(Editor’s note: this article can also be viewed on CRI’s Issues page.) The high-profile Chicago case should be viewed through the prism of the original intent of the Constitution. The nearly 1,000 state lawmakers, 38 Attorneys General, numerous academics and overwhelming, bipartisan majority of members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate [...]
Archive for November, 2009
The McDonald Case: Adhering to the Constitution
Posted in Civil Rights, Second Amendment on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bipartisan group of 21 Delaware lawmakers signs Amicus Brief supporting NRA’s stance in key U.S. Supreme Court gun-rights case
Posted in Civil Rights, Delaware, Second Amendment on November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Attorney General Beau Biden, Rep. Mike Castle, Senators Ted Kaufman and Tom Carper did not sign similar briefs By Lee Williams Nearly 1,000 lawmakers from all 50 states – including 21 Delawareans – have signed a “friend of the court” brief supporting the National Rifle Association’s position that an individual’s rights to keep and bear [...]
Bipartisan Majority of U.S. Congress Signs Amicus Brief Supporting NRA in Pivotal Supreme Court Case
Posted in Civil Rights, Second Amendment on November 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
None of the Delaware delegation chose to support the rights of their constituents as guaranteed in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Congressman Mike Castle (R ) joined with Senators Tom Carper (D) and Ted Kaufman (D) and a minority members of both Houses in an apparent attempt to limit the scope of the [...]
John Stossel gets it
Posted in Spending, Taxes on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Governments have a spending problem.
More than 40 inmates document unprovoked attack on inmate by guards at SCI
Posted in Carl Danberg, Civil Rights, Department of Correction, Prisons, Rogue Force on November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
(Editor’s note: this story and the inmate grievance can also be viewed in the Special Report section.) Witnesses ask Attorney General Beau Biden, Correction Commissioner Carl Danberg, ACLU, NAACP to protect them from abuse and retaliation. By Lee Williams An entire tier – 42 inmates – at the Sussex Correctional Institution in Georgetown has come [...]
Of PIGs and Politicians
Posted in Civil Rights, My ears are still ringing, Second Amendment on November 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
While most of the media was debating whether the recent Newsweek cover photo of Sarah Palin was sexist or sexy, the National Rifle Association quietly filed a brief in support of a U.S. Supreme Court case that could resolve a substantive debate — whether an individual’s right to firearms ownership guaranteed in the Second Amendment [...]
CORRECTION: hole in buttocks now six inches deep
Posted in Carl Danberg, Department of Correction, Inmate Abuse, Prisons on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to the wife of the inmate suffering from the hole in his buttocks, which according to his medical records contains MRSA, Staph and other bacteria, the wound has now burrowed to a depth of six-inches, and the opening is as big as a silver dollar. The Department of Correction, she said, will not discuss [...]
DOC releases RFP seeking prison medical vendor(s) to replace Correctional Medical Services
Posted in Carl Danberg, Civil Rights, Department of Correction, Inmate Abuse, Prisons, Rogue Force on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) today released a Request For Proposals (RFP) soliciting vendors to provide healthcare services to the prison inmate population. The new RFP will allow the option of multiple vendors, so potential vendors will be able to bid to provide a portion of services, such as mental health services, substance abuse [...]
A four-inch deep hole in the buttocks
Posted in Carl Danberg, Department of Correction, Inmate Abuse, Prisons, Rogue Force on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An inmate at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna has a four-inch hole in his buttocks, which is full of MRSA, staph and other bacteria. The abscess is burrowing toward the 50-year-old inmate’s midline, according to medical documents obtained by the Caesar Rodney Institute. He’s had the wound for more than six months, [...]
Autopsy report: inmate Daniel Kern died of pancreatitis
Posted in Carl Danberg, Civil Rights, Department of Correction, Prisons, Rogue Force on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Delaware Department of Correction killed Daniel Kern, according to the findings of an autopsy report obtained by the Caesar Rodney Institute. Kern, 41, was serving a one-year sentence for his third drunk-driving conviction. He was being held at the Sussex Correctional Institution. He acquired pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreas, which can be caused [...]
