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$1 Million Settlement in Oklahoma City Jail Fatal Prisoner Beating Suit by Matt Clarke by Oklahoma County approved a $1 million settlement in a civil rights suit involving a prisoner who ...
. Idaho), Case No. 1:11-cv-00579-REB. That case has been settled. Conditions of confinement at the jail had also been the subject of a previous ACLU-assisted federal class-action lawsuit alleging, among ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Filed under: Food
Court pointed out that NRS 209.382(1) requires that each prisoner receive a “healthful diet.” Section (1)(b) requires the CMO to “periodically examine” and report to the board ...
. Dixon argued that the filing of a claim was permissive and thus not the exclusive remedy for injured prisoners to seek compensation. “(a) Right to file. - (1) An injured inmate may file a claim ...
Article • March 15, 2013
(487 per 100,000). During the same time period, females were imprisoned at the rate of 1 in 703 for blacks, 1 in 1,356 for Hispanics and 1 in 1,987 for whites. Private prisons accounted for 129,336 (8 ...
Jail Prisoner’s Death Results in $1 Million Judgment against Texas County by Matthew Clarke On October 22, 2015, a federal jury awarded $1 million to the survivors and estate of a prisoner ...
Article • May 8, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
in a cycle of debt, endless probation extensions and jail. The suit, filed on October 1, 2015 by Equal Justice Under Law, alleged PCC took over Rutherford County’s probation system and the county paid ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Filed under: Parole, Parole Conditions
on the PC date. Otherwise the Board defers parole consideration for two years. A prisoner may request an early PC hearing under ORS 144.228(1)(c). To obtain such a hearing, the prisoner must show &ldquo ...
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
granting or denying PCR “must clearly state the grounds on which the case was determined, and whether a state or federal question was presented and decided.” ORS 138.640(1). Quoting Datt v. Hill ...
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
, euphemistically called “commissions,” to prisons and jails in exchange for lucrative monopoly phone service contracts. [See, e.g.: PLN, Dec. 2013, p.1; April 2011, p.1]. As it always does, GTL fought ...
Article • September 18, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
related to removing the disability of infancy (i.e., being underage). Brink then filed an interlocutory appeal. The Fifth Circuit held that Miss.Code.Ann. § 15-1-59 provides that the statute ...
Article • December 3, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
crimes and imposed at different times. Under Section 17-22.5-403(1), a prisoner is eligible for parole after serving 50 percent of the sentence. On May 13, 2003, Jeffrey T. Nowak began serving an eight ...
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
Racial Discrimination Costs Michigan DOC Over $1 Million by David Reutter Racial Discrimination Costs Michigan DOC Over $1 Million by David Reutter Last year, the Michigan Department ...
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
Minnesota County Jail Pays $1 Million in Medical Neglect Case by Lonnie Burton Minnesota County Jail Pays $1 Million in Medical Neglect Case by Lonnie Burton In a settlement that is believed ...
Article • February 15, 2012
Politics as Unusual: Senate President Crosses the Line by Randy Berg Politics as Unusual: Florida Senate President Crosses the Line by Randall C. Berg, Jr. On February 1, Florida Senate ...
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
and reasonable doubt determinations when misdemeanors are reduced to violations – a ruling that was subsequently affirmed by the state Supreme Court. Under ORS 161.566(1), Oregon prosecutors may treat most ...
Article • October 15, 2015
of treatment records[]” resides in W.I.C. section 6603, subsection (c)(1), which “allows the [State] access to treatment record information, insofar as that information is contained in an updated ...
. At around 1:30 a.m. the next day, Brasswell awoke to have a drink of water and eat two apples. He also decided to kill Kirkland. Brasswell later explained that he thought Kirkland was God and wanted his ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
agreed to pay $230,000 to Prison Legal News to settle a federal lawsuit challenging unconstitutional restrictions on prisoners’ mail at the Spokane County Jail. On September 1, 2010, new policies were ...
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
as in the federal prison system. They seek to address the growing recognition that 1) the principal justifications for incarceration may be substantially undermined when a prisoner becomes “too ill or cognitively ...
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