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Brief • July 6, 2023
Americans for Immigrant Justice v. US Dept of Homeland Security, DC, Order Granting and Denying Motion to Sever and Transfer Venue, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 1:22-cv-03118-CKK Document 102 Filed 07/06/23 Page 1 of 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE, et al., …
Article • June 27, 2023
Filed under: Food
“Urine In Apple Juice”: Aramark Sued by Indiana Prisoner by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 20, 2023, a lawsuit accusing prison food service giant Aramark Correctional Services survived screening under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e, in the federal court for the Southern District …
Article • June 27, 2023
Filed under: Escapes, Staffing
Two Philadelphia Jail Escapees Recaptured After Ten Days on the Run by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi On May 7, 2023, at roughly 8:30 p.m., two detainees escaped from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center. But it was not until the next day that guards realize they were missing. That was …
Rutherford v. Luna, CA, Order Granting Joint Stipulation, Confinement Conditions, 2023 Case 2:75-cv-04111-DDP Document 402 Filed 06/22/23 Page 1 of 14 Page ID #:7598 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 10 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, WESTERN DIVISION 11 DENNIS RUTHERFORD, et al., 12 …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
New York Finding Closed Prisons a Tough Sell by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Since its peak nearly two decades ago, New York’s prisoner population has fallen by half. Added to the millions of dollars it cost the state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) to build the prisons …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
“Night of Terror” in Indiana Jail Sees Detainees Assaulted by Fellow Prisoners Who Purchased Cell Keys From Guard by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss An Indiana jail guard and a jail detainee are headed to trial in the summer of 2023 on charges that the guard sold the detainee …
$775,000 Paid for Mentally Ill California Jail Detainee Who Compulsively Drank Water Until He Died by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On November 2, 2022, California’s Monterey County agreed to pay $775,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the estate of Rafael Ramirez Lara, a mentally ill detainee allegedly …
Seventh Circuit Allows Illinois Prisoner to Prove Administrative Remedy Was “Unavailable” in Double-Celling Complaint by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 14, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit took up the latest in a “slew” of cases by Illinois prisoners alleging they are “housed …
Brief • June 8, 2023
Rivera v. Redfern, PA, Opening Brief, Failure to Protect, 2023 Case: 23-1554 Document: 11-1 Page: 1 Date Filed: 06/08/2023 No. 23-1554 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT MICHAEL RIVERA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. REDFERN, et al Defendants-Appellees. On Appeal from the United States District Court for the …
Article • June 7, 2023
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Detainee Tunnels Through Walls of Decrepit Atlanta Jail to Stab Fellow Detainee by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The question must be asked: How did one detainee dig a tunnel to another’s cell – via a shower area, no less – to attack him? Did no guard notice …
Brief • June 6, 2023
Ross v. Johnson, NV, Order Renewing Preliminary Injunction, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 2:22-cv-00259-CDS-VCF Document 90 Filed 06/06/23 Page 1 of 6 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 2 3 4 5 Jesse Aron Ross, Plaintiff 6 7 Case No. 2:22-cv-00259-CDS-VCF V. Order Renewing Preliminary Injunction &: Appointing …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Prisoners Caught in Ukraine War Crossfire by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman During Ukraine’s successful offensive to liberate the southern city of Kherson in October 2022, retreating Russian forces took 2,500 Ukrainian prisoners with them. What followed was a Kafka-esque journey through five countries, at the end of which the …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Kidney, Food
Over $3.5 Million Paid to Incontinent Colorado Prisoner Offered Diapers Instead of Dining Priority Pass by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 16, 2022, a jury in federal court for the District of Colorado awarded $3.5 million to state prisoner Jason Brooks, whose complaint alleged simply that the …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Staffing
No More Naps for Massachusetts Guards by Eike Blohm, MD By Eike Blohm, MD After two years of negotiations between the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC), an agreement was reached on December 20, 2022, to fix atrocious mental health care in state prisons, …
Publication • 2023
The Perspective of Incarcerated Persons (Panel Discussion) \\jciprod01\productn\U\UST\19-2\UST211.txt unknown Seq: 1 28-MAR-23 15:26 SYMPOSIUM REMARKS THE PERSPECTIVE OF INCARCERATED PERSONS (PANEL DISCUSSION) ORAY FIFER, RUDY MARTINEZ & PAUL WRIGHT; MODERATED PROFESSOR GREGORY SISK* BY Professor Gregory Sisk: When academics and lawyers get together and have conferences like this, we talk …
From Crisis to Care-Ending the Health Harm of Women's Prison-Feb. 2023 February 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report aims to center the experiences of people incarcerated in California women’s prisons, which remain a serious and entrenched public health crisis. According to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), …
Guards Filmed Walking Away from Burning Mexican Detention Center Where 38 Migrants Died by Jordan Arizmendi, Chuck Sharman by Jordan Arizmendi and Chuck Sharman A huge fire inside an immigration detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, just across the Mexican border from El Paso, killed 38 men on March 28, 2023. …
Article • May 19, 2023
Fourth Circuit Refuses Bivens Extension to Allow BOP Prisoner’s Damages Claim for “Degenerate Conditions” at Virginia Lockup by David Reutter by David Reutter Since the 2022 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in Egbert v. Boule, 142 S. Ct. 1793 (2022), there has been no expansion …
Brief • May 12, 2023
Ross v. Johnson, NV, Complaint, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 2:22-cv-00259-CDS-VCF Document 80 Filed 05/12/23 Page 1 of 21 .,k<s;se.. ~ . ~osS ~ \09575b Name and Inmate Booking Number ffi ~\..-'tll2.~:e..r + ~ '\?r:"is o a Plac of Confinement Mailing Address UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEV ADA …
Article • May 9, 2023
Filed under: Escapes, Food
“Come Hungry, Leave Handcuffed”: Virginia Detainees Who Tunneled Through Jail Wall Recaptured at IHOP by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On March 20, 2023, two detainees escaped from the jail annex in Newport News, Virginia, after tunneling through their cell wall. But their freedom lasted less than a day …
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