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Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Commissary, Federal Funds
Cuyahoga County Sheriff Stripped of Jail Commissary Control After $500,000 in Inventory Goes Missing by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Council took control of the county jail commissary on March 28, 2023, after a watchdog found over $500,000 worth of items were missing. The investigation also …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Prison Profiteer Who Chairs Christian Seminary Board Called Not Very ‘Christlike’ by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Members of Princeton Theological Seminarians for Peace and Justice (SPJ) sent a letter on March 14, 2023, calling for resignation of seminary Board of Trustees Chairman Michael Fisch. After learning Fisch’s hedge …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Corizon Bankruptcy Stalls Suit By Alleged Rape Victims of Rikers Island Guard by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A group of women who claimed they were raped by a physician’s assistant at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex has now been screwed two more times. First, prosecutors apparently bungled …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Menstruation Weaponized Against Women in Prison by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Writers Victoria Law and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff penned a Time magazine article on March 29, 2023, collecting accounts from female prisoners about difficulties dealing with menstruation while in prison. They found the current criminal justice system has …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
DOJ Finds Louisiana ‘Deliberately Indifferent’ to Prisoners Incarcerated Long Past Their Release Dates by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 25, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report finding the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPSC) was deliberately indifferent to the due-process rights of …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Seventh Circuit: Cook County Jail Grievance Procedure An “Incomprehensible Trap” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On March 16, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the grievance procedure in Chicago’s Cook County Jail is an “incomprehensible trap,” making it effectively unavailable to a detainee …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: HIV/AIDS
Prisoner Health Update: HIV by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is highly overrepresented among U.S. prisoners, along with other infectious illnesses such as MRSA, Hepatitis-C and tuberculosis. [See: PLN, Jan. 2023, p.38; Feb. 2023, p.52; and June 2023, p.41.] The high prevalence of HIV …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Ninth Circuit Affirms Expanded Relief for Disabled California Prisoners in Long-Running Class Action by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 2, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed, in large part, an order that found ongoing violations of the rights of disabled prisoners at …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was arrested on June 10, 2023, for allegedly smuggling drugs, including meth, to a prisoner at Kilby Correctional Facility, 1819 News reported. Charlie Townsend, 28, resigned from his position upon his arrest by the Law Enforcement Services Division. …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Alabama Prisoner’s Family Sues Over Allegedly Botched Execution by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On May 3, 2023, the family of Joe Nathan James Jr., an Alabama prisoner executed in July 2022, sued Gov. Kay Ivey (R) and other state officials, claiming he suffered excessive pain and was unconscious too …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Vermont Sheriff Locked Out of National Crime Database, Facing Impeachment by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Troubles mounted for Sheriff John Grismore of Vermont’s Franklin County on May 11, 2023, when state lawmakers took a significant step toward his impeachment. The same day, Grismore lost access to the National Crime …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Arizona Prisoner Released from Death Row by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman After 29 years in prison, condemned Arizona prisoner Barry Lee Jones was freed on June 15, 2023. Callous state prison officials dropped him on a street in Phoenix. Undeterred, Jones walked in the heat to the only address …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Executive Inaction: States and Federal Government Fail to Use Commutations as a Release Mechanism by Naila Awan, Katie Rose Quandt By Naila Awan and Katie Rose Quandt   On April 26, 2022, President Joe Biden used his executive powers to commute the federal sentences of 75 people — a first step …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Senators Spank DOJ for Failure to Implement Death-in-Custody Reporting Act by On September 20, 2022, the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Sen. Jon Ossoff, issued a scathing report that slammed the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for failing to effectively implement the Death in Custody Reporting Act, …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Sexual Assault
Former Prisoner Uses “Look Back” Window to Sue for Sexual Abuse at Shuttered New York Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “For decades, women incarcerated in New York state prisons have been raped, assaulted, sexually abused, harassed, and verbally degraded” by male guards, as officials “turned a blind …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Corizon Executes “Texas Two-Step,” Spinning Off Debt Into Bankrupt New Firm to Avoid Paying Creditors and Lawsuit Winners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Corizon Heath, Inc. has engaged in legal maneuvers over the course of the past year that are intended to limit how much it must pay on …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Missouri Legalizes Marijuana and Expunges Criminal Records by David Reutter by David M. Reutter By June 8, 2023, misdemeanor criminal records of those previously convicted in Missouri of a nonviolent marijuana-related offense were scheduled to be expunged. Felony expungement is set to follow by December 8, 2023. Though some counties …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Third Circuit Reinstates Claim by Federal Prisoner in Pennsylvania that Guards Prevented Daily Muslim Prayers by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 21, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated a former federal prisoner’s lawsuit under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. §§ …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Life Sentence for Alabama Jail Escapee After Suicide of Guard Lover Who Helped Him by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 8, 2023, a judge in Alabama’s Lauderdale County handed a life sentence without parole to a state prisoner for escaping the county lockup with his jail-guard lover, who …
Third Circuit Revives Forced-Labor Claims of Jailed Pennsylvania Child Support Debtors by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 8, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated claims by Pennsylvania child support debtors jailed for civil contempt, who argued they were unfairly forced to perform unsafe …
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