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Article • March 7, 2016
Minimal Number of Assaults Attributed to Prison-Issued Lock Cannot Support Claim by The First Circuit Court of Appeals held two Maine prisoners failed to raise a triable issue of substantial risk of assault by a prison-issued padlock. Maine State prison (MSP) prisoners David Lakin and Gerard Landry suffered serious injury …
Illinois: Prisoner Wins Settlement from Cook County Sheriff on Battery Claim by Derek Gilna Illinois’ Cook County Jail is widely considered to be one of the most dangerous correctional facilities in the nation. An antiquated jail lacking many of the updated security features found in other jails, it is riddled …
Article • March 7, 2016
First Circuit Reverses District Court's Order to MA DOC Mandating Treatment of Prisoner's Sex Change Request by Derek Gilna In yet another iteration of a complex litigation spanning over twenty years pitting advocates of prisoner rights in the area of medical treatment of sexual identity disorder (SID) issues, the 1st …
Article • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Aramark, Food, Jail Specific
Aramark to Provide Heart-Healthy Meals at San Francisco Jail by David Reutter The City of San Francisco negotiated a new contract with its food vendor, Aramark Correction Services, to provide a “heart-healthy menu” for prisoners at the San Francisco County Jail (SFCJ). The new fare, hopefully, will diminish the need …
Article • March 7, 2016
New Report Details California Counties’ “AB 109” Correctional Priorities by Derek Gilna A new report issued by Stanford University explores how California Assembly Bill 109 (AB 109), also known as the “realignment bill,” has shifted control of local correction activities to county agencies from the state.  Funded by state block …
Article • March 7, 2016
Federal Lawsuit, Criminal Charges Follow Beating of Prisoners In Florida Jail by Christopher Zoukis The repeated beating of a prisoner at the DeSoto County Jail in Florida has resulted in some serious consequences: a $3.5 million federal lawsuit, criminal charges against the jail guards, and the firings and a resignation …
Article • March 7, 2016
Time to Hire a Doctor at WA Jail Where Eight Have Died Since 2010 by Joe Watson It took the deaths of eight people since 2010 incarcerated at the Snohomish County Jail in Everett, Washington—or, as a result, at least two pending claims against the county—to convince jail officials in …
Article • March 7, 2016
California Counties Say Jail Space is Lacking Because Of Red Tape, Recession by Joe Watson Bureaucratic hurdles and the Great Recession are being blamed for a purportedly dire lack of jail space in California, where the state's "realignment" law has forced overcrowded prisons to transfer low-level offenders to the custody …
Texas State Jails: Private Drug Counselors Ordered to Downplay Mental Illness by Matthew Clarke Former employees of Houston-based Turning Point, Inc., a private, for-profit company which contracted with Texas to provide substance abuse treatment in its state jail system, are revealing how supervisors pressured them to falsify Addiction Severity Index …
Dimora v. Northeast Ohio Corrections Center, OH, Order, Inmate Injury, 2016 Case: 4:14-cv-01221-BYP Doc #: 43 Filed: 03/04/16 1 of 9. PageID #: 386 PEARSON, J. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION JAMES DIMORA, Plaintiff, v. NORTHEAST OHIO CORRECTIONS CENTER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) …
Jones v. Annucci, NY, Complaint, guard prisoner sexual abuse, 2016 Case 1:16-cv-01473-SAS Document 12 Filed 03/03/16 Page 1 of 74 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- x JANE JONES 1, JANE JONES 2, JANE JONES 3, JANE JONES 4, JANE JONES 5, and JANE JONES 6, …
Article • March 1, 2016
Decision on prison won’t be revealed until late summer by Letcher County residents may have to wait until the end of the summer to find out whether or not a federal prison will be constructed in Letcher County. Tom Webber, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) chief of Capacity Planning and Construction …
Widespread Corruption in L.A. County Jails Leads to Federal Investigation, Indictments by David Reutter by David M. Reutter and Rod L. Bower Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy David “Lee” Baca faces up to six months in prison after pleading guilty on February 10, 2016 to charges that he lied …
Federal Jury Awards $950,000 to Prisoners Beaten at L.A. County Jail by Derek Gilna As indicated by this month’s cover story, violence or the threat of violence has long been part of life for prisoners in Los Angeles County’s jail system. An incident that occurred in August 2008, however, demonstrated …
Report Highlights Continuing Problems with Florida Department of Corrections by Derek Gilna The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) was the subject of a recent Prison Legal News cover story that detailed prisoner deaths, excessive use of force by guards, and other types of misconduct and corruption. [See: PLN, Feb. 2016, …
Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Former Prisoner Appointed to New York City Board of Correction by Gary Hunter Stanley Richards could be called the face of reform at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex. On May 27, 2015, Richards was appointed to the city’s Board of Correction by a unanimous vote. What makes his …
Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Third Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Federal Prisoner’s Eighth Amendment Suit by Derek Gilna Norman N. Shelton, confined in the Special Management Unit (SMU) at the U.S. Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, filed suit alleging that prison officials had “engaged in a pattern, practice, or policy of improperly placing inmates who are …
Jury Awards $40,000 to Transgender Prisoner Raped at Florida Jail by A Florida state court jury awarded $40,000 in a negligence action stemming from the rape of a male-to-female transgender pretrial detainee at the Orange County Jail (OCJ). Donald Brown, also known as Tori Tyrelle, was being held at OCJ …
Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: Overcrowding, Jail Specific
Judge Orders Ohio County to Cap Jail Population, Release Prisoners by Joe Watson A federal judge has decided the best way to solve the overcrowding problem at the Lucas County Jail in Toledo, Ohio is by simply enforcing the law. On November 5, 2014, U.S. District Court Judge James Carr …
What It's Like to Be Trapped in an Experimental Unit Within a U.S. Prison by An Interview with CCR Client Abdul-Ali By Nahal Zamani, Center for Constitutional Rights Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) was a plaintiff in Aref v. Holder, CCR’s federal lawsuit challenging policies and practices at the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP’s) Communications …
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