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Article • July 15, 2011
. The court of appeals examined the reasons given by the MCSO for the delays: (1) no excuse; (2) didn’t read the request properly; (3) misunderstood the request; (4) didn’t like what the PNT was publishing ...
the value of the legal materials that were destroyed. The district court granted the motion with respect to mental harm, reducing the awards for retaliation and conspiracy to nominal damages of $1 for each ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
to the potential financial impact of the multi-million-dollar jury award. That impact became apparent on February 1, 2013, when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court’s reduced total award ...
Article • March 15, 2013
of the most unreliable forms of evidence used in criminal prosecutions. See: NACDL v. Chicago Police Department, 399 Ill.App.3d 1, 924 N.E.2d 564 (Ill.App. 1 Dist. 2010). ...
Article • August 1, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
[d] Shane Smith’s constitutional rights.” The jurors awarded him one dollar in compensatory damages. See: Smith v. Beck, U.S.D.C. (M.D. NC), Case No. 1:08-cv-00166-TDS-WWD. Smith appealed ...
UN Commission Approves Mandela Rules on Treatment of Prisoners by David Fathi UN Commission Approves Mandela Rules on Treatment of Prisoners by David Fathi [1] May 22, 2015 was a milestone ...
, had advanced several justifications for the policy, including his belief that “(1) the inmates will engage in black-market trading for the publications and photographs; (2) inmate-on-inmate ...
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
Filed under: Prison Reform, Education
provisions: “1. All eligible inmates shall receive a minimum of 3 hours of educational services every school day. 2. Placement in a restricted housing unit does not change an eligible inmate’s ...
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
fines or fees in Dekalb County Recorders Court. Those changes include: 1) Adoption of a “bench card” that provides instructions to judges on how to protect defendants’ right to counsel ...
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
calls will be capped at $0.23/min., effective January 1, 2018. Advocates argued that the bill, which received bipartisan support, will reduce recidivism and help prisoners reintegrate ...
fees and costs. See: K.J. v. Bishop, U.S.D.C.-D.I11.1 Case No. 1:1-cv-07289. ...
Article • August 26, 2016
Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG}—the federal government's largest criminal justice subsidy—while less than 1% of JAG funds goes toward defending the poor. "Despite repeated calls from ...
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
punishment. Oslund was awarded $5 million in compensatory damages plus $1 million in punitive damages, and judgment was entered in his favor. However, less than a month later, on April 2, 2018, U.S. Magistrate ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
not commit. After having his conviction thrown out by an appeals court and being found not guilty in a subsequent retrial, Deacon, 61, sued the City of New York for malicious prosecution.  On November 1 ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Filed under: Medical, Prisoner Property
with possession of a weapon and supplying contraband. The parties agreed to apply the statutory definition of “dangerous weapon” found in ORS 161.015(1), which provides, “under the circumstances ...
Article • December 19, 2017
, and policies and procedures of Angola's medical care. Dr. Thomas avowed that he would testify to the following expert opinions: 1) that incarceration facilities were primarily medical care; 2) it is not unusual ...
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Religious Diet
to receive kosher meals in accordance with their religious beliefs. The agreement required the IDOC to implement a “No-Touch diet system” by November 1, 2017 for all prisoners who requested kosher ...
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
detainees reported “live rattlesnakes in their sleeping quarters,” according to KJZZ. Both the West Texas and Prairieland facilities are now run by LaSalle Corrections [see: PLN, Feb. 2013, p.1 ...
Article • September 10, 2018
nearby police to shoot him. During an emergency room visit, David Powell, LCSW/MHP, performed a mental health evaluation. He found that J.J. was suffering from “Bipolar 1 disorder, severe ...
by his parents for $1.6 million. [See: PLN, March 2016, p.1]. Austin Losorelli hung himself at the jail despite the fact that both he and his father, Los Angeles Police Department lieutenant Joe Losorelli ...
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