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Adams v. CCA, CO, Exhibits Part 1 Plfs Interviews, Prisoner Riot, 2004 EXHIBIT C_ Part one PARTIAL LIST OIG/CCA INTERVIEWS OF PLAINTIFFS Name Bate Number Sean Andrews Kevin Drum Tommy Romero Carl Yens Jared Adams Oto Fanoali (Fanoali Oto) Roy Gibbens Jay Silva Gerard Glieforst Jeremy Willison Brian Skinner Robert …
Fifth Circuit Vacates $70,000 Award Against Texas Prison Officials by Michael Rigby The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated and remanded the jury verdict in a Texas prisoner's failure-to-protect suit because the prisoner had not provided evidence supporting a jury finding of deliberate indifference against prison officials. …
Virginia Prison Drives Women to Depression and Suicide by Gary Hunter Overwhelming depression drove Shawana West to hang herself when she learned that she was being placed in the Structured Living Unit (SLU) at Virginia's Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. While the attempt was unsuccessful it did not fail to …
$1.5 Million Illinois Prison Rape Verdict Overturned by In a 2-to-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturned a jury's $1.5 million verdict in favor of a prisoner who was sexually assaulted by his cellmate. Anthony Riccardo and Juan Garcia were both housed in the segregation …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Pro Se Indiana Prisoner Awarded $100,000 in Failure to Protect Suit by On May 21, 2002, an Indiana federal district court held that state prisoner Robert Pierson was entitled to $100,000 in compensatory damages because prison officials failed to protect him from assault by another prisoner. Pierson, 51, arrived at …
DOJ Investigation: Conditions in Arkansas Prisons Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby Conditions at the McPherson and Grimes Correctional Units in Newport, Arkansas are unconstitutional, the U.S. Department of Justice concluded after an 18-month investigation. According to the investigation report, dated November 25, 2003, investigators found that prisoners at both units experienced …
$13,500 Damages Paid to Two Illegally Detained Washington DOC Prisoners by The Washington state Division of Risk Management (DRM) paid claims totaling $13,000 to two state prisoners who were illegally arrested and incarcerated by the Washington Department of Corrections. Michael Buffington had been sentenced in King County Superior Court to …
City Immune in California Drunk Tank Beating Suit Because Prisoner Was Criminal, Not Civil Detainee by The California Supreme Court ruled that California Govt. Code § 844.6(a)(2) [governmental immunity for injury to prisoner] prevented a city jail detainee who had been beaten by another drunk tank prisoner from maintaining a …
Thirty-Two Years of Resistance: Free the Angola Three! by Shana Griffin by Shana Griffin and Brice White Thirty two years in solitary confinement would be enough to drive many of us to despair. Yet as of April 17, 2004, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 have each …
California Initial Cell Assignments By Race Upheld, U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review by John E Dannenberg California Initial Cell Assignments By Race Upheld, U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the policy of the California Department of Corrections (CDC) …
BOP, FBI Investigations in Texas, Oregon, Arizona, and California Federal Prisons by Michael Rigby BOP, FBI Investigations in Texas, Oregon, Arizona, and California Federal Prisons by Michael Rigby Murder, riots, drug overdoses, and allegations of official corruption have prompted the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the FBI to launch investigations …
Seventh Circuit Remands § 1983 Medical Negligence Suit to State Court by Seventh Circuit Remands § 1983 Medical Negligence Suit to State Court The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals remanded a prisoner's respondent superior (supervisory) medical negligence claim to the Indiana state courts, because although the claim was not …
Qualified Immunity Standards Tightened in Prison Murder Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals brought its law of the Circuit into compliance with recent U.S. Supreme Court case law to add the additional test of "knowing unlawfulness" in Eighth Amendment prisoner …
$500 Paid in WA Failure to Protect Case by Scott W. Skylstad was transferred to another unit within the Washington State Penitentiary after guards received a death threat against him. However, the unit he was moved to was the same one the threat came in the mail from. Despite repeated …
Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies Not Absolute Bar Suit by The United States District Court for the District Court for the District of Columbia has held that although a D.C. prisoner failed to exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the failure may not bar the …
New Jersey: Prisoner Attacked, Rendered Quadriplegic, Settles For $9,700,000 by A former prisoner in the Burlington County (New Jersey) Jail, rendered quadriplegic when his neck was broken in an attack by another prisoner, settled with the county and state individually for a combined total of $9,700,000. Timothy Ryan, 32, was …
Article • December 15, 2003
$728,000 Awarded to Canadian Prisoner Beaten By Fellow Prisoner Leaving Him Legally Blind by $728,000 Awarded to Canadian Prisoner Beaten By Fellow Prisoner Leaving Him Legally Blind Former Alberta, Canada, prisoner Jeremiah McLellan was sentenced as an adult at age 16 for a 1995 robbery that resulted in two deaths. …
Florida Juveniles Get Lost among Transfer Shuffle, Extending Stays in Wasting Money by Florida Juveniles Get Lost among Transfer Shuffle, Extending Stays in Wasting Money By David M. Reutter Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) regularly transfers its wards among several programs, resulting in extended terms of incarceration, which has …
Phoenix Sheriff Arpaio Liable for Tent City Assault, Prisoner Awarded $635,532 by The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict awarding a prisoner compensatory damages totaling $440,532 and punitive damages totaling $195,000, against Maricopa County, Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, his wife, and other defendants, for failing to protect him from …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
Gay Prisoners Not Entitled to Double-Occupancy Cell by Gay Prisoners Not Entitled To Double-Occupancy Cell The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that legitimate penological interests supported a prison policy to restrict homosexual male prisoners to single celled housing while at the same facility yet permitting homosexual female prisoners …
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