Court Holds Temperatures on Florida's Death Row Constitutional; Class Action Exhaustion Explained by David Reutter By David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Florida District Court's order denying that prisoners' cell temperatures on Florida's death row constitute cruel and unusual punishment. This civil rights action was …
Florida's Law Libraries Provide Adequate Access to Courts Under State's Constitution by David Reutter Florida's Law Libraries Provide Adequate Access to Courts Under State's Constitution By David M. Reutter Florida's First District Court of Appeal has held that Article I, § 21 of the Florida constitution requires the Florida Department …
$1.45 Million To Be Paid In Death Of Florida Juvenile Prisoner by Michael Rigby The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) will pay $1.45 million to settle a federal lawsuit arising from the 2003 death of Omar Paisley at the Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center, the Miami Herald reported on …
Florida Prison Uprising by A riot at Florida's Apalachee Correctional Institution (ACI) resulted in one guard being stabbed and eleven others beaten. As a result, over 100 prisoners were transferred to other prisons. The incidents started shortly after prisoner Nakia Huggins was questioned by guards concerning a knife that another …
Florida Jury Awards $3,000,000 for Medical Negligence Causing Prisoner's Death by After a seven-day trial, a Florida jury awarded $3,006,200 to the plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming medical negligence, causing the death of a Florida prisoner. This was brought by the estate of prisoner Clifford E. Jones, Jr., 35, against …
Incident Review of Suicide Death by Inmate, FL Correctional Program Manager Bay Count Jail, 2005 --·- ·· ------- ---·- - ------ May 13, 2005 Kevin Watson CCA Bay County Jail/Annex Facility Administrator 314 ½ Harmon Avenue Panama City, Florida 32401 SUBJ: UNUSUAL INCIDENT REVIEW - - SUICIDE DEATH OF INMATE …
Concubine and Children Cannot Sue for Wrongful Death of Federal Prisoner by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a concubine and her children could not sue for damages resulting from the cancer death of federal prisoner Jose Miguel Ruiz. This action was brought under the Federal Tort …
Court Holds Florida's Administrative Processing Fee is Constitutional by by David M. Reutter On December 21, 2004, Florida's Leon County Circuit Court held that a 2004 law that imposed an administrative processing fee on monies deposited into prisoner accounts does not violate the Florida Constitution's single-subject rule. The December 2004 …
Florida's Faith-Based Programs Under Watchful Eyes by David Reutter by David M. Reutter With budget cuts eliminating its substance abuse programs and most educational programs in its prisons, the State of Florida is turning to religious groups to rehabilitate its prisoners. Since 1995, Florida's prison population has exploded from 62,000 …
Five Florida Cases Remanded for Award of Jail or Prison Credits by Florida's Second and Fifth District Courts of Appeals have remanded five separate cases for the award of jail or prison credit. Each case was filed under Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a) alleging illegal sentences were imposed for …
PHS and Florida Sheriff Fight Over Liability in Jail Beating Death Suit by Florida's Second District Court of Appeals has reversed the grant of summary judgment to the Florida Association of Counties Trust (FACT) and the Sheriff of Polk County in a lawsuit seeking indemnification by Prison Health Services (PHS). …
Telder v. Coutny of Volusia, FL, Discovery Notice, Jail Suicide, 2005 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION TERRENCE JAMES TELDER as Personal Representative for the Estate of Eric Jon Telder, and on behalf of himself and survivors Tristyn Telder, Kendel Cheatham and …
Report Lambastes New York Lockdowns by by: Michael Rigby Emotional and physical distress...restricted diets... "greeting beatings" ...high rates of mental illness...a reliance on warehousing instead of treatment. This is the troubling reality of disciplinary confinement in New York, according to a 54-page report released on October 22, 2003, by the …
Florida's Private Prison Industry Corporation Under Siege by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As early as 1980, drugstore mogul Jack Eckerd was convinced a private company could provide higher profits to Florida if it ran the state's Prison Industries. After Eckerd's lobbying of the Florida Legislature, that Legislature enacted …
Florida's $4 Administrative Processing Fee for Prisoner Banking Fees Challenged by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A class action suit filed in Florida's Leon County Circuit Court challenges a new law enacted by the Florida Legislature in its 2004 session. That Legislature amended § 944.516, Florida statutes, to add …
Judge Barkett Dissents from Expansion of "In Custody" Meaning for PLRA purposes by Judge Barkett Dissents from Expansion of "In Custody" Meaning for PLRA purposes Judge Barkett has dissented from the denial of en banc review of an Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision that held the Prison Litigation Reform …
Private Capitol Punishment: The Florida Model by David Reutter by Ken Kopczynski, 111 pp. 2004, Authorhouse, softbound Reviewed by David M. Reutter As the prison industrial complex has expanded, the privatization of prisons has increased. The pages of PLN have chronicled the mental and physical abuse, as well as medical …
Prisons, Profits and Prophets by Bill Berkowitz The nation's largest private prison corporation is joining forces with conservative faith-based ministries by Bill Berkowitz In an era where the Bush Administration touts faith-based organizations as engines of individual and social transformation, and is actively recruiting and funding religious organizations to deliver …
Class Action Challenges Treatment of Florida's "Sexual Predator" Civil Detainees by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal class action has been filed in the Federal District Court in Ft. Myers by eight residents of the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC), seeking to enforce their rights to mental health …
PLRA Indigency Provision Inapplicable When Filing Fee Paid by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Ap-peals held the In Forma Pauperis (IFP) provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) cannot be used to dismiss a case when the plaintiff pays the filing fee. Thomas R. Farese, a federal prisoner, filed …
