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Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Lawsuit Over Winter Power Outage at Brooklyn’s Troubled Federal Detention Center Granted Class Certification by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Class-action status was granted on May 25, 2021, to a federal lawsuit brought by a half-dozen prisoners held by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at its Metropolitan Detention Center …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
North Carolina Renames Prisons Whose Names Honored Enslavers by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On September 30, 2021, over 156 years after the end of the Civil War, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced the renaming of four prisons and a drug addiction treatment facility whose previous …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Activists Play Whack-a-Mole Closing ICE Detention Centers by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Bloomberg Equality report published on January 11, 2022, gave little hope that the omicron variant behind a resurgence in the COVID-19 pandemic would spare immigrant detainees held for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with …
Investigations Into the Deaths of Several Prisoners and Two Guards Reveal Rampant Corruption, Cover-ups in California Prison by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders When Brant Daniel found himself in one of California’s most violent and corrupt prisons, the California State Prison (CSP) in Sacramento, known as New Folsom, he knew …
Settlement for New Jersey Special Needs Prisoner Students Includes Damages, Fees and Education by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On July 15, 2021, a settlement agreement and order was entered in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, putting an end to a four-year-old class action lawsuit against …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$7,500 Settlement for Pennsylvania Prisoner Assaulted by Guards And Denied Medical Care by On March 23, 2021, an agreement was executed paying $7,500 to settle three complaints a former pretrial detainee had brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$1 Million Default Judgement for Michigan Jail Prisoner Against Health Care Provider in Sexual Assault by Mark Wilson But She Probably Won’t Collect It From the Defunct Provider by Mark Wilson On April 1, 2021, a Michigan federal court entered a $1 million default judgement for a woman who was …
Transgender Women in Illinois DOC Secure Injunction with Special Monitor by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Transgender women imprisoned in the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) notched another victory in their legal battle for gender dysphoria treatment on December 13, 2021, when the U.S. District Court for the Southern …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Seven Prisoners Died in 2021, One by Homicide, at Virginia’s Only Private Prison by The Lawrenceville Correctional Center (LCC), Virginia’s only remaining for-profit prison, now also has the dubious distinction of reporting seven prisoner deaths in 2021. One of those deaths has been confirmed as a homicide. One is suspected …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
‘They Know No Bounds’: Suffolk County New York Prosecutors Sent to Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The former District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, Thomas Spota, and his former top assistant, Christopher McPartland, appeared before a sentencing judge in a federal courtroom on August 10, 2021. But …
Tennessee CoreCivic Prison Guard Indicted for Beating Unresisting Prisoner, Attempting Cover-up by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On September 27, 2021, a three-count indictment was filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, accusing a former guard at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville of violating a …
Eighth Circuit Rules Guard’s History of Excessive Force too Prejudicial or a Jury to Hear in Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Case by Jacob Barrett, Matthew Clarke Another Guard Escapes Liability by Refusing to Participate by Jacob Barrett and Matt Clarke What happens to a prison guard accused of using excessive force who …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
NJ Supreme Court: Excess Time in Prison Must Be Used to Reduce Parole Period by Matthew Clarke “Parole is the legal equivalent of imprisonment” by Matt Clarke On August 3, 2021, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that the time a prisoner spent in prison in excess of that …
Washington Can’t Cheat Prisoner of Time Held Out of State on Washington Charges by Jacob Barrett But ICE Makes Sure That It Doesn’t Matter by Jacob Barrett On July 29, 2021 the Supreme Court of Washington ruled that a state prisoner was entitled to credit for all the time he …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
New Illinois Law Allows Early Release for a Few Eligible Offenders by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian In August 2021, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) signed House Bill 3665 into law, allowing for the early release of certain prisoners housed in the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) who are …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Supervisory Liability
Second Circuit: Supervisor Must Have Subjective Knowledge of Sexual Abuse by Guards to Be Liable by On December 28, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a prisoner who was sexually abused by three guards must prove their supervisor had subjective knowledge of the …
California Supreme Court: CDCR Cannot Exclude Nonviolent Sex Offenders From Proposition 57 Parole Consideration by On December 28, 2020, the Supreme Court of California held that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) regulations excluding nonviolent sex offenders with from parole consideration under Proposition 57, the Public Safety and Rehabilitation …
Colorado Supreme Court Holds Governor Is Appropriate Defendant in Cases Involving State Constitutional Responsibility by The Colorado Supreme Court has decided “that the Governor is an appropriate defendant in cases involving ‘his constitutional responsibility to uphold laws of the state and to oversee Colorado’s executive agencies.’” The Court’s February 1, …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Fifth Circuit Dismisses Appeal by Mississippi Prisoner It Calls “Vexatious Litigant” by On August 9, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a Mississippi prisoner who had filed at least a dozen federal lawsuits pro se since 2004 and admitted using them “against his custodians …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Hepatitis, Settlements
Texas Agrees to Settlement Providing Prisoners Hep C Treatment, Will Pay $950,000 in Attorney Fees by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A trio of pro se prisoner appeals denied by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on September 22, 2021, left intact an agreement approved earlier in …
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