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Article • January 12, 2016
Texas Guards Who Fought with Juveniles Disciplined but Not Prosecuted by David Reutter Seven guards at a Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJ) facility have been fired or disciplined for assaulting teenage prisoners. Many of the incidents were caught on video. The TJJ established the Phoenix Program in 2012 to calm …
Article • January 12, 2016
Prison Guard Seeks Disability Payments for PTSD Related to Brother's Incarceration by Christopher Zoukis Brad Coleman, an Illinois Department of Corrections prison guard, has filed a disability claim with the state's retirement board.  His claim: a diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), caused, he says, by the stress of working …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Booking Fees
Ohio ACLU Study Shows Pay-to-Stay Programs Don't Generate Much Revenue by Matthew Clarke A report released by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU) in June 2013 shows that the pay-to-stay fees charged by Ohio jails do not generate much revenue and damage indigent prisoners and their families. It …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Department of Justice Reports Third Year of Prison Population Declines by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice released a statistical report in July 2013 showing the third straight year of prisoner population declines in the United States. From year-end 2011 …
Article • January 12, 2016
The Bureaucracy of Mercy by Why hasn’t President Obama freed more prisoners? Maybe that’s the wrong question. By Bill Keller, The Marshall Project As the two presidents, one incoming and the other outgoing, shared a limo to the inauguration in January 2009, President Bush had some advice for President-elect Obama: “Announce …
Article • January 12, 2016
Dead Convicted Rapist Cop to be Sentenced by David Reutter A California court is scheduled to follow a victim’s request to sentence her rapist despite the fact that he committed suicide. Anthony Nicholas Orban was an Orange County detective who was off-duty when he went out “boozing and stalking cute …
Denver Sheriff’s Office Mishandles Prisoners’ Grievances by Denver’s Office of Independent Monitor (OIM) filed a six chapter report critiquing procedures within the Denver Police Department (DPD) and the Denver Sheriff’s Department (DSD). Chapter two of the report detailed deficiencies in the manner in which the DSD handled prisoners’ most serious …
Brief • January 12, 2016
Slone v. Lincoln County, KY, Plaintiff's First Discovery Request, Jail Suicide, 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY CENTRAL DIVISION at LEXINGTON [Filed Electronically] CARRIE SLONE, Administratrix of the Estate of Tuanya Lee Slone, deceased, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) PLAINTIFF v. LINCOLN …
Brief • January 12, 2016
Chua v. City of Los Angeles, CA, Complaint, false arrest wrongful detention of protestors, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-00237 Document 1 Filed 01/12/16 Page 1 of 31 Page ID #:1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Carol A. Sobel, SBN 84483 Colleen Mullen SBN 299059 …
Article • January 11, 2016
Washington State Must Rehire 3 Guards Fired for Complacency by David Reutter An arbitrator ordered the state of Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) to rehire three guards fired on the heels of a guard’s murder. The arbitrator’s ruling found that “widespread… complacency” existed at the Monroe correctional Complex (MCC), which …
Too Many Prisoners in New Mexico Needlessly Held in Solitary, Report Says by Joe Watson In spite of his history of mental illness, Stephen Slevin was locked away in a small, padded cell in solitary confinement at the Dona Ana County, New Mexico, Detention Center not long after he was …
Article • January 11, 2016
Threat of Lawsuit Pushes Florida to Allow Circumcision of Jewish Prisoners by David Reutter With the help from students at the Stanford Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic, Pablo Manuel Diaz, 37, became the first Florida prisoner to be circumcised while incarcerated. Diaz who is serving a life sentence at Blackwater …
Article • January 11, 2016
Filed under: Jail Specific
Texas Jail Expansion by another Name on Ballot Passes by David Reutter Jail expansion was unpopular in 2007 with voters in Harris County and the City of Houston. Learning from that defeat, local politicians gained approval of an expansion of the jail, but they called it something else on the …
Article • January 11, 2016
Childlike Man with Multiple Sclerosis Kept in Prison After Sentence Ends by Joe Watson On September 26, 2013, a 43-year-old man suffering from multiple sclerosis, and said to have the mental capacity of a 5-year-old, was free to depart New Mexico’s Department of Corrections after spending 25 years in prison. …
Article • January 11, 2016
Mississippi First to Begin Conjugal Visits, Latest to End Them by David Reutter After a century of using conjugal visits as prisoner –control practice, Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) Commissioner Christopher B. Epps has brought that privilege to an end. Only five states now allow conjugal visits. In the Jim …
Article • January 11, 2016
Filed under: Wrongful Release
California Court of Appeals Holds Consecutive Sentence Begins When Prisoner Found Suitable for Parole by In a decision handed down on May 14, 2015, a California court of appeals held that a prisoner’s consecutive sentence for a felony committed while incarcerated (custodial felony) begins on the date he is found …
Article • January 11, 2016
Filed under: Food, Religious Diet
Court Orders Oversight of Florida Prisoner Kosher Meal Program by David Reutter In ordering the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) to provide prisoners with kosher meals, the federal district court overseeing the litigation brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) overruled FDOC”s objection to giving DOJ oversight authority into …
Article • January 11, 2016
Filed under: False Arrest
Los Angeles False Arrest Case Settles for $250,000 by The County of Los Angeles paid $250,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging sheriff’s deputies falsely arrested Latisha Clayton on November 9, 2010, and December 10, 2010. The first arrest occurred after Clayton was identified as the person who delivered narcotics to …
Article • January 11, 2016
Filed under: Overdetention, False Arrest
Lengthy Los Angeles Bus Detentions Result in $225,000 Settlement by The County of Los Angeles paid $225,000 to settle a class action alleging it wrongfully arrested persons during the November 30, 2011, Occupy LA protest. The main thrust of the complaint was that 126 people were subjected to lengthy bus …
Article • January 11, 2016
Georgia Debtor Prison Challenged by Cellphone video of a judge threatening to jail indigent defendants in Bowdon, Georgia, for failure to pay fines and fees prompted a policy change.  Yet, so called “debtors prisons” are still a problem in the state. While in court to contest citations, including one for …
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