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South Carolina Prisoner Assaulted By Guards Awarded $600,000 by In May 2007 a South Carolina jury awarded $600,000 to a state prisoner who alleged that guards beat him and sprayed him with mace in an unprovoked attack. Alonzo Brinkley, 32, claimed in his lawsuit, filed in the Marlboro County Court …
San Mateo County, California, Settles Strip-Search Suit for $1.9 Million by On February 5, 2007, San Mateo County, California, agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that an estimated 1,200 women were illegally strip-searched at the county jail between February 3, 2002, and December 2, …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: CMS, Medical, Diabetes, Amputations
Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner’s Loss of Foot by Matthew Clarke Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner's Loss of Foot by Matthew T. Clarke In June 2006, CMS, the State of Wyoming and a prison doctor settled a lawsuit involving a prisoner who had to …
Tenth Circuit Upholds BOP Guard’s Abuse Convictions by Tenth Circuit Upholds BOP Guard's Abuse Convictions The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions and sentences of three former prison guards for beating prisoners at the United States Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, (USP-Florence). As we've previously reported, in 1997, the …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: Searches, Drug Testing, Parole
Texas Parole Board Revamps Urinalysis Procedures by The Texas Parole Board is replacing its old, error-prone drug testing procedure with a new method it says will reduce mistakes and provide for independent confirmation of positive test results?something that has been unavailable in the past. Some aspects of the testing procedure …
GAO Audit: Alien Detention Facilities Suffer Continuing Deficiencies by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg An often overlooked segment of the nation's prison population, alien detainees, was the subject of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit between May 2006 and May 2007. While the largest problem noted was limited access …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Los Angeles County Pays $475,000 In Jail Healthcare Wrongful Death by Los Angeles (LA) County settled out a wrongful death claim brought by the widow of a 71-year old prisoner who died allegedly for want of proper medical care in the county jail. On top of the $475,000 settlement payment, …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis, Complaints
U.S. Supreme Court: Colorado Prisoner Alleging Injury From Suspension Of Medical Treatment Stated Adequate Claim To Preclude Dismissal by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In a per curiam ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a Colorado state prisoner seeking reinstatement of his Hepatitis-C medical treatment had stated an …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
BOP May Not Foreclose Transfer to Community Corrections Center Based on Length of Remaining Sentence by John Dannenberg The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has held that federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoners seeking transfers to community correctional centers (CCC) before reaching a point when they have the greater …
“Liberal” Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim by "Liberal" Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a New York federal district court?s dismissal of claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), finding that the court failed to "liberally" construe the …
Findings of Fact by Indiana Disciplinary Panel Not Entitled toPresumption of Correctness for Federal Habeas Purposes by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Seeking to clarify an "established proposition frequently ... overlooked in litigation arising from Indiana's prison system," the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that the lower …
Unsupported Penile Plethysmograph Testing as Condition of Release Rises to Due Process Violation, Creates Liberty Interest by The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that arbitrarily imposing a penile plethysmograph [electromechanical gauge of male sexual stimulation] testing requirement as a condition of supervised release for a sex offender violates …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Texas Allows Actual Innocence Claim in Non-Capital Habeas Actions by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has held that a habeas corpus applicant may raise a free-standing claim of actual innocence in a state habeas corpus proceeding. Randolph Roy Sparks, a Texas state prisoner, filed a post-conviction petition for a …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Mere Possibility of Parole Insufficient to Prevent Texas Prisoners’ Parental Rights Termination by Matthew Clarke The Texas Supreme Court held that the mere possibility of parole within the two-year imprisonment requirement of § 161.001(1)(Q), Texas Family Code, was insufficient to prevent termination of a prisoner's parental rights. William Keith M. …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Many Chinese Prisoners Retain Right to Vote by The Constitution of China guarantees every citizen the right to vote unless that right has been removed by law. In China?s 2,700-man Qingpu Prison, 723 prisoners retained the right to vote in the December 2006, election for the people?s congress of Qinpu …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Ohio Juvenile Wards Entitled to Attorneys to Pursue 1983 Actions by by John E. Dannenberg In an important denial-of-access-to-the-courts ruling, a U.S. District Court (S.D. Ohio) held that a juvenile ward who was denied access to the courts after suffering injury from an Ohio Department of Youth Services (ODYS) guard …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
On Appeal Texas Prisoner Acquitted of Damaging Jail Furnishing by A Texas court of appeals acquitted a Texas jail prisoner of criminal mischief charges for allegedly damaging jail furnishings because the state failed to provide any evidence of the value of the furnishings. Jaccob Aaron Merwin, a prisoner in the …
Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Mississippi Retaliation For Letters to a Newspaper Claim by In an unpublished opinion the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's dismissal, for failure to state a claim, of a prisoner's retaliation suit against one prison official, but upheld the dismissal of claims …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Texas Pays $250,000 for Lingering Death of Teen Prisoner by Michael Rigby In November 2006 the State of Texas paid $250,000 to settle with the family of Charles Billops, Jr., a teenager who died from an undiagnosed brain abscess caused by a sinus infection while imprisoned in 2003. The settlement …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Massachusetts Guard Accused of Throwing Feces Entitled to Workman’s Compensation by Massachusetts Guard Accused of Throwing Feces Entitled to Workman's Compensation A former Massachusetts prison guard accused of putting feces in a prisoner's cell is entitled to workman's compensation for emotional distress, the state Department of Industrial Accidents Reviewing Board …
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