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Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Plastic Surgery Has a Troubled History Inside Prisons. Some Advocates Want It to Make a Comeback. Should cosmetic procedures be part of how society prepares prisoners to reenter it? by Zara Stone by Zara Stone, Mother Jones Starting in 2017, Thai media published a series of articles on the country’s …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Louisville Jail Counts 12 Deaths in Ten Months by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Before November 29, 2021, Louisville Metro Department of Corrections (LMDC) averaged three prisoner deaths per year. Ten months later, that number had skyrocketed; a dozen lives were lost in the lockup by October 3, …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
California Prison Guards Sentenced for Assaulting Prisoners by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett A pair of former guards with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) have been sentenced to federal prison for assaulting prisoners, one of whom died. A third guard has also been indicted on charges of …
‘Qualified Immunity Cannot Shield Them’: Fourth Circuit Advances Suit by Virginia Prisoners for Overlong Solitary Confinement by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On June 14, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to officials with Virginia’s Department of Corrections (DOC) in …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Staffing
Guards Fleeing Texas Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to a March 2022 report published by the Texas State Auditor, the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has an extremely high staff turnover rate — 32.8%, compared to a 21.5% rate for all state employees in fiscal year …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Nevada Muslim Prisoner Wins Suit Over Denial of Jumu’ah Prayer by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On June 14, 2022, the federal Court for the District of Nevada granted summary judgment to a Muslim state prisoner, agreeing with him that the state Department of Corrections (DOC) violated his constitutional rights …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Amended Consent Decree Entered in 11-Year-Old Class-Action Challenging Prisoner Healthcare in Illinois DOC by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 24, 2022, U.S. District Judge Jorge L. Alonso of the Northern District of Illinois entered an amended consent decree in a class-action suit challenging prisoner healthcare in the state …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Hawaii Inmate Deaths Are The Highest In 10 Years. But The State Can’t Say Why Corrections officials still aren’t providing a cause of death for 20 of the 23 prisoners who died in Hawaii prisons and jails last year. by Kevin Dayton by Kevin Dayton Hawaii had more inmates die …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Federal Judge in South Carolina Holds BOP Liable for Delayed Treatment That Left Federal Prisoner Partially Blinded by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On May 3, 2022, the federal court for the District of South Carolina granted summary judgment to a federal prisoner left partially blinded by delayed treatment …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
$450,000 Settlement to Illinois Prisoner Whose Untreated Boil Left Him Paraplegic by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On August 17, 2021, after the IllinoisDepartment of Corrections (DOC) paid $450,000 to settle claims of medical neglect that cost him the use of his legs, a state prisoner successfully petitioned a federal …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
$3.5 Million Paid To Estate Of Iowa Jail Detainee Who Suffered Seizure And Died When Left Unattended by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On March 14, 2022, an Iowa court awarded $3.5 million to the estate of a pretrial detainee who suffered a seizure and was left to die in …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
California Prison Officials Cleared After Prisoner Murders Two Sex Offenders by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a letter to PLN on May 16, 2022, the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) confirmed that no one was disciplined at the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) following …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Eighth Circuit Revives Missouri Prisoner’s Claim Against Prison Food Manager for Denying Renal Diet by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 14, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed the grant of summary judgment to a Missouri prison food service director accused of interfering …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
$3 Million From Forsyth County, No Stay in Civil Case Against Wellpath Nurse Indicted for Involuntary Manslaughter of N.C. Jail Detainee by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD After a federal court in North Carolina declined to stay a civil case against Wellpath and a nurse it employed accused …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
California City Ends Private Jail Operator’s Contract After Mass Employee Resignations by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On September 7, 2022, the city council in California’s Costa Mesa voted to hire 11 full-time jailers to keep the city lockup open. But at an estimated cost of $1.12 million, the city …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Hunger Strikes
Rhode Island Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike, Staff Denies It by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tshirhart On August 22, 2022, as many as half of the prisoners in the maximum-security unit of Rhode Island’s Adult Correctional Institution staged a hunger strike, protesting conditions in the 144-year-old prison. But officials with …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Third Circuit Agrees With Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Access-to-Courts Claim, But Grants Defendants Qualified Immunity by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 15, 2022, in a precedential ruling that might help the next prisoner plaintiff, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that “a prisoner has a …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
BOP Settles for $4.18 Million With Six Prisoners Raped by Guard at Now-Shuttered Manhattan Federal Jail by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has been under intense scrutiny from lawmakers over misconduct by guards and officials at multiple prisons. Some of the worst behavior …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Fifth Circuit Holds PLRA’s ‘Three-Strikes’ Provision Does Not Apply to Actions Removed From State Court by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 9, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that prisoners claiming indigent status in a federal civil rights suit are not barred by …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Escapes, Wrongful Death
Arizona Jail Racks Up Four Deaths And Two Escapes In Less Than Two Months by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman After two detainees died within a week at Arizona’s Pima County Jail — and just before two more committed suicide — two other detainees managed to walk out, all within …
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