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Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Seventh Circuit: Low IQ and Segregation Placement May Render Administrative Remedies Unavailable to Indiana Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 3, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reinstated an Indiana prisoner’s civil rights complaint that had been dismissed because he failed to …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
More Success for Medication-Assisted Treatment Programs in Prisons and Jails by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders The opioid crisis has reached every segment of American society, from fentanyl-laced candy found in elementary schools to party-goers dying from innocent-looking pills that are really fatal fentanyl cocktails. Opioid abuse killed over 80,000 …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Fourth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of North Carolina Prisoner’s ADA Claim for Failure to Show Deliberate Indifference by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an instructive case for prisoners making claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. ch.126 § 12101, et seq., the U.S. Court of Appeals for …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
California Appeals Court Affirms Rate Caps and Fee Limitations for Prison Telecoms by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 1, 2023, the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate Division, affirmed the denial by the state Public Utility Commission (PUC) of challenges to rate caps and fee limitations brought by …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
$120,000 Settlement Reached With Long Island Detainee Assaulted by Jail Guards by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barret On April 27, 2023, the Ways and Means Committee of New York’s Suffolk County legislature approved a $120,000 settlement with a former detainee assaulted by guards at the county lockup. In addition to …
$500,000 Settlement for Texas Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Child Sex Abuse by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart In 2013, Greg Kelley was a 17-year-old high school football star from Cedar Park, Texas. A good student, he already had a full scholarship to play football for the University of Texas in …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Fifth BOP Staff Conviction and Sixth Arrest in California Prison ‘Rape Club’ by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Sexually abusive guards and their former warden are falling like dominoes as prisoners brave retaliation to report sexual abuse at the Federal Correction Institute (FCI) in Dublin, the federal Bureau …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Tennessee DOC Coughs Up Video of Condemned Prisoner Who Severed Own Penis by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD After a month of foot-dragging, the Tennessee Department of Corrections (DOC) complied with a court order on February 24, 2023, releasing surveillance video of a death-row prisoner who cut off …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
California LGBTQ Pardon Initiative Falls Short by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) unveiled a plan to pardon LGBTQ Californians prosecuted for their sexual orientation, the program has exactly one living beneficiary: Henry Pachnowski, 83, whose 1967 lewd conduct conviction was pardoned in 2022. …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Florida Returning Canteen Funds for Prisoner Programming by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead Pickleball is one of America’s fastestgrowing sports. Played with a paddle and a large plastic ball on an outdoor court, the game offers the speed of ping pong with less risk of an ankle injury than tennis, …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Fifth Detainee Dies in 2023 at California’s Santa Rita Jail by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A homeless man who lived behind a Kohl’s Department Store in Livermore, California, become the fifth detainee to die this year in Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail (SRJ). Eric Magana, 26, committed …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Ohio Makes Sweeping Changes to Criminal Justice by On January 3, 2023, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signed Senate Bill 288 (SB288), making sweeping reforms from heavier penalties for crimes plaguing the state to increased chance for early release, either through the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) or …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
New York City Stops Reporting Rikers Island Deaths Amid Rampant Guard Misconduct by Kevin Bliss, Chuck Sharman, Benjamin Tschirhart by Kevin W. Bliss, Chuck Sharman and Benjamin Tschirhart On May 31, 2023, Luis Molina, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction (DOC), announced his agency would no longer …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
New York Prisoner Is Released After Conviction Is Vacated, Reinstated and Vacated Once More by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman After a wild legal ride, Norberto Peets was exonerated of attempted murder on May 9, 2023, and he was released from a New York prison after 26 years. Early on …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Seventh Circuit: Attorney’s Submission of Illinois Prisoner’s Grievance Exhausts Administrative Remedies by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on January 11, 2023, affirmed a district court ruling that when an Illinois prisoner’s attorney submitted his grievances to the appropriate administrative office …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
$142,500 Settlement After Pennsylvania Jail Guard Allegedly Knocked Out Detainee and Broke Her Jaw by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On September 30, 2022, a lawsuit was dismissed against Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County, after a former pretrial detainee at the county lockup reached a $142,500 settlement on claims that a jail …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Georgia Prison Smuggling Ring Busted, Warden and Former Guard Arrested by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman After Georgia prisoner Nathan Weekes and three others were indicted for murder in April 2022, a smuggling ring they operated at Smith State Prison was busted. That has now led to the arrest of …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright The most striking thing about the American criminal justice system is its class-based nature. With one system of non-policing, lackluster prosecutions, lenient sentences and minimal consequences for the wealthy and another system of militarized policing, scorched earth prosecutions, draconian sentences and …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Pennsylvania Jail Hit With Over $1.5 Million in Overages for Guards, Healthcare by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On April 24, 2023, the board of Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County Prison unanimously recommended requiring extended shifts for five sergeants who supervise guards at the jail. That’s because after county lawmakers ended …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Water, Sanitation, Settlements
$50,000 Settlement to Texas Prisoner for Feces-Covered Cell by On July 8, 2022, a Texas prisoner’s decade-long legal battle over grossly unsanitary conditions in his cell finally came to an end, when he stipulated to dismissal of his lawsuit against the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) after accepting a …
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