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Reform Advocates Applaud Expiration of CoreCivic Contract in D.C. by At midnight on January 31, 2017, a welcome change came to the District of Columbia’s jail system with the expiration of the District’s 20-year contract with CoreCivic – formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America – to operate the Correctional …
Seventh Circuit Remands Untimely Appeal for Rule 4(a) Extension by On April 29, 2016, the Seventh Circuit reversed the dismissal of a civil detainee’s untimely appeal with instructions to treat a pro se post-judgment motion as a request for an extension of time under Fed.R.App.P. 4(a)(5). In 2006, Timothy Bell …
NCCHC Adopts New Solitary Confinement Standards by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Based on recent studies showing the adverse mental health effects of solitary confinement, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) adopted new standards for solitary in a report and position statement released April 10, 2016. The report …
Jackson v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, 2017 Case 3:15-cv-00920-NJR Document 145 Filed 05/04/17 Page 1 of 26 Page ID #943 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EAST ST. LOUIS DIVISION MICHAEL JACKSON, #M15131, Plaintiff, v. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., DIRECTOR OF WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., …
Human Rights Clinic - Designed to Break You, UT School of Law, 2017 Designed to Break You HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ON TEXAS’ DEATH ROW APRIL 2017 A R E P O RT F R O M T H E H U M A N R I G H T S …
Article • April 20, 2017
Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Denies Use of Solitary Confinement in Testimony before Congress by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Numerous federal prisoners have voiced strong condemnations of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Charles Samuels, after Samuels told a Senate committee that the BOP does not use …
Article • April 11, 2017
American Institute of Architects Rejects Petition to Protect Human Rights by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The leading organization for the nation's architects has rejected a call from some of its members to reject employment that would involve the design of certain prison facilities, such as execution chambers and Special …
PLN Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou by John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former counterterrorism consultant. He left the CIA in March 2004, later serving as a senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and senior intelligence advisor …
Fourth Circuit Reinstates Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Coerced Penis Surgery by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On June 7, 2016, a unanimous panel of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit partially reinstated a lawsuit brought by a West Virginia state prisoner who claimed prison officials had coerced him to …
28 Days in Chains by Christie Thompson and Joseph Shapiro by Christie Thompson and Joseph Shapiro, The Marshall Project On February 3, 2011, corrections officers at Lewisburg federal penitentiary in rural Pennsylvania arrived outside Sebastian Richardson’s cell door. With them was a man looking agitated and rocking back and forth. He …
Article • March 31, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Yale Law School Report Examines Variations in Death Row Housing Units by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School published a report in July 2016 that examined in detail the living arrangements for death row prisoners held by state Departments of Corrections. …
Article • March 31, 2017
Thousands of American prisoners spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement by Greg Rienzi by Greg Rienzi, John Hopkins Magazine Gabriel Eber has no shortage of macabre tales of life inside the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, a notoriously violent and chaotic men's prison on the outskirts of Meridian. Assaults (staff …
Dilworth v. McMahon, NC, Settlement, Pretrial Solitary Confinement, 2017 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that I, the undersigned, MICHAEL DILWORTH (hereinafter referred to as "Releasor"), for and in consideration of the sum of THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS N0/100 DOLLARS ($35,000.00) in cash, which is paid …
Gully v. Goines, IL, Merit Review, Retaliation, 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00211-DRH-SCW Document 7 Filed 03/30/17 Page 1 of 24 Page ID #84 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS RONNIE GULLY, Jr., Plaintiff, No. 17ïcv–00211ïDRH vs. RUSSEL GOINES, DEREK HUNDLEY, and C/O HOUSER, Defendants. MEMORANDUM AND …
Prison Legal News Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou - Full Interview by   Note: This is the full PLN interview with John Kiriakou; a shorter version was published as our April 2017 cover story, here. John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee …
Hamilton v. Vannoy, LA, Complaint, Prolonged Solitary Confinement for Death Row Prisoners, 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00194-SDD-RLB Document 1 03/29/17 Page 1 of 38 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ------------------------------------------------------------------------X MARCUS HAMILTON; WINTHROP EATON; and : MICHAEL PERRY, on their own behalf, and on behalf : of a class …
Brief • March 27, 2017
Doe v. Hommrich, Preliminary Injunction Order, Juvenile Solitary Confinement, 2017 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION JOHN DOE, a minor, by and through his Mother and next friend, SHARIEKA FRAZIER v. BONNIE HOMMRICH, et al. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Manzo v. County of Santa Clara, CA, Complaint, Medical Neglect and Solitary Confinement, 2017 Case 5:17-cv-01099 Document 1 Filed 03/02/17 Page 1 of 34 BD. SUP·' 7NRR24pr, J:28 HANO-D LIVERED 2 3 4 5 ROBERT R. POWELL, SBN 159747 SARAH E. MARINHO, SBN 293690 POWELL & ASSOCIATES 925 W. Hedding …
At Virginia's Supermax Prisons, Isolation and Abuse Persist Despite Reforms by By Katie Rose Quandt and Jack Denton, Solitary Watch Red Onion State Prison, a supermax complex in the southwest corner of Virginia near the Kentucky border, has long had a reputation as one of the harshest prisons in the nation. …
V.W. v. Conway, NY, Preliminary Injunction, Juvenile Solitary, 2017 Case 9:16-cv-01150-DNH-DEP Document 68 Filed 02/22/17 Page 1 of 51 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------V.W., a minor, by and through his parent and natural guardian DERECK WILLIAMS, R.C., a minor, by and through his parent and …
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