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Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Ninth Circuit Vacates California’s COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate for Prison Employees by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On March 15, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated a lower court’s order that California prison officials implement a mandatory COVID-19 employee vaccination policy. The Court concluded that prison …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
$2.5 Million in Confiscated COVID-19 Relief Funds Returned to Arkansas Prisoners After Court Issues Injunction by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As of June 6, 2022, the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) had returned $2,551,198 in confiscated federal relief or stimulus funds to state prisoners, according to Communications Director …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Census Bureau Report Finds Risk of Death Nearly Triples for Prisoners After Release by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau published what may be the first multi-state report on the mortality of released prisoners. After their incarceration, “former prisoners have higher mortality rates than …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: Torture, Privileges
SCOTUS Lets “State Secrets” Privilege Bar CIA Contractor Testimony About Torture Already Publicly Known by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Saying that “sometimes information that has entered the public domain may nonetheless fall within the scope of the state secrets privilege,” the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with Department of Justice …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
New Florida Law Shrouds Executions in Secrecy by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On May 12, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed HB 873, “providing an exemption from public records requirements for information or records that identify or could reasonably lead to the identification of any person or …
ACLU Pries Loose Employment Record of New Hampshire Trooper Who Detained Woman on Falsified Evidence, Leading to $237,500 Settlement by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 6, 2022, the New Hampshire Personnel Appeals Board upheld the firing of former State Trooper Haden Wilber, who allegedly illegally searched a woman …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
SCOTUS Kills Condemned Ohio Prisoner’s Effort to Secure Evidence of Mental Impairment to Bolster Habeas Petition by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart On June 21, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court held that cases involving medical transport orders for prisoners seeking evidence of mental impairment to bolster a habeas corpus petition …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Prison Profiteer Is Using Sandra Bland’s Death to Sell Surveillance Technology by Brian Dolinar by Brian Dolinar Guardian RFID is a virtually unknown, but rapidly growing, company that sells digital technology to jails. It makes ID cards and bracelets that can be scanned by guards when doing head counts, meal …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
$3.75 Million Settlement for Estate of Washington Prisoner Who Died From Untreated Breast Cancer by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 17, 2022, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) stipulated to a $3.75 million judgment in state court to settle all claims — including costs and attorney’s fees …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Idaho Provides Nation’s Second Gender Confirmation Surgery for Transgender Prisoner by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson “I feel whole and connected in myself.” That’s what transgender Idaho prisoner Adree Edmo had to say after receiving gender confirmation surgery (GCS) in July 2020, just under a year after a ruling by …
$2.45 Million Paid by Wellpath and Macomb County, Michigan, After Detainee’s Withdrawal Death in Jail by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart On March 31, 2022, an agreement was entered by Michigan’s Macomb County paying $1.15 million to the estate of David Stojcevski, 32, a detainee who died from drug withdrawal …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
After $90,000 Settlement for Sexual Abuse of Oregon Juvenile Detainee, Second Suit Filed Against Now-Imprisoned Former Youth Counselor by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On December 30, 2021, a second suit was filed in Oregon state court accusing former state youth worker Frank Milligan of sexually assaulting a juvenile detainee. …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Dark, Smoky Cells: As Wildfires Threaten More Prisons, the Incarcerated Ask Who Will Save Their Lives by Alleen Brown by Alleen Brown With flames bearing down on the remote California town of Susanville in August 2021, residents were getting ready to evacuate. The Dixie Fire, the state’s second-largest blaze ever, …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Nebraska Crime Commission Says Dodge County Jail Noncompliant With Reporting Requirements by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On January 28, 2022, when Sheriff Steve Hespen retired after 35 years in Dodge County, Nebraska, he left behind unanswered a charge from the state Jail Standards Board (JSB) that the county jail …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
SCOTUS Kneecaps Condemned Prisoners Claiming Ineffective Assistance of Counsel by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart Ten years ago, in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), the U.S. Supreme Court confronted a dilemma posed by Congress’ passage of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996. That law …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: War on Drugs, Boot Camps
New York Closes Moriah ‘Shock Camp’ by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) shuttered its upstate “shock camp” on March 10, 2022. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced in her 2022 budget the closing of several prisons including the Moriah Shock …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
After Summary Judgment Denied, California Jail Officials Pay $55,000 for Breaking Detainee’s Arm by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 27, 2021, just 25 days after a federal court in California denied summary judgment to San Mateo County Jail guards on a detainee’s excessive force claims, county officials quickly …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A jail guard in Chilton County, Alabama, was arrested on July 21, 2022, and charged with promoting contraband, the Clanton Advertiser reported. The guard, Tyler Ryan Couch, is accused of organizing an effort to smuggle drugs to detainees. Though jail policy forbids guards from transmitting …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Two Attorneys, Three Employees Sentenced in Bribery Scandal at MTC Texas Prisons by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On June 27, 2022, the last of a trio of private prison employees — plus two immigration attorneys — who were sentenced in a bribery scandal at two Texas prisons holding federal …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Third Illinois Guard Found Guilty In Fatal Beating of Handcuffed State Prisoner, but Attorney General Refuses To Settle With Family by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 23, 2022, a jury convicted the last of three ex-prison guards indicted in the fatal beating of a prisoner at Western Illinois …
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