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Indiana Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Corruption, County Pays $328,000 to Jail Detainees for “Night of Terror” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In federal court for the Southern District of Indiana on April 11, 2024, Clark County officials agreed to pay $328,000 to settle claims filed by 25 former detainees …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Nine Months Later, DOJ Still Hasn’t Provided Senator Rubio With Answers About Rampant Sexual Abuse at Women’s Prisons by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 3, 2019, fourteen prisoners filed suit alleging repeated rapes and other sexual abuse at two federal prisons for women in Florida. Senator Marco Rubio …
New Book Explores the Overlooked History of Feminist Anti-Prison Activism by Victoria Law, Rewire.News Connecting the fights against gendered violence and mass incarceration isn’t new. But you wouldn't know it from most writing on the subject. Marissa Alexander. Bresha Meadows. Cyntoia Brown. Cherelle Baldwin. All four are Black women or girls who were arrested and prosecuted …
The Texas Criminal Justice Coalition Women's Report Part 2 - An Unsupported Population, 2018 An Unsupported Population: The Treatment of Women in Texas’ Criminal Justice System APRIL 2018 The Texas Criminal Justice Coalition advances solutions that transform the adult and youth justice systems to support families and foster safe communities. …
Consequences of Policing Prostitution, Urban Institute, 2017 JUSTICE POLICY CENTER RE S E AR C H RE P O R T Consequences of Policing Prostitution An Analysis of Individuals Arrested and Prosecuted for Commercial Sex in New York City Meredith Dank Jennifer Yahner Lilly Yu JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL …
Female Sexual Victimization Rates 1994-2010, DOJ BJS, 2010 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics MARCH 2013 Special Report NCJ 240655 Female Victims of Sexual Violence, 1994-2010 Michael Planty, Ph.D., and Lynn Langton, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians Christopher Krebs, Ph.D., Marcus Berzofsky, Dr.P.H., and Hope Smiley-McDonald, …
Publication • February 12, 2016
5. Women's Human Rights under the ICCPR, ICCPR Coalition Report UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE EIGHTY-SEVENTH SESSION JULY 2006 GENEVA REPORT ON WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS In response to the SECOND AND THIRD PERIODIC REPORT OF THE UNITED …
Congress Amends PLRA Physical Injury Requirement for Sexual Abuse Cases by John Boston The federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was renewed and broadened in February 2013, after much controversy involving Republican opposition to provisions extending certain of the statute's protections to LGBT persons, Native Americans living on reservations and …
Article • May 15, 2007
U.S. Supreme Court Invalidates Violence Against Women Act by The United States Supreme Court held that the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA), 42 U.S.C. § 13981, is unconstitutional as an exercise of Congressional power under both the Commerce Clause, Article I, section 8, U.S. Constitution, and section 5 …
Dismissal and QI Denied in Cross-Gender Pat Searches by The Federal District Court in Connecticut has found that fact issues remain regarding the constitutionality of cross gender pat searches and whether appropriate steps were taken to protect a female prisoner after she reported sexual assaults by a guard. Qualified immunity …
Exhaustion Not Required for Claims of Assault by A federal district court held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) exhaustion requirement does not apply to assault claims. It also held that a cause of action under the Violence Against Women Act, (VAWA), is analogous to a cause of action …
Baraldini v. Messe, DC, Superseding Memo Opinion, Violating Amendment Rights, 1988 691 F.Supp. 432 (1988) Silvia BARALDINI, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Edwin MEESE, Attorney General of the United States of America, et al., Defendants. Civ. A. No. 88-0764. United States District Court, District of Columbia. July 19, 1988. 433 *433 …