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Brief • March 28, 2011
Henderson v. Bentley, AL, Complaint, HIV Prisoner Discrimination, 2011 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHERN DIVISION LOUIS HENDERSON, DANA HARLEY, DARRELL ROBINSON, DWIGHT SMITH, ALBERT KNOX, ROOSEVELT JAMES, JOHN mCKS, APRIL STAGNER, ASHLEY DOTSON, and MELINDA WASHINGTON, on behalf of themselves and of …
Norwood v. Zhang, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2011 Case: 1:10-cv-03143 Document #: 40 Filed: 03/25/11 Page 1 of 7 PageID #:272 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHER DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION WILLIE NORWOOD, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
Georgia Eases Sex Offender Restrictions in Face of Federal Court Challenge by Laws that restrict where sex offenders can live have been popular in legislatures throughout the U.S. With much fanfare and hoopla, Georgia passed one of the nation’s toughest sex offender residency statutes on July 1, 2006. That law …
Band-aid Applied to Florida’s Homeless Sex Offender Colony Falls Off by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When Florida’s Miami-Dade County adopted an ordinance that extended the 1,000-foot state law residency restrictions for sex offenders to 2,500 feet, the estimated 100 sex offenders who return to Miami-Dade each year after …
Wisconsin Civil Commitment Patients Denied Minimum Wage by The Wisconsin Court of Appeals held on March 31, 2010 that civilly committed patients are not entitled to minimum wage for the work they perform. Hung Nam Tran and Eric L. Fankhauser are civilly committed patients confined at the Wisconsin Resource Center …
Article • March 15, 2011
$100,000 Settlement in DC Guard’s Racial Discrimination Suit by The District of Columbia (DC) paid $100,000 to settle an unlawful discrimination suit filed by DC Department of Corrections (DOC) employee Oliver Amaechi. Amaechi, a Nigerian immigrant, alleged the DOC had a policy of discriminating against African or Caribbean born employees. …
Article • March 15, 2011
$7,500 Settlement in Discrimination, Harassment and Wrongful Termination Suit of D.C. Instructor by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $7,500 to settle an employment racial discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination suit filed by Susan C. Law. Law, a white female, worked as a Training Instructor at D.C.’s Lorton Training Academy …
Article • March 15, 2011
$2,000 Settlement in Confiscation of DC Prisoner’s Medical Braces by The District of Columbia (DC) paid $2,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by prisoner Patrick Brady, claiming a guard confiscated his medical braces. The confiscation occurred on July 27, 1997, which was three days after doctors at the DC General …
Illinois Guard’s Wrongful Termination Suit Dismissed; Guard Terminated for Sex with Prisoners by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a Black Illinois guard’s wrongful termination action. In March or April 2003, Nicole Burns, a female detainee at the Cook County, Illinois jail reported that …
Illinois Guard Terminated for Sex with Prisoners; Wrongful Termination Suit Dismissed by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of an Illinois African-American guard’s wrongful termination action. In March or April 2003, Nicole Burns, a female detainee at the Cook County, Illinois jail reported that guards …
Article • March 15, 2011
Violation of Washington SSOSA Need Not be Willful by The En Banc Washington state Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s revocation of a sex offender’s suspended sentence under Washington’s Special Sex Offender Sentencing Alternative (SSOSA). In 2000, David Elvin McCormick was convicted of raping his 11-year-old developmentally disabled granddaughter. The …
Article • March 15, 2011
Washington Paraplegic’s Suit Settled for $2,750, Single Cell and Specialist Consult by The State of Washington paid a paraplegic prisoner $250 in costs, and $2,500 in attorney’s fees to settle a federal lawsuit alleging inadequate medical care, pain management and living conditions. The State also agreed to a specialist consult, …
D.C. Employee Fired for Delivering Unopened Letter Settles for $30,000 by On March 26, 2004, The District of Columbia paid $30,000 to settle with a Department of Corrections employee who was fired for attempting to have an unopened letter delivered to a prisoner. The suit, filed in the U.S. District …
Eighth Circuit Dismisses Appeal Where Parties Attempted to Manufacture Jurisdiction by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has rejected an attempt by the parties in a suit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to manufacture appellate jurisdiction for an interlocutory appeal from a district court’s grant of …
Georgia Sex Offender Registration Act Unconstitutionally Vague As Applied to Homeless Offenders Without a Route or Street Address by Georgia’s sex offender registration law is unconstitutionally vague as applied to homeless sex offenders, the Supreme Court of Georgia decided October 27, 2008. William Santos was charged with violating Georgia’s sex …
Brief • February 16, 2011
Stinson v. Washington DOC, WA, Complaint, Workplace Discrimination Against Homosexual Guard, 2011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SUPERIOR COURT FOR 'I'IlE STATE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF PIERCE 9 10 CARA STINSON, Individually, NO. Plaintiff, 11 12 13 14 COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF …
Study Finds Discriminatory Jury Selection in Southern States by Derek Gilna A study by the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit legal organization based in Montgomery, Alabama, has found widespread discrimination in jury selection in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. The discriminatory practices …
Study: CIA Doctors ‘Gave Green Light to Torture’ by Muriel Kane A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reveals that physicians with the CIA’s Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of detainees than was previously recognized. As …
Blind Texas Prisoner Dies after Confrontation with Guards by Thord “Catfish “ Dockray, 42, a blind Texas state prisoner with a history of mental illness, died on May 13, 2010 following a violent altercation with prison guards. Dockray was housed alone in a cell in the medical wing of the …
Onerous Ohio Sex Offender Restrictions Drive Some Underground by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Public officials in Cleveland, Ohio have noticed that some registered sex offenders are dropping out of sight. When the officials attempted to confirm the offenders’ registered addresses, they found they didn’t live there. The reason for …
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