×
You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.
New York Prisoner’s Suit Over Thirteen-Year Solitary Stint Survives
Loaded on Sept. 30, 2022
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2022, page 20
Filed under:
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
New York.
by David M. Reutter
On March 21, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York denied state prison officials’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit seeking damages for alleged Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment violations that stranded Kayson Pearson in solitary confinement without periodic reviews for 13 years. ...
Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.
As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.
Already a subscriber? Login
More from this issue:
- Looking Deep Inside America’s Legalized Torture Chambers, by Mark Wilson
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Federal Prisoners Finally Receiving Benefits 42 Months After First Step Act Became Law, by Casey Bastian
- New York Prisoner’s Suit Over Thirteen-Year Solitary Stint Survives, by David Reutter
- SCOTUS Sides With Condemned Georgia Prisoner Who Wants To Be Executed by Firing Squad, by David Reutter
- Alabama Prisoners Continue to Die at Alarming Rate, More Than One Every Week in 2022, by Jo Ellen Nott
- Death and Inhumane Living Conditions Persist in Nation’s Worst Jail, by Kevin Bliss
- Third Circuit Holds Consent of All Parties to Magistrate Judge Jurisdiction Required Before Judgment Against Pennsylvania Prisoners, by Mark Wilson
- New Florida Law Shrouds Executions in Secrecy, by Kevin Bliss
- SCOTUS Lets “State Secrets” Privilege Bar CIA Contractor Testimony About Torture Already Publicly Known, by Mark Wilson
- ACLU Pries Loose Employment Record of New Hampshire Trooper Who Detained Woman on Falsified Evidence, Leading to $237,500 Settlement, by Matthew Clarke
- SCOTUS Kills Condemned Ohio Prisoner’s Effort to Secure Evidence of Mental Impairment to Bolster Habeas Petition, by Benjamin Tschirhart
- Prison Profiteer Is Using Sandra Bland’s Death to Sell Surveillance Technology, by Brian Dolinar
- $3.75 Million Settlement for Estate of Washington Prisoner Who Died From Untreated Breast Cancer, by David Reutter
- Idaho Provides Nation’s Second Gender Confirmation Surgery for Transgender Prisoner, by Mark Wilson
- $2.45 Million Paid by Wellpath and Macomb County, Michigan, After Detainee’s Withdrawal Death in Jail, by Benjamin Tschirhart
- After $90,000 Settlement for Sexual Abuse of Oregon Juvenile Detainee, Second Suit Filed Against Now-Imprisoned Former Youth Counselor, by Chuck Sharman
- Dark, Smoky Cells: As Wildfires Threaten More Prisons, the Incarcerated Ask Who Will Save Their Lives, by Alleen Brown
- Nebraska Crime Commission Says Dodge County Jail Noncompliant With Reporting Requirements, by Harold Hempstead
- SCOTUS Kneecaps Condemned Prisoners Claiming Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, by Benjamin Tschirhart
- New York Closes Moriah ‘Shock Camp’, by Kevin Bliss
- After Summary Judgment Denied, California Jail Officials Pay $55,000 for Breaking Detainee’s Arm, by Mark Wilson
- Two Attorneys, Three Employees Sentenced in Bribery Scandal at MTC Texas Prisons, by Keith Sanders
- Third Illinois Guard Found Guilty In Fatal Beating of Handcuffed State Prisoner, but Attorney General Refuses To Settle With Family, by Matthew Clarke
- Wisconsin Supreme Court Guts State’s Fair Employment Act Protection for Returning Prisoners With Domestic Violence Convictions, by Jacob Barrett
- Class Certification Maintained in New York Prisoners’ Suit for Damages Due to Illegally Imposed Post-Release Supervision, by David Reutter
- California Appeals Court Lets CDCR Define Term Adopted From Legislation, by Kevin Bliss
- Sixth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Ohio Prison Doctor After Prisoner Blinded by Stroke, by David Reutter
- Ninth Circuit Terminates Idaho Prison Conditions Lawsuit After 40 Years of Litigation, by David Reutter
- New Jersey Supreme Court Forces County to Cough up Settlement Documents With Prisoner Raped By Jail Guard Who Snitched on Fellow Guards, by David Reutter
- $1,050,000 Settlement Reached in Disabled Illinois Prisoner’s ADA Lawsuit, by David Reutter
- Idaho Joins Missouri in Banning Incarceration for Inability To Pay Court Fines, Fees, by Jayson Hawkins
