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Corruption in Awarding California DOC Medical Contract Exposed by Marvin Mentor More details have surfaced in a conflict-of-interest scandal involving two California gubernatorial appointees involved in a $26 million no-bid contract awarded by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for medical scheduling services. PLN previously reported that the …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
State Auditor Flunks California DOC For Failure To Make Prison Population Projections by Marvin Mentor In a March 2007 Letter Report to California's Governor and Legislature, State Auditor Elaine Howell reported that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) had failed to make meaningful progress in devising accurate prisoner …
Texas Jail Pays $200,000 to Settle Rape/Suicide Suit by Val Verde County, Texas and its contract Del Rio jail operator, GEO Group, Inc., agreed in March 2007 to pay $200,000 to the surviving family of a 23-year-old woman prisoner who, upon becoming depressed after being raped in the jail, hung …
California DOC Guards Win Injunction to Stop Prisoner Transfers Out-Of-State; Transfers Continue While State Appeals by The Superior Court of Sacramento County has granted a writ of mandate prohibiting the transfer of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners to out-of-state facilities to alleviate the prison system's chronic overcrowding …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
California DOC Pays PLN’s Attorneys $320,000 In Fees/Costs Related To Mail Censorship Settlement by John Dannenberg California DOC Pays PLN's Attorneys $320,000 In Fees/Costs Related To Mail Censorship Settlement by John E. Dannenberg In June, 2007, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and Prison Legal News (PLN) stipulated …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Cook County, Illinois, To Pay $4,575,000 for Nonconsensual STD Testing by On July 10, 2007, Cook County, Illinois, agreed to pay $4,575,000 to settle a federal class action lawsuit that alleged prisoners were subjected to nonconsensual testing for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) during intake at Chicago?s Cook County jail. Plaintiffs …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
$150,000 Settlement in Suit over Atlanta Prisoner’s Fall-Related Death by $150,000 Settlement in Suit over Atlanta Prisoner's Fall-Related Death In November 2006, the family of a man who suffered fatal injuries when he fell over a railing on an upper floor of an Atlanta jail settled with the city for …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
California DOC Contract Registry Pharmacist Accused of Diverting 93% of Referrals to His Own Corporation by California's State Auditor has found that a pharmacist, who was contracted by three state prisons to select other pharmacists from a state-approved registry to perform services at the facilities, directed 93% of such referrals …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Utah DOC Audit: Ingrained Staff Cronyism Stymies Workplace Effectiveness by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A December 2006 state audit of the Utah Department of Corrections (UDC) found that entrenched upper management personnel lacked vision and innovation, while they selectively allowed punishable staff "indiscretions" to be swept under the …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
New York High Court Invokes Due Process Rights for Civil Commitment of Alleged Sexual Predators by The New York Court of Appeals reversed a ruling by the Appellate Division that had permitted sex offenders nearing the end of their criminal sentences to be summarily transferred to mental health facilities (e,g., …
Article • November 15, 2007
A Guantanamo Index by Joanne Mariner By JOANNE MARINER Wednesday, Nov. 07, 2007 Year in which Cuba signed a perpetual lease giving the United States "complete jurisdiction and control" over the Guantanamo Bay naval station: 1903 Number of days that the longest-held detainees have, to date, been held without charge …
Article • November 15, 2007
TOWARD A MORE ELABORATE TYPOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES: LIBERALIZING CRIMINAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT LAWS AND POLICIES by 33 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 283 TOWARD A MORE ELABORATE TYPOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES: LIBERALIZING CRIMINAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT LAWS AND POLICIES [FN1] © Avi Brisman [FNa1] Copyright © 2007 by New England …
Article • October 15, 2007
Outlaw Joe - Phoenix New Times article on political schemes involving Sheriff Joe Arpaio by John Dougherty Outlaw Joe One of Arpaio's own deputies testifies about how the MCSO smeared Dan Saban. By John Dougherty Published: July 22, 2004 From here on out, 72-year-old Joe Arpaio isn't the Maricopa County …
Jail Bait - Phoenix New Times article about prisoner badly beaten in Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson Jail Bait A prisoner was nearly beaten to death behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. Was he set up by Sheriff Joe's henchmen? By Robert Nelson Published: December 26, 2002 …
Article • October 15, 2007
Sheriff Joe's Real Estate Game - Phoenix New Times article about Sheriff Arpaio's questionable real estate holdings by John Dougherty Sheriff Joe's Real Estate Game Arpaio's invested $690,000 in cash in two commercial properties since 1995. Some other investment records are sealed. By John Dougherty Published: July 1, 2004 How's …
Article • October 15, 2007
Filed under: International, Immigration
63,000 and Counting: Mass Deportations Mostly Go Unnoticed by By TOM REEVES Many people are talking about President Bush's "guest worker" proposal for undocumented immigrants. Right-wingers rebuke it as an 'amnesty.' Most immigration and advocates view it as a way to flush out illegals, keeping them at the mercy of …
False Positive - Phoenix New Times article on retaliation at Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson False Positive Is Joe Arpaio up to his same old dirty tricks? This time, a man's life may be at stake. By Robert Nelson Published: February 19, 2004 Jim Cozzolino wasn't afraid of serving …
Jailhouse Justice: Phoenix New Times article on failure to protect at Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson Jailhouse Justice: New evidence suggests Sheriff Joe's running his empire as if it were a Mexican prison By Robert Nelson Published: January 23, 2003 If new information in an inmate-beating case is any …
$14 Million Verdict Against Louisiana DA’s Office for Wrongful Death Sentence by $14 Million Verdict Against Louisiana DA's Office for Wrongful Death Sentence The New Orleans Parish, Louisiana, District Attorney's Office should pay $14 million to a man who was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to the state's death …
Fortress Of Solitude: The Bureau Of Prisons Is As Good At Keeping Prisoners In As It Is At Keeping Reporters Out by Alan Prendergast A hundred miles southwest of Denver, the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum houses a killer lineup of mobsters (Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano), gang leaders (Barry "The …
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