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Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
California Prisoners Seek to Enforce Settlement Provisions in Ashker Litigation by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On March 29, 2018, a federal magistrate judge in California held that prisoners in a class-action lawsuit over long-term solitary confinement, who entered into a settlement agreement with the California Department of Corrections and …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Justice Sotomayor Slams Solitary Confinement, but Supreme Court Declines to Accept Colorado Solitary Case by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The U.S. Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions for writ of certiorari from federal appellate rulings each term and denies the vast majority of those applications, generally with a one-sentence …
Franklin v. Bebout, IL, Complaint, Failure to Protect and Retaliation, 2018 Case 3:18-cv-01963-SMY Document 4 Filed 10/16/18 Page 1 of 1 Page ID #9 AO 398 (Rev. 01/09) Notice ofa Lawsuit and Request to Waive Service ofa Summons UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the Southern District of Illinois MARTELL FRANKLIN …
Solitary Confinement Reforms Sweeping the Nation but Still Not Enough by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Solitary confinement is “worse than any torment of the body” – so said famous British author Charles Dickens. French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, who toured American prisons in 1831, added that solitary “devours the …
Solitary Instead of Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoner Costs New Mexico Jail $2 Million by R. Bailey by R. Bailey New Mexico’s Otero County Board of County Commissioners agreed to pay a former Otero County Detention Center (OCDC) pretrial detainee $2 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit that alleged …
Reyes v. Clarke, VA, Complaint, Solitary Confinement, 2018 Case 3:18-cv-00611-REP Document 1 Filed 09/04/18 Page 1 of 60 PageID# 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA RICHMOND DIVISION NICOLAS REYES, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) HAROLD CLARKE, Director of the Virginia …
Former Mexican Mafia General Turned Informant Receives $25,000 from GEO Group, 20 Years in Prison from Feds by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke After former Mexican Mafia general Raymond S. “Indio” Tellez agreed to testify against the gang, two gang members stabbed him multiple times in a secure area of …
At the Federal Supermax, When Does Isolation Become Torture? by Alan Prendergast by Alan Prendergast, Westword You see them on TV, usually around the time they are arrested. Men who have declared war on America, combatants in a conflict that never ends. They are captured on the street and at airports, …
Mays v. Sacremento, CA, Complaint, Overcrowded-Understaffed Jails, 2018 Case 2:18-at-01259 Document 1 Filed 07/31/18 Page 1 of 63 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 AARON J. FISCHER (SBN 247391) Aaron.Fischer@disabilityrightsca.org ANNE HADREAS (SBN 253377) Anne.Hadreas@disabilityrightsca.org DISABILITY RIGHTS CALIFORNIA 1330 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, CA 94612 Telephone: (510) …
Article • July 6, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Texas Prisons Stop Using Solitary Confinement as Punishment, but Thousands Kept in Administrative Segregation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 1, 2017 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) changed its policy on prisoner discipline to eliminate solitary confinement as a punishment for violating institutional rules, though thousands …
H.C. v. Bradshaw, Florida Juvenile Solitary Confinement Preliminary Injunction Motion, 2018 Case 9:18-cv-80810-WPD Document 6 Entered on FLSD Docket 06/21/2018 Page 1 of 25 Case 9:18-cv-80810-WPD Document 6 Entered on FLSD Docket 06/21/2018 Page 2 of 25 Case 9:18-cv-80810-WPD Document 6 Entered on FLSD Docket 06/21/2018 Page 3 of 25 …
Wisconsin Settles State Prisoner’s Lawsuits for $13,000 by On February 2, 2017, Wisconsin officials agreed to pay $13,000 to settle two pro se federal lawsuits. Samuel S. Upthegrove, a Wisconsin state prisoner with mental health issues, filed two suits related to conditions of his confinement. One of his complaints alleged …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Texas Prisoner in Administrative Segregation Transition Program Murders Cellmate by On January 17, 2018, a Texas state prisoner who was participating in the Administrative Segregation Transition Program (ASTP) at the Ramsey Unit murdered his cellmate. It was the first prisoner-on-prisoner homicide in Texas this year. Alfred Brosig, 48, who was …
Rasho v. Walker, IL, Settlement, Medical Neglect, 2018 I r CONFIDENTIAL FULL AND FINAL RELEASE-SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT Plaintiff, ASHOOR RAS HO, filed a Section 1983 claim alleging violations of his Constitutional rights as relates to his incarceration at the Pontiac Correctional Center. Said claims are more particularly described in a lawsuit …
Butler v. Pork, IL, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2018 Case: 1:17-cv-09155 Document#: 8 Filed: 05/09/18 Page 1 of 14 PagelD #:35 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION KENDRICK BUTLER, Plaintiff, Jury Demand vs. Case No. l:17-CV-09155 SERGEANT TERRELL PORK, LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BROWN, OFFICER (F/N/U) BUBASH, OFFICER (F/N/U) …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
New York Issues New Solitary Confinement Rules for Local Jails Amid Lawsuits, $5 Million Settlement by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On October 17, 2017, the New York Commission of Correction issued new rules governing the treatment of prisoners held in solitary confinement in local jails. The rules came in …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
“Witness to Human Torture”: On Both Sides of the Prison Walls, Social Workers Confront Solitary Confinement by Valerie Kiebala by Valerie Kiebala, Solitary Watch Esther Lim, a social worker employed by the ACLU to monitor Los Angeles County jails, was meeting with an incarcerated man in an attorney meeting room …
Breaking News! Tennessee: New Trial Ordered in Prisoner’s Wrongful Death Case by Steve Horn by Steve Horn On April 5, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that a lawsuit over the death of 33-year-old Charles “Jason” Toll – a prisoner who died in 2010 after …
Private Prison Forced to Produce Solitary Confinement Records by The Roderick and Solange Mac­Arthur Justice Center has prevailed in a lawsuit to obtain records related to prisoners held in segregation at Louisiana’s Allen Correctional Center (ACC), run by the GEO Group, a private prison contractor. A public records request was …
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