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Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Bureau of Justice Statistics Releases Latest First Step Act Data by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The First Step Act of 2018 (FSA) was signed into law in December 2018. Among other hoped-for benefits was that the legislation would help reduce recidivism and decrease the overall prison population. However, …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
“Abdication of Responsibility”: Heads Roll in Tennessee DOC Over Botched Execution Protocols by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss A day before releasing a scathing report on the state’s execution procedures, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) fired the deputy commissioner of the Department of Corrections (DOC), Debbi Inglis, along with …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Federal Courts Throw Out Smart Communications’ Mail-Scanning Patent by Robert Schaeffer by K. Robert Schaeffer On October 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted judgment on the pleadings to Rutherford County and VendEngine, Inc., the contractor that digitizes prisoner mail in its jail, in …
$775,000 Paid for Mentally Ill California Jail Detainee Who Compulsively Drank Water Until He Died by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On November 2, 2022, California’s Monterey County agreed to pay $775,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the estate of Rafael Ramirez Lara, a mentally ill detainee allegedly …
Dying for Being Deadbeat Dad in Missouri Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 23, 2023, just 10 days after Ryan Everson was put in Missouri’s Clay County Jail, the 42-year-old was found dead in his cell. That his three children no longer had a father is cruelly …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Report Reveals Extent of Federal Pretrial Detention Crisis by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian A report on the first investigation into federal pretrial detention on a national level was released in October 2022 by the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic (FCJC) of the University of Chicago Law School. Combing through …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Eighth Circuit Requires Source-of-Funds Finding Before Allowing BOP to Raid Account of Federal Prisoner in Missouri by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a decision reached on August 10,2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit stayed the hand that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) had …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Arizona Prison Forcibly Induced Labor for Pregnant Prisoners by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD After a 2019 incident during which a prisoner gave birth in her cell – delivering a baby into the toilet while guards ignored her cries for help – Arizona’s Perryville Prison in Buckeye started …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Senators Rail at DOJ Failure to Report In-Custody Deaths by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Congress has yet to demand systemic changes that could seriously reduce deaths in custody of law enforcement. This reluctance may stem in part from the fact that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) fails to …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
$17.675 Million Paid for New Yorker’s Wrongful Conviction by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett Johnny Hincapie spent more than 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. On December 7, 2022, New York City agreed to pay Hincapie $12.875 million for his wrongful conviction, one of the …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Sixth Circuit: “Minimal Findings Necessary” Before Garnishing Funds From Federal Prisoner in Ohio by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On December 16, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court order permitting the government to seize nearly $3,737.89 from the inmate trust fund …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Tuberculosis
Prisoner Health Update: Tuberculosis by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Tuberculosis (TB) is an illness caused by a mycobacterium, a class of bacteria that is hard to see under the microscope, difficult to grow in culture, and has the audacity to live in the very immune cells (marcophages) …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Escapes
Four Escape Troubled Mississippi Jail After Fifth Circuit Postpones Federal Receivership by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Two of four detainees have been recaptured after escaping from jail in Mississippi’s Hinds County on April 29, 2023. The other two are dead. Meanwhile control of the Raymond Detention Center (RDC) remains …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
U.S. Prisoner Numbers Slowly Declining by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon New data released in December 2022 by the federal Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) showed a steady decline in prison population from 2011 to 2021 – nearly 25% overall. The number of people imprisoned today – …
No Charges for Georgia Guards Who Allegedly Abetted Attack That Left Prisoner Dead by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On September 30, 2022, nineteen-year-old Quafabian McBride was fatally stabbed in the heart during a fight between rival gangs at Georgia’s Phillips State Prison. McBride and fellow “Rolax Bloods” member Dejuan …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Condemned Tennessee Prisoner Wins Fight Against Autopsy by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On April 20, 2022, the federal court for the Middle District of Tennessee issued a highly unusal order enjoining the Davidson County medical examiner from performing an autopsy or collecting bodily fluids from a prisoner following his …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
70 Months for Former Warden of BOP ‘Rape Club’ in California by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart Ray Garcia was warden for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Dublin, California. He served as supervisor at the lockup for regular audits conducted under the Prison …
Seventh Circuit Allows Illinois Prisoner to Prove Administrative Remedy Was “Unavailable” in Double-Celling Complaint by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 14, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit took up the latest in a “slew” of cases by Illinois prisoners alleging they are “housed …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Abortion
Illinois Makes Abortion Care Free for State Prisoners by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman After a media investigation found Illinois prisoners were forced to pay for abortion procedures – even covering the wages of guard escorts to and from medical providers – Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) ordered the state Department …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
BOP Hits Back Hard After Federal Prisoner in Arizona Brandishes Gun by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart As of mid-January 2023, almost 100 minimum-security prisoners from the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Tucson were still being held in segregation at the nearby U.S. Penitentiary (USP) in Tucson, six weeks after …
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