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Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Seventh Circuit Holds Illinois Prisoners Retain Fourth Amendment Rights to Bodily Privacy, Overruling Circuit Precedents by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 11, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that prisoners retain Fourth Amendment rights to bodily privacy requiring that physical and visual strip searches be reasonable. …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Food, Water
Georgia Prisoners Lacked Food, Water, Leading to Melee by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A violent disturbance was reported inside Georgia’s Ware State Prison in early August 2020. A prisoner reporting from inside the prison on an illegal cellphone cited health issues, three meals a day consisting only of cheese …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Some Prisons Bear Names of Enslavers, Oppressors, Racists and Segregationists by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Questions are currently being raised about the historic figures in whose honor statues were erected and schools and streets were named. Names include those of segregationists, slave owners and racists. Now, attention is being …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19, Juvenile Prisons
COVID-19 Hits Fairfax, Virginia Juvenile Detention Center by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss An outbreak of COVID-19 began September 29, 2020, at the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in Fairfax County, Virginia, with eight staff and six juveniles testing positive over the next 10 days for the novel coronavirus that causes …
Federal Class Action Settlement Aims to Eliminate Horrific Conditions at Santa Barbara, California Jails in Three Years by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A federal class action lawsuit filed in December of 2017 alleging numerous humanitarian violations at Santa Barbara County Adult Detention Facilities (County Jail) settled on July 17, …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Almost Half of North Dakota Jail Tests Positive for COVID-19 by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Nearly half the population at North Dakota’s Grand Forks County Correctional Center (GFCCC) tested positive for COVID-19 on November 17, 2020. Of the jail’s 20 housing units, there were positive cases in 16 …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Drug Addiction
Opioid Crisis in Canadian Prisons Needs to be Addressed by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Claire Bodkin, Matthew Bonn and Sheila Wildeman wrote an article in March 2020 for The Conversation addressing the need for more comprehensive opioid testing and treatment programs in Canada’s prisons and jails. The crisis has …
CoreCivic and Securus Technologies Agree to Pay $3.7 Million to Settle Suit for Illegally Recording Attorney-Client Conversations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 31, 2020, a motion was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri revealing that CoreCivic and Securus Technologies (Defendants) had …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
$2 Million Settlement in Lawsuit Over N.Y. Prisoner Denied Emergency Eye Surgery Until She Went Blind by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 10, 2020, the U.S. signed off on a settlement of $2 million, including up to 25% in attorney fees, in a lawsuit brought by a federal …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Cell Phone Access
Scottish Prisoners Issued Mobile Phones During Pandemic by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Lockdowns instituted because of the coronavirus pandemic have had a benefit for Scottish prisoners. The Scottish Prison Services (SPS) spent over 160,000 pounds on mobile phones for prisoners to stay in touch with their families. The SPS …
Transgender Georgia Prisoner Files Second Lawsuit Over Lack of Treatment, Sexual Assaults, After Winning $250,000 Settlement for Same Issues by On November 23, 2020, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) helped Ashley Diamond, a Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner who is transgender, file …
Article • December 29, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, PLN related
The State of Covid-19 in Prison as of 12-15-2020 by Dear Human Rights Defender,   As 2020 comes to a close more than 20% of the nation’s prisoners have contracted Covid and thousands have died. The year has been challenging for HRDC on all fronts as we have kept publishing …
Article • December 15, 2020
Ohio Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Prisoner’s Mandamus Petition Seeking to Compel Production of Coroner’s Photographs of Murder Victim by On November 12, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed a district court of appeals’ dismissal of a prisoner’s petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to compel the Office …
Article • December 8, 2020
USCIS Not required to Travel to Prison to Administer Citizenship and Immigration Services by On December 8, 2020 the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of Miguel Angel Mendoza-Tarango mandamus claim under 28 U.S.C. 1915A(b)(l) seeking an order to compel United States Citizenship and …
6th Circuit: Prisoner’s Seizure Condition Not Attributable to Drug Withdrawal; SHP Nurses Not Deliberately Indifferent by  The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that nurses working for Southern Health Partners, Inc. (SHP) were not deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s detox condition that led to seizures. The court’s September 21, 2020, …
Article • December 1, 2020
$40,000 Settlement for Corizon’s Breach of Contract by Corizon Health paid $40,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it beached a contract with Nursefinders. The February 26, 2016, settlement resolved a lawsuit Nursefinders filed in a Virginia state court, but which was removed to a federal court, on March 20, 2015. …
Article • December 1, 2020
Filed under: PLN related
HRDC's GivingTuesday Request by Paul Wright Dear Human Rights Supporter, As we end 2020, the Covid pandemic is ravaging our nation’s prisons and jails with no end in sight. Even as vaccines are being approved to inoculate people against Covid, government agencies are announcing that the staff but not the …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Debit Card Issuers Still Prey on People Released from Prisons and Jails: HRDC Lawsuits Challenge Companies in Court by Andrew Stewart by Andrew Stewart Every year, over 650,000 people are released from state and federal prison systems while 11.6 million cycle through local jails. Traditionally, the exit process has included …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
NBA Owner Capitalizes on Mass Incarceration; Players Silent by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Members of National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) maintained their place at the forefront of the movement for racial justice even while encapsulated in the National Basketball Association (NBA) bubble during the 2020 championship playoffs. The basketball …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Arkansas Governor Hutchinson Grants Commutation for Blind Mother by Kevin Bliss Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson agreed to commute Willie Mae Harris’ sentence after 34 years in prison for accidentally shooting her abusive husband. She was released on June 5, 2020. Harris, 72, from Bradley, Arkansas was charged with murder in …
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