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Brief • September 20, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Stewart v. Tarrant County, TX, Settlement, Wrongful Death-Suicide, 2022
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Fifth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Texas Prisoners’ Challenge to Pandemic Prison Conditions for Failure to Exhaust by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 9, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the adequacy of pandemic precautions taken by the …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
U.S. Supreme Court Grants Texas Prisoner Religious Touch and Audible Prayer During Execution by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) held that a Texas death row prisoner was likely to prevail on his claims under the Religious Land Use …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A federal prisoner in Birmingham was gunned down outside a privately-operated reentry facility on July 16, 2022. The Associated Press reported that the prisoner, Larry Taylor, 47, had just been released from the facility, which is operated under contract from the federal Bureau of Prisons …
Fifth Circuit Absolves Texas Jailers in Death of Mentally Ill Detainee Who Refused Medical Treatment by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On August 5, 2022, calling the medical neglect of a mentally ill detainee who refused treatment “objectively reasonable,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Mentally and Physically Disabled Texas Woman Hospitalized After Mistreatment at Jail by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye A disabled woman, who suffers from a severe seizure disorder, ended up spending eight weeks hospitalized in a coma with a black eye and bruises, after spending ten days in Texas’ Tarrant …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
COVID-19’s Impact on Prisoners Far Worse Than It Needed to Be by Kevin Bliss, Edward Lyon by Kevin Bliss and Ed Lyon In September 2021, a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit research and advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) gave a failing grade to 42 …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
After Lengthy HRDC Litigation, GEO Group Gives Up Documents Revealing $10 Million Settlement for Death of Texas Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 8, 2022, PLN finally obtained documents revealing that private prison operator GEO Group, Inc., formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corp., paid $10 million to …
Brief • July 15, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Kelley v. The City of Park, TX, Settlement, Wrongful Conviction, 2022 1 IN•THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ··. WESTERN DISTRICT AUSTIN DIVISION , GREGORY RAYMONi) ·, K ELLEY § § Plaintiff, \ ·§ vs. § ' I, • . CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:20-CV-00481-RP ·§ , I THE CITY OF CEDAR …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Boiling Behind Bars In Sweltering Texas, Prisons Without Air Conditioning Are About to Get a Lot Hotter by Alleen Brown by Alleen Brown This article was originally published by The Intercept on February 12, 2022. It is reprinted here with permission. The original, along with photos and maps, may be …
Brief • June 30, 2022
Estate of Savion Hall v. Midland County, TX, Order Approving Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Death, 2022 Case 7:21-cv-00111-DC Document 56 Filed 06/30/22 Page 1 of 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS MIDLAND/ODESSA DIVISION ANGELA ROBINSON, individually; CLARA BUSBY, as next friend, guardian, and parent of minors …
Locked Up and Left to Die by Michael Barajas, Sophie Novack, In Texas, dying in jail is “par for the course.” by Michael Barajas and Sophie Novack, Texas Observer Armando Carrillo had been waiting outside the Nueces County Jail for hours when he heard sirens approaching in the middle of the night …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A former Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was indicted on April 22, 2022, for assaulting three prisoners and then filing a false report to cover it up, the Associated Press reported. The guard, Lorenzo Mills, 55, was charged with beating three male prisoners with a wooden baton at Draper Correctional …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Access to Media, Securus
Securus Rolls Out “Free” E-tablets to Texas Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Texas state prisoners have begun receiving free tablet computers from Securus Technologies. By February 18, 2022, the state’s privately contracted provider had distributed 3,500 “e-tablets” to prisoners in seven of its 61 state prisons—Diboll, Bell, Henley, …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Texas Sheriff Who Rehired Abusive Jailer Who in Turn Again Abused a Detainee by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that by rehiring a jailer who previously abused detainees at the …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Guards/Staff
State of Texas Auditor-Annual Report on Classified Employee Turnover Fiscal Year 2021, March 2022 Lisa R. Collier, CPA, CFE, CIDA State Auditor An Annual Report on Classified Employee Turnover for Fiscal Year 2021 March 2022 Report No. 22-702 State Auditor’s Office reports are available on the Internet at http://www.sao.texas.gov/. An …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Prison Gangs
Audit Report-Dept of Public Safety's Texas Gang Intelligence Database-Aug. 2022 Lisa R. Collier, CPA, CFE, CIDA State Auditor An Audit Report on The Department of Public Safety’s Texas Gang Intelligence Database August 2022 Report No. 22-039 State Auditor’s Office reports are available on the Internet at https://sao.texas.gov/. An Audit Report …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard in Birmingham was arrested on March 9, 2022, for allegedly beating a prisoner to death, according to the Alabama Political Reporter. As PLN previously reported, prison officials at first insisted no foul play was suspected in the death of Victor …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Sweetheart Deal Nets GEO Group $15 Million Payout from ICE for Haitian Deportation Flights by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh Dye In September 2021, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid more than $15 million to private prison operator GEO Group for deportation flights to repatriate thousands of Haitian migrants. The …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Exposure to Cold
Frozen in Place: How Winter Storms Push Texas Jails and Prisons to the Brink by Tyler Hicks by Tyler Hicks When Jerome Van Zandt was booked into Harris County Jail in November 2020, he was optimistic. “There’s no way I’ll be here more than three months,” he told himself. A …
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