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No Qualified Immunity for Guard Who Failed to Protect Prisoner from Sexual Abuse by Brandon Sample On February 1, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of qualified immunity to a guard accused of failing to protect a vulnerable prisoner from sexual ...
Article • September 15, 2011
New York DOC’s Failure To Transmit Protective Custody Order Is Actionable by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Supreme Court of New York held that the Court of Claims erred when it dismissed a prisoner’s damages claim for injuries suffered when he was not placed in protective custody as ...
CCA Objects to Shareholder Resolution Filed by Former CCA Prisoner, PLN Associate Editor by When PLN associate editor Alex Friedmann was released from prison in November 1999, he had served six of the ten years he spent behind bars at the South Central Correctional Center in Clifton, Tennessee, a private ...
American “Corrections” by Mumia Abu-Jamal At SCI Pittsburgh in Woods Run, Pennsylvania, prisoners and guards alike made the phenomenon of imprisonment more hellish than usual. That’s because, according to at least one broadcast report, men at the medium- to minimum-security lock-up, particularly those convicted of sexual assaults against children, were ...
Dangerous Jails - LA Weekly by DANGEROUS JAILS, PART 1 by Matthew Fleischer A Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department whistleblower reveals to the LA Justice Report that groups of rogue deputies have flourished for years inside the nation’s largest jail system while the LASD command staff looked the other way. What ...
State-by-State Prisoner Rape and Sexual Abuse Round-Up by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke and Alex Friedmann In 2006, Prison Legal News published a cover story, Guards Rape of Prisoners Rampant, No Solution in Sight, that presented a compilation of news reports concerning the rape and sexual abuse of prisoners by ...
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
California Pays $10,000 to Settle Sex Abuse Suit Brought by Transgender Prisoner by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has entered into a settlement agreement with former state prisoner Alexis Giraldo, paying her $10,000 in exchange for a voluntary dismissal of a lawsuit she filed in San Francisco ...
Department of Justice Report on Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails by In January 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report titled “Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2007-2008.” The report is based on the annual Survey of Sexual Violence mandated by ...
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Philadelphia Women Prisoners Sue for Being Housed with a Man by Four women have sued the City and County of Philadelphia, its prison system, several of its divisions and officials, and Prison Health Services (PHS, now known as Corizon) for forcing them to share a jail cell with a man ...
CCA Anti-Prison Rape Shareholder Resolution Fails to Pass by As previously reported in Prison Legal News, PLN associate editor Alex Friedmann, who owns a small amount of stock in Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), filed a shareholder resolution with the company in November 2011. The resolution requested that CCA issue ...
Prison Sexual Abuse Survivor Speaks Out by Alan Prendergast In January 2010, Scott Howard, a 39-year-old federal prisoner, made his way briskly into a hearing room in the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building in Washington, D.C. He was neatly dressed in blazer, slacks and tie, and quite nervous about what ...
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of PLN for 2011. Since we began publishing PLN, the issue of prisoner rape and sexual assault has been an important priority. There has been some improvement, at least as far as raising public awareness around this issue, over ...
Washington: Failure-to-Protect Suit against King County Allowed to Proceed by The Washington Court of Appeals has reversed a superior court ruling dismissing on res judicata grounds a "Complaint for Damages" filed by a prisoner against King County, alleging that he was raped by other prisoners in the tenth floor shower ...
California Recognizes “Special Relationship” Between Jailer and Prisoner by Michael Brodheim By Michael Brodheim A California Court of Appeal has held that there is a "special relationship" between jailer and prisoner, which gives rise to a duty of care to protect the prisoner from foreseeable harm and thus can support ...
U.S. Department of Justice Report Puts Price Tag on Preventing Prison Rape by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 18, 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report on the estimated fiscal impact of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards that had been proposed by the ...
Department of Justice Reports on Sexual Victimization in U.S. Prisons and Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In August 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report on the most recent national survey of prisoners on the topic of sexual victimization in prisons ...
Largest Oregon Jail a Cesspool of Misconduct and Mismanagement, Report Finds; Sheriff Faulted and Under Fire by Mark Wilson On November 1, 2006, the Multnomah County District Attorney?s (DA?s) Office in Portland, Oregon released a blistering 63-page report that found systemic, shocking problems in the state?s largest jail system. ?Conservative? ...
Nebraska Mental Health Patients' Class Action Shot Down for Class Overbreadth by Numerous involuntarily committed mental health patients in Nebraska filed a federal class action lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming sexual and physical abuse by male staff and patients at three state facilities. They also claimed an array ...
7th Circuit Upholds Dismissal Of Raped Prisoner's Eighth Amendment Claims by In this civil rights lawsuit brought by an Illinois prisoner who alleged prison officials violated his Eighth Amendment rights by failing to protect him from being raped and then by denying him prompt medical attention., the U.S. Seventh Circuit ...
Prisons Have Affirmative Duty to Protect Prisoners from Rape by Prisons Have Affirmative Duty to Protect Prisoners From Rape The court of appeals for the Fourth circuit affirmed a Maryland district court's injunction at 449 F. Supp. 473 (D MD 1978) requiring a prison to protect prisoners from sexual predators ...
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