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Summer of Discontent by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Underlying the purported societal goal of prisoner rehabilitation lurks the reality of what impedes it: systemic violence that defines the adversarial relationship between all men and women behind bars, prisoners and guards alike. Driven by racial animus, drugs, anger, gang …
My Space Becomes “No Space” for Online Sex Offenders by David Reutter My Space Becomes "No Space" for Online Sex Offenders by David M. Reutter After online social networking giant MySpace.com, under pressure, disclosed on July 24, 2007 that it had purged 29,000 sex offender profiles from its website, state …
Article • May 15, 2008
No Due Process Violation for Holding Sex Offender Past Release Date by The plaintiff, a convicted sex offender, was not released until three months after his conditional release date because his residence was not approved until then. The requirements for approval were formalized only one day before his CR date. …
Release of Medically Incapacitated Prisoners Could Save California Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions in a Time of Budget Crisis by Release of Medically Incapacitated Inmates Could Save California Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions in a Time of Budget Crisis Will the Board of Parole Hearings and the Schwarzenegger Administration Follow the Law? …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Wrongful Termination of Georgia Jail Guards by New Sheriff Settles for $7 Million by A $7 million settlement has been reached between the sheriff of Georgia?s Clayton County and 34 employees he fired on his first day in office. The employees alleged they were discriminated against based on their race …
Article • May 15, 2008
Judicial Review Available for Denial of International Transfer by The plaintiff complained that he was denied a transfer to a Canadian prison under the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons based on his race or nationality or on his exercise of protected rights. The government argued that there is …
Article • May 15, 2008
Parole Condition Banning Porn Access for Sex Offender Upheld by The criminal defendant, convicted of sexually abusing a child, was sentenced to prison and given a condition of subsequent supervised release that he "not possess any sexually stimulating of sexually oriented material deemed inappropriate by his probation officer and/or treatment …
Court Terminates MA Civil Commitment Center Injunction by The Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons is not a "prison" and persons civilly committed to it are not "prisoners" for purposes of the PLRA judgment termination provisions Persons committed to it received indeterminate sentences of one day to life to …
Washington Guard Settles Sex Discrimination Suit for $734,900 by Lenna Bradley, a Washington state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard, sued the state in state court after the DOC did nothing to remedy the sexual harassment she was subjected to by other guards. After she filed suit she was harassed by …
Immunity for Warden in Hiring Decision by The defendant warden was entitled to qualified immunity for departing from the usual hiring practice (i.e., preferring in-house candidates to those from other prisons) in filling a lieutenant's position in order to increase the amount of minority representation in such jobs at the …
First Amendment Protects Sex Discrimination Complaint Against State Police by The plaintiff, who runs an automobile towing company, said that a Highway Patrol official retaliated against her by removing her from the Patrol's towing referral list because she had filed a sex discrimination complaint with a state agency. At 770-71: …
Alabama Female Guards Title VII Suit over Masturbating Prisoners Dismissed by Female prison guards employed in a male prison sued under Title VII, alleging that they had been subjected to a hostile work environment as a result of the "egregious acts" of the prisoners, condoned by the plaintiffs' superiors. (One …
Class Certified in Hispanic Racial Profiling Suit by Standing is assessed with respect to the class as a whole after class certification but with respect to the named plaintiffs before certification. Evidence of a pattern or practice of police conduct that does not depend on the plaintiff's own behavior can …
Federal Prisons Not Subject to ADA by The hearing-impaired plaintiff complained of his treatment in a Wackenhut facility while awaiting deportation. Since he has now been deported, his claim about conditions is moot, and the court lacks jurisdiction to overturn his deportation even though he says he elected not to …
Brief • May 14, 2008
Carr v. Hazelwood, VA, Complaint, sexual abuse female prisoner complaint, 2007 Case 7:07-cv-00001-jlk-mfu Document 49 Filed 05/14/2008 Page 1 of 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Roanoke Division ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 7:07-CV-00001 ) ) ) ) ) SHERIL …
Brief • May 2, 2008
Castillo v Dashiell, CA, Order of dismissal, medical neglect blindness, 2005 Case ~ '04-cv-00737-GEB-GGH Filed 05/02/2008 Document 94 Page 1 of 2 EDMUND G. BROWN, Jr. Attorney General of the State of California 2 ALBERTO L. GONZALEZ Supervising Deputy Attorney General 3 OLIVER R. LEWiS, State Bar No. 133557 Deputy …
Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons and Jails by David Reutter Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona's Prisons and Jails Review by David M. Reutter "There have been a couple of times that I've tried to end my life in here, but they keep reviving me and bringing me …
Three Murders in Three Months at Mississippi Control Unit Lead to Improvements And New Consent Decree by "Taken as a whole, I am convinced the conditions in Unit 32 are as bad as anywhere in the whole country," observed Margaret Winter, a lawyer with the National Prison Project of the …
ADX Media Visit Staged To Dispel "Myths And Rumors" by Bob Williams On the sixth anniversary of the 9-11 World Trade Center attacks, Ron Wiley, warden of the Federal Supermax known as ADX, staged a tightly controlled first-ever media visit at the Federal stronghold. Its stated purpose was an education …
California Sex Offenders Uprooted by New Restrictive Residency Law by California?s pernicious ?Jessica?s Law,? overwhelmingly approved by voters on November 7, 2006 as a result of Proposition 83, restricts certain paroled sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school, park or other areas where children are present. As …
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