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Catchings v. Wilson, MD, Class Action Complaint, Covid Response, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-00428-TSE Document 1 Filed 02/20/21 Page 1 of 64 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE DIVISION SEDRIC CATCHINGS, CHARLES COUSER, COLLIN DAVIS, ALLEN LAMIN, SIRRON LITTLE, TAIWO MOULTRIE, JOSEPH SPEED, and HOWARD THOMAS, …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19
Florida State Prisons Scrub Key COVID Data From Website, Obscuring Magnitude of Inmate Deaths and Infections by Laura Cassels by Laura Cassels, Florida Phoenix, January 5, 2021 With nearly 200 inmates killed by COVID-19, Florida’s state prison system is now ranked the deadliest in the nation for coronavirus deaths. But …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Failure to Treat, COVID-19
Pandemic Update: News on Vaccines and Prison and Jail Staffing by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen, M.D. Widespread community transmission of COVID-19 disease continues in the U.S. New records have been set daily for numbers hospitalized, numbers in ICU and deaths. Total U.S. deaths were over 400,000 …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Almost 300,000 Fell Ill and 2,000 Died from COVID-19 in U.S. Jails, Prisons by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Health experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agree that keeping people from coming in close contact with one another through social distancing is the most reliable …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Urgent Need for Vaccine Administration in Prisons, Jails and Detention Centers by Sharon Dolovich, Aaron Littman, Maya Chaudhuri by Maya Chaudhuri, Sharon Dolovich, and Aaron Littman The UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project collects and reports on the rates of COVID-19 in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers across …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Was Indiana Women’s Prison Willfully Ignorant About COVID-19 Numbers? by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke During the summer of 2020, Indiana Women’s Prison in Indianapolis went weeks without reporting a single case of COVID-19. That changed in September, when the number of cases at the over 600-bed prison exploded. Between …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
COVID-19: The Politics of Prisoner Vaccination by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Colorado Governor Jared Polischanged the state’s coronavirus vaccination plan after Republican district attorney George Brauchler railed in a Denver paper op-ed that it was unfair for the state to inoculate someone like Nathan Dunlap, convicted of murdering four …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
ICE Refused Help in Containing Coronavirus in New Mexico Detention Centers by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) stated that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency refused help controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in its detention centers, jeopardizing detainees’ lives and stonewalling efforts …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Justice Department Report Documents Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center’s Poor Response to COVID-19 Crisis by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York was investigated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concerning its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A …
Federal Judge Slaps ICE, GEO Group Over “Abominable Performance” and Officials Who Lied During Testimony by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 6, 2021, a federal court in California issued an injunction extending the provisions of a temporary restraining order it had handed down two weeks earlier and …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Minnesota State and Federal Prisoners COVID Case Surge Sparks ACLU Lawsuit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna According to statistics compiled by The Marshall Project, one in five U.S. prisoners has already contracted COVID-19, a rate more than four times that of the general population. The problem has been particularly …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Missouri Prisoner Pleaded for Release Before Dying of COVID-19 by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel Rosen Waylon Young Bird, a 52-year-old federal prisoner with serious kidney disease, wrote over a dozen letters to the judge who sentenced him asking for compassionate release. He died of COVID-19 in early November 2020, …
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 • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Decline in South Dakota State Prisoners Not Due to COVID by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, South Dakota’s state prisoner population declined by a self-reported 11 percent as of late-September. The Associated Press and The Marshall Project showed an 8 percent nationwide …
Brief • January 4, 2021
Weikert v. Elder, CO, Stipulated Preliminary Injunction, Covid Response, 2021 Case 1:20-cv-03646-RBJ Document 25 Filed 01/04/21 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No.: 1:20-cv-03646-RBJ HANNAH WEIKERT, JENNIFER HERMANNS, TERRENCE LACEY, SEAN NELSON, JEAN-JOSEPH LE CHIFFRE, and GILBERT …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
South Florida: Jail Hotline Releases Report on Inadequate Health Care During Pandemic by Saraana Jamraj by Saraana Jamraj As the coronavirus pandemic has continued to devastate people, especially the vulnerable and marginalized, the COVID-19 Hotline for Incarcerated People (CHIP) has brought to light the dangerously insufficient response and deeply inhumane …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
As Prison COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Rise, Washington State Supreme Court Looks Away by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson We are not indifferent to the serious dangers faced by petitioners and other inmates at heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 in Washington’s correctional facilities.” That was a claim by a Majority …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Over Half the Prisoners Test Positive for COVID-19 at Arizona Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 8, 2020, the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) announced that 655 of the 1,066 prisoners held at the La Paz unit in the state prison complex in Yuma …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
U.S. Prisons Originally Designed to Prevent Spread of Disease Become Breeding Ground During Pandemic by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In precolonial days, U.S. jails and prisons were nothing like today’s in concept, practical use or design. Lengthy sentences and pretrial detentions for those pending trial were the exception rather …
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