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$1 Million Settlement in Oklahoma Jail Prisoner Wrongful Death Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In May 2011, Oklahoma County approved a $1 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit involving a prisoner who was first denied his anti-seizure medication and then fatally beaten by guards after he had …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Federal Probation Officer Sexually Abused Clients, Sentenced to Ten Years by Mark Wilson U.S. probation officer Mark John Walker, 52, supervised federal prisoners on parole, probation and other forms of supervised release in Eugene, Oregon from May 1987 until July 2009. Now, however, it will be Walker who is on …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Credits Sentence with Time on Appeal Bond by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that a man who erroneously remained free on an appeal bond for 21 years was entitled to full credit toward his sentence. Claus Detref Thiles was sentenced to 16 years …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
BOP Settles Prisoner Rape Suit for $625,000 by Brandon Sample The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has agreed to pay $625,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a prisoner who was raped by a guard at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York. In the early hours of …
Article • February 15, 2012
U.S. Supreme Court Limits Edwards Rule by Brandon Sample In Edwards v. Arizona, 451 U.S. 477 (1981), the Supreme Court held that statements made to police during an interrogation following a request for counsel are presumed invalid. The so-called Edwards rule was designed to protect the safeguards afforded by Miranda …
California: Prior Conviction for Being a “Felon in Possession of Firearm” Admissible as Evidence in Subsequent Criminal Trials by The California Court of Appeal has held that a prior conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm is a crime of moral turpitude, and therefore that evidence of …
Article • February 15, 2012
Conspiracy Claim Must Be Supported by Facts by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held action under 42 U.S.C. § 1985 that conspiracy claims must be supported by facts and evidence. Mrs. Alvera M. Aldabe filed civil action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 1985(3) claiming that a …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Alaskan Private Prison Promoter Arrested in Mexico, Extradited to U.S. on Child Sexual Abuse Charges by In the 1980s, Bill Weimar became a rich man when his company, Allvest Corporation, owned and operated a chain of private halfway houses in Alaska. He heavily promoted building a private prison in Alaska, …
Head of Missouri Jail Sentenced for Beating, Arranging Attacks on Prisoners by The former head jailer at Missouri’s Washington County Jail (WCJ), about 60 miles from St. Louis, has been convicted of violating the civil rights of four prisoners and obstruction of justice. His daughter, a guard at the jail, …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
North Carolina Warden Charged With Obstruction in Beating Coverup by Richard L. Neely, the former warden at Lanesboro Correctional Institution, was charged in April 2011 with obstruction of justice, a Class H felony, for withholding or ordering the destruction of evidence relevant to an investigation at the prison. Neely became …
Head of Missouri Jail Sentenced for Beating, Arranging Attacks on Prisoners by The former head jailer at Missouri’s Washington County Jail (WCJ), about 60 miles from St. Louis, has been convicted of violating the civil rights of four prisoners and obstruction of justice. His daughter, a guard at the jail, …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
New York Court Sentences Rabbi to Four Years in Prison by In a case that garnered widespread publicity, Milton Balkany, a Brooklyn, New York rabbi, received a four-year federal prison sentence for extortion. U.S. District Court Judge Denise L. Cote found that Balkany, 64, dean of the Bais Yaakov day …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Texas Jail Guards Smuggle Contraband in Tacos, Ramen Noodles by When Bexar County jail guard Alfred Casas, 32, agreed to bring some tacos to prisoner Jacob Keller in violation of jail rules, he probably didn’t think much of it. That changed when the tacos contained hacksaw blades intended for use …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Former Judges in “Cash for Kids” Scandal Sentenced by Derek Gilna Two former Pennsylvania state court judges who were accused by federal prosecutors of running a multi-million dollar scheme to send juvenile offenders to privately-run prisons in exchange for bribes have been sentenced. Former judge Mark A. Ciavarella, Jr., 62, …
Article • November 15, 2011
False Reports Filed by Private Prison Guards Can Support Federal Obstruction Charges by On April 28, 2011 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the convictions of two former private prison guards accused of obstructing an investigation into the assault of a prisoner. Rex Eguridu was assaulted …
Article • November 15, 2011
Mentally Ill Oregon Prisoner Pleads Guilty to Death Threats against President by A mentally ill Oregon prisoner pleaded guilty to threatening President Barack Obama. In August 2007, David Earl Anderson, a white separatist, was sentenced to prison for identity theft, supplying contraband and using a minor in a drug offense, …
Article • November 15, 2011
New Hampshire Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Indictments against Prisoner for Conduct Exposing Corrections Employee to Bodily Substances by Derek Gilna By Derek Gilna In a November 30 decision, the New Hampshire Supreme Court reversed a dismissal of indictments against Timothy Spade, a prisoner at the Hillsborough County House of …
Article • November 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit Reverses Conviction after Prosecutors Improperly Questioned Defendant about Details of Prior Conviction by By Brandon Sample The U.S. court of appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a defendant’s conviction for assaulting a guard after prosecutors improperly questioned the defendant concerning details of a prior bank fraud conviction. Daniel …
FBI Claims 2,500 Percent Increase in Child Porn Arrests by Although the number of prosecutions for child pornography is small in comparison with drug and immigration offenses, child porn cases have skyrocketed according to FBI statistics. Arrests for such crimes are up 2,500 percent since 1996, largely due to technology …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Fugitive Oregon DOC Food Manager Getting Homesick in Iran by “I would love to come back to my country ... but unfortunately they want to fry me for my mistake,” wrote international fugitive and former Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) Food Service Administrator Farhad (“Fred”) Monem, in emails sent to …
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