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Article • September 7, 2016
Obama's Pardons: Too Few, Too Late, and 'Almost Irrelevant' by Joe Watson Blame Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton or any former president who has abused his pardon power and made it politically inconvenient for future presidents to give clemency to those who deserve it. Blame the career prosecutors in the U.S. …
Article • September 7, 2016
New York Appeals Court Reduces $4M Jury Verdict in Police Excessive Force Case to $1.8M by Lonnie Burton On April 12, 2016, the First Judicial Department of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court awarded $1.8 million to a man for false arrest and malicious prosecution. A jury …
Article • September 7, 2016
Missouri Prisoner's Conviction for Assaulting Guard Upheld on Appeal by Lonnie Burton On May 24, 2016, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, affirmed the conviction of a state prisoner charged with assaulting a Department of Corrections staff member. The length of the sentence imposed for the conviction was not …
Michigan: Suit Against Prison Doctor for Sexual Abuse May Proceed by Lonnie Burton On June 22, 2016, United States District Court Judge Sean F. Cox of the Eastern District of Michigan issued an order adopting a magistrate's recommendation to deny a motion to dismiss filed by a prison doctor who …
Lakewood (WA) Police Department Found in Violation of State Public Records Act by Lonnie Burton On May 25, 2016, Division Two of the Washington State Court of Appeals found that the city of Lakewood, Washington, and the Lakewood Police Department (LPD) improperly withheld documents in a Public Records Act (PRA) …
Article • September 7, 2016
Kentucky Court Upholds Guard's Conviction for Raping Female Prisoners by On June 17, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Kentucky affirmed the conviction of a Carter County deputy sheriff in a case where he forced two female prisoners to perform oral sex on him. Following an investigation by the Kentucky …
Federal Prison Whistleblower Receives $2,400 in Retaliation Complaint by Lonnie Burton On July 17, 2003, a former federal prison employee settled his multiple discrimination and retaliation complaints against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for $2,400. Documents related to the case just recently were released to Prison Legal News as …
Article • September 7, 2016
Delaware: Prisoners Have No Right of Access to Certain DOC Policies; Court Rules Statute Denying Access Constitutional by Lonnie Burton On May 25, 2016, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware upheld the constitutionality of a state statute which prohibits the Department of Correction (DOC) from providing certain …
Article • September 7, 2016
CT: Prisoner’s Eight Year Sentence for Throwing Feces on Guard Affirmed by On April 26, 2016, the Appellate Court of Connecticut upheld the conviction of a prisoner who had thrown "liquid and fecal matter" at a guard's chest. The 3-0 decision affirmed the eight-year sentence imposed by the trial court, …
Arizona Prison Town Gets Money for Nothing from CCA Deal with Feds by Joe Watson In return for, well... nothing, the sun-kissed small town of Eloy, Arizona, is getting paid by the federal government. Already home to an immigrant detention facility about an hour southeast of Phoenix, Eloy recently became …
Arbitrator Awards $1 to Prison Worker in Harassment and Retaliation Claim by Lonnie Burton John K. Faber had been employed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) since 1981. He held the position of Specialty Instructor at the Staff Training Academy (STA) in Artesia, New Mexico, when in 1997 he …
AP: Sex Offenders Especially Vulnerable in California's Prisons by Joe Watson As soon as he arrived at Salinas Valley State Prison in northern California, Alan Ager believed his life was in danger. "The very day they let him into the yard, he was filing complaints, 'Get me the hell out …
$60,000 Plus Back-Pay Awarded to Federal Prison Worker to Settle Discrimination Complaint by Lonnie Burton Jai Mutreja worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) South Central Regional Office in Dallas as an electrical engineer. Mutreja is of Indian descent and had filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of …
China Pledges to Stop Taking Organs from Executed Prisoners by Prison officials in China—where prevailing religious beliefs dictate that humans he buried whole after their death—plan to stop taking organs from thousands of prisoners executed every year. But many doubt the practice will entirely cease because the need for organs …
Brief • September 7, 2016
Strong v. Tessmann, IL, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-04885 Document #: 112 Filed: 09/07/16 Page 1 of 38 PageID #:274 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JASON STRONG, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) LUCIAN TESSMANN, WILLIAM VALKO, …
Brief • September 7, 2016
Filed under: Conspiracy, Money/Property
USA v. Warrick, TX, Indictment, Fraud Conspiracy, 2016 Case 1:16-cr-00074-MAC-ZJH Document 2 Filed 09/07/16 Page 1 of 13 PageID #: 2 Fl LED U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS BEAUMONT DIVISION SEP 07 2016 BY DEPUTY ______________ …
Publication • September 7, 2016
Filed under: Correct Care Solutions
Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Correct Care Solutions, LLC, 2016 coos co UNTY FILING COVER SHEET TO: Coos County Clerk - Filing FROM: Office of Legal Counsel COOS COUNTY, OREGON Commissioners' · Journal CJ 2016-000598 09/07/2016 4 :37:24 PM Please file th e attached document in the County …
China Vows to Finance Mass Incarceration with Public Funds, Not Prison Profits by Despite its atrocious human rights record, China appears to be trying to ensure prisoner safety while at the same time properly financing its prisons. Wu Aiying, China's Minister of Justice, announced in April 2012 while addressing a …
Article • September 6, 2016
Connecticut Town Raises Stink, Sues DOC for Wastewater Plant's Upgrade by The town of Cheshire, Connecticut, has decided it won't take anymore crap from the state's Department of Corrections. A lawsuit filed by Cheshire officials in July 2012 seeks to renegotiate the terms of an agreement with Connecticut's DOC to …
Article • September 6, 2016
South Carolina TV Crew Tails Warden Driving Across State for Free by South Carolina's prison towns might be great places to work, but apparently, the wardens wouldn't want to live there. A TV news crew discovered that, six months after South Carolina's Department of Corrections was caught by a state …
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