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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 ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
with his performance: 1) appropriate follow-up with patients following specialty consultations; 2) complete and timely documentation in patients’ interdisciplinary notes; 3) proper follow-up with patients ...
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
Filed under: Telephone Rates
costs for years, but reform has come much too slowly. [See: PLN, Dec. 2013, p.1; April 2011, p.1]. Meanwhile, county sheriff’s offices around the country have long enjoyed a steady revenue stream ...
Article • October 26, 2015 • from PLN November, 2015
Filed under: Medical Expenses
care costs in 2014 alone. That is on top of savings due to wholesale changes in the state’s prison medical care system, which was under federal court supervision until 2012. Kasich’s July 1 ...
conduct to law enforcement officials. The polygraph included four potentially incriminating questions concerning prior sexual conduct: 1) After the age of 18, did you engage in sexual activity with anyone ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Filed under: Money/Property
Pennsylvania Prisoners’ Cigarette Stashes to Go Up in Smoke by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Effective July 1, 2019, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) banned tobacco use ...
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
“have an immediate family member currently incarcerated in jail or prison (1 in 38).” • 64 percent of U.S. adults have had an immediate or extended family member incarcerated in jail ...
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
facilities, has a long and sordid history of exploiting prisoners and their families by charging exorbitant phone rates and fees. [See: PLN, Dec. 2013, p.1; April 2011, p.1]. Over the past decade the industry ...
violations for (1) dangerous working conditions, (2) inadequate medical care, (3) intentional infliction of emotional distress, and (4) negligence. According to the suit, the plaintiffs alleged the cell ...
Article • September 5, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
results in incarceration. Therefore, prison policies should be trauma-informed. Another bill, HB 1651, which was signed into law by Governor Abbott and goes into effect on September 1, 2019, will ensure ...
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Settlements
scheduled.  On December 1, 2016, another settlement was reached by the parties and approved by the court. Kathryn Burns, M.D., MPH and Michael A. Berg were appointed as experts in mental health care ...
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
, Colorado jail detainee Tyler Tabor was secretly settled for $3.9 million in August 2018. The settlement only became public after court documents were filed complaining that Corizon Health had met only $1 ...
Article • June 4, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
is a “[g]overnmental body” under Section 552.003(1)(A)(xii) of the Texas Government Code, and thus should fall under the purview of the Texas Public Information Act. That statute defines a &ldquo ...
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
conducted pursuant to Section 3A(b)(2) of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997a-1. CRIPA “authorizes the Attorney General to investigate conditions ...
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis, Settlements
signed an agreement to settle the lawsuit. Under the terms of the settlement prison officials agreed to: 1) spend all available funding for 2018-19 in the amount of $20.5 million to treat prisoners ...
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
-day statewide lockdown the prior month after an “unprecedented number of inmate and staff exposures to unknown substances.” [See: PLN, Dec. 2018, p.1]. Prison officials claimed those ...
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