Seventh Circuit Approves Use of “Correctional Cure-All” and Insensitive Treatment of Sick Prisoner

Jan 9, 2018 No Comments

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled against a prisoner who claimed that his serious medical needs were treated with deliberate indifference at an Illinois prison. Nathaniel Harper was imprisoned at Centralia Correctional Center when he became ill with stomach pains, vomiting, and constipation. Harper alleged that nurse Terri Dean

San Diego “Predator Free Zones” Struck Down by California Supreme Court

Jan 5, 2018 No Comments

The California Supreme Court has ruled that a statute restricting all registered sex offenders on parole in California from residing in large swaths of the state is unconstitutional as applied to registered sex offenders on parole in San Diego. The challenge, brought by four registered sex offenders on parole in San Diego, alleged that Proposition

Sex Offender Registries: An Easy Sell, But Do They Work?

Jan 5, 2018 No Comments

Sex offender registries are the norm in all 50 states and are an easy sell, politically. But the actual value of these laws, in terms of public safety, is increasingly being questioned. Do these laws actually provide the protection that the public presumes? Registry laws are designed and sold to the public as a way

Prison Workers Will Receive $7.5 Million for Riot Death, Injuries

Jan 4, 2018 No Comments

In what may be the state’s largest-ever settlement of a civil lawsuit, on Dec. 15 a federal judge approved a settlement agreement between Delaware and survivors of a correctional officer killed last February during an inmate riot and takeover at a state prison, and five other corrections officers held by rioters during an 18-hour siege.

The private prison model lines pockets, but at what cost?

Jan 4, 2018 No Comments

By Christopher Zoukis On August 18, 2016, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates issued a memorandum with the subject line “Reducing our use of Private Prisons.” In the memo, Yates points out that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) had contracted with privately operated facilities about a decade ago in an effort to curtail the burden of

Bureau of Prisons Selects New Health Care Accrediting Body

Dec 30, 2017 No Comments

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has contracted with the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) to provide accreditation services at the 122 BOP institutions that provide medical, dental, and mental health services to prisoners. The AAAHC was founded in 1979 and, according to its website, is “the leader in ambulatory health care accreditation with

BOP Fails and Prevails in Prison Guard Discrimination Complaint

Dec 30, 2017 No Comments

Robert T. Aranda, an “inmate systems officer” (prison guard), was a very litigious Bureau of Prisons employee. Between 1996 and 1998, while working at multiple BOP facilities in several capacities, Aranda filed at least six complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). He alleged variations of racial (Hispanic) and gender (male) discrimination against many

Eighth Circuit: Prior Convictions Not Relevant to Escape

Dec 29, 2017 No Comments

Leonard Lester Slaughter III was serving a 115-month sentence at a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility when he escaped. After pleading guilty to the escape, the District Court concluded that two prior convictions were not “relevant conduct” and thus counted them as felony convictions when calculating Slaughter’s criminal history category. Slaughter objected and made the

No Qualified Immunity for Officer Who Beat and Tasered Mentally Ill Man to Death

Dec 29, 2017 No Comments

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled that an excessive force claim made by the estate of a man killed by police during an arrest can go forward. While conducting a baptismal ritual with his aunt at Honeymoon Island State Park on the west coast of Florida, James Clifton Barnes

Sixth Circuit: Jail Guard’s Criticism of Sheriff was Protected Speech

Dec 29, 2017 No Comments

Joseph Boulton, a jail guard at the Genesee County, Michigan jail, lost his claim alleging unconstitutional retaliation for protected speech on July 29, 2015. During union arbitration proceedings, Boulton testified that Sheriff Christopher Swanson had misrepresented the amount of Taser, firearm, and CPR training that Sheriff’s Office employees received. He also shared his concerns about

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Seventh Circuit Approves Use of “Correctional Cure-All” and Insensitive Treatment of Sick Prisoner

San Diego “Predator Free Zones” Struck Down by California Supreme Court

Sex Offender Registries: An Easy Sell, But Do They Work?

Prison Workers Will Receive $7.5 Million for Riot Death, Injuries

The private prison model lines pockets, but at what cost?

Bureau of Prisons Selects New Health Care Accrediting Body

BOP Fails and Prevails in Prison Guard Discrimination Complaint

Eighth Circuit: Prior Convictions Not Relevant to Escape

No Qualified Immunity for Officer Who Beat and Tasered Mentally Ill Man to Death

Sixth Circuit: Jail Guard’s Criticism of Sheriff was Protected Speech

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