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Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Federal Courts Throw Out Smart Communications’ Mail-Scanning Patent by Robert Schaeffer by K. Robert Schaeffer On October 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted judgment on the pleadings to Rutherford County and VendEngine, Inc., the contractor that digitizes prisoner mail in its jail, in …
Dying for Being Deadbeat Dad in Missouri Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 23, 2023, just 10 days after Ryan Everson was put in Missouri’s Clay County Jail, the 42-year-old was found dead in his cell. That his three children no longer had a father is cruelly …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Arizona Prison Forcibly Induced Labor for Pregnant Prisoners by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD After a 2019 incident during which a prisoner gave birth in her cell – delivering a baby into the toilet while guards ignored her cries for help – Arizona’s Perryville Prison in Buckeye started …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Tuberculosis
Prisoner Health Update: Tuberculosis by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Tuberculosis (TB) is an illness caused by a mycobacterium, a class of bacteria that is hard to see under the microscope, difficult to grow in culture, and has the audacity to live in the very immune cells (marcophages) …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Condemned Tennessee Prisoner Wins Fight Against Autopsy by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On April 20, 2022, the federal court for the Middle District of Tennessee issued a highly unusal order enjoining the Davidson County medical examiner from performing an autopsy or collecting bodily fluids from a prisoner following his …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Abortion
Illinois Makes Abortion Care Free for State Prisoners by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman After a media investigation found Illinois prisoners were forced to pay for abortion procedures – even covering the wages of guard escorts to and from medical providers – Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) ordered the state Department …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
It’s Official: BOP Prisoners on Expanded COVID-19 Home Confinement Staying Put by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi In its final rule that took effect on May 4, 2023, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) declared that prisoners placed on home confinement by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) under eligibility …
Brief • June 6, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19
Gray v. County of Riverside, CA, Order Terminating Covid-19 Plan, Covid-19, 2023 Case 5:13-cv-00444-VAP-OP Document 221 Filed 06/06/23 Page 1 of 4 Page ID #:18159 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 11 QUINTON GRAY, et al., on behalf …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Kidney, Food
Over $3.5 Million Paid to Incontinent Colorado Prisoner Offered Diapers Instead of Dining Priority Pass by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 16, 2022, a jury in federal court for the District of Colorado awarded $3.5 million to state prisoner Jason Brooks, whose complaint alleged simply that the …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Corizon Bankruptcy Threatens $6.4 Million Award to Family of Michigan Prisoner Whose Five-Day Jail Term Turned Into Death Sentence by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On December 5, 2022, a jury in federal court for the Western District of Michigan awarded $6.4 million to the estate of Wade Jones, 40, …
Texas Prisoner Allegedly Punished by a Guard for Talking About Abortion by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A Texas prisoner says she was punished for sharing abortion information with fellow prisoners at the Lane Murray Unit in April 2023. Kwaneta Yatrice Harris, 50, is serving a sentence for …
Publication • 2023
Filed under: COVID-19
The UCLA Law Covid Behind Bars Data Project-Doing Social Injustice Work From Inside a Law School, 2023 THE UCLA LAW COVID BEHIND BARS DATA PROJECT: Doing Social Justice Work from Inside a Law School Sharon Dolovich1 Table of Contents I. The UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project: A Brief …
Publication • 2023
Filed under: Hepatitis
Learning From Civil Rights Lawsuits-Policies for Expanding Hep. C Testing and Treatment, April 2023 WHITE PAPER SERIES Learning from Civil Rights Lawsuits: Policies for Expanding Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment in United States Prisons and Jails white paper series Learning from Civil Rights Lawsuits: Policies for Expanding Hepatitis C Testing …
From Crisis to Care-Ending the Health Harm of Women's Prison-Feb. 2023 February 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report aims to center the experiences of people incarcerated in California women’s prisons, which remain a serious and entrenched public health crisis. According to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), …
Article • May 24, 2023
Sheriff Accused of Blocking Investigation Into Georgia Jail Detainee Death by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott After an otherwise healthy 32-year-old succumbed to testicular cancer at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail in January 2023, the Director of the county Medical Examiner’s Office accused Sheriff Levon Allen of withholding documents …
Brief • May 15, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19
Romero-Lorenzo v. Koehn, AZ, Order on Motion and Joinder , Covid-19, 2023 Case 2:20-cv-00901-DJH-ESW Document 240 Filed 05/15/23 Page 1 of 11 1 SKC 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Claudia Romero-Lorenzo, 10 11 12 Plaintiff, No. …
Brief • May 4, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19
Romero-Lorenzo v. Koehn, AZ, Response to Dft's Motion for Reconsideration, Covid-19, 2023 Case 2:20-cv-00901-DJH-ESW Document 237 Filed 05/04/23 Page 1 of 15 1 Jean-Jacques Cabou (#022835) Thomas D. Ryerson (#028073) 2 Matthew R. Koerner (#035018) Margo R. Casselman (#034963) 3 PERKINS COIE LLP 2901 North Central Avenue, Suite 2000 4 …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Malpractice, Settlements
$32,500 Medical Malpractice Award to Ohio Prisoner for Ripped-Out Catheter by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On February 28, 2022, Judge Patrick E. Sheeran of the Ohio Court of Claims approved a settlement under which the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) agreed to pay a prisoner $32,500 to …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
$20,000 Settlement for Ohio Prisoner’s Slip-and-Fall Injury by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On July 23, 2021, Magistrate Scott Sheets presiding in the Ohio Court of Claims approved a settlement, under which the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) agreed to pay $20,000 to a former state prisoner who …
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 …
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