Canyon County Jail in Idaho Settles Conditions Suit With Consent Decree and $190,000 in Attorney’s Fees by Brandon Sample On November 12, 2009, Canyon County, Idaho agreed to settle a federal class-action suit against the Canyon County Jail (CCJ) that raised a myriad of claims related to unconstitutional conditions. Filed …
Idaho Supreme Court Vacates No Contact Order Imposed on Sex Offender by On December 29, 2009, the Supreme Court of Idaho vacated a no contact order that precluded a sex offender from having any contact with minors. Brian Cobler was sentenced to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to …
St. Anthony Work Camp, ID Accreditation Report NCCHC 2010 St. Anthony Work Camp, ID Accreditation Report #248 June 25, 2010 The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is dedicated to improving the quality of correctional health services and helping correctional facilities provide effective and efficient care. NCCHC grew out of …
GEO Group Prison Squalor Drives Idaho Prisoner to Suicide: $100,000 Settlement by On September 13, 2009, the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) reached a settlement with the parents of an Idaho state prisoner who was driven to suicide by squalid conditions at a GEO Group-run private prison in Texas, where …
Riggs et al v. Valdez et al, ID, Amended Complaint, ACLU v CCA gladiator school 8th Am, 2010 Case 1:09-cv-00010-BLW Document 16 Filed 03/11/10 Page 1 of 81 STEPHEN L. PEVAR American Civil Liberties Union Foundation 2074 Park Street Hartford, Connecticut 06106 (860) 570-9830 LEA C. COOPER ISB # 3505 …
Settlement in Idaho Jail Condition Class-Action Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 4, 2009, a consent decree was entered in a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of jail prisoners with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over conditions of confinement at the Canyon County …
Supervised Release Period Does Not Begin When Federal Prisoner Is Transferred To Pre-Release Custody by A federal prisoner's period of supervised release does not commence upon transfer to a halfway house, jail or other component of community confinement, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided November 7, …
Cheney and Gonzales Indicted in Connection with Private Prison in Texas by Matthew Clarke Cheney and Gonzales Indicted in Connection with Private Prison in Texas by Matt Clarke On November 17, 2008, a Texas grand jury returned an indictment against then-Vice President Richard B. Cheney and former U.S. Attorney General …
Sexual Abuse by Prison and Jail Staff Proves Persistent, Pandemic by Gary Hunter Sexual assault, rape, indecency, deviance. These terms represent reprehensible behavior in our society. They also represent recurring themes in our nation’s prisons – not only by prisoners, but also by guards and other staff members. PLN’s August …
Transgender Idaho Prisoner Receives Hormone Therapy Pending Trial by A federal judge has ordered the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) to provide hormone therapy to a prisoner with gender identity disorder pending trial. The preliminary injunction, issued July 27, 2007, was in response to a lawsuit filed by Jennifer Spencer, …
Could the Fall of Lehman Brothers Signal Trouble for Private Prison Corporations? by Bob Libal Could the Fall of Lehman Brothers Signal Trouble for Private Prison Corporations? by Bob Libal and Nick Hudson While recent business news has been dominated by the bailout of some of the nation’s largest investment …
ID AG States Disclosure Exemptions for Active Investigatory Records by Upon request of the city attorney for Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the state Attorney General (AG) opined as to whether city police must disclose all documents to the public or media. In his opinion, the AG considered chapter 3 of title …
County Prosecutor, Juvenile Court Manager's E-mails Ordered Disclosed Regarding Court's Dissolution by The Cowles Publishing Company (CPC) appealed an Idaho state district court’s ruling for non-disclosure of a settlement agreement regarding the dissolution of the Kootenai County Juvenile Education Training Court (JETC). Former JETC manager Marina Kalani appealed the same …
ID Prisoner's State Habeas Action Properly Dismissed Without Appointing Counsel by Kenneth Quinlan, an Idaho state prisoner, was sentenced to life on a 1973 murder conviction. He was paroled in 1985 and his parole was revoked in 1994. At the time of his conviction the parole board had to consider …
Ninth Circuit Faults Mootness Dismissal, Denial of Counsel by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the mootness dismissal of an Idaho prisoner’s conditions of confinement suit. The Court also found that it was an abuse of discretion to dismiss without ruling on the prisoner’s request for appointment of counsel. …
Flurry of Escapes Emphasizes Prisoners' Desperation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Last September produced a bumper crop of prison and jail escapes around the country, including a desperate escape by two Texas prisoners that resulted in the death of a guard, a car jacking and two shootouts. Plus a …
Colorado Farms Out Prisoners to Replace Immigrant Farm Workers by Colorado is renting its prisoners to local farmers to replace migrant agricultural workers - mostly Mexican and Central American - who have been scared away by the state's restrictive immigration laws. In 2006, the Colorado legislature passed what it trumpeted …
$225,000 Settlement in Rape by Idaho Prison Guard by Guard John Pribble was a sexual predator overseeing women held at the Idaho State men's prison for orientation or punishment. On two occasions he removed the female plaintiff from her cell, taking her to his office to rape her. Pribble was …
Legal Aid Lawyers Entitled to Fees in Jail Conditions Suit by Idaho jail prisoners filed suit over jail conditions. The jail was a converted house with rat droppings and a leaking sewage pipe in the kitchen, fire hazards caused by lack of exits, no law library access, including items such …
Idaho: Imprisonment Warrants Suspension of Child Support Payments by The Court of Appeals of Idaho held that a prisoner's motion to modify child support should have been heard even though he was in contempt, and that he was not responsible for payments while he was imprisoned. Randy Nab, an Idaho …
