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Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
New York Prisoner’s Suit Over Thirteen-Year Solitary Stint Survives by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 21, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York denied state prison officials’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit seeking damages for alleged Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment violations that …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
SCOTUS Sides With Condemned Georgia Prisoner Who Wants To Be Executed by Firing Squad by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Though Georgia has no other way to kill him, a condemned state prisoner convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to agree on June 23, 2022, that his objection to lethal …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Alabama Prisoners Continue to Die at Alarming Rate, More Than One Every Week in 2022 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott With 39 prisoners dead by September 1, 2022 — despite a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation ongoing since 2016 and two federal court orders — the …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Death and Inhumane Living Conditions Persist in Nation’s Worst Jail by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Crisis conditions continue at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, where 13 deaths have been recorded through the first eight months of 2022. Given a population of some 5,700 prisoners and detainees …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Third Circuit Holds Consent of All Parties to Magistrate Judge Jurisdiction Required Before Judgment Against Pennsylvania Prisoners by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On February 10, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of two Pennsylvania prisoners’ federal civil rights claims because …
Brief • September 30, 2022
Stanbro v. Palou, NY, Verdict, Excessive Force, 2022 Case 7:20-cv-01591-KMK Document 207-6 Filed 09/30/22 Page 1 of 27 Exhibit F Case 7:20-cv-01591-KMK Document 207-6 Filed 09/30/22 Page 2 of 27 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK CHAD STANBRO, Plaintiff, No. 20-CV-1591 (KMK) V. CORRECTION OFFICER NADYA PALOU, …
Brief • September 30, 2022
Estate of Kubiak v. CFG Health Systems, LLC, NJ, Settlement, Suicide-Medical Neglect, 2020 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS The SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS ("Agreement") is being entered into among and between ESTATE OF GREGORY KUBIAK BY AND THROUGH ITS ADMINISTRATOR AD PROSEQUENDUM DEANNA TESTA, ("ESTATE …
Brief • September 30, 2022
Edmo v. Idaho DOC, ID, Memo Decision and Order, Transgender (Surgery), 2022 Case 1:17-cv-00151-BLW Document 323 Filed 09/30/22 Page 1 of 39 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO ADREE EDMO, Case No. 1:17-cv-00151-BLW Plaintiff, MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER v. IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, et al., Defendants. INTRODUCTION …
Brief • September 30, 2022
Filed under: Prison Conditions
Friedmann v. Tennesse DOC, TN, Settlement Agreement, Prison Conditions, 2022 Case 3:21-cv-00721 Document 61-1 Filed 09/30/22 Page 1 of 37 PageID #: 628 Case 3:21-cv-00721 Document 61-1 Filed 09/30/22 Page 2 of 37 PageID #: 629 Case 3:21-cv-00721 Document 61-1 Filed 09/30/22 Page 3 of 37 PageID #: 630 Case …
Article • September 29, 2022
$15,150 Paid by Illinois for Neglect and Harassment of Three State Prisoners by David Reutter by David Reutter Mistreatment of three prisoners held by the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) cost the state over $15,000 to settle their claims in separate agreements completed during 2021. On August 12, 2021, a …
Article • September 29, 2022
Mom Sues After She Was Forced to Give Birth to Doomed Baby in “Georgia’s Toughest Para-Military Jail” by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman On September 2, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Georgia accepted an amended complaint from a former detainee in the Clayton County Jail who …
Alabama Reporter Barred from Execution For Too-Short Skirt by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On July 28, 2022, news reported Ivana Hrynkiw Shatara had to borrow pants and change her shoes to attend the execution by lethal injection of a state prisoner, after officials with the Alabama Department …
Article • September 29, 2022
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Staffing
Five Hospitalized After Prisoner Take-Over Put Down at Short-Staffed New Orleans Jail by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On Sunday, August 14, 2022, barely one hundred days into her tenure as New Orleans Parish Sheriff, Susan Hutson was confronted with a prisoner takeover of a cellblock in the …
Brief • September 27, 2022
Rutherford v. Villanueva, CA, Preliminary Injunctions, Jail Conditions, 2022 Case 2:75-cv-04111-DDP Document 351 Filed 09/27/22 Page 1 of 13 Page ID #:6204 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, WESTERN DIVISION 11 12 13 14 DENNIS RUTHERFORD, et al., …
Brief • September 22, 2022
Estate of Thomas Giles v. Ga Dept of Corrections, GA,Complaint, Wrongful Death-Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 1:22-cv-00084-JRH-BKE Document 18 Filed 09/22/22 Page 1 of 18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA AUGUSTA DIVISION VANESSA LOYAL, Plaintiff, v. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, ROBERT ROBERSON, individually, MARCUS PHILLIPS, individually, REGGIE …
Brief • September 22, 2022
Santos v. The U.S.A., NY, Response to Dft's Letter of Intent to File a Motion on Bivens Claim, Excessive Force, 2022 Case 7:21-cv-08009-PMH Document 78 Filed 09/22/22 Page 1 of 6 COHEN & FITCH LLP 110 E. 59TH ST. SUITE 3200 NEW YORK, NY 10022 TEL: 212.374.9115 FAX: 332.777.2172 ______________________________________________________________________________ …
Article • September 21, 2022
Oops! Accidental Dismissal of Case Over Alabama Jail Detainee’s Death Not Forgiven by Eleventh Circuit by Jenifer Lockwood by Jenifer Lockwood Sticking with the adage that ignorance of the law is no excuse, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled on August 20, 2021, that it could …
Article • September 21, 2022
Filed under: Drug Overdose, Accidents
Sixth Circuit Says Detroit Jail Guard Suspended for Failing To Check on Detainee Not Liable for His Death From Drugs Hidden in His Rectum by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 8, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held a guard at the Detroit …
Tenth Circuit Refuses to Hold Colorado Guards Liable for Detainee’s Suicide Despite Her Previous Attempts at Same Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Under the doctrine of qualified immunity (QI), prison and jail guards may be sued only when they disregard a known risk to a detainee under …
Article • September 21, 2022
TDCJ Driven Batty Over Demolition Plans by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A colony of 750,000 bats has upended plans by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to demolish an abandoned warehouse next to the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville. The massive building, occupying an entire city …
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