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Elizarri et al v. Cook County, IL, Order, jail detainee personal property, 2015 Case: 1:07-cv-02427 Document #: 340 Filed: 03/31/15 Page 1 of 12 PageID #:5997 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION LEONCIO ELIZARRI, et al., Plaintiffs, v. SHERIFF OF COOK COUNTY and COOK …
Publication • March 23, 2015
HRDC comment to CFPB re release debit cards March 2015 Human Rights Defense Center DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS March 23, 2015 Submitted Online Only Eric Goldberg Office of Regulations, CFPB P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, IA 52244 RE: Comment on Regulation of Prepaid Debit Cards Issued to Prisoners and …
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
Texas: $100 Medical Copay for Prisoners Generates Less Revenue than Expected by Matthew Clarke In October 2011, when Texas enacted a law instituting a $100 annual copay for state prisoners seeking medical care, it was estimated the measure would generate $5.7 million in 2012 and help the cash-strapped state deal …
Article • January 12, 2015
Florida Pretrial Detainees Properly Charged “Subsistence Costs” by Florida Pretrial Detainees Properly Charged “Subsistence Costs” The Florida Court of Appeal for the Fourth District has upheld the constitutional application of a statue and a jail’s procedures allowing pretrial detainees to be charged “daily subsistence costs.” Pretrial detainees Thomas Solomos and …
Prison Bankers Cash in on Captive Customers by Daniel Wagner Prison Bankers Cash in on Captive Customers by Daniel Wagner Pat Taylor doesn’t believe in going into debt. She keeps her bills in a freezer bag under her bed, next to old photo albums, and believes in paying them on …
Article • November 17, 2014
Public Prisons, Private Profits by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Truthout When her daughter was first incarcerated in Arizona's Perryville State Prison, "Rae" sent her money orders bought at the local cash-checking place or from Walmart. But those took too long to clear, leaving her daughter without needed supplies, so she …
Unfair Punishment by Sam Levin Unfair Punishment by Sam Levin Part One: Victim Discrimination A state program that’s supposed to help crime victims denies people who have had run-ins with the law or are afraid of being victimized again. The front door was wide open when police arrived at the …
Article • June 6, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Oregon Garnishment Exemption Protects Funds in Prisoners’ Accounts by Mark Wilson Oregon Garnishment Exemption Protects Funds in Prisoners’ Accounts by Mark Wilson An Oregon judge has held that a prosecutor improperly seized money from a prisoner’s trust account to pay a court-ordered “compensatory fine.” In 2006, Norman Earl Schlunt was …
Article • June 5, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Ninth Circuit Revives Prison Trust Account Seizure Claim; Disputed Ownership Requires Due Process Protections by Ninth Circuit Revives Prison Trust Account Seizure Claim; Disputed Ownership Requires Due Process Protections In an unpublished ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal district court’s sua sponte dismissal of a California …
Brief • April 21, 2014
Adams v. Benton County Sheriff, AR, Settlement, Jail Debit Card Kickbacks, 2014 Case 5:13-cv-05074-PKH Document 43-1 Filed 04/24/14 Page 1 of 25 PageID #: 1362 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE DIVISION YVES EUGENE ADAMS, CESAR REYES, PAM PHILPOTT, BRANDON PHILPOTT, Individually and on behalf of those …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
Arkansas Suing Prisoners for Incarceration Costs by Arkansas officials are suing prisoners under the State Prison Inmate Care and Custody Reimbursement Act (Act), seeking reimbursement for the costs of their incarceration by obtaining court orders and seizing money from their prison trust accounts. For example, a state court entered an …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
Update on Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act Case by Prison Legal News previously reported a decision by the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit, which held that a Missouri bankruptcy court was correct in concluding that state prison officials did not violate a discharge injunction by collecting money from a …
Publication • April 1, 2014
Healthcare Copay Report, 2013 - Bureau of Prisons Federal Prisoner Health Care Copayment Act of 2000 Report to Congress Status Report: April2014 Legislative Summary: On October 12,2000, the President signed into law the Federal Prisoner Health Care Copayment Actof2000 (P.L. 106-294; codified at Title 18 U.S.C. § 4048). The Act …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Bankruptcy Injunction Covers Pre-petition Incarceration Costs, but Not Those that Accrue Afterwards by The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit held on February 5, 2013 that a Missouri bankruptcy court was correct in concluding prison officials did not violate a discharge injunction by collecting money from a prisoner’s account …
IFRP Payment Schedule May Not be Delegated to BOP by Sentencing Judge by Derek Gilna The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held that “where the sentencing court has failed to consider whether the defendant has the financial resources to pay restitution immediately, ordering immediate payment impermissibly …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Second Circuit: No Social Security Payments for Prisoners by Last year, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that the “No Social Security Benefits for Prisoners Act (the Act), Pub. L. No. 111-115, 123 Stat. 3029 (2009), bars the Social Security Administration (SSA) from making any payments to incarcerated individuals …
Article • August 15, 2013
Rooker-Feldman Doctrine Bars Review of State Court Order by District Courts by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Michigan federal district court’s order that dismissed an action challenging state court orders that allowed confiscation of a prisoner’s pension benefits for incarceration costs. Three Michigan prisoners filed this putative …
Brief • June 14, 2013
Adams v. Benton County Sheriff, AR. Amended Complaint, Jail Debit Card Kickbacks, 2013 Case 5:13-cv-05074-PKH Document 18 Filed 06/14/13 Page 1 of 15 PageID #: 104 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE DIVISION YVES EUGENE ADAMS, CESAR REYES, PAM PHILPOTT, BRANDON PHILPOTT, individually and on …
Publication • June 1, 2013
The Financial Realities of Ohio's Pay-to-Stay Jail Policy ACLU 2013 Adding It Up The Financial Realities of Ohio’s Pay-to-Stay Jail Policies Introduction The United States is the largest incarcerator in the world, and Ohio ranks eighth in terms of prison population size.1 Many of the individuals incarcerated are low-level, nonviolent …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Arkansas Sheriff Took Kickbacks for Card Fees, Class-Action Suit Says by Erik De La Garza An Arkansas Sheriff received kickbacks from a company hired to convert cash seized from county jail prisoners to prepaid debit cards “with numerous exorbitant fees,” a federal class-action lawsuit claims. More than 2,200 people who …
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