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Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Ohio Sued by Non-Profit Law Firm for Opening Prisoner Legal Mail by On May 6, 2025, the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, a non-profit law firm, filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (DRC) over the practice of intercepting mail between prisoners and their attorneys. The …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Nevada Supreme Court Holds That Violating Jail Phone Policy Does Not Waive Attorney-Client Privilege by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When a jail is found to violate a detainee’s Sixth Amendment expectation that communications with his attorney are privileged, courts often shrug it off as harmless; after all, the detainee …
Washington Prisoner’s Sentence Vacated After Attorney Calls and Visits Were Recorded by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On January 23, 2024, the Washington Court of Appeals sent the case of a state prisoner back to the trial court that convicted him of second-­degree domestic violence rape and assault, finding the …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
In New Jersey, Yet More Privileged Phone Calls Between Prisoners and Attorneys Recorded and Used by Prosecutors by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   A New Jersey prisoner filed a putative class-action lawsuit on December 19, 2023, alleging that privileged telephone communications with his attorney were recorded by the jail …
Tenth Circuit Rejects Government’s Appeal Over Recorded Attorney Calls and Visits at Private Prison in Leavenworth by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Over five years ago, federal prosecutors in Kansas used recordings of attorney visits and phone calls to obtain convictions in numerous criminal cases. The recordings were made by …
Larocque et al. v. Turco et al., MA, order, prisoners' access to attorneys, legal materials, 2020
Washington v. City of New York, NY, Settlement, Inmate Abuse, 2019 Case 1:18-cv-12306-CM Document 168 Filed 10/21/19 Page 1 of 16 Case 1:18-cv-12306-CM Document 166 Filed 10/18/19 Page 2 of 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ----------------------------------------------------------------------- X DA VON WASHING TON, et. al., Plaintiffs, STIPULATION …
Brief • September 20, 2019
Humpfrey v. Stored Value Cards, OH, Evidence, Pre-Paid Debit Card Settlement, 2019 Case: 1:18-cv-01050-JG Doc #: 97-2 Filed: 09/20/19 1 of 12. PageID #: 1572 EXHIBIT A Case: 1:18-cv-01050-JG Doc #: 97-2 Filed: 09/20/19 2 of 12. PageID #: 1573 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO …
Huff et al. v. CoreCivic, Inc. and Securus, KS, Settlement Approval Hearing, Attorney Client Calls Taped, 2019 Case 2:17-cv-02320-JAR-JPO Document 144 Filed 09/13/19 Page 1 of 1 CLERK’S COURTROOM MOTIONS/MISCELLANEOUS MINUTE SHEET ASLEY HUFF AND GREGORY RAPP, Plaintiffs Vs. Case No. 17-2320-JAR-JPO CORECIVIC, INC., et al, Defendants JUDGE: DEPUTY CLERK: …
Huff et al. v. CoreCivic, Inc. and Securus, KS, Preliminary Settlement, Attorney Client Calls Taped, 2019 Case 2:17-cv-02320-JAR-JPO Document 140-2 Filed 08/23/19 Page 1 of 23 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS Ashley Huff and Gregory Rapp, individually and on behalf of all others similarly …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Attorneys, Attorney Client
Attorney-Client Privilege Under Attack in Jails Across the Nation by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As previously reported in PLN, the constitutional rights of prisoners at the Leavenworth Detention Center (LDC) in Kansas were violated by CoreCivic, the private operator of the facility for the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), …
Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Alaska Jail Recorded Attorney-client Conversations for Four Years by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On January 15, 2018, the Anchorage Daily News reported that, from 2012 to 2016, confidential conversations between criminal defendants and their attorneys were routinely recorded by a long-abandoned audio monitoring system in a visitation room at …
Dept. of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General - ICE's Inspections and Monitoring of Detention Facilities Do Not Lead to Sustained Compliance or Systemic Improvements, 2018 ICE’s Inspections and Monitoring of Detention Facilities Do Not Lead to Sustained Compliance or Systemic Improvements June 26, 2018 OIG-18-67 DHS OIG HIGHLIGHTS ICE’s …
Innovation Law Lab, Et Al. v. Nielsen, Et Al., OR, Order, Denied Immigration Lawyers, 2018 Case 3:18-cv-01098-SI Document 23 Filed 06/25/18 Page 1 of 22 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON INNOVATION LAW LAB and LUIS JAVIER SANCHEZ GONZALEZ by XOCHITL RAMOS VALENCIA as next …
Article • December 26, 2017
Claim of Right to Counsel Infringement Survives in Detainees’ Claim of Recorded Attorney Calls by A Florida federal district court granted in part and denied in part a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a civil rights action that alleged the sheriff of Broward County violated the constitutional attorney-client privileges …
State Bar of Texas Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters Committee: Review of the Operations of State Counsel for Offenders, 2017 Review of the Operations of State Counsel for Offenders Report by the State Bar of Texas Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters Committee1 Approved for …
State Counsel for Offenders Report Review of the Operations of State Counsel for Offenders Report by the State Bar of Texas Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters Committee1 Approved for Publication December 8, 2017 Disclaimer: The following report and the underlying research were completed by members of the …
Publication • November 1, 2017
Profiting Off Lifelines, ACLU Nebraska, 2017 Profiting Off Lifelines Nebraska County Jail Phone Systems Lead to High Costs and Unfair Trials THE HIGH COST OF COUNTY JAIL PHONE SYSTEMS 1 INTRODUCTION The ACLU of Nebraska is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that works to defend and strengthen the individual freedoms and …
Article • August 22, 2017
Nevada Federal Court Dismisses Suit over Attorney-Client Phone Call Monitoring by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton Attorney Donald York Evans and his client John Witherow, a Nevada state prisoner, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the monitoring of privileged phone calls between them. After lengthy proceedings the suit was …
Huff et al. v. CoreCivic, Inc. and Securus, KS, Complaint, Attorney Client Calls Taped, 2017 Case 2:17-cv-02320-JAR-JPO Document 1 Filed 06/01/17 Page 1 of 11 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS Ashley Huff and Gregory Rapp, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, …
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