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Florida’s Broward County Jail: Abuse and Misconduct As Usual by David Reutter Florida's Broward County Jail: Abuse and Misconduct As Usual by David M. Reutter Despite Florida's Broward County jail (BCJ) being under the supervision of a court-appointed monitor, recent incidents reveal prisoners are still at danger. BCJ has been …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Suicides Plague Wisconsin Jails; Attempted Suicide Suit Settles for $13.1 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke There has been a rash of suicides in Wisconsin jails, including six in 2005 and four in the first half of 2006. One jail, in LaCrosse County, experienced prisoner suicides in 1997, …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Dr. Yank: Washington Prison Dentist Nearly Kills Patient by by Rick Anderson If anyone really needed another reason to fear the dentist, Dr. Joel Diven provided it one day in May 2006, when a state prisoner climbed into his dental chair with a toothache. State investigators say Diven, 72, a …
Landmark Settlement Reduces SHU Time, Increases Treatment Of New York Prisoners With Mental Illness by by Betsy Sterling After five years of litigation and two weeks of trial, the New York State Department of Correctional Services and Office of Mental Health have agreed to a settlement that establishes major improvements …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Maryland Restores Voting Rights to 50,000 Felons by Annapolis, MD - Governor Martin O?Malley on April 24, 2007, signed legislation re-enfranchising more than 50,000 Maryland residents who have completed their felony sentences of prison, parole, and probation. O?Malley?s support of the ?Voting Registration Protection Act? ends the state?s draconian lifetime …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Supreme Court: California’s Law Permitting Suspicionless Police Search of Parolees Does Not Violate Fourth Amendment by Marvin Mentor Supreme Court: California's Law Permitting Suspicionless Police Search of Parolees Does Not Violate Fourth Amendment by Marvin Mentor A divided U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a unique California statutory …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Missouri Legislature Allows Wrongfully Convicted to Receive Compensation by The Missouri Legislature has enacted legislation to compensate all persons declared "actually innocent" after DNA testing. In the last 15 years, five such prisoners in Missouri were released after being exonerated by DNA testing. The latest action by that legislature sought …
Increasingly Repressive Sex Offender Residency Restrictions Have Doubtful Benefits by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg While politicians trample each other in their rush to enact increasingly onerous post-release residency restrictions on all manner of sex offenders, the California Legislature took pause to commission a study to measure the effectiveness …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Phoenix, Arizona Sheriff’s Policy Delaying Prisoners’ Elective Abortions Enjoined by John Dannenberg Phoenix, Arizona Sheriff's Policy Delaying Prisoners' Elective Abortions Enjoined by John E. Dannenberg Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's policy that required a female prisoner seeking an elective abortion to first obtain a court order for this procedure …
Alaska Jail Settles Alcohol Withdrawal Death Case For $573,000 by On June 12, 2006, the State of Alaska settled a federal civil rights lawsuit over the wrongful death of a prisoner in a state-run jail for $573,000. Julia Walker is the mother of Troy Wallace, who died while a prisoner …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Colorado Successfully Pressures FBI To Release DNA Info; Racial Bias Infects DNA Databases by Gary Hunter State law enforcement agencies have struck a tentative deal with FBI officials that allows agencies to share previously privileged information. The deal resulted from the brutal rape and beating of a Colorado woman who …
Michigan Prisons: Another CMS Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Another state prison system that subjected itself to the experiment of privatized medical services has learned the same hard lesson suffered by other states: a trail of inadequate care that leaves prisoners dead …
Michigan's Prison Health Care System Found Contemptuous by David Reutter by David M. Reutter "Step on a man's foot once, and a polite apology will do. Do it twice, and a profuse apology is in order. Do it thrice, and you have left the land of apology and entered the …
Michigan's In-Cell Restraints Considered Torture; Injunction Issued by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Michigan federal district court has held that the use of in-cell restraints for punitive reasons constitutes torture. In reaching that conclusion, the Court reopened its previous judgment concerning mental health claims and issued a preliminary …
Loss of Good Time Credits Without Notice Warrants Habeas Relief by The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an Oklahoma Federal District Court's denial of a state prisoner's 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition for habeas corpus relief and granted a certificate of appealability (COA) to him. Rayford Mayberry …
Article • May 15, 2007
Summary Judgment on Wrongful Arrest Reversed by The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated and remanded the grant of summary judgment to various state, county, and city defendants by the U.S. District Court of Maryland in a wrongful arrest case. Tray Carter was twice arrested and held in …
Dismissal of Retaliation Claim Reversed by The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin of a prisoner's retaliation claim. Tony Walker, a Wisconsin prisoner, sued prison officials under 42 U.S.C. §1983 claiming that officials conspired to retaliate …
Article • May 15, 2007
Sixth Circuit Rules Tennessee Prisoner Has Liberty Interest in Parole by The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated and remanded a Tennessee Federal District Court's dismissal of a Tennessee prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 suit as having no basis in law or fact. Alvin Seagroves, a Tennessee state prisoner …
Article • May 15, 2007
Summary Judgment, Qualified Immunity Denied on Deliberate Indifference Claim by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed denial of summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds to a federal correctional counselor charged with deliberate indifference to a serious medical need. Robert Mahler, a prisoner at the Federal Prison Camp in …
District Court Reversed in Christian Identity Case by The Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed in part and reversed in part a case involving prisoners who adhere to the "Christian Identity Faith." Jacob Ind and Jeffrey Pfleger are prisoners at the Colorado State Penitentiary. They adhere sincerely to …
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