$5,000 Paid for Failure to Treat Iritis by $5,000 paid for failure to treat iritis While incarcerated at the WSP in 1993, Terry Miller contracted iritis in his right eye. The eye was extremely swollen, red and painful when he reported to the clinic on May 4, 1993. Despite the …
Trachtenberg v. WA DOC, Appeal Disciplinary Sanction of Dismissal Neglect of Duty, 2002 1 2 BEFORE THE PERSONNEL APPEALS BOARD 3 STATE OF WASHINGTON 4 5 LLOYD TRACHTENBERG, 6 Appellant, 7 v. 8 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, 9 Respondent. 10 ) Case No. DISM-00-0035 ) ) FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF …
Balisok Bars Privacy Act Claim by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has held that a prisoner must succeed on habeas corpus before suing under the Privacy Act (PA), 5 U.S.C. § 552(a), if the suit would undermine a disciplinary change against the prisoner if successful. …
Washington Department of Corrections' Address Requirement Illegal by The Washington Court of Appeals has held that the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) lacks statutory authority to require a prisoner to obtain a preapproved residence location and living arrangement prior to release unless that condition was imposed by the sentencing court. …
Conditions of Confinement: Washington State Prisoner Sues Over Twelve Harsh Days in Strip Cell by Silja JA Talvi In the early morning hours of February 2, 1998, at Clallam Bay Correctional Center (CBCC), Washington State prisoner Sylvester Mahone felt like he had had enough. Locked up in isolation in one …
PLN Sues Washington DOC Over Mail Censorship - Again by On November 27, 2001, Prison Legal News sued Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) officials across the state for its policies and practices of censoring mail items sent by PLN to Washington state prisoners. The suit names DOC Secretary Joseph Lehman, …
Washington DOC Suffers Yet Another Multi-Million Dollar Negligent Supervision Settlement by Lonnie Burton On May 16, 2001, the State of Washington and King County agreed to pay $5.5 million to the family of a man stabbed to death by a mentally ill man who was mistakenly released from the King …
Washington Enacts Sweeping New Sentencing Laws, Creates Parole Board for Sex Offenders by Lonnie Burton Washington Governor Gary Locke recently signed into law the biggest changes to that state's sentencing laws since the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA) was established. The Bill, known formally as Third Engrossed Substitute Senate …
Washington Supreme Court Rules Imprisoned Children Entitled to Education by Patricia Arthur In a case of first impression, the Washington Supreme Court has ruled that prisoners in Washington State under the age of eighteen have a fundamental right under the Washington State Constitution to an education while in prison. [See: …
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Wright v. WA DOC, WA, Complaint, Achilles Injury Medical Negligence, 2001 .: .--._- I STANDARD TO~T CL.AIM FORM General Uabilily f' . " Form #SF 210' '. Pu~uant' to RCW 4.92, this fonn is provided for your convenience when filing a lort claim against the State of Washington. If filing …
Washington's Island of Deviant Doctors by Roger Smith The McNeil Island Correction Center (MICC), located on McNeil Island near Steilacoom, Washington, has a long history of hiring misfits in its medical and psychological departments. In order to secure such a position it almost seems as though one must have drug …
Washington DOC Pays $24,697 in PLN Records Suit by The cover story in this issue of PLN , "Washington's Island of Deviant Doctors," is the result of a lengthy investigation into the provision of medical care to prisoners and civil commitment "residents" at the McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) in …
Children Strip-Searched While Touring DC Jail by In April and May 2001, school children were strip searched while touring a jail in Washington, D.C. A lawsuit seeking $4 million for each of six girls and one boy is forthcoming. D.C. schools routinely schedule these tours for children with behavioral problems. …
DC Prison Guards Smuggled Cash, Pagers by Ten Washington, D.C., prison guards were charged with conspiracy to smuggle cash and twoway pagers to prisoners in federal indictments unsealed April 31, 2001. The guards, nine of whom work for Corrections Corporation of America, a private company operating the Correctional Treatment Facility …
Not Part of my Sentence: The Rape of Washington Prisoners by Silja JA Talvi Gig Harbor, Wash.: Annette Guzman-White, a 32-year-old minimum-security prisoner incarcerated on a second-degree burglary charge at the Washington Correction Center for Women (WCCW), is eager to get out of prison. It's something that could probably be …
The Cost of Running Washington's Rape Camps by Paul Wright As the accompanying article, Not Part of My Sentence , makes clear, the sexual abuse of female prisoners by male prison employees is an endemic problem. As past issues of PLN show, this problem is not confined to any single …
Male Prisoner Settles Guard Rape Suit for $6,000 by On November 22, 2000, Raymond Holmes, a Washington state prisoner, settled a civil rights suit against Washington prison employees. In 1997_98, while imprisoned at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) in Walla Walla, Holmes was repeatedly forced to perform nonconsensual sexual acts …
Qualified Immunity Denied in Washington Rape of Transsexual Prisoner by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a Washington guard's claim of qualified immunity in sexually assaulting a transsexual prisoner. The Court also held the protection afforded by the Gender Motivated Violence Act (GMVA) extends to transsexuals, but upheld …
$350,000 Verdict in Dirty Dancing Suit; Punitive Damages Vacated by John E Dannenberg AU.S. district court jury in Washington, D.C., awarded female D.C. Jail prisoner Sunday Daskalea $350,000 in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages against the District and the Department of Corrections Director, Margaret Moore, for Daskalea's …
