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Texas "Gang Expert" Indicted for Sex Assaults by On June 17, 2004, top Texas prison administrator Salvador "Sammy" Buentello was indicted on felony charges that he sexually assaulted three female employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). A week earlier Buentello had been indicted on four misdemeanor charges …
Gang Validation in Retaliation for Filing Grievances Is Actionable by Marvin Mentor The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a state prisoner stated a valid claim under the First Amendment when he claimed that in retaliation for his having filed several grievances, prison officials revisited previously rejected gang …
California Private Prison Uprisings Kill 2, Injure 66 by Marvin Mentor Interracial prison riots occurred on October 27 and December 3, 2003 in two southern California privately-contracted minimum security prisons. Because California private prison contractors have no weapons not even pepper spray the riots continued for up to 90 minutes …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Prisoner Shot Dead by Guard in California Prison Riot by One prisoner was shot dead and four others received wounds requiring outside hospitalization, in a 20 minute riot an October 12, 2003 at Facility "B" of Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP), a 5,000 man prison in Coalinga, California. The evening …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
California Changes Policies for Prison Gangs and Security Housing Units by Charles F.A. Carbone by Charles F.A. Carbone, Esq. Major changes to prison gang management policies and the use of security housing units (SHU's) or super-maximum prisons are expected in California prisons due to the settlement of a lawsuit brought …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Exporting the American Way of Crime by by Matthew T. Clarke For well over two hundred years fol-lowing the founding of the United States, foreigners who committed crimes faced imprisonment, execution, fines, parole, and/or probation. Few were deported. Those that were deported were generally infamous criminals or political dissidents. The …
Fifth Circuit Vacates $70,000 Award Against Texas Prison Officials by Michael Rigby The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated and remanded the jury verdict in a Texas prisoner's failure-to-protect suit because the prisoner had not provided evidence supporting a jury finding of deliberate indifference against prison officials. …
$1.5 Million Illinois Prison Rape Verdict Overturned by In a 2-to-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturned a jury's $1.5 million verdict in favor of a prisoner who was sexually assaulted by his cellmate. Anthony Riccardo and Juan Garcia were both housed in the segregation …
Texas Monitors Prisoners for-Signs of Al-Qaeda Recruitment by by Matthew T. Clarke Fears of possible al-Qaeda recruitment among prisoners in U.S. prisons have led officials to take a fresh look at prisoners with a view to their possible recruitment by al-Qaeda. Texas has taken the process to an extreme, closely …
Jailhouse Snitch Enlisted in War on Terrorism Behind Bars by Bob Williams Scott Lee Martin couldn't help himself. After a decade locked up in a half-dozen federal prisons where snitches, rats, informantsor whatever the regional prison slang calls those who tell on othersare detested, spat upon, beaten, even killed for …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Eighteen Indicted for Drug Smuggling and Weapons Possession Inside Puerto Rican Prisons by Lonnie Burton Eighteen Indicted for Drug Smuggling and Weapons Possession Inside Puerto Rican Prisons by Lonnie Burton On May 8, 2003, a 21-page indictment was handed down by a federal grand jury sitting in San Juan, Puerto …
Article • February 15, 2004 • from PLN February, 2004
Justification for California Prisoner Shooting Death Disputed by Fresno County, California sheriff's investigators and California Department of Corrections' (CDC) officials disputed whether the shooting death of a Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP) prisoner on October 12, 2003 during a prison yard disturbance was justified based upon CDC's use-of-lethal-force protocol. Alejandro …
Chicago's Brutal Jail Guards by by Matthew T. Clarke A series of brutal beatings of prisoners by guards at the Cook County (IL) Jail in Chicago has already resulted in more than $1.5 million being paid to prisoner victims with several unsettled lawsuits still in court. Two jail guards resigned …
Total Ban on Aryan Nation Mail Too Restrictive by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that a white supremacy group failed to state a claim as to their recognition as a religious group but that the prison mail policy banning communication with and access to its …
Bloated Prison Budget Fuels California's Degenerative Incarceration Spiral by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg California's $5.3 billion prison spending plan was shaved only a miniscule $35 million in the August 2, 2003 $100 billion annual state budget - a "budget" that is admittedly $38.2 billion out of balance …
Honduras Prison Massacre: What Really Happened by On April 5, 2003, 68 people were murdered inside the walls of the El Porvenir prison in Honduras. The story that initially came out of that country said that 59 of the dead were gang members who shot at other prisoners, then barricaded …
Tennessee Prisoner Awarded $242,500 in CCA Medical Neglect Suit by On December 3, 2002, a U.S. district court issued a $400,000 judgment against Corrections Corporation of America for violating the rights of Wesley Taylor, a prisoner at the South Central Correctional facility in Tennessee. After hearing Taylor's §1983 federal civil …
Los Angeles County Liable Under § 1983 for Jail Detainee's Murder by Los Angeles County Liable Under § 1983 for Jail Detainee's Murder by Walter Reaves The following are summaries of the some of more significant, and interesting cases decided during the last several months dealing with issues important to …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
DSU-Like Conditions in Massachusetts Prison Trigger Due Process Protection by DSU-Like Conditions in Massachusetts Prison Trigger Due Process Protection by Matthew T. Clarke The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has held that the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corrections (MCOC) may not avoid previously ordered due process review of prisoners placed in …
California Prison Guards' Attorneys Convicted in Dog Mauling by Marvin Mentor On March 21, 2002, a San Francisco, California husband and wife attorney team, Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, who for years had defended prison guards at maximum security Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP), were themselves convicted of manslaughter when …
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