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Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
. Kensley Hawkins has been imprisoned at the Stateville Correctional Center since July 1, 1983. During that time he worked in a prison industry program assembling furniture. The Illinois Department ...
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
of Appeals, “Williams is entitled to no more than $1 for each procedurally defective Classification Committee hearing”; further, the district court did not err in declining to award compensatory or punitive ...
-prong test for what a prisoner must show to defeat a failure-to-exhaust defense: 1) that the threat or intimidation actually did deter the prisoner from filing a grievance or pursuing part ...
Article • October 3, 2014
a finding issues with monitoring CCA. The weaknesses increase the risk the state may not receive the services it pays to receive.   From July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2012, TDOC contracted with MHM ...
Article • January 13, 2015
segregation “until day of transfer.” Immediately upon his arrival at Brockbridge Correctional Facility on June 1, 2007, Smith requested PC, which was denied despite detailing all the circumstances ...
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
2015 Annual Anti-Private Prison Awards Announced by On March 1, 2016, the Private Corrections Institute (PCI), a non-profit citizen watchdog organization, announced its 2015 awardees ...
upheld the three-judge panel’s order in Plata, requiring California to reduce its prison population by tens of thousands of prisoners. [See: PLN, July 2011, p.1]. Consequently, the state embarked ...
. Logan’s suit remains pending, with the district court granting in part and denying in part the defendants’ motion for summary judgment in April 2012. See: Logan v. Burge, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Ill.), Case No. 1:09 ...
, July 2013, p.1; Nov. 2010, p.1]. Around half of the approximately 34,000 immigration detainees held in ICE custody at any given time are housed in privately-operated prisons. Unfortunately, the rapid ...
Article • January 10, 2015 • from PLN January, 2015
Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Lighting
, the Fifth Circuit held on April 1, 2014 that a Texas prisoner’s sleep deprivation-based challenge to the security schedule used by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) may state a valid claim ...
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
– that he was denied his requests 1) for a halal diet by officials at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP) and 2) for halal meat for an Islamic feast (Eid al-Adha) by officials at the Great Plains ...
class representatives, the court ordered the plaintiffs to renew their motion for class certification. See: Riggs v. Valdez, U.S.D.C. (D. Idaho), Case No. 1:09-cv-00010-EJL; 2010 WL 4117085. On April 27 ...
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
period. In 2011, 88 jail employees were disciplined, including seven who used excessive force against prisoners – an increase of 31% over the three-year average. From January to April 1, 2012, Harris ...
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
the detainees’ right to counsel. Those rulings were further interpreted in Al Odah v. United States, 346 F.Supp.2d, 1 (D.D.C. 2004) [PLN, June 2005, p.30], which recognized that the court had the “power ...
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Act (Minn. Stat. § 253B (2010)) conflicted or was inconsistent with Rule 60.02. The Act permits civil commitment of 1) the chemically dependent, 2) mentally ill, 3) developmentally disabled, 4) mentally ...
Article • August 29, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
in the status of HIV-positive prisoners came after decades of litigation on that issue. According to the settlement, full implementation of the agreement was to be completed by November 1, 2014. Soon after ...
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Booking Fees
in August 2012. Hamilton County lost a lawsuit in 2000 over charging pay-to-stay fees to pretrial detainees. A federal judge ordered the county to pay $1 million in refunds and $150,000 for a prisoner ...
Article • November 15, 2011
[See: PLN, March 2009, p.1]. However, citing Judge Paine’s “forthcoming retirement at the end of 2011,” and because Canon 2C had not previously been enforced, the Committee declined ...
and jail phone services. [See: PLN, April 2011, p.1]. According to a November 2011 report by Allegheny County’s Office of the Controller, Securus pays the county a 57.2% kickback commission on phone revenue ...
provided poor quality of care” and, as a consequence, a prisoner died due to “preventable” causes every five to six days. [See: PLN, Sept. 2008, p.18; March 2006, p.1]. A three-judge court ultimately ...
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