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Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
COVID-19: What Texas Must Do to Save Prisoners’ Lives by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon By December 2020, despite calls to release or parole prisoners at risk of COVID-19 — especially the elderly — the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) had reduced its prisoner count by only about 20,000, …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, COVID-19
Prisoners Paid $2 Per Hour to Move COVID-19 Corpses in El Paso, Texas by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Texas city has used jail prisoners to move bodies of COVID-19 victims into refrigerated trailers that served as temporary morgues, paying them $2 an hour to do the dangerous and …
Article • January 12, 2021
Filed under: Medication, Suicides
Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Texas Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by On December 3, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the summary judgment dismissal of a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by the estate and children of a woman who committed suicide in the …
Brief • January 12, 2021
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Carillo v. Buendia, TX, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2021 Pagel of 5 H_ECEIVEO r.ou~ TYRitLEASE. WAIVER AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT TTJs JJo~Ji¾ierltcls!Ws48rth the terms and conditions of the Release, WaiVer and Settlement Agreement ("Agreement") between Releaser and Released Parties as herein defined. WHl:REAS "Releasor" means Armando Carrillo, Individually and as Representative of …
Brief • January 11, 2021
Estate of Barlow-Austin v. SouthWestern Correctional LLC, TX, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2021 Case 5:20-cv-00146-RWS-JBB Document 16 Filed 01/11/21 Page 1 of 58 PageID #: 166 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TEXARKANA DIVISION MARY MARGARET MATHIS, individually and as Administrator of the ESTATE OF …
Tougher Than the Rest: No Criminal Justice Reform “Miracle” in Texas by Marie Gottschalk by Marie Gottschalk For more than a decade now, politicians and policymakers — from Barack Obama to Donald Trump — have lauded Texas as a model for criminal justice reform. They have praised the Lone Star …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Federal Lawsuit Claims Texas Jail Released Man When Medical Problems Became Too Much Trouble, Resulting in Coma by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Apparently, it’s easier to release someone from jail and dismiss the charges if their issues become too much trouble, according to a lawsuit filed by James Bagley …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 21, 2020, Sylvester Hartley became the seventh prisoner to die of complications from COVID-19 at Alabama’s St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to a report in the St. Clair News-Aegis. The 60-year-old, who was serving a life-without-parole sentence for three counts of first-degree kidnapping, …
Brief • December 9, 2020
Glenewinkel v. Carvajal, TX, First Amended Class Action Complaint, Covid Response, 2020 Case 3:20-cv-02256-B Document 72 Filed 12/09/20 Page 1 of 16 PagelD 309 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT' FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DALLAS DIVISION Jay E. Glenewinkel et. al. Plaintiffs, § § § § v. Carvajal et. al, …
Article • December 8, 2020
USCIS Not required to Travel to Prison to Administer Citizenship and Immigration Services by On December 8, 2020 the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of Miguel Angel Mendoza-Tarango mandamus claim under 28 U.S.C. 1915A(b)(l) seeking an order to compel United States Citizenship and …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Texas Disguising Deaths in Custody by Diana Claitor by Diana Claitor In 2012, a 53-year-old Black woman named Edwinta Deckard was arrested on a misdemeanor theft charge and held in the Nacogdoches County Jail where she died after three days. Her death was an ordeal of dehydration and trauma, as …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Another Prisoner’s Needless Death, Another Lawsuit at LaSalle-Run Texarkana Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 16, 2020, the estate of a woman who died while incarcerated at the Bi-State Justice Center Jail in Texarkana filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Bowie County, Texas, LaSalle Corrections and …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Fifth Circuit Order Denies Texas Prisoners Hand Sanitizer and Cleaning Supplies by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay of a Texas’ federal judge’s injunction compelling the Texas Department of Corrections (DOC) to provide hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies to prisoners at the …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Chanting “not one more,” about 30 carloads of protesters from “Alabamians Who Care” caravanned to the governor’s mansion in Montgomery on August 1, 2020, protesting a plan by Gov. Kay Ivey (R) to build three new “mega-prisons.” According to a report by Montgomery TV station …
Article • December 1, 2020
Researchers, Prison Officials to Study Effects of Prison Violence Comprehensively by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A research team of internationally recognized prison experts from multiple academic institutions will be working with state prison officials from Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas to perform the most comprehensive study …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Jail Suicide Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 12, 2020, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit against four Texas police department employees alleging they knew a prisoner was suicidal when they gave him a blanket, failed to remove the blanket …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: The Birmingham News reported that an Alabama prison guard had been arrested for drug trafficking after a search of his vehicle when he arrived for work at the St. Clair County prison turned up 138 grams of methamphetamine and 16 grams of heroin. Ivan Caldwell, …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Suicides
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over Texas Jail Prisoner’s Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The family of a Texas detainee who died of a suicidal overdose under jailers’ noses can continue its lawsuit against Young County, Texas. That decision was handed down on April 22, 2020, by the Fifth …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Exposure to Heat
Texas: Prison Air Conditioning Needs Revisiting by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In 1855, young General Philip H. Sheridan was a second lieutenant at Fort Clark, located in present-day Kinney County, Texas. When someone asked him how he liked the state, he replied “If I owned Texas and Hell, I …
Article • October 5, 2020
Filed under: Trust Accounts, Veterans
Fifth Circuit Upholds Summary Dismissal of Texas Prisoner’s Challenge to Deduction of Medical Co-Pay From Account Receiving VA Payments by On July 9, 2020, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals upheld the summary dismissal of a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoner’s challenge to the department’s deduction of a …
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