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Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Second Circuit Takes Back $20,000 Emotional Damage Award from Former Federal Prisoner in New York by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart On August 16, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the verdict of a federal jury, stripping $20,000 in damages awarded to a former federal …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: Health care
California Extends Medi-Cal Health Benefits to Prisoners Nearing Release by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD On January 26, 2023, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted California approval of a plan to extend Medi-Cal, the state’s equivalent to Medicaid, which provides health insurance to low-income …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Jail Detainee’s Urine Not a ‘Noxious or Filthy Substance’ by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In an opinion issued on November 22, 2022, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that urine is not a “noxious or filthy substance.” Therefore, the Court affirmed dismissal of …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Overdetention
$2.375 Million Settlement in Over-Detention Suit at Santa Clara California Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 16, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of California entered final approval of a settlement agreement in a class-action suit alleging Santa Clara County continued to hold detainees …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Educating Prisoners: New Meta-Analysis Reinforces That It Reduces Recidivism by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders With the highest incarceration rate in the world – over six out of every 1,000 people – America has long known there is one thing that consistently reduces recidivism: education. A recent meta-analysis conducted by …
$35,000 Awarded to Federal Prisoner in Kentucky Who Accused Guards of Using Excessive Force by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart In July 2019, Jonathan Lee Smith was a prisoner at the U.S. Penitentiary near Kentucky’s Big Sandy River, when he got in a fight with another prisoner and guards responded. …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
California Makes Calls Free for State Prisoners and Juvenile Detainees, Prohibits Telecom Kickbacks to Prisons and Jails by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On September 29, 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed S.B. 1008 into law, barring government agencies in the state from collecting any part of the revenue …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Texas Prison Warden and Brother Charged with Shooting Two Migrants, Killing One by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye A warden at a Texas detention center and his twin brother have been charged with shooting two migrants, one fatally, in the town of Sierra Blanca along the Mexican border on …
Sixth Circuit Says Ohio Prisoner’s Lack of Tablet Access May Have Prevented Grievance Exhaustion by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Technology giveth and technology taketh away – even in prison. That was the conclusion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on October 26, 2022, when …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
A Lesson in Pleading: Utah Jail Suicide Complaint Fails for Alleging Failure to Train Rather than Failure to Provide Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 3, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for defendant jailers in a lawsuit seeking …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Fourth Circuit: Religious Headwear Policy Violated Virginia Prisoner’s Rights by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 7, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a Virginia prisoner successfully pleaded that a policy of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) substantially burdened his religious …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
No More Second Chances for New York Jail Guard Convicted of Smuggling by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On April 5, 2022, a former jail guard in Buffalo pleaded guilty to a first-degree felony count of promoting prison contraband. Jason Stachowski, 48, had already resigned from the Erie County Sheriff’s …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: jobs, Criminal History
“Ban the Box” Hiring Law Sets National Standard for Federal Contracts by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders A little-known provision attached to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 2020 prohibits federal contractors from asking about a job applicant’s criminal history. Signed into law in December 2020 by former Pres. …
Brief • March 31, 2023
Reichart v. Keefe Commissary Network, LLC, WA, Motion to Intervene, Unlawful Fees, 2023 Case 3:17-cv-05848-BHS Document 195 Filed 03/31/23 Page 1 of 14 HON. BENJAMIN H. SETTLE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 8 9 10 11 JEFFREY REICHERT …
Brief • March 30, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19
Romero-Lorenzo v. Koehn, AZ, Order, Covid-19, 2023 Case 2:20-cv-00901-DJH-ESW Document 231 Filed 03/30/23 Page 1 of 47 1 SKC 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Claudia Romero-Lorenzo, et. al. 10 11 12 Plaintiffs, No. CV-20-00901-PHX-DJH (ESW) ORDER …
Brief • March 29, 2023
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Amaro v. Grewal, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2023 Centurion 002935 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO PEDRO AMARO, Plaintiff, vs. Cause No. 1:20-CV-01398 MV/LF NEW MEXICO CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT; CORIZON HEALTH, INC.; CENTURION CORRECTIONAL HEAL TH CARE OF NM; DENTRUST NEW MEXICO …
Brief • March 29, 2023
Doe v. MacLeod, IL, Opinion, Sexual Abuse, 2023 3:18-cv-03191-SEM-KLM # 187 Page 1 of 64 E-FILED Wednesday, 29 March, 2023 09:09:46 AM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD DIVISION JANE DOE, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) …
Brief • March 28, 2023
Villery v. Sanders, CA, Settlement, Retaliation-Grievance, 2023
Enyart v. Cnty. of San Bernardino, CA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2023 Case 5:23-cv-00540 Document 1 Filed 03/27/23 Page 1 of 36 Page ID #:1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Danielle R. Pena, Esq., SBN 286002 dpena@PHGLawGroup.com PHG Law Group 501 West Broadway, …
In-the-News Article • March 22, 2023
Prison abolition is environmental justice March 22, 2023 Articles that mention PLN Prism Reports After years of grassroots organizing, in 2019 the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) withdrew a proposal to build a maximum security prison in Roxana, an unincorporated town of 100 in eastern Kentucky’s Letcher County. The BOP announced it …
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