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Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News In Brief by Arizona: After two escaped prisoners were recaptured and returned to the Arizona State Prison in Florence on January 31, 2021, Phoenix station KNXV reported that at least part of the blame for their escape was assigned to short-staffing of guards at the state Department of Corrections …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Death by Incarceration: Study Reveals High Death Rates Inside NY’s State Prisons by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders  In 1972, when the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed capital punishment, New York state had been executing people since 1608. The total number of individuals put to death by the state in that …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$1.5 Million Awarded for Failure to Protect Rikers Jail Prisoner Who Was Attacked Repeatedly by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On June 2, 2021, a federal jury in New York City ruled in favor of a prisoner at the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex, deciding the city and …
Brief • March 31, 2022
Filed under: Censorship
Thompson v. Annucci, NY, Complaint, Censorship, 2022 Case 1:22-cv-02632 Document 1 Filed 03/31/22 Page 1 of 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK HEATHER ANN THOMPSON, PH.D., Plaintiff, v. Case No. ____________________ ANTHONY J. ANNUCCI, as Acting Commissioner, New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision; …
Brief • March 11, 2022
Filed under: Retaliation
Wishart v. Welkley, NY, Decision and Order, Retaliation, 2022 Case Case6:19-cv-06189-DGL-MJP 6:22-cv-06163-EAW Document Document 18-16 100 Filed Filed11/22/22 03/11/22 Page Page1 1ofof11 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK GEORGE WISHART v. Plaintiff, PETER WELKLEY ET AL., DECISION & ORDER 19-CV-6189-DGL-MJP Defendants. Pedersen, M.J. Plaintiff George Wishart …
Brief • March 7, 2022
Filed under: False Imprisonment
Galloway v. County of Nassau, NY, Memorandum Decision and Order, False Imprisonment, 2022 Case 2:19-cv-05026-AMD-JMW Document 154 Filed 03/07/22 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: 3502 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK --------------------------------------------------------------- X : GALLOWAY, : Plaintiff, : MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER – against – : …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
“The Worst Prison in New York State” by Victoria Law The situation at Rikers is bad, but at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security facility more than 200 miles north of New York City, it’s worse. by Victoria Law Conditions in New York City jails have reached a boiling point, …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In Mobile on January 21, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced that an 18-month federal prison sentence for bribery had been handed down by a federal court to Lakerdra Shanta Snowden, 31, a former guard at the Escambia County …
Second Circuit Holds N.Y. Prisoner’s Short-Term Injury May Qualify As Disability under ADA by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On June 30, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a district court’s finding that a New York prisoner’s knee injury did not qualify …
Article • February 26, 2022
Cops, Leave Those Kids Alone: New York Will Not Criminalize Children Under 12 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott   New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill in early January of this year protecting children under the age of 12 from arrest and criminal adjudication for virtually all …
Brief • February 21, 2022
Filed under: Impeachment
Onilude v. The City of New York, NY, Memorandum, Impeachment, 2022 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF BRONX - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Living and Dying on Rikers Island: The Latest Installment by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss  When 55-year-old William Brown, a pretrial detainee from Brooklyn, suffered a medical emergency and died on December 15, 2021, it was the 16th death recorded for the year of someone incarcerated at Rikers Island, the …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
New York Jail Required to Provide Methadone to Detainee for Addiction Treatment by On September 7, 2021, Judge David Hurd of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that a detainee should be granted injunctive relief and continue receiving methadone treatment for his opioid addiction …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: According to Birmingham Real-Time News, a kidnapper was recaptured after being erroneously released from jail in Jefferson County, Alabama, on December 17, 2021. The prisoner, Matthew Burke, 35, was apprehended during a traffic stop after being released from the Jefferson County Jail on Dec. 11 …
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
‘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 …
Brief • January 19, 2022
Filed under: Internet
Jones v. Stanford, NY,Settlement, Social Media Ban, 2022 Case 1:20-cv-01332-RJD-JRC Document 73 Filed 01/24/22 Page 1 of 16 PageID #: 690 Case 1:20-cv-01 332-RJD-JRC Document 72 Filed 01/19/22 Page 1 of 16 PagelD #: 674 UN ITED STATES DISTRICT COU RT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------- ---------- X VERNON …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
$175,000 Awarded to New York Prisoner’s 686 Days Unconstitutional Post Release Supervision by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On Dec. 4, 2020, a federal district court in New York awarded $175,000 to a former state prisoner who was imprisoned for 686 days as a result of an unconstitutionally imposed …
$650,000 Jury Verdict Upheld in NY Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Claim; Motion for Fees Denied Due to Contingency Agreement by David Reutter by David M Reutter On October 20, 2020, a federal judge in New York refused to overturn a $650,000 award made by a jury earlier that year to a state …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Prosecutors Move to Close Case Against BOP Guards in Jeffrey Epstein Suicide by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Of the many mysteries surrounding Jeffery Epstein, including exactly where the billionaire got his fabulous wealth before committing suicide in a Manhattan cell in August 2020—while awaiting trial on charges of sex-trafficking …
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