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United States Sues Georgia County Jail over Unconstitutional Medical and Living Conditions by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Using its investigative powers under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) investigated conditions at the Terrell County, Georgia jail …
Civil Grand Jury Calls San Mateo County Women’s Jail a “Crowded Disgrace” by Civil Grand Jury Calls San Mateo County Women's Jail a "Crowded Disgrace" The San Mateo County (California) Civil Grand Jury found that the decades-old Women's Correctional Center in Redwood City was so deficient that it must be …
An Old Story: District of Columbia Continues Overdetaining and Strip Searching Prisoners by A federal district court for the District of Columbia has, once again, certified a class action in a complaint that District of Columbia is over-detaining persons ordered released and strip searching them without individualized suspicion. The Court …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Columbus, Ohio Jail’s Seclusion Turns Parole Into Death March by Columbus, Ohio Jail's Seclusion Turns Parole Into Death March Columbus, Ohio's main incarceration facility has a fatal flaw. It is located so remote from public transportation--requiring walking miles along a dangerous freeway -- that prisoners happily paroled, but unable to …
A Voice From Guantanamo’s Darkness by Jumah al-Dossari A Voice From Guantanamo's Darkness A current detainee speaks of the torture and humiliation he has experienced at Guantanamo since 2002 by Jumah al-Dossari JUMAH AL-DOSSARI is a 33-year-old citizen of Bahrain. This article was excerpted from letters he wrote to his …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
The New Asylum: Supermax as Warehouse for the Mentally Ill by David C Fathi by David C. Fathi1 The prison industry, like any other, has its fashions. And in the 1990s, "supermax" prisons were a raging fad. According to Chase Riveland, former secretary of corrections in Washington and Colorado, [t]hey …
Clergyman to Stand Trial for "Dirty War" Crimes in Argentina by Marie Trigona | July 25, 2007 A much awaited human rights abuse trial is underway in Argentina. The accused is a catholic priest charged with carrying out human rights abuses while working in several clandestine detention centers during the …
Government Segregates Muslim Prisoners Restricts Phone Calls and Visits by Government Segregates Muslim Prisoners, Restricts Phone Calls and Visits By William Fisher Legal authorities are charging that racial profiling is responsible for low-risk Muslim prisoners convicted for crimes the Justice Department intimates are terror-related being held in a segregated unit, …
A RE-BIRTH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION: USING THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT TO OVERCOME SECTION 1983 HURDLES AND HOLD GOVERNMENT AND POLICE ACCOUNTABLE by A RE-BIRTH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION: USING THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT TO OVERCOME SECTION 1983 HURDLES AND HOLD GOVERNMENT AND POLICE ACCOUNTABLE A Review of …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Tennessee Parole Rules-Changes as Applied to Old Lifer May Violate Ex Post Facto by The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a double-murderer convicted in 1975, serving life in Tennessee, was entitled to the benefit of 1974 parole rules which conditionally provided that ?... such prisoner shall be …
Eighth Circuit Upholds Arkansas Sex Offender Registration/Residency Restrictions by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a civil rights challenge to provisions of the Arkansas Sex Offender Registration Act, Ark. Code Ann. § 12-12-901 et seq., and to a criminal statute …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Texas Court Ordered to Accept Prisoners’ Correspondence by Texas Court Ordered to Accept Prisoners' Correspondence In a bizarre case, a Court of Appeals in Texas had to order a state district court to accept correspondence from prisoners. Felix DeLeon, a Texas state prisoner, filed a petition for a writ of …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
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News in Brief: by California: On April 20, 2007, John Whittle, a former guard at the Mule Creek State Prison was sentenced to two years in prison for smuggling methamphetamine to prisoners in exchange for five thousand dollars worth of bribes. Florida: On June 20, 2006, Nelson Mompierre, 43, a …
Federal Court Awards Illinois Prisoner $7,116 in Fees, Costs by Michael Rigby By Michael Rigby On August 18, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois awarded $7,116.35 in attorney's fees and costs to a state prisoner who prevailed in his civil rights claim against prison officials. …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright We recently relaunched the Prison Legal News website. Like our previous website, this one contains all articles that have ever appeared in PLN, all copies of PLN in a searchable database format, in PDF format, thousands of court cases, briefs, pleadings, settlements, reports, publications, …
Delaware Forced to Clean-up Medical Care by DOJ Settlement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After a nine-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report finding prisoners in four Delaware prisons ?suffer harm or are placed at the risk of harm from constitutional deficiencies in certain …
Delaware DOC Still Defends Abysmal Medical Care, Prisoners Still Die From Medical Neglect by After media reports detailed incidents showing prisoners within the Delaware Department of Corrections (DDOC) were being maimed or dying because of deplorable medical care, Stan Taylor, DDOC's Commissioner, charged the reports were "sloppy reporting." Taylor's testimony …
Florida Boot Camp Death Results in Manslaughter Charges Against 7 Guards and Nurse; Civil Claims Settled for $7,425,000 by After two autopsies and an 11-month investigation, aggravated manslaughter charges were issued in the death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson at a Florida boot camp. Anderson?s death at the Bay County …
Colorado Settles Class Action Prison Disability Discrimination Suit For Over $3 Million by The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) has settled a class action disability discrimination suit over accessibility inside its state prisons for prisoners with impairments in mobility, hearing, sight and for diabetics. Over $3 million will be spent …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
BOP Settles “Terrorism” Classification Privacy Act Suit for $3,000 by BOP Settles "Terrorism" Classification Privacy Act Suit for $3,000 Plaintiff William Francis fought for more than 12 years to have what he claimed was erroneous information linking him to "terrorism" removed from his prison file. His persistence ultimately paid off. …
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