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Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Fifth Circuit Upholds Nearly $13.5 Million Restitution Order Against Federal Prisoner by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On February 25th, 2022, winning turnedout to be losing for a federal prisoner when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a massive restitution order issued by a district …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Maine Settles Suit Over COVID-19 Jobless Benefits Seized From Prisoners by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Like many prison systems across America, Maine’s Department of Corrections (DOC) has a work-release program that allows prisoners to hold jobs in local communities while serving their sentence. But when the COVID-19 pandemic struck …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A convicted bank robber had 30 months added to his 17-year prison sentence on September 26, 2022, for bribing an Alabama jail guard to smuggle him a cellphone, K2 “spice” paper, and other contraband. According to a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, while …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Death Penalty
South Carolina Judge Halts State Executions by Electrocution and Firing Squad by David Reutter, Edward Lyon by David M. Reutter and Ed Lyon On September 6, 2022, the Richland County Court of Common Pleas granted an injunction in a challenge brought by four condemned South Carolina prisoners to 2021 state …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Michigan Supreme Court Says Prisoner’s Possession of Cell Phone by Itself Doesn’t Show Threat to Security by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 28, 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court held that possession of a cell phone by a prisoner may not justify an enhanced sentence under the state …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Ohio County Pays $2.5 Million for Photographing Female Detainees’ Tattooed Private Areas by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On January 7, 2022, Ohio’s Franklin County Board of Commissioners settled a suit brought by a class of former female detainees in the county jail who claimed their constitutional rights were …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
San Diego County Pays $3.488 Million After Jail Detainee Dies in Cell Extraction by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In October 2022, PLN successfully concluded a months-long effort to obtain a copy of an agreement by San Diego County to pay nearly $3.5 million to settle its part of a …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Federal Judge Calls Out BOP’s ‘Plinko’ Tactics, Orders Surgeon Found for Trans Prisoner’s Gender-Confirming Procedure by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On April 18, 2022, after finding the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) “employed tactics similar to the game of Plinko on The Price is Right,” an exasperated federal judge …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
San Diego County Pays $8.1 Million After Jail Guard Fatally Shot Fleeing Detainee in the Back by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 22, 2022, San Diego County agreed to pay $8.1 million to settle claims that a deputy outside a county jail chased a fleeing detainee and fatally …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Tablet Advertising That Can Also Issue Discipline by Dave Mass by Dave Maas Imagine you’ve been arrested and are sitting in county lock-up. You need to make arrangements for bail, a lawyer, and a caretaker for your kids or pets. Maybe you need someone to …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief by Anastasia Valeeva, Weihua Li, Susie Cagle by Anastasia Valeeva, Weihua Li, and Susie Cagle President Biden’s signature American Rescue Plan Act gave local governments $350 billion to recover from COVID-19. They spent much of it on …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
North Dakota Prisoner’s Conviction for Assault on Guard Vacated Due To Erroneous Jury Instruction by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 26, 2022, the SupremeCourt of North Dakota vacated a state prisoner’s conviction for aggravated assault of a guard because the trial court committed error by instructing the …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
DOJ Finds Unconstitutional Conditions at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 20, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report finding conditions at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman likely violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the prisoners …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Abandoned Property
Seventh Circuit: Chicago Police Department’s 30-Day Claim-or-Forfeit Policy for Arrestee Property Is Constitutionally Adequate by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On April 18, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear a challenge that the abandoned property policy of the Chicago Police Department …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Over $386,000 Awarded to Mississippi Prisoner, Plus Hip Surgery He Was Denied by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 31, 2022, the federal court for the Southern District of Mississippi granted a state prisoner’s petition and enjoined the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to provide him total hip …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Eighth Circuit Rules Federal Prisoner Need Only Know Item Is Prohibited To Support Conviction for Possession of Contraband by David Reutter by David M. Reutter How much actual knowledge does a prisoner need to have of items in his possession to support a contraband conviction? According to the U.S. Court …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Wisconsin Pays $8,000 To State Prisoner After Seventh Circuit Revives Retaliation Claim Against Guard Over Destroyed Legal Documents by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 5, 2022, a Wisconsin state prisoner signed off on an agreement to accept $8,000 to resolve claims that a guard destroyed his legal …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
$215,000 Awarded to New Jersey Detainee Assaulted by Jail Guards by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On October 22, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey awarded $215,000 in damages to a former pretrial detainee at the Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) for injuries suffered during an …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Fifth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Texas Jailers Who Refused Medical Care to Detainee Dying of Drug Overdose by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 1, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to staff …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Parole Board Members Miss Work, Leaving Nebraska Prisoners Locked Up by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart Each year, thousands of Nebraska prisoners go before the state Parole Board, hoping to return to their lives and their families. But when board members don’t show up for work, people often stay in …
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