NOVEMBER, 2003
November 29, 2003 - Jail complaints forwarded to accrediting
association (The Pueblo Chieftan)
The Pueblo City-County Health Department is forwarding the local public
defender's concerns about jail conditions to the American Correctional
Association, an association that accredits jails.
(Click
here for more)
November 26, 2003 - Dead inmate was serving
time for killing of child in CG
(Casa Grande Dispatch)
NEWTON, Texas - Cleveland Palmer, 54, formerly of
Casa Grande, who died Nov. 19 in a private prison, had entered a plea
with his wife in the killing of a child they were adopting. (Click
here for more)
November 25, 2003 - Police apprehended
prisoner in Lewisburg (The Register-Herald)
After five days on the lam, a Tennessee prisoner was captured Sunday
afternoon in a residential area a half-mile from where he escaped from
custody, police said. (Click
here for more)
November 25, 2003 - Rosborough v. Management
& Training Corp (Texas Lawyer)
Private prison-management corporations and their employees may be sued
under §[1983 by a prisoner who has suffered a constitutional injury.
(Click
here for more)
November 21, 2003 - Inmate's family gets 3rd deal (Roanoke.com)
Legal action over the stun-gun death of an inmate has led to a third
settlement, this one involving the company that once provided medical
care at Virginia's supermax prisons. (Click
here for more)
November 20, 2003 - Detentions challenge can
proceed (The Age)
A High Court judge has cleared the way for a challenge to Australia's
detention laws that could ultimately result in all children being
released from immigration detention centres. (Click
here for more)
November 19, 2003 - Guards uncover heroin at jail (Santa Fe
New Mexican)
Guards
at the Santa Fe County jail say they found an inmate with black-tar
heroin inside the jail Monday afternoon. (Click
here for more)
November 19, 2003 - Family of Frenchman
settles lawsuit over death in Vegas jail
(Reno Gazette-Journal)
The family of a French citizen who died in a
videotaped struggle with Las Vegas jail guards has settled a federal
lawsuit against the jail's health care provider, according to a relative
and the American Civil Liberties Union. (Click
here for more)
November 19, 2003 - Private-prisons proposal
on table (The Arizona Republic)
Lobbyists descended on the Capitol this month to
convince legislators that private prisons are the best option for a
cash-strapped state facing an inmate overcrowding crisis and are the
cheapest deal for taxpayers. (Click
here for more)
November 19, 2003 - Smith's security firm sued (ABQ Journal)
A woman with developmental disabilities was unfairly targeted as a
shoplifter at Smith's Food and Drug, and her mother was slammed to the
floor after coming to her aid, a lawsuit says. (Click
here for more)
November 18, 2003 - County must quickly find firm to run jail (ABQ
Journal)
Santa Fe County has a little more than two months to find a new company
to operate its juvenile detention center. (Click
here for more)
November 15, 2003- Health care at jail still ailing (Santa Fe New
Mexican.com)
Nine
months after the U.S. Department of Justice found health-care
deficiencies at Santa Fe County'ss jail, problems remain.
(Click
here for more)
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