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Arms-Adair v. Black Hawk County, IA, Release and Settlement, Wrongful Death, Suicide, 2013
Brief • June 19, 2013
Filed under: Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides
Arms-Adair v. Black Hawk County, IA, Release and Settlement, Wrongful Death, Suicide, 2013 RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT '' The undersigned, Merry J. Arms-Adair (alk/a Merri J. Arms-Adair), Individually, as Administrator of the Estate of Michael Adair, and as Parent and Next Friend of Caleb Arms-Adair and Isaiah Arms-Adair, minor children, …
Earnest v. Glodis, MA, Judgment, Jail Malpractice Dangerous Medication Combinations, 2013
Brief • June 18, 2013
Filed under: Medication, Malpractice
Earnest v. Glodis, MA, Judgment, Jail Malpractice Dangerous Medication Combinations, 2013 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL ACTION NO. 10-0478 SUFFOLK, ss. CHRISTOPHER EARNEST vs. GUY GLODIS l & others /UJPu- 2 cS (}0-j- MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER ON DEFENDANTS' MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT C6 .d{.13 fr INTRODUCTION WF …
Appell v. Stewart, TX, SJ Motion, Jail Suicide, 2013
Brief • June 18, 2013
Filed under: Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides
Appell v. Stewart, TX, SJ Motion, Jail Suicide, 2013 Case 1:12-cv-01027-SS Document 30 Filed 06/18/13 Page 1 of 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS AUSTIN DIVISION SHIRLEY APPELL, individually and as heir at law and the representative of the Estate of Shawn Appell, PLAINTIFF v. DONNY STEWART, …
Hepatitis C Presentation, CDC, 2014
Publication • June 17, 2013
Filed under: Hepatitis
Hepatitis C Presentation, CDC, 2014 CDC PUBLIC HEALTH GRAND ROUNDS The 25th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Hepatitis C Virus Looking Back to Look Forward June 17, 2014 1 The Epidemiology of Hepatitis C How Did We Get Here? John W. Ward, MD Director, Division of Viral Hepatitis National …
Fourth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Bail Bondsmen; $100,000 Damages Award Upheld
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Money/Property, Bail Bonds, Qualified Immunity
Fourth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Bail Bondsmen; $100,000 Damages Award Upheld by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a jury verdict and $100,000 damages award, concluding that bail bondsmen are not entitled to qualified immunity. South Carolina bail bondsman Jon E. Ham, through his company Quick Silver …
CDCR to Open New Mental Health Facility
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Mental Health
CDCR to Open New Mental Health Facility by In response to intense pressure from the Plata v. Brown and Coleman v. Brown federal lawsuits demanding improved medical and mental health care for California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners, a new 50-bed mental health facility is scheduled to open …
Slowly Closing the Gates: A State-by-State Assessment of Recent Prison Closures
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends, Guard Unions
Slowly Closing the Gates: A State-by-State Assessment of Recent Prison Closures by Christopher Petrella by Christopher Petrella and Alex Friedmann After nearly 40 years of unprecedented growth, our nation's expanding prison population has finally begun to sputter. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2010 marked the first year since …
Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash with Prison Reform
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Guard Unions
Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash with Prison Reform by James Ridgeway by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella On January 4, 2013, Tamms supermax in southern Illinois officially closed its doors. The prison, where some men had been in solitary confinement for more than a decade, had become notorious for …
TN Court of Appeals Rules Against CCA for Second Time in PLN Public Records Case
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Disclosure of Records, PLN Litigation, State Statutes, Public Records Act
TN Court of Appeals Rules Against CCA for Second Time in PLN Public Records Case by In February 2013, the Tennessee Court of Appeals issued its second ruling in a long-running lawsuit filed under the state's Public Records Act against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest for-profit private …
From the Editor
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright Please note that as of June 10, 2013, Prison Legal News and its parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center, will have a new mailing address: P.O. Box 1151, Lake Worth, FL 33460. Our website and e-mail addresses remain the same, and our new …
New York Commission of Correction Says Jails Don't Need Law Libraries
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Court Access, Law Library Access/Adequacy
New York Commission of Correction Says Jails Don't Need Law Libraries by According to the Albany Legislative Gazette, the New York State Commission of Correction will no longer require the county jails it oversees to provide law libraries for detainees, effective May 18, 2013. Although jails must provide prisoners with …
News in Brief
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Australia: Benjamin Lord pleaded guilty in Victoria County Court on January 21, 2013 to two counts of impersonating a public official with the intention of obtaining sexual services and two counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception. While incarcerated, Lord, 31, had victimized a fellow …
How the Prison - Industrial Complex Destroys Lives
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Interviews, Crime, Statistics/Trends, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines
How the Prison - Industrial Complex Destroys Lives by Mark Karlin by Mark Karlin, Truthout Marc Mauer is the Executive Director of The Sentencing Project and the author of Race to Incarcerate, which has just been released in graphic format, illustrated by Sabrina Jones, as Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling …
Charting a New Justice Reinvestment
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Parole, News, State Legislation
Charting a New Justice Reinvestment by Nicole D. Porter by Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project For more than forty years, the correctional system has been dominated by growth. In 1969, the crime rate was 3,680 per 100,000 population and the incarceration rate was 97 state and federal prisoners per …
Oregon Juvenile Department Employee Gets Jail Time for Sexualizing Booking Photos
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Juveniles
Oregon Juvenile Department Employee Gets Jail Time for Sexualizing Booking Photos by "A jail sentence is called for," declared Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey S. Jones when sentencing a former Oregon Juvenile Department employee to two days in jail for altering mugshot photos of juvenile offenders to make them …
Florida Proceeds with Privatization of Prison Medical Care
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Private Prisons, Prison Health Services, Wexford Health Services, Private Contractors, Employee Litigation, Guard Unions
Florida Proceeds with Privatization of Prison Medical Care by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) is moving forward with a legislative mandate to privatize its entire medical system. Whether the plan is implemented, however, may depend on the outcome of a lawsuit filed by prison health care workers challenging the …
New Law Gives Parents Behind Bars in Washington State a Way to Hold onto Their Children
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Federal Statutory Law, Adoption and Safe Families Act, State Legislation, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison, Parental rights
New Law Gives Parents Behind Bars in Washington State a Way to Hold onto Their Children by Victoria Law by Victoria Law, Truthout On May 8, 2013, Washington State governor Jay Inslee signed SHB1284, or the Children of Incarcerated Parents bill, into law. The law guides the courts' discretion to delay …
U.S. Supreme Court Reinstates BOP Prisoner's FTCA Suit
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Federal Tort Claims Act, Immunity/Liability, Sovereign Immunity
U.S. Supreme Court Reinstates BOP Prisoner's FTCA Suit by J.R. Bloom On March 27, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified that the scope of the Federal Tort Claims Act's waiver of sovereign immunity for certain intentional torts committed by federal law enforcement officials was not limited to executing searches, seizing …
Reprieved Oregon Prisoner Wages Legal Fight to be Executed
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Pardons/Clemency, Death Penalty
Reprieved Oregon Prisoner Wages Legal Fight to be Executed by As previously reported in PLN, on November 22, 2011, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber imposed a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term in office. In doing so he canceled the scheduled execution of Gary Haugen, 50, …
Eighth Circuit: Heck Bars False Imprisonment Claim
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus, Wrongful Imprisonment
Eighth Circuit: Heck Bars False Imprisonment Claim by In an April 19, 2012 decision, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a federal district court that Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) [PLN, Sept. 1994, p.12] barred a Minnesota prisoner's claim that prison officials unlawfully confined him for …
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