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Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Failure to Treat, COVID-19
Denied Medical Care During Pandemic, New Jersey Prisoner Treats Infected Wound With Bleach by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell While the coronavirus runs rampant through the country’s prisons, medical treatment for even serious problems has taken a backseat, leaving prisoners to get creative and perform their own treatment. For one …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Efforts to Keep COVID-19 Out of Montana Prisons Fuels Outbreaks in County Jails by Alex Sakariassen by Alex Sakariassen, Kaiser Health News, September 29, 2020 When Joshua Martz tested positive for COVID-19 this summer in a Montana jail, guards moved him and nine other inmates with the disease into a …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Private Prisons, COVID-19
Two-Thirds of Nevada Prisoners Confined in Arizona Private Prison Test Positive for COVID-19 by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson "We said since day one, prisons, especially private prisons shielded from transparency and oversight, are a hot spot for COVID-19 transmission.” That’s what the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nevada …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Failure to Treat, COVID-19
Coronavirus: A Second Wave of Infection by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen, M.D. It may be useful to know some more about the words epidemiologists use to describe disease statistics. Incidence refers to the number of new infections. Prevalence or “active cases” refers to the number currently …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Eleventh Circuit Vacates COVID-19 Injunction Against Miami Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Just because prisoners get sick with COVID-19 in a jail too crowded to practice safe social distancing does not make jail officials liable because so long as they say they are doing “their best,” they …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Telephone Rates
$225,000 Windfall in Lehigh County, Pa. But Officials Don’t Cut Jail Phone Costs by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Renegotiation of its jail telephone contract netted Pennsylvania’s Lehigh County an unbudgeted $225,000 windfall. Mark Pinsley, the county comptroller, urged county officials to put that “revenue back into efforts to …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Ankle Monitor Shortage at Chicago Jail Put Prisoner Releases During COVID in Limbo by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Chicago’s Cook County Jail expanded its electronic monitoring program (EM) and moved detainees to home confinement in response to COVID-19. As officials ran out of ankle monitors, at least 10 …
Brief • October 26, 2020
Lippert v. Jeffreys, IL, Def. Response to Motion to Compel Employee Testing, Covid Response, 2020 Case: 1:10-cv-04603 Document #: 1351 Filed: 10/26/20 Page 1 of 11 PageID #:18190 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DON LIPPERT, et al., Plaintiffs, v. J.B. PRITZKER, et al., …
Brief • October 23, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Nunez v. City of New York, NY, 10th Monitor Report, Covid Response, 2020 Case 1:11-cv-05845-LTS-JCF Document 360 Filed 10/23/20 Page 1 of 296 Tenth Report of the Nunez Independent Monitor Tenth Monitoring Period January 1, 2020 – June 30, 2020 Case 1:11-cv-05845-LTS-JCF Document 360 Filed 10/23/20 Page 2 of 296 …
Brief • October 16, 2020
Parsons v. Shinn, AZ, Ptf. Reply in Support of Motion to Enforce Court Order, Covid Response, 2020 Case 2:12-cv-00601-ROS Document 3781 Filed 10/16/20 Page 1 of 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Jared G. Keenan (Bar No. 027068) Casey Arellano (Bar No. 031242) ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA …
Armstrong v. Newsom, CA, Order Re Depositions, Abuse of Disabled Prisoners, 2020 Case 4:94-cv-02307-CW Document 3135 Filed 10/14/20 Page 1 of 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 DONALD SPECTER – 083925 RITA K. LOMIO – 254501 MARGOT MENDELSON – …
Brief • October 14, 2020
Lippert v. Jeffreys, IL, Motion to Compel Employee Testing, Covid Response, 2020 Case: 1:10-cv-04603 Document #: 1345 Filed: 10/14/20 Page 1 of 13 PageID #:17991 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DON LIPPERT, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ROB JEFFREYS, et al., Defendants. …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Why Did 77 Ohio Prisoners Die of COVID-19, but Just 10 in Pennsylvania? by Cid Standifer, Brie Zeltner A look at how overcrowding and poor design contributed to two of the worst national outbreaks by Cid Standifer and Brie Zeltner, Eye on Ohio, Aug. 21, 2020 This article was provided …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
BOP Inspector General Rips State for Failure to Control COVID-19 at Lompoc in California by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz has issued a report itemizing the multitude of mistakes and mismanagement that aggravated the troubled agency’s response to the COVID-19 …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
DC Federal Court Enters Partial Preliminary Injunction Against District Jails For COVID-19 Deficiencies by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In an order entered June 18, 2020, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the federal district court of the District of Columbia entered a preliminary injunction against the district’s Department of Corrections (“DOC”), …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
More Than Half of Chicago’s COVID-19 Cases Linked to Cook County Jail by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Almost 60 percent of COVID-19 cases in Chicago were linked to police throwing people in the Cook County Jail and then releasing them to their home communities, according to a Harvard University …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Staffing
National Guard Called in to Help Run Indiana State Prisons by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Indiana National Guard has switched roles in helping the Indiana Department of Correction (“IDOC”) during the coronavirus pandemic, from that of health-care workers to prison guards, as prison staff become infected by COVID-19. …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Prison Postcard: Life in the Time of COVID, Correctional Center, Virginia by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel Rosen I’m here at the Greensville Correctional Center in southern Virginia. This place holds up to 3,000 inmates. On August 7, we went on lockdown for the second time in four months. There …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
New York Governor Cuomo Creates Prison Nursing Home During Pandemic by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A recent report by The Interceptoutlined New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan to move elderly prisoners to an “isolated” upstate prison to allegedly protect them during the pandemic, and how this plan may …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
First Wrongful Death Claim Against San Quentin Prison Filed Over COVID-19 Death by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The family of one of the prisoners who died of COVID-19 at San Quentin prison in California has filed the first wrongful death claim — a precursor to a lawsuit — against …
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