Skip navigation

Search

71830 results
Page 160 of 3592. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 ... 3588 3589 3590 3591 3592 | Next »

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 …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Prisoner Health Update: MRSA Infections by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD MRSA — Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus — is a bacterium that has become immune to Penicillin-like and Cephalosporin-class antibiotics. The pathogen is found where people live together in close quarters such as hospitals, nursing homes, and overcrowded U.S. …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Idaho Cancels Execution Because It Cannot Obtain Lethal Injection Drugs by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When it issued a death warrant for convicted murderer Gerald Pizzuto, Jr. on November 16, 2022, the Idaho Department of Corrections (DOC) admitted it did not have the drugs needed to carry …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Florida Supreme Court: Trial Courts Have Authority to Correct Sentencing Errors, But Subject to Time Limits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 16, 2022, the Supreme Court of Florida held that a trial court has authority to make corrections to sentence credits for jail and prison time …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
$115,000 Settlement for Excessive Pepper-Spraying of Maine Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After reaching a $115,000 settlement with the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC), a state prisoner dismissed his suit on October 21, 2021, in which he alleged guards at the Maine State Prison (MSP) used excessive …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Overcrowding, Rural Prisons
Mississippi Reopens Walnut Grove Prison Just in Time for Prison Population Explosion by Harold Hempstead byHarold Hempstead In October 2022, the Mississippi Corrections and Criminal Justice Oversight Task Force reported there were 2,192 more state prisoners than the year before. That pushed the state Department of Corrections (DOC) close to …
Page 160 of 3592. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 ... 3588 3589 3590 3591 3592 | Next »