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Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Seventh Circuit Offers Wisconsin Prisoner Just a Little Help in Suit Alleging He Was Held in Feces-Stained Cell Without Water by On June 26, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit partially vacated a summary judgment dismissal of a Wisconsin prisoner’s civil rights suit alleging that …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Sixth Circuit Revives Challenge by Kentucky Prisoner Left Three Weeks in “Rancid” Paper Undershorts by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 17, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) officials who forced …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Filed under: Sanitation, Settlements
$22,000 Jury Award for Unsanitary Conditions at Virginia Jail by A federal jury in Virginia returned a verdict on March 22, 2024, in favor of Antoinette Weathers, 63, in her civil rights challenge to conditions at Peninsula Regional Jail when detained there after a June 2022 conviction of misdemeanor assault. …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Fourth Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Guards Who Left North Carolina Prisoner to Eat with Feces-Soiled Hands by On January 3, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s grant of qualified immunity (QI) to guards who left North Carolina prisoner Jordan Andrew Jones …
Georgia Prisoner’s Challenge to “Deplorable” Conditions Survives Motion to Dismiss by On October 3, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia denied a motion to dismiss filed by defendant state prison officials in a prisoner’s challenge to isolation in conditions he called “deplorable.” While incarcerated at Georgia …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Dismissal Affirmed of Florida Prisoner’s Claim for Exposure to Human Waste by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 11, 2023, the Supreme Court of the U.S. declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear a Florida prisoner’s appeal to a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals …
$500,000 Settlement for Colorado Prisoner Forced to Defecate in Bucket for 12 Days by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 14, 2023, the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay $500,000 to resolve a state prisoner’s allegation that his Eighth Amendment guarantee of freedom from cruel and …
Grand Jury Slams Sacramento County for Delaying Jail Improvements Mandated in Consent Decree by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Delays in improvements mandated in a 2020 consent decree resulted in at least six preventable detainee deaths at Sacramento County jails, according to a grand jury investigative report on June 2, …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Overcrowded and Understaffed, Oklahoma County Jail Remains “Deplorable” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A headline in the August 1965 edition of The Daily Oklahoman said that then-Sheriff Bob Turner of Oklahoma County “denies his jail’s ‘deplorable.’” A new jail was later built, but almost six decades later, a …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Illinois Prisoner’s Claim Against Kitchen Supervisor for Scalding From Spilled Hot Water by by Matt Clarke On July 14, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reinstated a claim brought by an Illinois prisoner who was severely burned when he tripped on a damaged …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
In Suit Over Moldy Cells Causing Fungal Infection, Illinois Warden Denied Summary Judgment Wins Anyway by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 19, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of Illinois denied a state prison warden’s motion for summary judgment in a federal civil rights lawsuit over …
Dunsmore v. San Diego County Sheriff's Dept, CA, Order Granting Joint Motion for Class Certification and Approval of Proposed Class Action Notice Plan, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 3:20-cv-00406-AJB-DDL Document 435 Filed 11/03/23 PageID.16793 Page 1 of 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT …
Dunsmore v. San Diego County Sheriff's Dept, CA, Notice of Class Action Certification, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION CERTIFICATION Darryl Dunsmore et al. v. San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, et al.; S.D. Cal. No. 3:20-cv-00406-AJB-DDL On November 3, 2023, the United States District Court for the Southern …
Brief • October 30, 2023
Rose v. Sandy, WV, Order and Propose4d Findings and Recommendation, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 5:22-cv-00405 Document 774 Filed 10/30/23 Page 1 of 39 PageID #: 12449 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA BECKLEY DIVISION MICHAEL D. ROSE, ET AL., Plaintiffs, vs. Civil …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Water, Sanitation, Settlements
$50,000 Settlement to Texas Prisoner for Feces-Covered Cell by On July 8, 2022, a Texas prisoner’s decade-long legal battle over grossly unsanitary conditions in his cell finally came to an end, when he stipulated to dismissal of his lawsuit against the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) after accepting a …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Third Connecticut Prison Lockdown in Five Months by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss When an apparently intoxicated prisoner allegedly assaulted a guard at Connecticut’s largest prison on June 13, 2023, the lockup was put on lockdown. It was at least the third time this year that a state Department …
From Crisis to Care-Ending the Health Harm of Women's Prison-Feb. 2023 February 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report aims to center the experiences of people incarcerated in California women’s prisons, which remain a serious and entrenched public health crisis. According to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Jail Detainee’s Urine Not a ‘Noxious or Filthy Substance’ by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In an opinion issued on November 22, 2022, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that urine is not a “noxious or filthy substance.” Therefore, the Court affirmed dismissal of …
Brief • January 13, 2023
Brister v. Cain, MS, Order, Prison Conditions, 2023 Case: 4:20-cv-00007-SA-JMV Doc #: 395 Filed: 01/13/23 1 of 1 PageID #: 12017 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI GREENVILLE DIVISION PITRELL BRISTER, et al. PLAINTIFFS V. NO. 4:20-CV-7-SA-JMV NATHAN BURL CAIN, et al. DEFENDANTS ORDER …
Article • January 9, 2023
Fulton County Jail Detainees Ended 2022 Freezing and Defecating in Trash Bags by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott With no end in sight for staffing shortages at the Fulton County Jail (FCJ) in Atlanta, detainees got a cruel blow the last week of 2022: A winter storm froze …
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