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Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Mental Health
Court Bars Electroshock Therapy for Incompetent California Prisoner Without Considering Whether He Would Consent If Competent by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On January 11, 2022, the Court of Appeal for the State of California, Fourth District, vacated a lower court’s authorization of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for a state prisoner, …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Guards Saluting Fascism on the Job—Literally by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Prison guards in Arizona, Utah and West Virginia have recently been reported indulging white supremacist and anti-prisoner views on the job. Most recently, members of the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) Special Tactics and Operations team proudly sported …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Criminal Sexual Abuse
$805,000 Paid by Washington to Former Detainees at Juvenile Camp, But Sex Abuse Charges Dropped against Counselor by Between May and July 2021, the state of Washington paid a total of $805,000 to settle a quartet of sexual abuse claims brought by former detainees at the state’s Naselle Youth Camp. …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Russia Drops Charges Against Prison Torture Whistleblower by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Here’s a story with a familiar ring to it: A massive prison bureaucracy, which regularly clears its staff when prisoners are brutally abused, is forced by leaked video to finally hold someone to account—so it goes after …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Eligibility for Parole
California Supreme Court Rules Proposition 57 Early Parole Review May be Denied for Any Violent Felony Conviction, Even If Not “Primary Offense” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On January 3, 2022, the Supreme Court of California held that the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) did not abuse …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Eleventh Circuit Reinstates Florida Detainee’s Excessive-Force Claim Against Cop Who Sucker-Punched Him in Cell by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On November 19, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit overturned a lower court’s decision to rule there was sufficient evidence requiring a jury finding in a …
Article • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Mission Creep: Prison Telecoms Scramble to Extend Their Reach by Alan Prendergast by Alan Prendergast In a news cycle dominated by reports of war, plague and insurrection, a single press announcement from Global Tel*Link (GTL) managed to convey some of the oddest news of all. Flash: The creators of the …
Article • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright PLN has been reporting on the prison phone industry for at least the past 30 years, from its inception to its current stranglehold on most means of human contact between prisoners and the outside world. This month’s cover story by Alan …
Article • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
U.S. Marshals Service Inspectors Find D.C. Central Jail Not Meeting Federal Detention Standards by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian For decades, prisoners held by the D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC) have complained of inhumane conditions and mistreatment. Criticism of the 45-year-old main jail facility has also come from lawyers …
$405,000 Paid to Prisoner Disabled and Left Untreated at LaSalle-Managed Louisiana Jails by Anthony W. Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A man disabled in a Louisiana jail privately operated by LaSalle Corrections has settled claims of neglect and mistreatment he suffered there and at another lockup the firm ran, accepting …
Article • July 13, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Parole, Parole Conditions
Maryland Strips Governor’s Power to Overturn Parole Decisions by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh Dye On December 7, 2021, Maryland lawmakers voted to override the governor’s veto and take away his power to overrule parole recommendations for state prisoners serving a life sentence. After the bill, SB 202, passed earlier in …
Seventh Circuit Refuses to Hold Wexford Liable for Prisoner’s Pain from Medical Transports in “Black Box” Restraint by David Reutter David M. Reutter For prison officials and healthcare providers who refused to grant an Illinois prisoner an exemption from wearing “black box restraints” during medical transport, a federal district court …
Article • July 11, 2022
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Denial of Compassionate Release Where One Factor Isn’t Satisfied Even After Assuming Other Factors Were by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   On September 28, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied the appeal of a federal prisoner in Florida, whose application for …
Video Released of Guards Killing Kansas Teen at Juvenile Facility; DA Says “Stand-Your-Ground” Law Prevents Him from Filing Charges by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders The webpage of Kansas’ Sedgwick County crashed on June 10, 2022, under the weight of a surge in traffic driven by the release of surveillance …
Whistleblowers at New York State Prisons Include Former Guard Shilling Tell-All Book and Former Prisoner Calling Him Out by Kaden Gicker By Kaden Gicker Four whistleblowers have come forward since the April 2022 death of a prisoner at New York’s Fishkill Correctional Facility (CF), claiming that guards with the state …
Article • June 30, 2022
Floridians Face Prison for Voting from Jail by Tough-on-Crime Republicans Retaliate Against Rights Restoration Efforts by Jenifer Lockwood and Panagioti Tsolkas The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) has concluded an eight-month investigation involving the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections Office’s effort to register voters in the county jail. So …
Article • June 29, 2022
Filed under: Fraud and Theft Loss
Woman Masterminds $2 Million Unemployment Fraud from California Prison Cell by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A woman serving a life sentence in a California prison and a dozen accomplices she allegedly led were charged on May 18, 2022, in a scheme to defraud the state of at …
Article • June 29, 2022
Pennsylvania Jail Guards Accused of Smuggling, Assaulting Mentally Ill Prisoners by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Three guards at the Beaver County Jail in western Pennsylvania were hit with contraband charges in May 2022 after allegedly taking Cash App transfers from the families of prisoners under their supervision …
Cause of Prisoner’s Death in Tennessee CoreCivic Jail Finally Revealed as Homicide by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Laeddie Coleman was the second prisoner brutally stabbed at Tennessee’s Hardeman County Correctional Facility (HCCF) on September 7, 2021. The first, Devin Jamison, was allegedly stabbed 15 times with a …
Virginia Prisoner Awarded $5,000 in Suit Alleging Retaliation for Reporting Abuse by Guard, But So Far Unable to Collect by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On November 4, 2020, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel C. Hoppe of the Western District of Virginia recommended an award of $5,000 plus costs to prisoner …
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