by John E. Dannenberg
The Solano County Superior Court ordered that when a California Department of Corrections (CDC) prisoner files a third (Director) level administrative appeal, he need not mail it via U.S. Mail to the Director of Corrections as noted on the bottom of the Form 602 appeal form, ...
California Supreme Court Resolves Conflict From Concurrent Sentences With Different Credit Earning Rates
by John E. Dannenberg
The California Supreme Court held that when a prisoner is sentenced to two concurrent prison terms, the shorter of which is for a violent felony eligible only for 15% good-time credits and the ...
by John E. Dannenberg
A federal jury awarded $9 million to the family of a Scottsdale, Arizona prisoner who suffocated in a restraint chair in the Maricopa County Jail (MCJ) in 2001. Found negligent and liable were Sheriff Joe Arpaio and nurses from contract healthcare provider Correctional Health Services (CHS). ...
by John E. Dannenberg
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) settled a prisoner class action federal lawsuit on October 6, 2005 by stipulating to comprehensive improvements to its prisoner medical care, grounded in adding 321 medical personnel to the existing 540 and in overhauling its medical facilities. In ...
Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg
Taking Californias Solano State Prison as a model, author John Irwin exposes the warehouse concept of Californias prisons and its debilitating effect on prisoners and their struggle for reintegration. Dr. Irwin, conflating his unique perspectives as both a San Francisco State University Professor of Criminology ...
Connecticuts Mistreatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners and Detainees Enjoined
by John E. Dannenberg
The Connecticut Department of Corrections (CDOC) entered into a settlement agreement in September 2005 that specified extensive changes to its policies for confining and treating mentally ill prisoners and detainees. In response to a 42 U.S.C. § ...
by John E. Dannenberg
After paying $27 million (up to $5,000 per plaintiff) to settle class action lawsuits in 1991 for failing to timely release prisoners from county jail (see PLN, Jan. 2003, p.14), Los Angeles (L.A.) County is still making similar mistakes and paying penalties. In the twelve month ...
Arizona Prisoners Mortality Report
Confidentiality Not Federally Protected
by John E. Dannenberg
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals declined Maricopa County, Arizonas invitation to keep mortality reports on prisoners confidential.
Charles Agster was arrested and booked into the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix, Arizona on August 6, 2001, where ...
by John E. Dannenberg
Upon remand from the U.S. Supreme Court (Johnson v. California, 125 S.Ct. 1141 (2005)), the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) entered into a settlement agreement with plaintiff prisoner Garrison Johnson wherein CDCR agreed to end using race as the sole determinative criterion in double-celling ...
Californias 2005 Prison Suicide Rate Doubles Over 2004
by John E. Dannenberg
By the time 2005 ended, 44 California state prisoners had committed suicide. A significant increase over the 26 suicides that occurred in 2004. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) suicide rate is currently running at 27 ...
