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Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Months-­Long Wisconsin Prison Lockdown Prompts Lawsuits by A federal lawsuit filed on October 26, 2023, seeks class-­action status for a group of Wisconsin prisoners challenging poor healthcare and conditions of confinement in the state Department of Corrections (DOC), resulting from “a prolonged, unnecessary and unexplained lockdown” that has so far …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Nine Employees Arrested at Troubled South Carolina Jail by In just a month in early 2024, nine employees were arrested at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center, the lockup run by South Carolina’s Richland County. The state Department of Corrections (DOC) opened an investigation at the jail in Columbia in …
Oklahoma Jail Withholds Death Records, Fails to Report Five Since 2018 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Since 2018, at least seven vulnerable detainees have died at the 366-­bed Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center, 30 miles east of Oklahoma City. Yet despite state law requiring deaths be reported within five …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Seventh Circuit Again Rejects Challenge to Three-Book Limit at Cook County Jail by Now-Dead Detainee by David Reutter David M. Reutter On April 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of a suit filed by a pretrial detainee challenging the contraband policy at the …
$33 Million Awarded to Family of Oklahoma Jail Detainee Mocked By Nurse and Guards As He Died Begging for Help by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 23, 2023, a jury in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma made a massive award of $33 million to …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
$9,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Heat-­Related Illness Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 3, 2023, the Wisconsin Department of Justice sent a check for $9,000 to a state prisoner in settlement of his claims that he suffered a heat-­related illness, fell and injured himself after state Department …
Sixth Circuit Refuses Michigan Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Despite Guard’s Conviction for Battery by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 16, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a Michigan prisoner’s lawsuit with an outrageous-­sounding opinion that a guard “may have violated …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Louisville Jail Records 15 Detainee Deaths, 16 Employees Fired by On September 26, 2023, Louisville Metro Corrections Department (LMCD) suspended guard Terry Henderson after he crashed his car into a vehicle driven by fellow guard Andrew Young. Responding Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers reportedly suspected Henderson was drunk, but …
Ninth Circuit Says Federal Prisoner in California May Have Bivens Claim for Delays in Medical Care Allegedly to Cover Up Assault by BOP Guard by by David M. Reutter On August 15, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed dismissal of an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference …
One Detainee Dying Every Week in L.A. County Jails by As of December 31, 2023, Los Angeles County jails had recorded 34 detainee deaths in seven months—over one every week, far more than New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, which recorded seven deaths during the same period. Overcrowding is …
At BOP California “Rape Club” Prison: Historic Ruling, FBI Raid, Warden Removed by On March 11, 2024, FBI agents raided the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Dublin, California, the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lockup plagued by staff sexual assaults on prisoners—so many that it has become known as …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Qualified Immunity for Missouri Prison Chief in Sexual Abuse Claims Against Former Guard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 23, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to Anne Precythe, Director of the Missouri Department …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
California Adds Statewide Detention Monitors Overseeing Local Jails by Quietly, on October 4, 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law a measure to boost transparency in the state’s local jails, also adding a layer of oversight vested in a new statewide “detention monitor”—who will act much like an …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
California Prisons Locked Down After Massive Riot Hospitalizes Prisoner, Eight Guards by A riot broke out at Ironwood State Prison on January 31, 2024, triggering a “threat assessment” that locked down every facility run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Eight staffers and one prisoner were hospitalized …
Brief • March 22, 2024
Weathers v. Witham, VA, Jury Verdict, Conditions of Confinement, 2024 Case 4:23-cv-00008-RBS-LRL Document 58 Filed 03/22/24 Page 1 of 8 PageID# 749 EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA NEWPORT NEWS DIVISION . MA D 2 2 2024 ANTOINETTE WEATHERS, Plaintiff, V. ROY C. WITHAM, 4JY Case No. 4:23-cv-00008 eVaf?R~'A) Defendants. VERDICT FORM …
Brief • March 18, 2024
Snorsky v. Raemisch, CO, Minute Order, Failure to Protect, 2024 Case No. 1:18-cv-03025-KAS Document 286 filed 03/18/24 USDC Colorado pg 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 18-cv-03025-KAS JOHN STANDLEY SNORSKY, Plaintiff, v. BRANDON HAGANS, and MICHAEL SHERWOOD, Defendants. _____________________________________________________________________ …
California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Et Al v. U.S.A, CA, Order Granting the Motion for Class Certification, Solitary Confinement, 2024 Case 4:23-cv-04155-YGR Document 222 Filed 03/15/24 Page 1 of 45 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 Case No.: 4:23-cv-4155-YGR 4 5 CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR WOMEN …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Overcrowded and Understaffed, Oklahoma County Jail Remains “Deplorable” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A headline in the August 1965 edition of The Daily Oklahoman said that then-Sheriff Bob Turner of Oklahoma County “denies his jail’s ‘deplorable.’” A new jail was later built, but almost six decades later, a …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Nearly $11 Million Settlement Reached in Suit by BOP Prisoners Held Without Heat, Electricity During New York Winter Storm by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 18, 2023, an agreement was reached by Defendant officials with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) paying $10,936,250 to settle claims brought in …
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Wisconsin Prisoner’s ADA Claim for Untreated Knee Injury by Matthew Clarke Matt Clarke On August 25, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reinstated a Wisconsin prisoner’s claim that officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) violated Title II of the Americans with …
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