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State-by-State Prisoner Rape and Sexual Abuse Round-Up by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke and Alex Friedmann In 2006, Prison Legal News published a cover story, Guards Rape of Prisoners Rampant, No Solution in Sight, that presented a compilation of news reports concerning the rape and sexual abuse of prisoners by …
No Qualified Immunity for Guard Who Failed to Protect Prisoner from Sexual Abuse by Brandon Sample On February 1, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of qualified immunity to a guard accused of failing to protect a vulnerable prisoner from sexual …
CCA Objects to Shareholder Resolution Filed by Former CCA Prisoner, PLN Associate Editor by When PLN associate editor Alex Friedmann was released from prison in November 1999, he had served six of the ten years he spent behind bars at the South Central Correctional Center in Clifton, Tennessee, a private …
Brief • February 16, 2012
Henderson v. Glanz, OK, Complaint, Rape in Medical Unit, 2012 Case 4:12-cv-00068-JED-FHM Document 2 Filed in USDC ND/OK on 02/16/12 Page 1 of 20 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA (1) ALESHIA CYRESE HENDERSON, Plaintiff, v. (1) STANLEY GLANZ, SHERIFF OF TULSA COUNTY, in …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
California Pays $10,000 to Settle Sex Abuse Suit Brought by Transgender Prisoner by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has entered into a settlement agreement with former state prisoner Alexis Giraldo, paying her $10,000 in exchange for a voluntary dismissal of a lawsuit she filed in San Francisco …
Prison Sexual Abuse Survivor Speaks Out by Alan Prendergast In January 2010, Scott Howard, a 39-year-old federal prisoner, made his way briskly into a hearing room in the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building in Washington, D.C. He was neatly dressed in blazer, slacks and tie, and quite nervous about what …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of PLN for 2011. Since we began publishing PLN, the issue of prisoner rape and sexual assault has been an important priority. There has been some improvement, at least as far as raising public awareness around this issue, over …
Department of Justice Report on Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails by In January 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report titled “Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2007-2008.” The report is based on the annual Survey of Sexual Violence mandated by …
Article • September 15, 2011
New York DOC’s Failure To Transmit Protective Custody Order Is Actionable by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Supreme Court of New York held that the Court of Claims erred when it dismissed a prisoner’s damages claim for injuries suffered when he was not placed in protective custody as …
Mrozek v. Ringler et al, MN, Complaint, sex offender treatment roommate sexual assault, 2011 CASE 0:11-cv-02572-JRT-SER Document 1 Filed 09/07/11 Page 1 of 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Civil Case No. ________________________________________________________________________ Michael Mrozek, Plaintiff, vs. COMPLAINT Holly Ringler, Jana Skye Brister, Vicky Meyer, Robert Rose, Angela …
American “Corrections” by Mumia Abu-Jamal At SCI Pittsburgh in Woods Run, Pennsylvania, prisoners and guards alike made the phenomenon of imprisonment more hellish than usual. That’s because, according to at least one broadcast report, men at the medium- to minimum-security lock-up, particularly those convicted of sexual assaults against children, were …
U.S. Department of Justice Report Puts Price Tag on Preventing Prison Rape by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 18, 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report on the estimated fiscal impact of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards that had been proposed by the …
California Recognizes “Special Relationship” Between Jailer and Prisoner by Michael Brodheim By Michael Brodheim A California Court of Appeal has held that there is a "special relationship" between jailer and prisoner, which gives rise to a duty of care to protect the prisoner from foreseeable harm and thus can support …
Department of Justice Reports on Sexual Victimization in U.S. Prisons and Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In August 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report on the most recent national survey of prisoners on the topic of sexual victimization in prisons …
Eighth Circuit Reverses Transport Rape Summary Judgment by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that prison officials were not entitled to summary judgment on a female prisoner’s claim that she was raped during transport. On December 15, 2005, Missouri prisoner Penny Whitson was being transported from the Stone County …
Kentucky Jail Guards’ Convictions Affirmed in Sexual Abuse of Young Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions and prison sentences of two guards who were found guilty of violating a prisoner’s civil rights. The guards’ actions resulted in the …
Abuse and Assaults Continue at Pennsylvania Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An attorney representing a prisoner who suffered a near-fatal attack by another prisoner at Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County Prison (LCP) has claimed that the incident demonstrates a pattern of mistreatment by staff at the facility. Prisoner Nicholas …
$130,000 Settlement in Tennessee Jail Prisoner’s Beating, Rape by Local officials in Shelby County, Tennessee paid $130,000 to settle a lawsuit by a man who was beaten and raped while held at the Shelby County Jail. The plaintiff, identified in federal court documents as E.R. to protect his privacy, was …
Texas Youth Commission Pays $625,000 to Settle Abuse Suit by Gary Hunter To settle a federal lawsuit, the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) agreed to pay $625,000 in damages to four youths who were grossly abused by the states’ corrupt juvenile justice system. The largest payout of $345,000 went to plaintiff …
Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010
Housing Mentally Ill Violent Offender in Nursing Home Leads to Rape by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 16, 2009, a 21-year-old mentally ill man with a long history of violent crimes raped a 69-year-old woman housed in the same Illinois nursing home. Christopher Shelton, 21, suffers from bipolar …
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