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$13,500 Settlement in Washington Sex Discrimination Claim; Public Records Act Violation by The State of Washington has paid $13,500 to settle the Public Records Act and gender discrimination suit of Marge Southard, a counselor for the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). Southard was employed by DSHS as a …
Article • January 15, 2010
Defendants Lack Standing To Challenge SORNA Under Tenth Amendment by On May 13, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit rejected on grounds of standing a Tenth Amendment and Administrative Procedure Act (APA) challenge to the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Scott Hacker pled guilty …
Sweat Lodges in American Prisons (2005) by Significance of the Sweat Lodge Sweat lodges are salient features of a remarkable number of native traditions across North America from the Great Lakes to the Southwest. From Minnesota's Mille Lacs Ojibwe to Plains communities like the Lakota to Southwestern peoples like the …
Bailey v. Pataki, NY, Memo to Preclude-Prejudicial Evidence-Bifurcation - Sex Offenders (2010) UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK KENNETH BAILEY, Plaintiff, -againstGEORGE PATAKI, et. al., Defendants. Case No. 08-Civ-8563 (JSR) Memorandum in Law in Support of Plaintiff’s Motions for Preclusion of Prejudicial Evidence and for Bifurcation TABLE …
Article • December 15, 2009
Nursing homes with razor wire: Are elderly prisoners really a threat to public safety? by By David Fathi Sometime in the 1970s, the United States began a love affair with incarceration that continues to this day. After holding nearly steady for decades, our prison population began to climb as criminal …
TDCJ Pays $45,000 to Settle Discrimination Complaint by On June 30, 2005, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice entered into a settlement agreement with employee Gary Walls. The settlement is the result of discrimination complaints filed by Walls with the Texas Workforce Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. To …
TDCJ Pays $267,000 to Settle Discrimination Claim by On September 15, 2005, the TDCJ agreed to pay a total of $267,500 to Melissa Roberts to settle a complaint she filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Represented by …
TDCJ Settles Race Discrimination Suit Following Denial of Sovereign Immunity by On May 20, 2004, a Texas appellate court denied an appeal filed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) after a district court denied a motion for summary judgment and another for sovereign immunity in a race discrimination …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
California Struggles to House Sex Offenders by Michael Brodheim When California voters approved Proposition 83 (Jessica’s Law) in 2006, the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office estimated that enforcement of the law’s provisions – which included GPS monitoring and banning sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park …
$150,000 Settlement in Tennessee Jail Beating by Sullivan County, Tennessee has paid $150,000 to settle the claim of a former prisoner who was beaten at the county’s jail. The suit alleged the sheriff’s department failed to properly train and supervise jail guards, deliberately placed the prisoner in a dangerous situation, …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Miami Sex Offenders Still Living Under Bridge; Lawsuits Fail to Solve Problem by David Reutter by David M. Reutter PLN has reported several times on the plight of Florida sex offenders forced to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami due to restrictive sex offender residency laws. [See: PLN, …
$58,333 Settlement for Transgendered Woman’s Sacramento Jail Assault and Sexual Harassment by California’s County of Sacramento has paid $58,333.33 to settle the lawsuit of Richardo Medina-Tejada, who claimed that as a post-operative transgender male-to-female pretrial detainee at the Sacramento County Jail, she was placed in housing with male prisoners who …
GPS Used to Track Sex Offenders in Washington State by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Like firefighters and airline pilots, the ten Washington Department of Corrections community correction officers (CCOs) assigned to monitor high-risk sex offenders in King County via Global Positioning System (GPS) hope for a really boring day …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
New Jersey DOC Report: Megan’s Law Costly and Ineffective by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In December 2008, the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) submitted a research report on the practical and monetary effects of Megan’s Law to the U.S. Department of Justice. The report concluded that Megan’s Law, …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Violence Against Blacks Decreases In The U.S. by Gary Hunter Violence against blacks in the U.S. has dropped dramatically over the last decade. The Bureau of Statistics for the U.S. Justice Department showed that, between 1993 and 2001, violent victimization of blacks decreased by nearly 57% and remained stable through …
Article • December 15, 2009
Defamation Claim Filed by Hawai'i Sex Offender Labeled as Murderer Dismissed by On June 30, 2009, a Hawai'i Appellate Court filed its decision affirming the trial court judgment to dismiss a complaint filed on September 11, 2002 by a convicted sex offender, Waldorf Roy Wilson. Defendants in the complaint were …
Article • December 15, 2009
Failure to Register as Sex Offender Convictions Reversed in Washington by A Washington Court of Appeals reversed and vacated Kenneth Howe’s convictions for failure to register as a sex offender. The convictions were based on Howe's prior California convictions for lewd acts on a child and failure to register, which …
New Mexico County Immigrant Neighborhood Searches Enjoined by A New Mexico federal district court has issued a preliminary injunction that prohibits the County of Otero from engaging in “unconstitutional stops, searches, seizures, and discrimination pursuant to ‘operation Stonegarden,’” which seeks to round up illegal immigrants. Before the Court was the …
Article • December 15, 2009
Out of State Detainer Does not Prevent Civil Commitment of Sex Offender Scheduled for Release by In an opinion filed June 23, 2009, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court's conclusion to allow the civil commitment of a prisoner in Washington who was about to be released to a detainer …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Former PA Lawmaker Who Took Sex Offenders into His Home Files Suit Against Zoning Board by Thomas E. Armstrong, a former tough-on-crime Pennsylvania lawmaker who took three registered sex offenders into his home in Marietta Borough, filed a lawsuit last year challenging a decision by zoning officials to force the …
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