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Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Defendants Claim Sexual Abuse by Arkansas Judge by Three alleged victims of an Arkansas judge filed a lawsuit in May 2016, claiming that Cross County District Court Judge Joseph Boeckmann had sexually abused them. Attorney Gary Green said on May 11, 2016 that a fourth man had joined the suit …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
A Deadly Dust is Plaguing Hawaii Prisoners in Arizona by Valley fever is widespread in the Southwest, yet Hawaii prison officials haven’t paid much attention to it, despite the recent deaths of at least two prisoners who had the disease. by Rui Kaneya, Civil Beat In the spring of 2014, …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Supreme Court Allows Prisoner’s § 1983 Action after Dismissal of Federal Tort Claim by Derek Gilna In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held on June 6, 2016 that a federal prisoner, Walter J. Himmelreich, could file a § 1983 federal civil rights complaint after the dismissal of his …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Florida Drug Court Judge’s Relapse Results in Removal from Bench by David Reutter In an ironic twist, a Florida drug court judge was removed from the bench after enrolling in a substance abuse treatment program herself. In December 2013, Broward County Judge Gisele Pollack, 57, took a two-week leave to …
Ohio Prison Guards Cited for Sexual Misconduct with Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Several Ohio state prison guards have been disciplined following at least 19 allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate relationships with female prisoners between 2012 and 2013. Most of the allegations arose shortly after the Dayton Correctional Institution (DCI) …
Breaking News: 18 Deaths in Six Months at Mississippi State Penitentiary by Derek Gilna Prison Legal News has learned through a public records request that 18 prisoners died at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman in just over a six-month period. The most recent reported death was that of Terry …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Tennessee Enacts Contrary “Ban the Box” Bills by On March 14, 2016, the Tennessee legislature passed a bill to eliminate a question on state government job applications that asks about an applicant’s criminal history. The measure, commonly called “Ban the Box,” was signed into law by Governor Bill Haslam on …
The Taste of Exploitation: Whole Foods Stops Carrying Products Made by Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Visit the website for Haystack Mountain, a Colorado-based goat cheese manufacturer, and you will find information about fancy chèvre and other tasty products. The “Our People” section includes profiles on cheesemaker Jackie Chang and other …
Coroner: California Prisoner’s Death Due to Starvation by Ann Marie Patrick wants an investigation into the death of her son at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. Michael Stanley Galliher, 49, was found dead six days after he was transferred to the prison from a state mental hospital. A coroner’s …
UK Security Company’s Long History of Controversy, Misconduct by Derek Gilna According to its website, G4S is the world’s “leading global integrated security company.” Besides providing security services, it also operates private prisons and immigration detention centers, provides electronic tagging (monitoring) for offenders on community supervision and has a prisoner …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Michigan State Prisoner Receives $1,250 for Interference with Visit by Derek Gilna Michigan state prisoner Kevin King was awarded $1,250 in punitive damages and $1 in compensatory damages after a federal jury found that a guard had intentionally interfered with a visit with his wife. The court determined that the …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Ninth Circuit Finds Accidental Amputation of Prisoner’s Fingertip Not a § 1983 Violation by Derek Gilna The tip of pretrial detainee Cherie Harding’s little finger was accidentally severed in her cell’s door frame when a guard at a San Francisco jail opened the door to commence a pat-down search. Harding …
U.S. Supreme Court: Prisoners Must Exhaust “Available” Administrative Remedies by Derek Gilna Shaidon Blake, a Maryland prisoner, claimed that he was punched in the face and had his head slammed into a wall by guard James Madigan while handcuffed during a move to a segregation cell – an assault that …
Ex-captain Sentenced for Raping Subordinate at Virginia Prison by Lloyd G. Samuels, a former captain employed by the Virginia Department of Corrections and a naturalized U.S. citizen from Jamaica, was sentenced on March 11, 2016 to 10 years in prison with six years suspended for raping a fellow prison employee …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Federal and state officials raided the Sumter County Jail on March 8, 2016 as part of an investigation into the Sumter County Sheriff’s Department. The search led a grand jury to recommend the impeachment of Sheriff Tyrone Clark and issue an indictment against him the …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years PLN has reported extensively on the ACA and NCCHC, and the “accreditation” scams they run using taxpayer money to promote mass incarceration and the prison industry. They are not alone; many other groups like the American Jail Association and National Sheriffs’ …
In-the-News Article • July 6, 2016
HRDC quoted, Prison Ecology Project cited in article on toxic prisons conference in DC July 6, 2016 Articles with PLN Quotes In These Times ACT LOCALLY » JULY 6, 2016 Coal and Unusual Punishment Activists are taking aim at mass incarceration, environmental pollution and the toxic prisons where the two …
Filing • July 6, 2016
PLN v. Co. of Tulare, et al., CA, Consent Decree , censorship, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-01650-JAM-SAB Document 44 Filed 07/06/16 Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kathleen Bales-Lange, #094765 County Counsel for the County of Tulare Kathleen A. Taylor, #131100 Chief Deputy County Counsel Kevin Stimmel, …
Brief • July 6, 2016
An v. City of New York, NY, Complaint, 1st Am video of police, 2016 Case 1:16-cv-05381 Document 1 Filed 07/06/16 Page 1 of 21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK RUBEN AN, Document Electronically Filed Plaintiff, COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL v. THE CITY OF NEW …
Brief • July 6, 2016
PLN v. Co. of Tulare, et al., CA, Consent Decree , censorship, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-01650-JAM-SAB Document 44 Filed 07/06/16 Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kathleen Bales-Lange, #094765 County Counsel for the County of Tulare Kathleen A. Taylor, #131100 Chief Deputy County Counsel Kevin Stimmel, …
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