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Migrant Child Dies in Customs and Border Patrol Custody Nine Days after Entering U.S. by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Amid a record-breaking surge of migrants at the southern U.S. border, eight-year-old Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez, a medically fragile Honduran child, died in a hospital near Harlingen Station …
Article • June 7, 2023
Suit Filed to Stop California County From Digitizing Jail Mail by Gregory Teixeira by Gregory P. Teixeira A decision by California’s San Mateo County to ban physical mail from county jails – enforcing a digital-only communication system – drew a legal challenge in state Superior Court on March 9, 2023. …
Article • June 7, 2023
Former Prison Guard Hit With $2.5 Million Judgment in Suit to Force Painter to Acknowledge Painting He Did Not Create by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart Over 10 years ago, when former prison guard Robert Fletcher heard from a friend that a painting he owned was an early untitled work …
Brief • June 6, 2023
Ross v. Johnson, NV, Order Renewing Preliminary Injunction, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 2:22-cv-00259-CDS-VCF Document 90 Filed 06/06/23 Page 1 of 6 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 2 3 4 5 Jesse Aron Ross, Plaintiff 6 7 Case No. 2:22-cv-00259-CDS-VCF V. Order Renewing Preliminary Injunction &: Appointing …
Brief • June 6, 2023
Filed under: Sexual Assault
Doe #2 v. State of California, CA, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-00869-JLT-SAB Document 1 Filed 06/06/23 Page 1 of 26 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Robert Chalfant (State Bar No. 203051) LAW OFFICE OF ROBERT CHALFANT 5701 Lonetree Blvd., Suite 312 Rocklin, California 95765 Telephone: (916) 647-7728 …
Brief • June 6, 2023
Filed under: Sexual Assault
Doe #3 v. State of California, CA, Complaint, Sexual Assault, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-00868-JLT-SAB Document 1 Filed 06/06/23 Page 1 of 27 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Robert Chalfant (State Bar No. 203051) LAW OFFICE OF ROBERT CHALFANT 5701 Lonetree Blvd., Suite 312 Rocklin, California 95765 Telephone: (916) 647-7728 …
Brief • June 6, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19
Gray v. County of Riverside, CA, Order Terminating Covid-19 Plan, Covid-19, 2023 Case 5:13-cv-00444-VAP-OP Document 221 Filed 06/06/23 Page 1 of 4 Page ID #:18159 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 11 QUINTON GRAY, et al., on behalf …
Brief • June 2, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Estate of Randall Johnson v. Shasta County, CA, Joint Statement Re Discovery Disagreement, Wrongful Death, 2023 Case 2:19-cv-01722-JAM-DB Document 196 Filed 06/02/23 Page 1 of 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 MICHAEL J. HADDAD (SBN 189114) JULIA SHERWIN (SBN 189268) TERESA ALLEN (SBN 264865) HADDAD & SHERWIN LLP 505 …
Brief • June 2, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Estate of Randall Johnson v. California Forensic Medical Group, Inc, CA, Joint Statement Re Discovery Disagreement, Wrongful Death, 2023 Case 2:19-cv-01722-JAM-DB Document 196 Filed 06/02/23 Page 1 of 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 MICHAEL J. HADDAD (SBN 189114) JULIA SHERWIN (SBN 189268) TERESA ALLEN (SBN 264865) HADDAD & …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Chronic Punishment: The Unmet Health Needs of People in State Prisons by Leah Wang by Leah Wang Over 1 million people sit in U.S. state prisons on any given day. These individuals are overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately Black, Native, Hispanic, and/or LGBTQ, and often targeted by law enforcement from a young …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Prisoners Caught in Ukraine War Crossfire by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman During Ukraine’s successful offensive to liberate the southern city of Kherson in October 2022, retreating Russian forces took 2,500 Ukrainian prisoners with them. What followed was a Kafka-esque journey through five countries, at the end of which the …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright One thing that has remained a constant in the past 33 years of publishing PLN has been the woefully inadequate medical care that prisoners receive around the country. A significant portion of our coverage involves reporting on healthcare that ranges from …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Kidney, Food
Over $3.5 Million Paid to Incontinent Colorado Prisoner Offered Diapers Instead of Dining Priority Pass by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 16, 2022, a jury in federal court for the District of Colorado awarded $3.5 million to state prisoner Jason Brooks, whose complaint alleged simply that the …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Sing Sing Prisoners File Suit Against New York State Alleging Vicious Beating by Guards by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 31, 2023, a group of 26 prisoners housed in New York’s notorious Sing Sing maximum-security prison brought suit against the state for an assault on them by guards …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Eighth Circuit Lets Public Defender Withdraw from BOP Prisoner’s “Frivolous” Appeal by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted a motion to withdraw from an attorney appointed to represent a federal prisoner in Missouri appealing his civil commitment. …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Staffing
No More Naps for Massachusetts Guards by Eike Blohm, MD By Eike Blohm, MD After two years of negotiations between the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC), an agreement was reached on December 20, 2022, to fix atrocious mental health care in state prisons, …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Caves to Criticism, Accepts Resignation of Formerly Incarcerated Clerk by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On January 5, 2023, new Michigan Supreme Court Justice Kyra Bolden announced she had accepted the resignation of her formerly incarnated clerk, Pete Martel. In doing so, the justice bowed …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Massachusetts Settles One of Three Suits Alleging Retaliation by Prison Guards for Assault on One of Their Own by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On February 17, 2023, an assistant to Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) signed a settlement with a group of state prisoners, resolving claims they were …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
“All Signals Blinking Red” at Federal Prison in West Virginia After DOJ Releases Report on Killing of Mobster “Whitey” Bulger by Benjamin Tschirhart, Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian and Benjamin Tschirhart Citing “bureaucratic incompetence,” as well as “flawed, confusing and insufficient” policies and procedures, a December 2022 report by …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Eleventh Circuit Won’t Force Condemned Alabama Prisoner to Die by Method He Didn’t Choose by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Once it begins a lethal injection, the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) “will attempt to carry out the execution and not stop until it becomes clear that they are …
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