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Gay Tennessee Prisoner Refuses to Out Himself in PREA Classification Hearings by In an essay for Filter Magazine published on February 10, 2025, openly gay Tennessee prisoner Tony Vick made a surprising admission: He consistently identifies himself as “straight” in annual classification hearings conducted under the Prison Rape Elimination Act …
Doe v. NJ Dept of Corrections, NJ, Settlement, Transgender Discrimination, 2021 MER-L-001586-19 06/29/2021 1:06:04 AM Pg 1 of 25 Trans ID: LCV20211544598 SONIA DOE (a pseudonym), SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY LAW DIVISION - MERCER COUNTY Plaintiff, Docket No. MER-L-1586-19 v. NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al. Defendants. CIVIL …
Diamond v. Ward, GA, Statement of Interest of the US, Transgender Medical Rights, 2021 Case 5:20-cv-00453-MTT Document 65 Filed 04/22/21 Page 1 of 18 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA MACON DIVISION __________________________________ ASHLEY DIAMOND, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 5:20-cv-00453-MTT TIMOTHY WARD, et al., …
Gladney v. Shartle, AZ, Order, Failure to Protect - Sexual Assault, 2020 Case 4:17-cv-00427-DCB Document 146 Filed 10/26/20 Page 1 of 14 1 SH 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Edward J. Gladney, 10 11 12 No. …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Minnesota Prison Bans “No Touch” Rule by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Back in 2011, the United States Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) performed an anonymous survey at the Minnesota Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) Shakopee women’s prison. The survey’s results showed that Shakopee was among the worst …
Merino v. County of Santa Clara, CA, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2019 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and General Release ("Agreement") is made as of the 20th day of August, 2019 by and between Corey Anthony Merino ("Plaintiff') and the County of Santa Clara ("County") in recognition of …
Doe v. NJ Dept of Corrections, NJ, Complaint, Transgender Discrimination, 2019 MER-L-001586-19 08/14/2019 3:11:11 PM Pg 1 of 46 Trans ID: LCV20191434199 Jeanne LoCicero (024052000) Tess Borden (260892018) Alexander Shalom (021162004) AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION P.O. Box 32159 Newark, NJ 07102 (973) 854-1715 jlocicero@aclu-nj.org Robyn B. …
Merino v. County of Santa Clara, CA, Third Amended Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2019 Case 5:18-cv-02899-VKD Document 41 Filed 06/25/19 Page 1 of 19 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Karina A. Smith (SBN 286680) karina.smith@bakerbotts.com Brooke Chatterton (SBN 317386) brooke.chatterton@bakerbotts.com BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. 1001 Page Mill Road, Bldg. One, …
M.M. V. Lea County Correctional Facility, NM, Settlement, Sexual Assault, 2018 SETTLEMENT AGREE1\1ENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ("Agreement") is entereJ inlo by M M ("Plaintiff'' or "Rclcasor"), Jeff Wrigley, John Beaird, Marcario Arroyos anci The GEO Group, Inc. (hereinafter "GEO"). GEO explicitly includes the aforementioned Jeff …
FTCA Claims Survive; PREA Policy Defeats Discretionary Function Exception by Jeremy Pinson by Jeremy Pinson While confined at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana, federal prisoner Rashod L. James filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2671-2680, against the United States and several prison employees – …
M.M. V. Lea County Correctional Facility, NM, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2017 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 5/25/2017 5:05:00 PM CHRISTAL BRADFORD Christina Montoya STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANDOVAL THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT M.M. Plaintiff, vs. No. D-1329-CV-2017-01102 LEA COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, WARDEN JEFF WRIGLEY, ASSOCIATE WARDEN …
Doe v. Dart, IL, 5th Amended Complaint, Cook County Sexual Assault, 2016 Case: 1:14-cv-08296 Document #: 149 Filed: 11/15/16 Page 1 of 34 PageID #:1666 Case: 1:14-cv-08296 Document#: 137-1 Filed: 07/29/16 Page 2 of 34 PagelD #:1491 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EASTERN DIVISION JANE …
Ninth Circuit: Congress Can Criminalize Federal Sex Crimes Committed in State Facilities by Mark Wilson The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in August 2015 that Congress is authorized to criminalize sexual assaults in facilities where federal prisoners are held by agreement with state and local governments. On March 5, …
A Victory in the Fight to Stop Prisoner Rape by In 2012, Cornelius, a prisoner at a Florida state prison, wrote a letter to a nearby rape crisis center. Cornelius had been sexually assaulted multiple times while incarcerated. The first time was a gang rape that had happened 17 years …
PREA Review Panel: 'Cultural Change' Needed to Reduce Sexual Victimization in Prisons by Popular culture, as a recent federal report laments, continues to make jokes about sexual assaults in prison. But U.S. Department of Justice hearings on prison rape in the spring and fall of 2011 in Washington, D.C. produced …
Wisconsin Prisoner’s Civil Rights Action Alleging Verbal Harassment Reinstated by Derek Gilna Ronald J. Beal, a Wisconsin state prisoner, filed a complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging violations of his civil rights by Department of Corrections (DOC) staff who had subjected him to verbal harassment. After his complaint was …
Disputed PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Issues Properly Resolved in Bench Trial by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held on June 18, 2015 that disputed issues of fact regarding exhaustion under the PLRA may be resolved in a bench trial. The appellate court also found the plaintiff had failed to exhaust …
Detained and at Risk - Sexual Abuse and Harassment in U.S. Immigration Detention, HRW, 2010 United States Detained and at Risk Sexual Abuse and Harassment in United States Immigration Detention H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H Detained and at Risk …
ACLU - PREA LGBTI Toolkit, 2014 PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION ACT (PREA) TOOLKIT END THE ABUSE Protecting LGBTI Prisoners from Sexual Assault END THE ABUSE Protecting LGBTI Prisoners from Sexual Assault Introduction A prison or jail sentence should never include sexual assault. On May 17, 2012, the Department of Justice released …
Hell on Earth: Sexual Victimization of the Criminally Insane by David Rosen Jan Brewer is the governor of Arizona and one of her three sons, Ronald, was charged in 1989 with the sexual assault and kidnapping of a Phoenix woman. He was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and, in 1990, …
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