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Article • August 8, 2016
Maryland Court of Appeals: Police Must Have Warrant for "Stingray" Phone Tracking by Derek Gilna According to criminal defense attorneys in Baltimore, Maryland, at least 200 individuals are now sitting in prison based upon illegally-obtained cell phone records obtained from the use of "stingray" tracking devices.  The suitcase-sized eavesdropping device …
Article • August 8, 2016
Massachusetts Man's Estate Paid Millions for Wrongful Conviction by The town of Ayer, Massachusetts, and five insurance companies have agreed to pay the estate of a man who spent 18 years in prison for a murder he did not commit a total of $3.4 million. A sixth insurance company, Western …
Man Nearly Executed, Awarded $14M after Exoneration by A former death row inmate who came within weeks of being executed was awarded $14 million by a federal jury in New Orleans after being cleared of his murder conviction. John Thompson, 40, spent 18 years in prison after being convicted of …
Brief • August 8, 2016
Fox v. Peters, OR, Complaint, Spinal Injury Release Plan, 2016 Case 6:16-cv-01602-MC Document 1 Filed 08/08/16 Page 1 of 7 Lynn S. Walsh, OSB #924955 email: walsh@europa.com 209 SW Oak Street Suite 400 Portland, Oregon 97204 Telephone: 503-790-2772 Facsimile: 503-227-6840 Attorney for Plaintiff UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT …
Brief • August 8, 2016
Kaelin v. County of Riverside, CA, Consolidated Opp to MTD - Inmate Phone Systems, 2016 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 BARRETT S. LITT, SBN 45527 E-Mail: blitt@kmbllaw.com RONALD O. KAYE SBN 145051 E-Mail: rok@kmbllaw.com Kaye, McLane, Bednarski & Litt, LLP 234 Colorado Boulevard, Suite 230 Pasadena, California …
In-the-News Article • August 8, 2016
FCC increases rate caps for prison phone calls; HRDC quoted Aug. 8, 2016 Articles with PLN Quotes Communications Daily GTL Says FCC Order ‘Did Nothing’ to Resolve ICS Dispute; Hamden Disappointed August 8, 2016 Communications Daily Global Tel*Link said the FCC’s inmate calling service rate cap increases fail to achieve …
Publication • August 8, 2016
HRDC comments to Surface Transportation Board re PTS merger - Aug. 2016 Human Rights Defense Center DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS Opposing Comment for Docket No. MCF 21067 August 8, 2016 Surface Transportation Board 395 E Street S.W. Washington, DC 20423-0001 Re: Opposing Comment for Docket No. MCF 21067 Dear …
In-the-News Article • August 7, 2016
Article on SC county jail phone rates quotes HRDC prison phone justice director Aug. 7, 2016 Articles with PLN Quotes The State AUGUST 7, 2016 8:20 PM How much would you pay to stay in contact with your loved one in jail? BY CYNTHIA ROLDÁN croldan@thestate.com   LEXINGTON COUNTY, SC  …
Article • August 5, 2016
INS Detainees Not Entitled to Protections and Wages under Federal Fair Labor Standards Act by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has adopted a lower court’s judgment that held that Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) alien detainees were not employees a defined by the Fair Labor Standards …
Federal Jury Awards $9 Million to Illinois Man Cleared of Rape He Was Convicted of as Teenager by Alejandro Dominguez, who spent four years in prison for a rape he did not commit, was awarded $9 million by a federal jury after DNA evidence cleared him of the charges. Dominguez, …
Negligence not Grounds for Prosecution in Deaths of Wisconsin Prisoners by Gary Hunter It was a Thursday in late July 2009 when Myron Weston, a prisoner at Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF), drank cleaning fluid from the supplies given to him to perform his janitorial duties. A short time later …
Article • August 5, 2016
CA Prisoners Win Appeal in Failure-To-Pay Interest Case by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has remanded a case filed by several California state prisoners challenging a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) practice of refusing to credit the prisoners with interest earned on their accounts. …
Article • August 5, 2016
PLRA Requires each Prisoner Plaintiff to Pay Full Filing Fee by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Wisconsin District Court’s order that held each prisoner proceeding in forma pauperis (IFP) must pay the full $150 filing fee. This action was filed by four prisoners at Wisconsin’s top-security prison, …
Article • August 5, 2016
Philadelphia Man Awarded $65,000 in Police Assault by A Philadelphia state court jury awarded $65,000 to a man after finding two police officers liable for assault and battery and malicious prosecution. At issue was the April 2, 2013, arrest of Phillip Easley, 30, who walked to a store and offered …
Oklahoma County Settles Suit over Excessive Use of Restraint Chair for $200,000 by On May 20, 2014, Bryan County, Oklahoma agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a former Bryan County Jail prisoner over maltreatment, including placing him in a restraint chair multiple times for days at a time and …
North Dakota Prisoner’s Parental Rights Terminated by The North Dakota Supreme Court upheld the termination of a prisoner’s parental rights. Before the court was the appeal of G. L., who argued a juvenile court erred by declaring him in default, finding that causes of the child’s deprivation were likely to …
Article • August 5, 2016
Nebraska Juvenile Court May Enter Visitation Orders While Appeal Pending by The Nebraska Court of Appeals held a juvenile court had continuing jurisdiction to suspend a parents visitation privileges while an appeal challenging adjudication of the children was pending.  The court further found it lacked jurisdiction over the instant appeal …
Article • August 5, 2016
Milwaukee Man Receives $506,000 Award for Wrongful Stop by A Wisconsin federal jury awarded $506,000 to a man who was stopped without reason and wrongfully arrested. As Leo Hardy was leaving his mother’s home, Milwaukee police officers Michael Gasser and Keith Garland, Jr., stopped him on March 13, 2012, for …
Article • August 5, 2016
Filed under: Sentencing, Juveniles
Miller Applies Retroactively in Florida by In a unanimous decision, the Florida Supreme Court held that the ruling in Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455 (2012), which “forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of parole for juvenile offenders,” is entitled to retroactive application. Before …
Michigan Women’s Prison Investigated for Abusing Mentally Ill by A letter from the Michigan ACLU to the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) charged that mentally ill prisoners were being abused.  One instance involved the hog tying of a prisoner as punishment. The July 2015 letter concerned prisoner treatment at the …
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