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Case • 2006
DON HUNTER, as Sheriff of Collier County, Defendant-Appellant. No. 05-14708 Non-Argument Calendar UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT 173 Fed. Appx. 790 March 28, 2006, Decided ...
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
this conclusion. The court held that the lower court had abused its discretion in modifying CDC policy to prevent use of the gun to prevent damage to property. The court gives an extensive discussion of custody ...
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
prisoner rights. After all, if responsibility were a concern of theirs then losing defendants would pay damage awards and their defense fees from their own pockets. Instead taxpayers get stuck with the tab ...
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
Amendment, and state law claims for assault and battery and false imprisonment. Summary judgment was granted for the defendants on the substantive due process claims. A jury returned a verdict in favor ...
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
, and diabetes, as well as Hepatitis C and HIV. Histories of drug addiction and physical abuse add to womens medical and mental health needs. Incarceration poses unique threats to women, because access to medical ...
Case • 2002
Hargis v. Foster - 312 F.3d 404 (9th Cir. 2002) - 2002 CHRISTOPHER HARGIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PHIL FOSTER, BEAUCHAMP, LAHAEI, D. W. MCECHERON, and D. H.O. CRAWFORD, Defendants-Appellees ...
Corrections Secretary Gregg Marcantel and former Deputy Secretary Joe Booker were among the defendants initially named in the suit, which accused them of ignoring allegations and evidence of sexual harassment ...
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
under Warden Anthony Romero, who allegedly implemented a policy of intimidation and abuse of prisoners. The specific incidents involved a practice called “nuts-to-butts” by the plaintiffs ...
Article • August 25, 2016
Oregon Guard Fellatio Nets Probation, Prosecutor Blames Victim by On September 25, 2012, a former Oregon jail guard was sentenced to just two years of probation for sexually abusing a female ...
Article • September 5, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
intercourse about five times. Poore did not report the abuse because Bowers convinced her they would both face consequences if she reported him. [See: PLN, May 2017, p.60]. After Poore was released, jail ...
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Private Prisons
, such as home detention, electronic monitoring, ignition-interlock devices on their vehicles, substance abuse treatment, payment of fines, fees and restitution, and various other requirements. Private businesses ...
In-the-News Article • October 29, 2018
for the better and exposing abuses. The magazine has covered issues like solitary confinement, the Prison Rape Elimination Act, visitation and medical care in prisons. In addition, PLN&rsquo ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Federal Court Sanctions Wexford for Discovery Abuse in Illinois Prisoner’s Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 3, 2021, a federal court in Illinois granted a state prisoner’s ...
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Jury Awards $352,300 to Prisoners Tortured at Notorious Utah Jail by After an investigation into rampant abuse by guards, Utah’s Daggett County Jail closed its doors in 2017. A group ...
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
, the hospital sent her a bill for $5,000. Celebrated women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred, who has represented women accusing Bill Cosby and R. Kelly of sexual abuse, heard about Cardenas and “just ...
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
pro se complaint, accusing Defendants of violating his Fourteenth Amendment due-process rights by withholding the video evidence at his disciplinary hearing, as well as violating his First Amendment ...
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment for defendants in a civil rights action alleging a guard sexually assaulted and used excessive force upon a prisoner. The ruling, on January 7, 2020, came ...
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Civil Commitment
, sex offender treatment program, and conditions of confinement.” He called GEO a “criminal organization that has a chronic history of cover-ups, medical neglect, and psychological abuse ...
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
sentencing. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 made possession of five grams of crack cocaine punishable by a minimum sentence of five years. Crack cocaine was found and favored mostly in Black neighborhoods ...
In-the-News Article • November 12, 2015
and sexual abuse by corrections employees is an unfortunate reality," Prison Legal News editor Paul Wright said.      "Rather than censor our reporting ...
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