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Millions Paid in Mississippi Jail Deaths; Ten Guards Sentenced for Abuses; Corruption Continues by Bob Williams “The house always wins,” Warden Don Cabana proclaimed to the Sun Herald, a Mississippi newspaper, in July 2007. However, Harrison County, home of the Harrison County Adult Detention Center (ADC), has agreed to pay …
Article • August 15, 2008
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 …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Court Clerk Fired for Relationship with Prisoner; Bar Complaint Against Federal Prosecutor Exposed Relationship by In August 2007, a deputy clerk at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was fired after an investigation revealed she had a personal relationship with a prisoner who flooded the courts with …
Article • August 15, 2008
Florida Judge Removed from Bench by On December 7, 2006, the Florida Supreme Court removed Seminole County Judge John R. Sloop from the bench for violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct. This was the third time that Judge Sloop had come to the attention of the Judicial Qualifications Committee …
Article • August 15, 2008
Florida Judge Removed from Bench by On December 7, 2006, the Florida Supreme Court removed Seminole County Judge John R. Sloop from the bench for violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct. This was the third time that Judge Sloop had come to the attention of the Judicial Qualifications Committee …
Article • August 15, 2008
Washington State's Duty to Defend Officials Depends on Their Conduct by Washington state Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders appealed the denial of attorney’s fees in a complaint filed against him by the Commission on Judicial Conduct (Commission) for misconduct in 2003. The appellate court held that no state duty existed …
Compassionless Conservative Texas Judge Closes Court Promptly, Ensuring Execution by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Sharon Keller, 54, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, has come under sharp criticism for refusing to keep the court open twenty minutes past its usual closing time to permit a late …
Georgia Sheriff, Judges, Other Officials Face Misconduct, Criminal Charges by David Reutter In November 2007 a federal grand jury issued an indictment charging Clinch County, Georgia Sheriff Winston C. Peterson, 62, with perjury, using forced prisoner labor and extorting former jail prisoners. Peterson’s indictment marked the second time in the …
Meet Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Villainous Nominee for a Lifetime Judgeship by Silja JA Talvi This exclusive article was first published on Alternet, at: www.alternet.org/rights/84388 and www.alternet.org/rights/84491 By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet Posted on May 5, 2008, Printed on May 7, 2008 Editor's Note: In 2004, Estelle Richardson's lifeless and …
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 • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
New Orleans Prisoners Work on Judge’s House by New Orleans Prisoners Work on Judge's House To facilitate learning construction skills, prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) participate in a government-funded private vocational program. That program, the Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater New Orleans, Inc. (OIC), a non-profit, is not …
Seminole County Jail Settles Strip Search Suits; Judge Removed From Bench by A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit involving persons arrested in open court and illegally strip searched upon arrival at Florida?s Seminole County Jail. The suit was filed after the plaintiffs were arrested for failure …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Florida Newspaper Revokes Permission to Post Article Critical of Judge by Shortly after the Miami Daily Business Review (DBR) was designated as ?the record newspaper for Courthouse publications,? the DBR revoked permission for an unflattering article about Broward County?s Chief Judge Dale Ross to be posted on a defense attorney …
AZ Prisoner's 1983 Action against Judge and Prosecutor Barred By Absolute Immunity by AZ Prisoner's 1983 Action against Judge and Prosecutor Barred By Absolute Immunity Kenneth Ashelman, an Arizona state pretrial detainee, filed suit against the judge and prosecutor in his criminal prosecution, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in …
New Mexico Jail Prisoners Raped by Judge and Guards Settle for $890,000 by On June 3, 2004, ten female prisoners who were allegedly raped by a New Mexico judge and jail guards settled their lawsuit for $890,000. The plaintiffs, who had been confined in the Española City Jail, claimed municipal …
Article • October 15, 2005
Washington: County Pre-Trial Services Blew $400,000 In 2003 by In 2003, Pierce County, Washington's bloated Pre-Trial Services (PTS) wasted $400,000--nearly half of its 2004 budget of $809,000, according to a preliminary county audit. A division of the Sheriff Department's Corrections Bureau, PTS decides which criminal defendants are eligible for court …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
The Complicity of Judges in Wrongful Convictions by Hans Sherrer The Complicity of Judges In Wrongful Convictions by Hans Sherrer I. Introduction Wrongful convictions do not occur in a vacuum of judicial indifference. Every wrongful conviction results from a deliberative process involving law enforcement investigators, prosecutors, and one or more …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Texas Magistrate Suspended for Verbally Abusing Prisoners by Texas Magistrate Suspended For Verbally Abusing Prisoners by Matthew T. Clarke A Brazoria County, Texas, Justice of the Peace (JP) has been suspended pending the outcome of judicial misconduct proceedings, after he used profanity and racial slurs to verbally abuse prisoners in …
Compensating the Wrongly Convicted, or Not by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Hundreds of thousands of men and women are hidden from society—social failures convicted of felonies—behind concrete walls and razor wire in isolated parts of our country. Nestled among them are society's silenced victims—the wrongfully convicted. Society is …
Texas Death Machine Faces Renewed Criticism by A report released October 16, 2000 by the Texas Defender Service, a nonprofit group that represents death row prisoners, concludes that "an intolerably high number of people are being sentenced to death [in Texas] and propelled through the appellate courts in a process …
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