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Class Action Disability Discrimination Suit Certified Against Cook County Jail in Illinois by Class Action Disability Discrimination Suit Certified Against Cook County Jail in Illinois On March 26, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Elaine E. Bucklo certified a class action lawsuit against the Cook County Department of Corrections (CCDC) alleging …
PLRA Requires Grievance Exhaustion for ADA/RA Claims by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has joined the Sixth Circuit in holding that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requires exhaustion of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Rehabilitation Act (RA) claims. Nevada prisoner Roy O’Guinn had a history of mental …
Neal et al v. Michigan DOC, MI, Opinion, sexually hostile prison guard sexual misconduct, 2009 STATE OF MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS TRACY NEAL and All Others Similarly Situated, UNPUBLISHED January 27, 2009 Plaintiffs-Appellees, v DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, KENNETH MCGINNIS, JOAN YUKINS, SALLY LANGLEY, CAROL HOWES, ROBERT SALIS, CORNELL HOWARD, MARTIN …
No Constitutional Violation For Wyoming Hermaphrodite's Ad Seg Placement by Bob Williams By Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeal for the Tenth Circuit has found no liberty interest arising from the placement of a hermaphrodite in administrative segregation (ad seg) for no other reason than sexual characteristics. The …
Article • January 15, 2009
Sex Offender Treatment Parole Condition For Non Sex Offense Convictions Upheld Under Plain Error Standard On Appeal by Bob Williams By Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held a sentence containing a sex offender assessment and treatment recommendation for a non sex offense …
Organizing for Freedom: Resistance at Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana’s Last Slave Plantation by Jordan Flaherty Organizing for Freedom: Resistance at Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana’s Last Slave Plantation by Jordan Flaherty At the heart of Louisiana’s prison system sits the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a former slave plantation where little …
Multiple Incidents Indicate Florida Jail Has Culture of Abuse by Multiple Incidents Indicate Florida Jail Has Culture of Abuse Three recent incidents at the Hillsborough County Jail in Tampa, Florida demonstrate a culture of abuse at the facility. One of the incidents involved a guard dumping a quadriplegic prisoner from …
Cook County Jail Conditions Unconstitutional, Charges Department of Justice by David Reutter Cook County Jail Conditions Unconstitutional, Charges Department of Justice by David M. Reutter On July 11, 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division issued a letter to officials at Illinois’ Cook County Jail (CCJ) which found …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
Los Angeles County Settles For $900,000 After Unattended Prisoner Savagely Beaten By Violent Jail Gang by Los Angeles County Settles For $900,000 After Unattended Prisoner Savagely Beaten By Violent Jail Gang Los Angeles County paid $900,000 to settle the civil rights complaint brought by the parents of a 41-year-old man …
Florida Prison Employees Awarded $630,000 for Subjection to Prisoner “Gunners” by Florida Prison Employees Awarded $630,000 for ?Subjection to Prisoner “Gunners” On May 15, 2008, a federal jury awarded $45,000 to each of 14 former female employees at Florida’s Martin Correctional Institution, finding the women had been subjected to lewd …
New Jersey Court Enters Preliminary Injunction Barring Women Prisoners at Men’s Prison by New Jersey Court Enters Preliminary Injunction Barring Women Prisoners at Men’s Prison A New Jersey Superior Court has issued a preliminary injunction that prohibits prison officials from transferring women prisoners to the New Jersey State Prison (NJSP), …
Civil Commitment Provisions of Adam Walsh Act Held Unconstitutional by Civil Commitment Provisions of Adam Walsh Act Held Unconstitutional Congress exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause of the U.S. Constitution in enacting the civil commitment provisions of the Adam Walsh Act, a Minnesota U.S. …
Article • January 15, 2009
ACLU Says Federal Death Penalty Prosecutions Racially Biased by Bob Williams By: Bob Williams The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleged that racial disparities exist surrounding the implementation of the federal death penalty (FDP). They claim that United States Attorney Generals (AG) Reno, Ashcroft and Gonzales seek the FDP for …
Violence at Oklahoma Prisons Leaves Two Dead, Twenty-Five Injured by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 19, 2008, at approximately 12:30 p.m., a fight broke out between Native American and black prisoners at the Oklahoma State Reformatory (OSR) in Granite. When the skirmish ended five minutes later, two prisoners …
Article • January 15, 2009
Illegal Alien Not Required to Submit Dual Parole Plans in California by California's First District Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner is not required to prepare a parole plan for both California and a country he will be deported to if there is a conclusive presumption that he …
Article • January 15, 2009
Michigan's "Setting Aside Convictions Act" Doesn't Exempt Sex Offender Registration Requirement by Anonymous Michigan ex prisoners (Does) appealed a Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) requirement after their convictions were set aside under the state's Setting Aside Convictions Act (SACA). The requirement was affirmed. The SACA allows for setting aside a …
Article • January 15, 2009
100 Year Probation And Sex Offender Registration Stay Reversed As Erroneous by The State of Wisconsin appealed a court's reduction of the terms of sentencing imposed on Samuel Roloff after he pled to three felony and three misdemeanor charges of sexual activity with underage girls. His reduction to a 100 …
Kenneth H v. State of New York, NY, Decision, Rikers inmate-inmate rape PTSD protective custody homosexual, 2008 01/09/2009 " 11:18 ~~jr-mt~J 10 STATE OF NEW YORK· PAGE DIVIS/Lon 12129258774 01 5)1" RECEIVED JUN 2 3 • COURT OF CLAIMS KENNETH H.\ Clalm,nt, DECISION "vTHE STATE OF NEW YORK, Claim No. …
Use of Questionable “Lie Detectors" by Law Enforcement Expands Nationwide by Matthew Clarke Use of Questionable “Lie Detectors” by Law Enforcement Expands Nationwide by Matt Clarke In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, law enforcement and other government agencies implemented new practices to obtain information from suspects …
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