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Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Federal Suit Over Wisconsin Suicide Attempt Settles for Millions by Michael Rigby On February 22, 2007, a lawsuit against employees of the Monroe County Jail in Wisconsin settled for between $6,100,000 and $13,100,000. The suit alleged deliberate indifference in a suicide attempt that left a prisoner permanently disabled In 2002, …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
$100,000 Settlement in Missouri Jail Prisoner’s Methamphetamine Overdose Death by $100,000 Settlement in Missouri Jail Prisoner's Methamphetamine Overdose Death When arrested during a traffic stop on June 4, 2005, 20-year-old Sheena Crawford ingested methamphetamine. Upon being booked into Missouri's Pettis County Jail, Crawford advised guards Jennifer Meyer and Clarence McGuldrick …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
New York Prisoner Awarded $4,250 for Knee Injury While Shackled by On March 19, 2007, a court of claims in Rochester, New York, award $4,250 to a state prisoner who fell and injured his knee while walking to a transport van in leg shackles. State prisoner Earl Martin, 54, fell …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
$90,000 Awarded to New York Prisoner for Delay of Surgery by A New York Court of Claims has awarded a prisoner $90,000 in a medical malpractice claim stemming from prison personnel delaying surgery, causing lasting injury and pain. The claim was brought by Sing Sing Correctional Facility prisoner Jonathan D. …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Nevada Jail Strip Searches Before Release on Own Recognizance Unconstitutional by A Nevada federal district court has held that the Washoe County Sheriff Department?s (WCSD) policy of strip-searching all arrestees who self-surrender and are then released on their own recognizance (OR) is unconstitutional. Before the Court was a summary judgment …
Alabama Judge Resigns Amid Prisoner Spanking Allegations and Judicial Improprieties by In the face of a looming ethics trial and allegations that he spanked male prisoners, Alabama's Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas has resigned. Thomas had been on paid suspension since March 2007 while he awaited an October 29 …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Lawsuit Exposes Jail Limbo for Mentally Incompetent Defendants in Texas by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to a lawsuit filed by a non-profit group, Texas is facing a shortage of mental hospital beds that leaves hundreds of mentally-incompetent criminal defendants stranded in jails awaiting treatment. Texas has a total …
BOP Removes Religious Books; Capitulates After Public Outrage, Lawsuit by In June 2007, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) began removing thousands of religious books from its prison chapels. The purge of religious literature, which occurred nationwide, was part of a long-delayed post-September 11 directive intended to prevent radical Islamic …
Missouri Ordered to Pay Prisoner's $250,000 Judgment Plus Fees and Costs for Sexual Assaults by Work Supervisor by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On June 29, 2007, the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled that the state must pay a $250,000 judgment awarded in federal district court to a prisoner …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
BOP Must Provide Prisoner's FOIA Request in Electronic Format by The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has held that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) must provide a prisoner with information requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the format requested by the prisoner, which includes …
Second Circuit Rejects New York’s Interlocutory Appeal of Prisoner's $7.65 Million Failure-to-Protect Jury Verdict by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected a belated attempt by the New York Department of Corrections (NYDOC) to invoke a claim of qualified immunity to thwart a …
Transsexuals Treated Poorly in New York Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) has issued a report on the treatment of transgender and intersex people in New York state men?s prisons. That report finds that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) prisoners experience …
Article • January 15, 2008
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California Lifer’s Governor-Parole-Reversal Tossed by State Court by Marvin Mentor California Lifer's Governor-Parole-Reversal Tossed by State Court by Marvin Mentor A decision by Governor Schwarzenegger to reverse the Board of Parole Hearing's (BPH) grant of parole to an infirm, 82-year-old lifer was itself reversed by the California Court of Appeal. …
Article • January 15, 2008
Nebraska Tort Law Notice Inapplicable to Medical Contractor by In partially reversing a Nebraska federal district court's grant of summary judgment, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held the Nebraska State Tort Claims Act (NSTCA) does not apply to contracted medical service providers. That ruling came in the appeal …
Videotape Confidentiality Claim Requires Specifics of Reasoning for Review by A New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, has held that a generalized confidentiality assertion by the Department of Corrections (DOC) was improper, and the DOC must present sufficient evidence to enable the court to review its confidentiality claim. The ruling …
Article • January 15, 2008
Washington Strip Search Statute Narrowly Construed; Inapplicable to Arrestees Confined Pending Release by The Washington State Court of Appeals held that state law does not authorize the automatic strip search of arrestees in custody who are pending release on bail or personal recognizance. Abra Plemmons was charged in Pierce County, …
Article • January 15, 2008
Settlement Involving Public Funds Discloseable Absent Contractual Confidentiality or Statutorily Protected Provisions by An anonymous Pennsylvania husband (plaintiff) filed a motion to seal his petition for settlement approval resulting from a malpractice suit following his wife's death. The court denied his motion because the information was made public upon the …
Article • January 15, 2008
Non-English Speaking Fed Prisoner Entitled to Representative at Prison Disciplinary Hearing by In 1976, Aharon Ron, a federal prisoner in Lexington, Kentucky, was found hiding in a barn with his visitor. He was infracted for being in an unauthorized area. Ron didn't understand English very well and, when presented with …
Article • January 15, 2008
Repatriated Federal Prisoner's Sentence Properly Calculated Under American Law by Sonny Odili, a federal prisoner, was sentenced to 100 months in a Panamanian prison after being caught grinding over 7,000 grams of cocaine so it could be smuggled into the U.S. He cooperated with Panamanian authorities in another prosecution but …
Article • January 15, 2008
Federal Prison Must Disclose Part of Investigation Manual by The federal prison at Forrest City, Arkansas (Prison) suspended for one day an employee represented by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). The AFGE requested the Special Investigative Supervisor Manual (Manual), which the Prison refused to disclose. An administrative law …
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