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Plata v. Newsom, Docket No. 4:01-cv-01351-JST (), is a federal class action civil rights lawsuit alleging that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) medical services are inadequate and violate the Eighth Amendment, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Smith, 430 U.S. 817 (1977), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court tested the basic constitutional right of prison inmates’ access to legal documents prior to court. Prison authorities would consequently be required to provide legal assistance or counsel to inmates, whether it be through a trained legal professional or ...
[14] After "Corrections Department officials announced they wouldn't increase the AIDS inmate population to more than 200 men," opposition decreased. [15] The ward was constructed and received its first patients in May 1988, making it the second such AIDS ward in California (following one opened in 1984 at the California Medical Facility). [15]
A former California prison guard being retried in a “Code of Silence” cover up in an attack on an inmate who later died was found guilty Wednesday.
California commissioned an exhaustive study of whether its prisons are providing sufficient mental health care, an effort officials said they could use to try to end a 34-year-old federal lawsuit ...
A third California prison guard has been charged in the cover-up of the death of an inmate at California State Prison-Sacramento six years ago, this time on charge of falsifying records and lying ...
Inmate Name Register Number Status Details Colin Ferguson C39361 Serving a life sentence. [4] Perpetrator of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting in which he murdered 6 people on a passenger train. [5] [6] Gerald Garson: Served a 3.5-10 year sentence, paroled in 2009 former New York Supreme Court Justice, convicted of accepting bribes [7 ...
A mother and her incarcerated son have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Sacramento on charges of defrauding California’s unemployment insurance agency by filing phony claims for payments ...