New Iowa Law Creates Sex Offender Residency Zones by A new Iowa law, passed in 2002, prohibits any sex offender who has victimized a child from living within 2,000 feet of a school or child-care center. The law has effectively exiled these ex-cons to enclaves on the outskirts of town, …
No Constitutional Right to Privacy for Naked Woman Arrestee by In a 2-to-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a U.S. District Court's grant of relief on three federal privacy claims but upheld judgment under state law for an Iowa arrestee who was strapped naked …
Brooks v. WDOC, WA, Settlement, PLRA, 2003 aU '18/03 : .. .lION 13:18 PAX . ""004 RELEASE (IORT) FOR Al'ID .iN OONSJDBRA11ON of tho sum of l"wmty-Bitdlt Thousand and No/lOOtbs . Dollars lS28.000.00) 8IlCl--'~S ~ of medUdion tees In the amount of Pive Huodo:d ~Plve imd NoIIOOtbs Dellms ($595.00), Poly …
$500 Paid in WA Failure to Protect Case by Scott W. Skylstad was transferred to another unit within the Washington State Penitentiary after guards received a death threat against him. However, the unit he was moved to was the same one the threat came in the mail from. Despite repeated …
$15,000 Paid in WA DOC Sexual Discrimination Claim by Kristy Ray was a guard at Stafford Creek Correction Facility when she began receiving sexual advances from Sergeant Chad Wheelock. Ray rebuffed these advances, and after multiple complaints an investigation ensued. Ray was placed on leave without pay while Wheelock was …
Washington Mail Ruling Published by We reported in the September 2003 issue on a suit brought by PLN where the court issued permanent injunctions ordering the Washington DOC to deliver all bulk mail and catalogs sent to Washington prisoners and to provide due process to the sender and intended recipient …
Washington Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Negligent Parole Supervision Claim by The Washington State Supreme Court upheld a trial court's judgment for the State in a negligent parole supervision case, brought by a woman who was abducted and raped by a paroled sex offender. In 1993, Byron Schref was paroled …
Confinement for Nonpayment Without Willfulness Violates Due Process by Confinement for Nonpayment Without Willfulness Violates Due Process, Washington Courts Have 10 Years to Collect Fines The Supreme Court of the State of Washington, sitting en banc, held that defendants cannot be jailed for failure to pay fines, in the absence …
Washington SCC Injunction and Contempt Order Upheld by On February 26, 2003, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein upheld an injunction and contempt order issued against the superintendent and clinical director of the Special Commitment Center ("SCC") at McNeil Island, Washington. The SCC houses former prisoners civilly committed as "sexually violent …
Eight Washington Prison Premises Liabilities Claims Settled for $35,058 by Premises liabilities claims by injured Washington state prisoners and visitors were settled in eight unrelated claims totaling $35,058 over a two year period in 2001 and 2002. Pro per Walla Walla State Penitentiary prisoner Marcus Ogans filed a 42 U.S.C. …
Washington DOC Settles Failure to Protect Case for $13,000 by On March 16, 2002, the Washing-ton Department of Corrections (WA DOC) settled an Eighth Amendment complaint for failure-to-protect at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) where a high security prisoner was attacked and seriously injured by another prisoner known to want …
Washington Retaliation Suit Settled for $2,500 by On February 27, 2002, the Washington DOC settled a prisoner claim of retaliation for his having filed a grievance and a lawsuit, for $2,500. Airway Heights Correctional Center prisoner Douglas Gallagher was employed in the food factory production facility on a day when …
Washington Posts Health Care Provider Information Online by Past issues of PLN have reported on the checkered pasts of many prison health care employees. Before being employed by prisons and jails many medical staff have been disciplined, had their licenses revoked and suffered other forms of license limitations designed to …
Diagnosis, Not Exposure, Triggers Limitation Period in HCV Action by The Iowa Supreme Court held in a workers compensation case that the statute of limitations in a hepatitis C exposure case begins to run on the date of diagnosis, rather than the date of exposure. On October 2, 1990, Diane …
Washington DOC Settles Kosher Diet Complaints by John E Dannenberg Washington DOC Settles Kosher Diet Complaints by John E. Dannenberg Washington state's Department of Corrections (DOC) settled two 42 USC § 1983 complaints from prisoners who "practiced" Judaism but were denied kosher diets. Both settlements accorded the diets; in the …
Washington DOC Ban on Bulk Mail and Catalogs Enjoined in PLN Suit, Due Process Required by Paul Wright Washington DOC Ban on Bulk Mail and Catalogs Enjoined in PLN Suit, Due Process Required by Paul Wright On June 17, 2003, Seattle federal district court judge Robert Lasnick issued a permanent …
Washington State's Changes to Good Time Laws Benefit Few by Lonnie Burton On May 20, 2003, Washington state governor Gary Locke signed into law Senate Bill 5990, which works numerous changes to the amount of good time prisoners in the state can receive. The new law, passed by 43-4 and …
Young v. Burt, WA, Litigation Settlement Payment, Public Disclosure Act, 2003 ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE CERTIFICATE ON PUBLIC RECORDS ACT CLAIMILITIGATION 2 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF CLALLAM 3 4 RlCK A. YOUNG, NO. 03-2-00654-1 5 Plaintiff, 6 7 v. P. …
Director Out at Scandal-Plagued Washington State Jail by Lonnie Burton Amid numerous scandals and investigations into wrongdoing and prisoner mistreatment by staff, the director of the Snohomish County jail in Everett, WA was relieved of her duties in mid-April 2003. Corrections department director Andrea Bynum was fired due to her …
