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Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
with serious offenses such as assault, robbery and child sexual abuse. Hip-hop choreographer Shane Sparks, for example, who was convicted in 2011 of having sex with a pre-teen girl, spent 135 days at Alhambra ...
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
; he said. Of the three mayors who testified, only Sanders had a registered sex offender living in her jurisdiction at the time. James Cassells, convicted of sexually abusing a 5-year-old boy in Alaska ...
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Filed under: Prison Reform
are incarcerated because they cannot afford to make bond. [See: PLN, June 2016, p.30]. A third focus is to assist people who are frequently jailed due to mental health or substance abuse issues. Statistics cited ...
for jail abuse, neglect or death ever in Oregon,” said attorney Jennifer Coughlin, referring to the $1,025,000 settlement she accepted in January 2017 on behalf of the family of a prisoner who ...
held that a lower court abused its discretion in denying a pro se prisoner leave to amend his complaint to allege an imminent danger of serious physical injury. On August 10, 2006, New York prisoner ...
society and defendants with mental disabilities who are sentenced to serve time in jails and prisons, particularly given the lack of necessary mental health programs and services provided to prisoners ...
certification order is likely to force either a plaintiff or a defendant to resolve the case based on considerations independent of the merits”; (2) the narrow category of cases which further “an interest ...
for failing to promptly report a detainee’s allegation of staff sexual abuse. Further, almost 200 complaints and serious incidents have been reported at GRJJC from late 2007 through October 2011, including ...
to reduce the risk of violence and not repairing malfunctioning locks on cell doors. MTC was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit concerning conditions at EMCF. Company spokesman Issa Arnita said in June ...
lawsuit that alleged “abusive and unconstitutional conditions of confinement” at the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) in New Orleans, Louisiana. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court ...
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
and killed when he threw away the keys to the prison van in an effort to thwart the escape attempt. Another guard was slightly injured, and Billy and co-defendant Frank Valdes were subsequently convicted ...
Article • January 10, 2015 • from PLN January, 2015
Colorado Prisoner Sues Security Guard Who Sexually Abused Her Moments after Giving Birth by Colorado Prisoner Sues Security Guard Who Sexually Abused Her Moments after Giving Birth Colorado ...
. That was a smart move by the state, as the youth prison where Briggs nearly died had been rife with abuse and staff misconduct for years. Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) Secretary Jon Litscher admitted ...
—most recently in December 2023—for security deficiencies, gang activity, mishandling sexual abuse claims, high staff turnover and contractual noncompliance, as PLN also reported. [See: PLN ...
Powell in prison less than two months before she died; thus, ADC officials should have been aware that she had a guardian who should have been consulted before she was taken off life support. Ryan defended ...
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
two or more violations of DOC's drug abuse policies. Prisoners challenged the ban under 42 U.S.C. §1983, claiming various constitutional violations. The DOC argued the ban applied only to contact ...
authorizing his suit. But the obvious futility of that exercise makes it the judicial equivalent of “Go ask your mother,” and every bit as weaselly. If the BOP won’t rein in its abusive guards ...
In-the-News Article • June 23, 2015
record. A 2014 ACLU investigation found abuse and neglect in CCA-run prisons where guards used "extreme isolation arbitrarily and abusively," exposed prisoners to contaminated ...
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Record Deaths at Rikers Island Blamed on Guards’ Absenteeism, Abuse and Corruption by Anthony Accurso, David Reutter by Anthony W. Accurso and David M. Reutter After 16 detainee deaths ...
that substance abuse contributed to the death but the exact cause was undetermined. It was also unreported by the jail. In 2019, Ronald Given, 42, died in a hospital a week after struggling with guards during ...
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