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Case • 2003
Maye El v. United States - 59 Fed. Appx. 488 (3rd Cir. 2003) - 2003 [U] Maye-El v. USA, 59 Fed.Appx. 488 (3d Cir. 03/10/2003) [1] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ...
;an incorrigible masturbator” was an unconstitutionally disproportionate punishment – a decision subsequently upheld by the state Supreme Court. Under ORS 137.719(1), certain recidivist sex offenders may ...
on a promise from his successful 2010 campaign to trim $1 billion from the state’s corrections budget – Richardson has visited some 70 Florida prisons under a law that allows state legislators ...
efforts; other states, including Colorado and New York, have reduced the number of prisoners in segregation. [See: PLN, Nov. 2016, p.40; July 2014, p.1]. “The official position of so many ...
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Filed under: Medical, Health care
was certified as a class-action in April 2017. [See: PLN, Feb. 2018, p.35]. Led by correctional health expert Dr. Mike Pusis, the report found that of 36 fatalities in the year ending June 1, 2014, more than one ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Circuit had enumerated various examples of conduct by prison medical officials that are considered more than mere negligence, including “(1) knowledge of a serious medical need and a failure ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
protocol but still prioritized prisoners according to severity. The plaintiffs were granted class-action status, with the class defined as: 1) all prisoners currently incarcerated in the DOC, 2) who have ...
was not in full compliance with 20 of 43 standards promulgated under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), enacted in 2003. [See: PLN, Nov. 2017, p.1; Sept. 2013, p.1]. The prison, which has a design capacity ...
their claims administratively would force them to face the proverbial “run-around.” The district court therefore allowed the case to proceed. In a December 1, 2010 order on class certification, the court found ...
Article • May 19, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
Filed under: Food, Religious Diet
to practice his religion. At the time, Florida prisons offered three main diets: 1) the master menu, 2) an alternate entree with a non-meat substitute and 3) vegan meals. None were kosher. The FDOC also ...
in the state's prisons between Jan. 1, 2007 and Sept. 30, 2012, prison officials contend that "the rate of IOS (inmate-on-staff) assaults with serious physical injury to staff more than doubled during the period ...
Article • September 20, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Prison Labor
... to place inmates in a realistic work environment, pay them the prevailing local wage for similar work, and enable them to acquire marketable skills....” [See: PLN, March 2010, p.1]. However, prisoners ...
Article • October 3, 2014
;Protective Action Response” (PAR) to address youth behavior. Level 1 consists of verbal intervention; level 2 includes touch and countermove techniques as well as takedown methods; and level 3 involves ...
to house prisoners at the North Lake Correctional Facility in Michigan, effective May 1, 2011. Presently, the CDCR contracts for approximately 12,800 private prison beds outside of California. The out ...
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
on developments in this litigation – including the district court’s initial finding that California prison healthcare was so bad that it required the appointment of a federal receiver. [See: PLN, March 2006, p.1 ...
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Possession of Rape Video Warrants Restitution; Victim Awarded Over $1 Million Thus Far; Supreme Court Grants Cert. by When she was a little girl, Amy’s uncle videotaped himself raping her ...
Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015
surveillance video showed smoke coming from Parker’s cell at 1:29 p.m. on July 28, 2012. According to court records, “at [1:38 p.m.], Correctional Officers David Anderson and Jay Nair went to Parker ...
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
not served time in prison. This means that in 2008 about 1 in 17 working-age adult men was a former prisoner and about 1 in 8 was an ex-felon. The study noted that the 2008 rates of both violent and property ...
restricted certain procedural rights for parolees at revocation hearings, including: 1) a probable cause hearing no later than 15 days following arrest for violation of parole; 2) an evidentiary revocation ...
Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
sexually abused by Custer County, Oklahoma Sheriff Michael Burgess, who was convicted and sentenced to 79 years in prison. [See: PLN, March 2012, p.24; Sept. 2009, p.36; May 2009, p.1]. At the center ...
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