Florida PLN Writer Settles Retaliation Suit for $3,000 by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A 42 U. S. C. § 1983 action filed in a Florida State Court alleging retaliatory job changes for the filing of grievances and lawsuits that challenged the general living conditions at Glades Correctional Institution …
Florida's Rush to Disenfranchise Felons Before the 2004 Election by David Reutter By David M. Reutter After George W. Bush won Florida by 537 votes in the 2000 election, an uproar arose when it was learned that election supervisors, using a list compiled by an Atlanta firm, had mistakenly identified …
Florida DOC Ordered to Assist Felons Restore Their Voting Rights by David Reutter Florida DOC Ordered to Assist Felons Restore their Voting Rights by David M. Reutter A Florida circuit court has ordered the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) to assist ex-felons who did not receive help in the application …
Florida's Private Food Service Demonstrates that Profit Overrides Sanitary Practice by Marvin Mentor by David M. Reutter In July 2001, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) entered into a five-year contract with Philadelphia's cost-conscious Aramark Corporation to feed prisoners at 126 of the 133 prisons in Florida. The contract is …
Florida Prisoner Sues for Contracting HIV by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida prisoner Richard James Randles filed simultaneous state and federal lawsuits alleging guard B.D. Hester ordered him, on three separate occasions, to clean up blood from other prisoners who had accidentally wounded themselves or attempted suicide at …
Brash v. Wexford Health Services, FL, Motion for Pi HCV Treatment, 2002 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No. ALLEN BRASH, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., ) a Florida corporation, DAVID ) ROWE, and MICHAEL MOORE, in ) his official …
Cotton v. FL DOC, FL, Motion to Dismis Opposition Credibility, Kosher Diet, 2002 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Miami Division Case No.: 02-22760-CIV-Moore/O’Sullivan ALAN J. COTTON, Plaintiff, v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; et al., Defendants. PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS Plaintiff respectfully submits this memorandum …
Prisoners, Politics, Money and the Census by Gary Hunter It's a standing joke that the Texas economy has been grounded in the 3 C's: cattle, crude, and convicts. But while Texas gets most of the publicity for its massive prison build-up, the human-warehousing trend is literally sweeping the countrysideand it …
$32,500 Florida Jail Accident Settlement by On October 30, 2001, the Broward County jail in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, settled a prisoner's work accident suit for $32,500. Edward Beal, 47, a prisoner at the county jail was assigned to a jail work program at the Dania Beach facility. While cutting trees, …
Florida Prisoner Dies in CCA Jail by Lonnie Burton On February 26, 2002, the family of a prisoner who died as a result of medical neglect at the privately-run Bay County jail in Florida filed formal notice that they intend to sue the jail, as well as the Bay Medical …
Nominal Damages Not Automatic by The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has held that nominal damages are not automatic when a jury renders a verdict for excessive use of force, but fails to award compensatory or punitive damages. Temporary detainee George B. Oliver filed a civil rights action …
Danish Security Firm Buys Out the Wackenhut Corporation by Danish Security Firm Buys Out The Wackenhut Corporation In 1954, former FBI agent George Wackenhut and three FBI buddies formed a private detective firm in Miami. In 1955, the firm moved into the security guard business after winning a contract with …
Foree v. Broward County, FL, Expert Report, Indifference Pregnancy, 2002 Case 0:02-cv-61356-KAM Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/25/2002 Page 32 of 39 KENNETH KASSIN, M.D. 1600 S. Federal Highway, Suite 611 Pompano Beach, FL. 33062 (954) 941-8100 April 15, 2002 Jemey Nodan Counhouse Tower, Suite 400 44 West Flagler …
Foree v. Broward County Sheriff's Office, FL, Petition for Removal, Deliberate Indifference Pregnancy, 2002 Case 0:02-cv-61356-KAM Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/25/2002 Page 37 of 39 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL DIVISION CASE NO.: 02016927 CACE 05 CHARLEEN …
Florida Guard's Threat of Death Requires Summary Judgment Denial by A federal district court in Florida has denied summary judgment to a guard that threatened violence against a prisoner who filed a lawsuit against the guard's brother. While confined at Florida's Liberty Correctional Institution, prisoners Joseph Wilson and David Croft …
Florida Guards Murder Another Prisoner, Get Another Acquittal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A state jury has acquitted three Florida prison guards in the murder of death row inmate Frank Valdes. The guards, Captain Timothy Thornton, Sgt. Jason P. Griffis, and Sgt. Charles A. Brown, were exonerated of …
News in Brief by Roger Hummel Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor …
New Florida Trend: Abuse in a Spray Can by Frank Valdes may have accomplished in death what he could not in life: a decrease in prisoner beatings by guards. The problem of abusive guards, nonetheless, has not disappeared after Valdes's murder. The form of the abuse has progressed to frequent …
Motion Accepted as Appeal Notice; Damage Award Set Off Against Costs by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a pro se motion must be accepted as a notice of appeal if it states the intent to appeal, and that a jury's damage award could be set off …
Deaths in Florida and Virginia Jails Spark National Investigations by Gary Hunter The badly bloated body of Kathy Kearns was removed from her Virginia Beach jail cell in the early morning hours of April 26, 2001. Testimony from witnesses and evidence from jail and city records show that Kearns desperately …
