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Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Federal Court Puts Troubled Mississippi Jail in Receivership by David Reutter, Keith Sanders by David Reutter and Keith Sanders On July 29, 2022, the federal court for the Southern District of Mississippi took the dramatic step of placing Hinds County’s Raymond Detention Center (RDC) under federal receivership. A series of …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Sixth Circuit Again Extends Kingsley Protections for Pretrial Detainees in Deliberate Indifference Claim Against Kentucky Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 24, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit joined a short list of federal appellate courts so far to say that additional …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
CoreCivic Workers Unionize and Go On Strike at Arizona Prison by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart Some 20 newly unionized workers and their supporters manned a picket line at CoreCivic’s Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex (CAFCC) on August 12, 2022, after pay negotiations broke down over a company offer the …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Federal Court Says Illinois Statute Barring More Than One Sex Offender per Address Is Unconstitutional by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Illinois enjoined the state Department of Corrections (DOC) from keeping 25 sex offenders imprisoned who were eligible …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19, Official Report
17 States and DC Have Stopped Reporting Active COVID Cases Behind Bars by Victoria Law by Victoria Law This article was originally published at TruthOut.com on August 5, 2022. It is reprinted here with permission. On July 5, Rita Deanda tested positive for COVID while incarcerated at the California Institution …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Voice Recognition and Surveillance by Beryl Lipton, Cooper Quintin by Beryl Lipton And Cooper Quintin This article was first published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on September 10, 2021. It is reprinted here with permission. Prison telecommunication companies have historically been in a voice-based …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Arizona Closing Prison, Moving Prisoners to CoreCivic Lockup by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In January 2022, when Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) announced the closing of the state prison complex in Florence, he pointed to the facility’s age—it was built in 1904—and said spending an estimated $150 million on …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Tenth Circuit Revives Suit Against Oklahoma Jail for Medical Neglect Leading To Detainee’s Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a lawsuit alleging officials at Oklahoma’s Carter County Jail (CCJ) failed to provide any medical attention in the days leading up to a pretrial detainee’s death, the U.S. …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
California Court Sides With Securus in Challenge to CDCR Contract, Dealing Only Temporary Setback to GTL by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 10, 2021, a California court set aside an award by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) of a contract to Global Tel Link …
All Ohio Prison Guards to Wear Body Cams by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders In January 2022, the Ohio Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation began requiring the state’s 5,000 prison guards to don body-worn cameras. Supplied by Axon, the “body cams,” which complement over 1,000 security cameras already installed in …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A federal prisoner in Birmingham was gunned down outside a privately-operated reentry facility on July 16, 2022. The Associated Press reported that the prisoner, Larry Taylor, 47, had just been released from the facility, which is operated under contract from the federal Bureau of Prisons …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Monkeypox: A Global Health Emergency by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen MD The World Health Organization has designated monkeypox a global health emergency because it has suddenly and unexpectedly spread around the world via new modes of transmission that are not understood. It is an emergency because …
Article • August 30, 2022
Arizona DOC Director Admits State Economy Would “Collapse” Without Cheap Prisoner Labor by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott During testimony before Arizona’s Joint Legislative Budget Committee on July 14, 2022, state Department of Corrections (DOC) Director David Shinn admitted that communities in the Grand Canyon State would “collapse” without cheap …
Article • August 30, 2022
Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct
Two Top Oregon Prison Administrators Ousted by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett One official in the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) has been fired and another has resigned following separate investigations into allegations of misconduct. On July 29, 2022, then-DOC Director Colette Peters fired Assistant Director Nathaline Frener, 52, in …
Article • August 30, 2022
Fourth Circuit Dooms Suit Filed After North Carolina Guard Murdered by State Prisoner by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On November 17, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a substantive due process claim based on the state-created danger doctrine did not apply to Sgt. …
Fifth Circuit Absolves Texas Jailers in Death of Mentally Ill Detainee Who Refused Medical Treatment by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On August 5, 2022, calling the medical neglect of a mentally ill detainee who refused treatment “objectively reasonable,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a …
Article • August 25, 2022
Sixth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment for Wellpath in Kentucky Prisoner’s Suit Alleging Denial of Medical Care, Due to Lack of Expert Testimony by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit illustrates the importance of expert testimony in a prisoner’s …
Article • August 25, 2022
Two Juvenile Behavioral Treatment Centers in Detroit Ordered to Close by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On June 23, 2022, the state of Michigan notified two youth residential behavioral treatment centers in Detroit they had to shutter operations by July 8 due to shocking allegations of staff abuse …
Article • August 25, 2022
Teen with Toy Water Gun Fatally Shot by Off-Duty NYC Prison Guard by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott An off-duty guard with the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC) was indicted on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges—both first-degree and second-degree—in Bronx County Criminal Court on August 22, …
Article • August 25, 2022
Guard Sentenced for Montana Women’s Prison Rape by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On June 30, 2022, a former guard at Montana Woman’s Prison (MWP) was sentenced in Yellowstone County District Court to 10 years in prison, with five years suspended, for raping a prisoner at the lockup …
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