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

Foreign-Born Are 21% of DOJ Prisoners; 94% Are Here Illegally

Dec 28, 2017 No Comments

Mark Twain once famously maintained it could probably be shown through facts and statistics that there’s “no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.” What then would that celebrated observer of Gilded Age corruption and criminality make of the facts and statistics recently released by the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) in

First Circuit Vacates Supervised Release Conditions for Sex Offender

Dec 28, 2017 No Comments

The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has vacated two onerous conditions of supervised release and reversed the imposition of a 20-year term of supervised release on a sex offender for violation of the Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (SORNA). Moisés Medina, a convicted sex offender, failed to register when he moved to

Former Ohio Politician’s Negligence Case Against CCA Goes Forward

Dec 23, 2017 No Comments

James Dimora, 61, was a Cuyahoga County, Ohio commissioner when he was indicted on federal racketeering and corruption charges in April 2012. While awaiting trial at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, operated by Corrections Corporation of America (now known as CoreCivic), Dimora was involved in a slip and fall accident and suffered injuries. He sued

Prisoner’s Wrongful Death FTCA Claim Dismissed For Lack of Jurisdiction

Dec 23, 2017 No Comments

The United States District Court for the District of Maryland has dismissed a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) case brought against the United States over the 2013 wrongful death of a prisoner held at Federal Correctional Institution Cumberland, Maryland. The case was brought by the widow and sons of Stephen P. Gardner. They claimed that

DOJ Inspector General Outlines Challenges for Federal Prisons

Dec 7, 2017 No Comments

As has been done annually since 1998, in October, the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general released a list of what he sees as the leading management and performance challenges confronting the agency in the year ahead. One of the eight areas identified by Inspector General Michael Horowitz was summarized as “Managing an Overcrowded Federal

Volunteers, Mayor Take Action to Clothe Freezing Prisoners in New York City

Dec 7, 2017 No Comments

The New York City Department of Correction and city officials are rethinking their policy of releasing prisoners without jackets during frigid winter months. The New York Daily News reported in December 2016 that the city was routinely freeing prisoners from jail and court without proper winter clothing. Beleaguered public defenders and legal aid attorneys went so far

Prisoners and Disabilities: The Legal Landscape

Dec 7, 2017 No Comments

Incarceration in a state or federal prison is bad. Incarceration in a state or federal prison while disabled is much worse. Consider the numbers. According to a recent Vice.com article, 31 percent of prisoners in state facilities reported having a physical or mental disability. And as the U.S. prison population ages, the number of disabled

Most Black “Neighborhoods” in Wisconsin are Actually Jails, Prisons

Dec 6, 2017 No Comments

A 17-year-old has made a startling discovery about Wisconsin: more than half of the state’s black “neighborhoods” are actually jails. The young researcher, Lew Blank, used the Weldon Cooper Center’s Racial Dot Map and Google Maps to come to this conclusion and released the results in August 2016. Defining a black neighborhood as “a certain

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BOP Fails and Prevails in Prison Guard Discrimination Complaint

Eighth Circuit: Prior Convictions Not Relevant to Escape

Foreign-Born Are 21% of DOJ Prisoners; 94% Are Here Illegally

First Circuit Vacates Supervised Release Conditions for Sex Offender

Former Ohio Politician’s Negligence Case Against CCA Goes Forward

Prisoner’s Wrongful Death FTCA Claim Dismissed For Lack of Jurisdiction

DOJ Inspector General Outlines Challenges for Federal Prisons

Volunteers, Mayor Take Action to Clothe Freezing Prisoners in New York City

Prisoners and Disabilities: The Legal Landscape

Most Black “Neighborhoods” in Wisconsin are Actually Jails, Prisons

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