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Fifth Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over Texas Detainee’s Asphyxiation by Jail Guards by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 13, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed dismissal of a lawsuit filed over the death of a Texas detainee during an altercation with jail guards. Kelli …
Prisoner Health Update: K2 by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Drugs are ubiquitous behind prison walls, but screening of items sent to prisoners and random drug testing incentivizes the use of substances difficult to detect and easy to conceal. Synthetic cannabinoids, known under numerous monikers such as K2 …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright This issue of PLN marks our 33rd anniversary of publishing. Since we published our first issue in May 1990 we have seen massive changes in the American gulag, starting with its sheer growth from a million prisoners to over 2 million …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Dogged by Racist Comments, North Carolina Sheriff Resigns – Again by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 4, 2023, Jody Greene (R) resigned as Sheriff of North Carolina’s Columbus County – for the second time in just over two months. First elected in 2018, he had earlier …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Nevada Pays Over $568,000 for Denying Prisoner Cataract Surgery, Ends “One Good Eye” Policy by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On July 15, 2022, the federal court for the District of Nevada awarded $560,587.50 in fees to attorneys representing a state prisoner who earlier settled his medical neglect claim against …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
$1.3 Million Paid to Transgender Woman Held Five Months in Atlanta Jail on Bogus Charges by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 3, 2023, the Atlanta City Council unanimously adopted Ordinance 22-O-1891, clearing the way for the city to pay $1.3 million to settle claims by a Black transgender …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Fifth Circuit Upholds Qualified Immunity for Texas Prison Guard Who Beat Prisoner’s Arm With Baton Until It Broke by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 31, 2022, the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court’s grant of qualified immunity (QI) to a Texas prison guard …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Maine’s Jails and Prisons Record 39 Deaths in 34 Months by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 10, 2023, WMTW in Portland reported findings from a months-long investigation of deaths in Maine’s prisons and jails. By comparing information from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with data …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Grievances
Fifth Circuit Finds “Opaque” Mississippi Prison Grievance System “Incapable of Use” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 16, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that grievance procedure rules which the Mississippi Department of Corrections (DOC) published online – but which were not given …
ACLU Report Details Exploitation of Prisoners for Forced Labor by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Global Human Rights Clinic (GHRC) of the University of Chicago Law School released a comprehensive report on June 15, 2022, detailing the way American prisoners are coerced …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Art, Prisoner Media, TV/Movies
MTV Documentary Shines Light on Art Behind Bars by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Etymology, the study of word origins, provides insight into commonly used words. For instance, ‘cell’ and ‘hell’ share an ancient root meaning ‘hide’: A resident of either is unseen, hidden away from society and the realm …
Louisiana High Court Abandons Ab Initio Precedent in Favor of “Victim’s Rights” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Confronted with the appeal of a defendant who died on November 10, 2022, the Supreme Court of Louisiana reversed its own precedent and refused to abandon his prosecution. With that, the …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Drug Overdose
Overdose Rate in New York Jails and State Prisons Double U.S. Average by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett According to an October 2022 report by the New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), the state’s prisons and jails have a drug overdose rate “double the rate for the …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Former Missouri Prisoners Awarded $20 Million for Sexual Abuse by “Resident Pervert” Guard by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye On March 16, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit turned away an appeal by a former Missouri prison guard and affirmed a jury verdict against him …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Iowa Teen Who Killed Her Alleged Rapist Recaptured After Halfway House Escape by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On November 9, 2022, an Iowa teenager convicted of murdering a man she claimed repeatedly raped her was recaptured, five days after she escaped from the Fresh Start  Women’s Center (FSWC) …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Fifth Circuit Revives Suit by Nation of Gods and Earth Prisoner Demanding Religious Recognition by Texas Prison Officials by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated a Texas prisoner’s suit against officials with the state Department of Criminal …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Telecoms Exploiting Legal Loopholes to Price Gouge Prisoners and Their Families by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett According to a report published by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) on December 15, 2022, for-profit telecom companies are using loopholes in the law to price-gouge prisoners and their families on the cost …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Credits
California Appellate Court: State Prisoners Held in Jail and Those Held in Prisons Not Alike for Sentence Credits by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On September 28, 2022, the Supreme Court of California declined to hear an appeal to a lower court’s decision that shrugged off differences in program credits …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
L.A. County Jails: Leading in All the Wrong Ways by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart Calling conditions in Los Angeles County jails “abhorrent,” attorneys representing a group of incarcerated plaintiffs appeared before a federal judge on April 19, 2023, asking him to hold the county in contempt of a recently …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, DUI
Warden Ousted from Troubled Alabama Prison After DUI Arrest by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon A state prison warden was arrested on August 30, 2022, on suspicion of driving under the influence in Cullman, Alabama. Jeffrey Baldwin was then placed on mandatory leave from his post at Elmore Correctional Facility …
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