- Census Bureau Report Finds Risk of Death Nearly Triples for Prisoners After Release, by Matthew Clarke
- Ninth Circuit Sends PLN’s Arizona Censorship Lawsuit Back to District Court, by David Reutter
- $7 Million Paid to California Detainee Left Quadriplegic Due to Jail Guards’ Alleged Negligence, by Matthew Clarke
- Ohio County Pays $4 Million To Settle Claim Over Death of Jail Detainee, by Matthew Clarke
- Ninth Circuit Vacates California’s COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate for Prison Employees, by Mark Wilson
- $2.5 Million in Confiscated COVID-19 Relief Funds Returned to Arkansas Prisoners After Court Issues Injunction, by David Reutter
- News in Brief
More from David Reutter:
- California Court of Appeal: Petitioner Has Constitutional Right to Be Present at Evidentiary Hearing Under Felony Murder Resentencing Law, May 15, 2024
- Criminal Justice Reform Becoming a Corporate Priority, May 15, 2024
- Seventh Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Illinois Jail Guards Who Relied on Nurse’s Opinion that Detainee Was “Faking” Symptoms Before He Died, April 26, 2024
- Eighth Circuit: Arkansas Detainee Suffering Fatal Seizure Might Have Been Faking or Might Have Gotten Better, April 26, 2024
- Suit Proceeds Against CoreCivic by Guard Strip-Searched at Georgia Prison, April 26, 2024
- $1.4 Million Verdict for Florida Jail Guard Injured in Transport Van Crash, April 26, 2024
- Florida Supreme Court Bans ‘Vexatious’ Prisoner From Filing Further Pro Se Petitions, April 26, 2024
- $155 Million Settlement for 10,000 California Prison Guard Supervisors in Wage Lawsuit, April 26, 2024
- Unable to Post Bail, Detainee Starves to Death in Arkansas Jail, April 26, 2024
- Eleventh Circuit: “More than Gross Negligence” Required to Prove Deliberate Indifference, April 26, 2024
More from these topics:
- Use of Solitary Confinement on the Rise in ICE Facilities, May 15, 2024. Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Detention - Generally, Immigration Detention.
- Unable to Post Bail, Detainee Starves to Death in Arkansas Jail, April 26, 2024. Private Contractors, Food, Water, Jail Specific, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Bail/Pretrial Release.
- Massachusetts Prisoners Again Stage Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement, April 1, 2024. Hunger Strikes, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
- Fifth Circuit Finds Louisiana Prisoner’s Solitary Confinement Not Sufficiently “Atypical” to Violate the Constitution, April 1, 2024. Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
- Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Settlement Agreement in Long-Running California Prisoners’ Gang Affiliation Suit, March 1, 2024. Gang Policies, Prison Gangs, Informants (Disciplinary Hearings), Informants, Consent Decrees, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Consent Decrees - Termination of.
- Eighth Circuit Issues Primer on Informal Due Process Procedures to Missouri Prisoner, March 1, 2024. Retaliation for Filing Grievances, False Charges (Disciplinary Hearings), Qualified Immunity, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Immunity - Absolute and Qualified, Inmate Disciplinary Hearings, Prison Disciplinary Proceedings.
- BOP Slammed for Prisoner Abuse in Now-Shuttered Segregation Unit at USP-Thomson in Illinois, Feb. 1, 2024. Retaliation for Media Contact, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Retaliatory Segregation, Failure to Protect (General), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
- Alabama DOC Proves Truly “Heartless”, Jan. 1, 2024. Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct, Threats by Staff, Parole Board Misconduct, Retaliation for Litigating, Retaliation for Media Contact, Retaliation for Organizing, Whistleblowing, Retaliatory Segregation, Prison/Jail Murders, Failure to Protect (General), Staffing, Wrongful Death, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
- North Carolina Supreme Court Affirms Class Certification Denial in Prisoners’ Challenge to Solitary Confinement, Dec. 1, 2023. Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Class Actions.
- Class Certified in Suit Alleging Overuse of Solitary Confinement in New York Prisons, Dec. 1, 2023. Class Certification, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.