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$2.45 Million Paid by Wellpath and Macomb County, Michigan, After Detainee’s Withdrawal Death in Jail by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart On March 31, 2022, an agreement was entered by Michigan’s Macomb County paying $1.15 million to the estate of David Stojcevski, 32, a detainee who died from drug withdrawal …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
After $90,000 Settlement for Sexual Abuse of Oregon Juvenile Detainee, Second Suit Filed Against Now-Imprisoned Former Youth Counselor by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On December 30, 2021, a second suit was filed in Oregon state court accusing former state youth worker Frank Milligan of sexually assaulting a juvenile detainee. …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Dark, Smoky Cells: As Wildfires Threaten More Prisons, the Incarcerated Ask Who Will Save Their Lives by Alleen Brown by Alleen Brown With flames bearing down on the remote California town of Susanville in August 2021, residents were getting ready to evacuate. The Dixie Fire, the state’s second-largest blaze ever, …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Nebraska Crime Commission Says Dodge County Jail Noncompliant With Reporting Requirements by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On January 28, 2022, when Sheriff Steve Hespen retired after 35 years in Dodge County, Nebraska, he left behind unanswered a charge from the state Jail Standards Board (JSB) that the county jail …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
SCOTUS Kneecaps Condemned Prisoners Claiming Ineffective Assistance of Counsel by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart Ten years ago, in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), the U.S. Supreme Court confronted a dilemma posed by Congress’ passage of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996. That law …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: War on Drugs, Boot Camps
New York Closes Moriah ‘Shock Camp’ by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) shuttered its upstate “shock camp” on March 10, 2022. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced in her 2022 budget the closing of several prisons including the Moriah Shock …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
After Summary Judgment Denied, California Jail Officials Pay $55,000 for Breaking Detainee’s Arm by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 27, 2021, just 25 days after a federal court in California denied summary judgment to San Mateo County Jail guards on a detainee’s excessive force claims, county officials quickly …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A jail guard in Chilton County, Alabama, was arrested on July 21, 2022, and charged with promoting contraband, the Clanton Advertiser reported. The guard, Tyler Ryan Couch, is accused of organizing an effort to smuggle drugs to detainees. Though jail policy forbids guards from transmitting …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Two Attorneys, Three Employees Sentenced in Bribery Scandal at MTC Texas Prisons by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On June 27, 2022, the last of a trio of private prison employees — plus two immigration attorneys — who were sentenced in a bribery scandal at two Texas prisons holding federal …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Third Illinois Guard Found Guilty In Fatal Beating of Handcuffed State Prisoner, but Attorney General Refuses To Settle With Family by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 23, 2022, a jury convicted the last of three ex-prison guards indicted in the fatal beating of a prisoner at Western Illinois …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Class Certification Maintained in New York Prisoners’ Suit for Damages Due to Illegally Imposed Post-Release Supervision by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 14, 2022, the federal court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion to decertify the class in a long-running suit filed by …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: jobs, Forced Labor Offenses
Wisconsin Supreme Court Guts State’s Fair Employment Act Protection for Returning Prisoners With Domestic Violence Convictions by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett In a 4-to-3 decision handed down on March 10, 2022, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin held an employer did not unlawfully discriminate against a former state prisoner by …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: Family Law
California Appeals Court Lets CDCR Define Term Adopted From Legislation by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Is a man your mother marries after you grow up and leave home your stepfather? What if she dies — is he still your stepfather then? The questions sound like parlor games, but …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Sixth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Ohio Prison Doctor After Prisoner Blinded by Stroke by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 30, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to an Ohio prison doctor who interrupted a state prisoner’s …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
New Jersey Supreme Court Forces County to Cough up Settlement Documents With Prisoner Raped By Jail Guard Who Snitched on Fellow Guards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 7, 2022, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a settlement agreement resolving a disciplinary action against a …
Ninth Circuit Terminates Idaho Prison Conditions Lawsuit After 40 Years of Litigation by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 22, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed termination of all prospective relief in a long-running class action alleging unconstitutional conditions at the Idaho State …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
$1,050,000 Settlement Reached in Disabled Illinois Prisoner’s ADA Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After a verdict was returned by a federal jury in favor of a disabled Illinois prisoner against the state Department of Corrections (DOC), the parties reached a settlement agreement for $1,050,000 — inclusive of …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Looking Deep Inside America’s Legalized Torture Chambers by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson There are many ways to destroy a person, but one of the simplest and most devastating is through prolonged solitary confinement. Deprived of meaningful human interaction, otherwise healthy prisoners become unhinged. … Not only psychological or social …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright The United States bills itself as a country that values free speech. For over 30 years I have watched as prison and jail officials around the country censor Prison Legal News (PLN), Criminal Legal News (CLN),and some or all of the …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Federal Prisoners Finally Receiving Benefits 42 Months After First Step Act Became Law by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On June 18, 2022, almost three-and-a-half years after former President Donald J. Trump (R) signed the First Step Act (FSA) into law in December 2018, the federal Bureau of Prisons …
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