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Huerta v. Ewing, IN, Amended Complaint, Jail Conditions, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-00397-JMS-MJD Document 14 Filed 11/22/16 Page 1 of 18 PageID #: 87 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA TERRE HAUTE DIVISION Jauston Huerta, Durand Randle, Carl Sherb, Thomas Bolton, Jr., Curtis Gillie, Derek Hicks, Individually And On Behalf …
"The System Abuses Us by Locking Us Up Forever": Aging Survivors Behind Bars by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Truthout On October 6, 2016, 15-year-old Bresha Meadows will appear in an Ohio family court for the death of her abusive father. Meadows had spent a lifetime watching her father hit, …
Mass Incarceration In Rural Communities: Out of Sight, Out of Mind by By David Gutierrez, Harvard Political Review When the local economy of Susanville, California stagnated, the town tried to use a newly constructed prison as a recovery tool. Opened in the late 1990s, High Desert State Prison cost $272 million to build. High Desert, …
Abu Zubaydah: Torture’s “Poster Child” by Marjorie Cohn In August, Abu Zubaydah, who has been imprisoned at Guantanamo for 14 years without being charged with a crime, appeared for the first time before the U.S. military Periodic Review Board, which determines whether Guantanamo detainees will continue to be held as …
Guards Liable in Maryland Prisoner’s Murder on Transport Bus by The Maryland Court of Appeals held a trial court erred in striking a jury’s finding that a guard was liable for gross negligence in the murder of a prisoner on a transport.  The court further held gross negligence disentitles a …
Prisoner Deaths Continue To Rise by Christopher Zoukis For the third year in row, the number of prisoners who died in America's prisons and jails rose. Some 4,446 prisoners died in 2013, a two percent increase over 2012, continuing an upward trend, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office …
Hawaii's Justice Reinvestment Law Not Achieving Lower Costs and Prisoner Counts by Derek Gilna When Hawaii passed the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) in 2012 it hoped to duplicate the results of the 17 other states adopting similar initiatives, accord to a recent report by the Urban Institute.  For a while, …
Publication • November 15, 2016
One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008, Pew Charitable Trusts, 2008 One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008 The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today’s most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public …
Guards Claim No Leads in Gruesome California Prison Murder by Christopher Zoukis Prison officials at the medium security California State Prison, Solano have offered little explanation for their apparently lackadaisical investigation into the gruesome murder and disembowelment of a 24 year old man whose body was not found stuffed in …
American Jail Population Remains Steady by Christopher Zoukis The population of America's jails at mid-year 2014 remained steady at approximately three-quarters or a million prisoners, at 744,600 men, women, and children.  This number represents a 1.8 percent increase from 2013 levels, but still lower than the 2008 high of 785,500 …
Article • November 14, 2016
New York Prisoner's Disciplinary Guilty Verdict Upheld by Christopher Zoukis On Sept. 22, 2016 the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York upheld the conviction of state prisoner Jason Gano for violating prison rules. Gano allegedly set off a metal detector in the prison, prompting a pat-down search …
A Primer on Prisoners’ Constitutional Rights by Alex Friedmann Prison Legal News (PLN) regularly reports on prison and jail-related court decisions involving violations of prisoners’ constitutional rights. Those who are new to the arena of civil rights litigation and unfamiliar with prisoners’ few remaining rights may need a basic introduction …
Rico v. Butler, IL, Merit Review, Failure to Protect Informant, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00877-MJR-SCW Document 11 Filed 11/14/16 Page 1 of 19 Page ID #87 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) MIGUEL RICO, Plaintiff, vs. …
Brief • November 12, 2016
Parker v. City of New York, NY, Amended Complaint, Solitary Confinement, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-06733-CLP Document 30-1 Filed 11/12/16 Page 1 of 1 PageID #: 97 ALEXANDER A. REINERT ATTORNEY AT LAW c/o Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law* 55 Fifth Avenue, Room 938 New York, New York 10003 (212) 790-0403 …
Brief • November 12, 2016
Mays v. Deschutes County, OR, Amended Complaint, Meth Overdose, 2016 Case 6:15-cv-00898-AA Document 58 Filed 11/21/16 Page 1 of 30 JENNIFER L. COUGHLIN OSB 065781 Brothers Hawn & Coughlin, LLP 974 NW Riverside Blvd. Bend, OR 97703 Telephone: 541-382-5885 Facsimile: 541-382-3328 jlc@brotherslaw.com MICHELLE R. BURROWS OSB 896160 420 SW Washington …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Local Jails Increasingly Refuse to Comply with ICE Detainers by Joe Watson Hundreds of municipalities across the country – including major cities such as Los Angeles and others with large populations of immigrants – are refusing to honor requests from federal officials to hold undocumented immigrants in jail for possible …
Maryland Prisoner’s Death Occurs Under Unusual Circumstances by The death of prisoner Louis S. Leysath III, 35, at Maryland’s Jessup Correctional Institution was the subject of an investigation after he was found dead in a steam-filled cell on February 20, 2015. Leysath, serving a 30-year sentence after pleading guilty to …
Mold-infested Prisons Sicken Guards and Prisoners by by Spencer Woodman, The Intercept During much of her three years awaiting trial in New York’s Rikers Island jail, Candie Hailey was locked in a solitary confinement cell ventilated by a mold-covered air duct. The purpose of the vent was, of course, to …
Corrections Corporation of America, Rocked by Setbacks, Changes its Name by Derek Gilna Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest for-profit prison firm in the United States, and the subject of a recent scathing Mother Jones undercover investigative report that detailed numerous deficiencies at a Louisiana prison operated by the …
Colorado’s “Make My Day” Law No Longer Applies to Prisoners by David Reutter by David Reutter On the heels of the dismissal of murder charges against two Sterling Correctional Facility (SCF) prisoners under the state’s “Make My Day” law, lawmakers quickly rolled back the self-protection statute’s applicability to prisoners. Prosecutors …
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