maryland Juvenile Justice Official Resigns Over Past Abuse Allegations by David Reutter Just seven months after he was hired as director over Maryland’s juvenile detention facilities, Chris Perkins, 38, resigned his $76,000 a year position when a Montana judge unsealed a report that found Perkins had abused children at a …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Pennsylvania Prison Medical Firm’s Performance Called into Question by Dr. Edward Zaloga, co-owner of Correctional Care, Inc. (CCI) of Moosic, Pennsylvania, a firm that provides medical services at the Lackawanna County Prison, had his past called into question when a female prisoner was forced to give birth alone in her …
$64,900 Award in Arkansas Excessive Force Claim; Warden Held Not Liable by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a judgment against the warden of Arkansas’ Cummins Unit, finding he did not have sufficient knowledge that the guards under his supervision were inflicting …
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges to Pay for Grant Fraud by On March 10, 2008, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) agreed to settle a grant fraud case for $300,000. After being promoted to Special Projects Manager of the NCJFCJ, Serena Hulbert requested …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Floor-Sleeping at Los Angeles County Jail Ruled Unconstitutional by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On September 21, 2007, a California U.S. District Court granted summary judgment in favor of a class of prisoners who had been required to sleep on the floor of the Los Angeles County Jail (“Jail”) …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Eighth Circuit: Iowa Prisoner’s Denial-Of-Court-Access Ruling Reversed by The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a district court § 1983 judgment that had found Iowa’s contract attorney arrangement (in lieu of a law library) had denied an Iowa prisoner’s constitutional right of access to the courts. The court also …
Court Orders Attorney General to Allow Law Students Access to Political Prisoners at Federal Supermax by Brandon Sample On January 17, 2008, U.S. District Judge Wiley Y. Daniel granted a preliminary injunction permitting University of Denver law students access to two prisoners housed at the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) Administrative …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Mentally Ill Woman Sues Over Seg-Cell Sex; County Settles for $40,000 by Twenty-nine-year-old Misha Cooper has a long history of mental illness and criminal offenses. In May 2006, she was confined in the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) in Portland, Oregon. Due to her mental health issues she was placed …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
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Alabama Felon Disenfranchisement Limited by The Alabama Supreme Court has voided a Jefferson County Circuit Court’s order that prohibited the state from disenfranchising former prisoners until every felony involving the element of moral turpitude had been catalogued by the state legislature. The ruling resulted from an appeal filed by the …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Three Suicide Suits At Sacramento, California Jail Settled For $1,000,000 by For a total of $1,000,000, California officials settled the wrongful death lawsuits stemming from three prisoner suicides in the Sacramento County jail. Sacramento County Sheriff John McGuiness averred that the agreement to settle should not be construed as evidence …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Muslim Virginia Prisoner Entitled to 2,200 Calories During Ramadan by A federal district court has issued a preliminary injunction requiring the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) to provide a Muslim prisoner with “food items containing 2,200 calories” daily during Ramadan, a month-long period of religious fasting. This action was brought …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Ohio DNA Specimen Law Ruled Not Retroactive by The Ohio Supreme Court held that a state law requiring convicted felons and some misdemeanants to provide DNA specimens could not be applied retroactively to offenders placed on supervised release before the law’s May 2005 effective date. On August 6, 2002, Craig …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Authorities Listen in on Attorney-Client Calls at Jails in FL, CA and TX by David Reutter by David Reutter & Matt Clarke In December 2007, it was reported that an investigator at Florida’s Charlotte County Jail was caught listening to telephone conversations between a prisoner and his attorney. As a …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Illinois Man Falsely Arrested in Attempted Child Abduction Awarded $2 Million by A federal jury has awarded over $2 million to a man who was acquitted of attempting to abduct two young girls. In March 2001, a man approached an eight-year-old girl on the front porch of her home in …
Exonerated Montana Prisoner Sues State, Receives $3.5 Million by In January 2008, the state of Montana settled a lawsuit filed by a former prisoner who had been wrongfully convicted of raping a child, paying him $3.5 million. The settlement was the largest amount the state had ever paid for a …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Court Clerk Fired for Relationship with Prisoner; Bar Complaint Against Federal Prosecutor Exposed Relationship by In August 2007, a deputy clerk at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was fired after an investigation revealed she had a personal relationship with a prisoner who flooded the courts with …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
United Kingdom Creates Foreigner Only Prisons by David Reutter In mid-2007, the United Kingdom (UK) designated two detention facilities to be occupied solely by foreign national prisoners. If the plan is successful, the government intends to expand the practice beyond the Bullwood Hall and Canterbury prisons. The move comes as …
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