Galloway v TYC, TX, 3rd Amended Complaint, juveniles disabilities legal aid assault, 2007 EXHIBIT “A” UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS JOSEPH GALLOWAY, individually, § § DANA BROCKWAY, as next friend of her § minor child, A.B., on behalf of all those similarly § situated, § § GLORIA …
Family of Texas Prisoner Murdered in Geo-Operated Prison Awarded $47.5 Million by Michael Rigby On September 15, 2006, a jury in Willacy County, Texas awarded $47.5 million to the family of a prisoner who was murdered at a private prison operated by the Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections). The Florida-based …
Foster v. Bowie County, TX, Employee Demotion, Judgment, 2007 Case 2:05-cv-00526-TJW Document 108 Filed 01/17/2007 Page 1 of 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS MARSHALL DIVISION § § § § § § § § KAREN FOSTER, Plaintiff, v. BOWIE COUNTY, TEXAS, and BRUCE …
Davis v. TDCJ, TX, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2007 Case 9:07-cv-00019-RC-ZJH Document 1 Filed 01/16/07 Page 1 of 47 PageID #: 1 COMPLAINT UNDER 42 USC §1983, CIVIL RIGHTS ACT-TDCJ-ID (Rev. 7/97) IN THE . ' UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TYLER DJVISION Daryl Davis …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoners’ Challenge to Extended Lockdown by Michael Rigby Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoners' Challenge to Extended Lockdown by Michael Rigby The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a prisoner lawsuit challenging the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's practice of indefinite segregation without due process. C. …
5th Circuit Reverses Texas Prisoner’s Disciplinary Conviction For “Non-Existent” Offense by Michael Rigby 5th Circuit Reverses Texas Prisoner's Disciplinary Conviction For "Non-Existent" Offense by Michael Rigby The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held there was no evidence to sustain a Texas prisoner's disciplinary conviction for assaulting a guard and …
Texas Supreme Court: Non-Suit Deprives Appeals Court of Jurisdiction by The Supreme Court of Texas held that a plaintiff?s filing non-suit while an appeal was pending deprived the court of appeals of jurisdiction and any authority to enter an order, holding or opinion. Darla Blackmon, a Texas state prisoner, died …
Texas Parole System Sick From Top to Bottom by Gary Hunter Texas Parole System Sick From Top to Bottom by Gary Hunter Parole in Texas has never been very reputable. During the 1920s and 30s Miriam Ma Ferguson, Texas first female governor, and her husband Pa Ferguson, who preceded his …
Unique Texas Sexual Predator Civil Commitment Has Successes/Failures by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke Texas has a unique form of civil commitment for sexual predators which allows outpatient treatment and requires most of the civilly committed to live at a halfway house. A committed man's recent escape from a …
Texas Prisoner Gets 40 Years For Cellphone; Guards Get Probation by Michael Rigby In April 2006 a Texas prisoner was sentenced to 40 years in prison for possessing a contraband cell phone--8 years more than the 32-year sentence he was already serving for auto theft. The sentence, the longest anyone …
Texas Jail Suicide Suit Settles For $300,000 by In December 2005 Nueces County, Texas, agreed to pay $300,000 to settle with a woman whose husband committed suicide in the county's jail. In 1995, while imprisoned in the Nueces County Jail in Corpus Christi, Texas, Jose Orlando Sanchez-Ortiz committed suicide. His …
Beaten Texas Prisoner Who Was Denied Safekeeping Awarded $87,500 by Michael Rigby On March 20, 2006, a federal jury awarded $87,500 to a Texas prisoner who was beaten by gang members after his request for transfer to protective custody was denied. While imprisoned at the McConnell Unit in southeast Texas …
Brownsville Texas Border Corruption Continues by Gary Hunter Coronado Cantu took over the Cameron County Sheriff's office in January 2001. He took up residence inside the Texas jail in June 2005. Cantu was charged with heading a crime ring that included drug trafficking, extortion and prostitution of female prisoners. Animo …
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ordered to Pay Prisoner $500 For Misconduct by Michael Rigby On April 6, 2005, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas levied a $500 sanction award against two Assistant U.S. Attorneys for their unethical, unprofessional, and dishonest conduct in a prisoner …
Sexually Abused Texas Prisoner Loses Federal Lawsuit, Returns To Prison by Michael Rigby Roderick Keith Johnson, a prisoner who garnered national attention with allegations that Texas prison officials allowed him to be bought and sold as a sex slave, has lost his federal lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal …
McCoy v. TDCJ, TX, 3rd Amended Complaint, asthma death, 2006 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI DIVISION L.J. MCCOY and ANTONIO V. THOMPSON Plaintiffs v. § § § § TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL § JUSTICE, BRAD LIVINGSTON, in his official § capacity as the Executive Director …
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Reinvigorates DNA Testing Law by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) handed down a decision that removed previous restrictions against prisoners seeking DNA testing to prove their innocence. Billy James Smith, a Texas state prisoner, filed a motion for DNA testing. …
Texas State Representative Criticized For Helping Prisoners and Families by Matthew T. Clarke Texas Representative Terri Hodge has been taking heat for (gasp!) helping prisoners and their families, in other words--for doing her job. Hodge is accused of the following: (1) helping arrange rare face-to-face meetings between parole-eligible prisoners and …
Texas Politicians Provided Perks Using Prisoner Slave Labor by Matthew T. Clarke Texas Correctional Industries (TCI), the industrial division of the Texas prison system, has been operating as a cut-rate, custom craft-goods supplier for dozens of Texas legislators. One politician furnished his new home with prisoner made goods. The goods …
Survivors of Texas Jail Suicidee Win $516,000 Against Phone Provider by Matthew T. Clarke The mother and son of a prisoner who committed suicide by hanging himself from a telephone in his jail cell won a lawsuit against the phone provider. On appeal, the award was upheld, but some of …
