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Publication • April 1, 2016
Letter to Seattle Mayor re detention facility environmental concerns - April 2016 Human Rights Defense Center DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS April 1, 2016 Mayor Ed Murray City of Seattle 600 4th Ave., 7th Floor Seattle, WA 98104 Re: Children and Family Justice Center MUP Permit Dear Mayor Murry, We …
Assessing Inmate Cause of Death, DOJ, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics TECHNICAL REPORT April 2016, NCJ 249568 Assessing Inmate Cause of Death: Deaths in Custody Reporting Program and National Death Index Zhen Zeng, Ph.D., Margaret Noonan, and E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., BJS …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Exonerated New York Prisoner Recovers $21.9 Million in Damages by An exonerated former New York prisoner received $21.9 million as a result of settlements and a jury verdict in a federal lawsuit claiming that law enforcement officials were responsible for his wrongful convictions for rape and homicide. Jeffrey Deskovic, 16, …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
California Supreme Court Voids Ex Post Facto Sex Offender Residency Restrictions by Derek Gilna Proposition 83, passed in 2006 by California voters and popularly known as Jessica’s Law, had the stated aim of protecting children from sex offenders. It was later codified at Pen. Code § 3003.5(b), but on March …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Texas: $400,000 Settlement Award to Mentally Ill Jail Prisoner by On June 2, 2015, the Harris County Commissioners Court awarded $400,000 to Terry Goodwin, a mentally ill prisoner, to settle a civil lawsuit stemming from his extreme neglect while housed at the Harris County Jail in Houston. “I have never …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Lawsuits Challenge Release Debit Cards; Courts Rule Against Arbitration by Derek Gilna Robert Regan, 67, was carrying $764 when he was arrested on a warrant in Rockdale County, Georgia. Upon his release from jail, instead of receiving cash or a check for the money seized during his arrest, he had …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Prison’s Censorship of Newsweek Upheld by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a grant of summary judgment to prison officials in a First Amendment challenge to the censorship of a magazine because it contained an article that reported violence and disorder in Mexico involving drug cartels. Missouri prisoner Joseph …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Sixth Circuit Allows Revival of Untimely Habeas Appeal Using Rule 60(b) by Matthew Clarke The Sixth Circuit allowed a prisoner to revive the appeal of her federal habeas corpus action in the interests of justice after she won a civil rights lawsuit against prison guards who prevented her from filing …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
$550,000 Jury Award for Failure to Treat Prisoner’s Broken Jaw by The First Circuit Court of Appeals found that a Massachusetts federal district court improperly weighed the evidence when granting summary judgment to the defendants in a prisoner’s civil rights suit alleging nurses at the Bristol House of Correction failed …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: Voting
Kentucky Restores Voting Rights for Former Prisoners, then Reverses Course by On November 24, 2015, two weeks before the end of his term, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear signed an executive order that restored the right to vote to certain convicted felons. Less than a month later, on December 22, incoming …
Defense Verdict in Kentucky Prisoner’s Death; Appellate Court Reverses by David Reutter A Kentucky state jury found for the defendants in a lawsuit alleging a jail guard and nurse failed to monitor and treat a pretrial detainee’s serious medical condition, resulting in her death. Recently, however, the Court of Appeals …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Terre Haute Prisoner’s FTCA Suit by Derek Gilna Federal prisoner Charles D. Keller filed a lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) against prison officials at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, seeking damages after he was assaulted by another prisoner. Despite his …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
$2.5 Million Award for Wrongfully Convicted Former Michigan Prisoner by An exonerated Michigan man will receive $2.5 million for his almost 26 years of wrongful incarceration. He was released from prison after it was discovered that Detroit police had tainted the victim’s identification and withheld exculpatory evidence. Walter Swift was …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Ninth Circuit Rules Judge “Abused Discretion” in Imposing Abstinence as Supervised Release Condition by Derek Gilna Raymond Leo Jarlik Bell, convicted of filing false income tax returns to obtain fraudulent refunds, appealed his 97-month federal prison sentence on three grounds, including whether the judge committed Sixth Amendment error by failing …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Filed under: Overdetention
$360,000 Verdict Against Indiana Sheriff for Denying Prompt Court Hearings by An Indiana federal court awarded nearly $360,000 in a class-action lawsuit alleging the Allen County Sheriff’s Office violated arrestees’ due process rights by failing to bring them before a court within 48 hours. The class consisted of 962 people …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Deaths of Prisoners in Indiana, California and Arkansas Linked to Flu Virus by Joe Watson A winter outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus is being blamed for the death of one prisoner and sickening 40 others, including five staff members, at the Putnamville Correctional Facility in Greencastle, Indiana in January …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Texas Disciplinary Appeals Board Upholds Disbarment of State Prosecutor by On February 8, 2016, the Texas Board of Disciplinary Appeals, appointed by the state Supreme Court, upheld the disbarment of former prosecutor Charles J. Sebesta, Jr. for using tainted testimony and false statements to obtain a death sentence against now-exonerated …
$11.3 Million Jury Award for Former Colorado Jail Prisoner by Matthew Clarke A federal jury awarded a former Jefferson County Detention Center prisoner more than $11 million against the sheriff and the jail’s privately-contracted medical provider, Correctional Healthcare Companies (CHC) – now Correct Care Solutions – after he was denied …
Lifetime Registration of Low-level Sex Offenders found Excessive, Unconstitutional in New Hampshire by The New Hampshire Supreme Court held in February 2015 that requiring lifetime registration without review of the risk that low-level sex offenders present to the public is unconstitutional. The Court ordered that such offenders must be provided …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
New Federal Law that Brands Sex Offenders’ Passports Faces Court Challenge by Derek Gilna   First it was the so-called “War on Drugs,” complete with military-themed anti-drug task forces and disproportionately long prison sentences primarily reserved for poor people of color, which had little impact on U.S. drug consumption. Now …
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