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, 1 in 13 individuals in Georgia is under some form of correctional control, nearly 2 times the national average of 1 in 31. "It is not simply unfortunate that Georgia leads the nation along ...
Article • August 23, 2016
fire to his mattress at around 1:30 p.m. on July 28, 2012. Parker had been convicted of armed robbery and other lesser charges, but was being housed in OSP's H Unit, a maximum-security wing that houses ...
Article • December 7, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
Fifth Circuit Holds Louisiana Prisoner May Sue Over Failure to Credit Good Time by Matthew Clarke On January 1, 2016, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Louisiana prisoner may ...
female prisoners at KCCC, the jury decided she did not suffer “adverse employment actions.” See: Ritchie v. State of Hawaii, U.S.D.C. (D. Hi.), Case No. 1:14-cv-00046-LEK-KJM. Previously ...
the serious mental health needs of those prisoners. The case settled on September 1, 2016, with state prison officials agreeing to make sweeping changes to virtually every aspect of solitary confinement ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
to sexual contact with prison staff. Early in the litigation, GEO Group attorney Shawn K. Fitzpatrick submitted the company’s initial disclosures pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(1 ...
“Egregious” Lack of Care by Jail’s Medical Contractor Leads to $1 Million Settlement by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell An “egregious” lack of medical treatment that resulted ...
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
. Federal judge Alvin K. Hellerstein had previously denied class-action status in the lawsuit brought by the two prisoners, who were identified as Jane Doe 1 and Doe 2. They were represented by the Legal Aid ...
Article • January 9, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
the court to recruit a volunteer attorney to provide pro bono representation. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1). Two questions guide a court’s discretionary decision whether to recruit counsel: ‘(1) has ...
program” at Stewart. Pursuant to that program, detainees who agree to perform various jobs maintaining the facility are paid between $1 and $4 per day. They also are afforded upgraded living ...
Article • November 1, 2016
Texas Parole Commissioner Indicted for Falsifying Parole Records by Matthew Clarke On October 1, 2014, a Walker County grand jury indicted Texas parole commissioner Pamela Freeman for making ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
why nominal damages, which rarely exceed $2 and more commonly are as in this case only $1, are ever awarded,” Posner wrote in the September 23, 2016 decision. “They have negligible value ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
agreement that would have resulted in a six-month sentence. After his guilty plea was denied, Baca’s first trial ended in an 11-1 deadlock in favor of acquittal on obstruction charges; he was convicted ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
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that is 5.1 times the imprisonment of whites. In five states (Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, and Wisconsin), the disparity is more than 10 to 1.” Additionally, according to the report, &ldquo ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
the facility “readily accessible and usable by individuals with disabilities to the maximum extent feasible. 28 C.F.R. § 35.151(b)(1). The feasibility requirement has been construed as meaning &lsquo ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Sheriff Lee Baca, for obstructing the FBI’s investigation. PLN has reported extensively on abuses at the L.A. County jail. [See: PLN, March 2016, p.1; March 2013, p.1]. According to Adams&rsquo ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
in a November 2016 order. “If in the future the Bureau evaluates the requests of elderly, ill inmates more generously and files § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motions more frequently, DiMasi’s release ...
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
or early January 2016 at a trial in a sexual harassment suit brought by a co-worker, Deborah Hesse, who ultimately received a $1.92 million settlement from the MDOC. [See: PLN, Feb. 2018, p.1]. Around ...
a prisoner from filing another lawsuit if he had earlier had three prior suits dismissed as frivolous, violated the Open Courts Clause (Article 1, § 12) ("Clause") of the Indiana Constitution. Eric Smith ...
" and did so "with two or more persons."--Code of Penal Discipline/Administrative Regulation 150 1(IV)(D)(7) (07/15/04). At a minimum, no evidence established the "two or more persons" element. (Note ...
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