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Despite Past Problems, Prison Privatization in Ohio May Expand by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton Ohio Governor John Kasich believes in privatization of some government functions as both a way to save the state money and improve the services that residents receive. So in 2011 he submitted a budget plan …
BOP Potentially Liable for Valley Fever Outbreak at Privately-run California Prison by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On May 20, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated lawsuits filed by two federal prisoners who had sued the government and two prison contractors for failing to protect …
California Pays for Transgender Prisoner’s Sex Reassignment Surgery by Joe Watson by Joe Watson The rights of transgender prisoners are in the throes of a major transition. In August 2015, California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) made the unprecedented decision to pay for sex reassignment surgery (SRS) for Shiloh …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Settlement in Baltimore Prison Conditions Class-Action Suit by The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (MDPSCS) agreed to a settlement in a class-action suit challenging conditions of confinement and the provision of medical care at the Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC). The case encompassed BCDC and the Women’s …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
$50,000 Jury Award in South Carolina Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Suit by A South Carolina federal jury awarded $50,000 to a prisoner in a civil rights action alleging a guard failed to intervene when he was attacked by other prisoners. Lavadre D. Butler, 35, claimed that while incarcerated at the …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Pennsylvania: Compassionate Release Reforms Fail to Achieve Aim by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Despite a 2008 change in state law intended to make it easier for Pennsylvania prisoners to be granted compassionate release, it is still rare for such releases to be granted. In 1971, shortly after turning …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Site of Gruesome Prison Riot Becomes New Mexico Tourist Attraction by Joe Watson by Joe Watson New Mexico corrections officials said “the possibilities are endless” for a dilapidated prison that has become a tourist attraction and occasional movie studio 35 years after it was the site of one of the …
28 Days in Chains by Christie Thompson and Joseph Shapiro by Christie Thompson and Joseph Shapiro, The Marshall Project On February 3, 2011, corrections officers at Lewisburg federal penitentiary in rural Pennsylvania arrived outside Sebastian Richardson’s cell door. With them was a man looking agitated and rocking back and forth. He …
Article • March 31, 2017
Prison Reform, Proposition 47 and the California Shell Game by Nancy Heitzeg and Kay Whitlock by Nancy A. Heitzeg and Kay Whitlock, Truthout In the deep fog of the yard at Central California Facility for Women (CCFW), the bright shiny headlines declaring California Proposition 47 (which reclassifies certain property and drug …
Paying for Your Time: How Charging Inmates Fees Behind Bars May Violate the Excessive Fines Clause by Lauren-Brooke Eisen by Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law Introduction In 1846, the United States saw the birth of the first correctional fee law when Michigan enacted legislation authorizing counties to charge …
Sharbaugh v. Beaudry, FL, Memo in Opposition to MSJ (2017) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA (Pensacola) RUSSELL K. SHARBAUGH, Plaintiff, : No. 3:16-CV-126 : : Chief Judge M. Casey Rodgers : Magistrate Judge Elizabeth M. Timothy : : CIVIL ACTION – LAW : …
Gully v. Goines, IL, Merit Review, Retaliation, 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00211-DRH-SCW Document 7 Filed 03/30/17 Page 1 of 24 Page ID #84 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS RONNIE GULLY, Jr., Plaintiff, No. 17ïcv–00211ïDRH vs. RUSSEL GOINES, DEREK HUNDLEY, and C/O HOUSER, Defendants. MEMORANDUM AND …
Prison Legal News Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou - Full Interview by   Note: This is the full PLN interview with John Kiriakou; a shorter version was published as our April 2017 cover story, here. John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee …
Hamilton v. Vannoy, LA, Complaint, Prolonged Solitary Confinement for Death Row Prisoners, 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00194-SDD-RLB Document 1 03/29/17 Page 1 of 38 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ------------------------------------------------------------------------X MARCUS HAMILTON; WINTHROP EATON; and : MICHAEL PERRY, on their own behalf, and on behalf : of a class …
Tinkham v. GEO Group, NM, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2017 FILED IN 4th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT 3/29/2017 2:44:04 PM blc FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COU~TY OF GUADALUPE STATE OF ~EW MEXICO MICHAEL TINKHAM, Plaintiff, Case ~o.: Y, D-424-CV-2017-00035 Sandoval, Matthew J. THE GEO GROUP and JOH~ DOE 1, JOH~ DOE …
Female Inmates and Sexual Assault by Christina Piecora by Christina Piecora, Jurist edited by Josh Guckert JURIST Guest Columnist Christina Piecora, St. John's University School of Law, Class of 2015, is the author of the first article in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic …
Article • March 28, 2017
The Politics of Prisons: Location Affects Legislators’ Voting on Criminal Reform by Tim Marema by Tim Marema, Daily Yonder Legislators representing rural areas with prisons are less likely to support lighter sentencing and other criminal reforms. A new study argues that's because these rural legislators think they have an economic interest …
Brief • March 24, 2017
Coleman v. Brown, CA, Order for Responses and Briefs, Mental Health Care, 2017 Case 2:90-cv-00520-KJM-DB Document 5583 Filed 03/24/17 Page 1 of 26 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 12 Plaintiffs, …
Brief • March 17, 2017
Olin v. County of Northumberland, PA, Jury Verdict - Damages, Choked With Blanket, 2017 Case 1:14-cv-00925-SES Document 76 Filed 03/17/17 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA STEPHANIE LYNN OLIN, : CIVIL NO.: 1:14-CV-00925 Plaintiff, v. : (ChiefMagistrate Judge Schwab) COUNTY …
Brief • March 17, 2017
Olin v. County of Northumberland, PA, Jury Verdict - Liability, Choked With Blanket, 2017 Case 1:14-cv-00925-SES Document 75 Filed 03/17/17 Page 1 of 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA : CIVIL NO.: 1:14-CV-00925 STEPHANIE LYNN OLIN, Plaintiff, : (Chief Magistrate Judge Schwab) V. …
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