by David M. Reutter
Criminal justice reform advocates scored multiple wins in the closing weeks of the 2020 session of Ohio’s General Assembly. The new laws end the shackling of pregnant prisoners giving birth, allow people to do community service to pay driver license fines, make it easier for convicted ...
by David M. Reutter
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Connecticut federal district court’s order that found a state law was an unconstitutional bill of attainder because it was intended to impose punishment upon prisoners on death row. It also affirmed the finding that the plaintiff was denied ...
by David M. Reutter
For the last two decades, theFlorida Department of Corrections (FDC) has faced a staff shortage. Mark Inch, Secretary of the FDC, urged lawmakers earlier this year to provide $26.1 million to shorten guards’ regular work shifts.
Inch sought to expand upon a pilot program approved in ...
by David M. Reutter
The Seventh Circuit Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment to a Wexford Health Sources doctor. It affirmed the judgment granted to Wexford and another doctor.
The court’s March 16, 2021 opinion was issued in an appeal brought by Illinois prisoner Michael Thomas. ...
by David M. Reutter
A Washington State federal district court found there was no mutual assent when a detainee who was issued a debit card in lieu of his monies upon release. The Court, therefore, denied the defendants’ motion to compel arbitration.
The Court’s June 2, 2021, order was issued ...
by David M. Reutter
Los Angeles has historically been a trail blazer in the expansion of policing and incarceration. Its 2020 abandonment of jail expansion plans revealed a new group of advocates against expansion of incarceration: medical and public health practitioners.
With over 19,000 people held in its county ...
by David M. Reutter
Inmate Magazine Service (IMS) has been sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the State of Florida. The Plaintiffs alleged violation of federal and state laws meant to protect consumers in IMS’s failure to ensure prisoners received the magazines they ordered through it.
IMS and ...
by David M. Reutter
California’s Fourth Appellate District affirmed a judgment finding two San Diego Sheriff’s deputies and two jail nurses were liable for injuries to an arrestee following his arrest.
The court’s February 2, 2021, opinion was issued in an appeal by the defendants after a jury found for ...
by David M. Reutter
In a per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on November 2, 2020 vacated lower court rulings that held prison officials were entitled to summary judgment in a claim alleging a prisoner was confined in unsanitary cells with human waste for six ...
by David M. Reutter
A Connecticut federal district court ordered the release of information related to prison health care. The court’s November 3, 2020, order was issued in a civil rights action alleging Connecticut prison officials were deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s medical needs.
The lawsuit was filed by the ...
