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Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Multiple Florida DOC Guards Convicted of Assault, Smuggling and Child Sex Abuse by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On March 6, 2022, a judge in Citrus County, Florida, handed down a prison term to a former state prison guard for child sex abuse, just days after three other …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Attorney Fees (PLRA)
$260,000 in Attorney Fees Awarded by California Federal Court after Finding Governing State Law Not Impacted by PLRA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After finding the award of attorney’s fees under California’s Code of Civil Procedure is not impacted by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. …
Article • May 1, 2022
Oklahoma Prison Guard and Gilbert Postelle’s Brother Among 125 Convicted in Drug Ring by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On April 5, 2022, federal prosecutors announced convictions in a massive drug-trafficking conspiracy for 125 associates of an Oklahoma-based prison gang, one of whom was a state prison guard …
Article • May 1, 2022
Chief of Training for Hawaii Prison and Jail Guards Charged with Falsifying Educational Credentials, Out on Paid Leave by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Hawaii Department of Public Safety (DPS) Public Training Officer J. Marte Martinez, who oversaw the training of thousands of state prison guards and deputy …
Article • May 1, 2022
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Massachusetts DOC Will Close Long-Time Maximum-Security Prison by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) announced on April 7, 2022, that it will close one of its oldest prisons, Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) Cedar Junction, citing a falling incarceration rate and nearly $30 million …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Vermont Supreme Court: Removing Prisoner From Programming Is Reviewable When Catalyst Was Punitive by In a decision reached on October 8, 2021, the Vermont Supreme Court held that a determination by state prison officials to remove a prisoner from programming was reviewable when the catalyst was punitive. The claim at …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue of PLN marks our 32nd anniversary. Having published 384 issues since May 1990, we have been reporting on the growth of the American police state for 32 years as its prison and jail population has more than doubled from one million to …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$5.5 Million Settlement to California Prisoner Left Incapacitated After Suicide Attempt at Santa Cruz County Jail by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On December 16, 2021, a federal court in California approved a $5.5 million settlement between Santa Cruz County and the estate of a former prisoner at the county …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Pittsburgh Jail Records 13 Deaths in Two Years, Only One From COVID-19 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, deaths have more than doubled at the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) in downtown Pittsburgh, even as the jail …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Nine Deaths in Three Years at CoreCivic Jail in Florida, None From COVID-19 by The Citrus County Detention Facility(CCDF) in Lecanto, Florida, serves a modest-sized county with a population of 149,383, slightly over the average in all 2,843 jail jurisdictions in the U.S. The mortality rate in all U.S. jails …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Fifth BOP Staffer Arrested in “Rape Club” at California Federal Prison by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Once known for famous prisoners from Hollywood, the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) at Dublin, California, is now in the spotlight for a different reason: As of March 2022, at least five …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Trapped in The Floods: With Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces by Alleen Brown by Alleen Brown The flooding in Dixie County, Florida, began in July, brought on by Tropical Storm Elsa. Then the rains kept falling. By August, the ground was saturated, and the semirural county …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
California Federal Court Approves Consent Decree Upgrading Mental Health Care at Alameda County Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved a Consent Decree in a class-action lawsuit filed against the Alameda County Jail in …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$11 Million Settlement Reached in Tennessee Suit Alleging False Arrest and False Imprisonment of Minors by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On December 20, 2021, a settlementwas approved by a federal court in a lawsuit alleging the illegal arrest and detention of some 1,500 children at the Rutherford County Juvenile …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
DOJ Reaches Settlement Over Disability Access With Vermont Prison System by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On October 28, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement with the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) to remedy conditions in state prisons that fail to comply with the Americans with …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Guard Arrested for Running “Fight Club” in New Jersey Prison Kitchen by Ashleigh Dye, Jayson Hawkins by Ashleigh Dye and Jayson Hawkins A New Jersey prison guard was arrested on October 1, 2021, on charges he ran a “fight club” in the kitchen he supervised at Bayside State Prison, regularly …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Death Penalty
Lifting Six-Year Moratorium, Oklahoma Treats Witnesses to Convulsing and Vomiting Prisoner During Execution by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders  Several journalists spoke out about what they witnessed during the execution by lethal injection of Oklahoma prisoner John Marion Grant on October 28, 2021, saying the 60-year-old convulsed over a dozen …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Tenth Circuit Says Disabled Colorado Prisoner Offered Diapers Rather Than Bathroom Pass May Deserve Damages Under ADA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In an opinion issued on September 8, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled the federal district court in Colorado erred in …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Nevada Federal Court Denies Motion to Compel Arbitration by Rapid Financial Solutions in Debit Card Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 30, 2021, a federal district court in Nevada denied a motion to compel arbitration in a lawsuit alleging that forcing prison release debit cards upon …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$6,500 Paid by Nevada DOC After Ninth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity for Withholding Evidence From Prisoner Accused of Smuggling Meth in Mail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED BY PLN, OFficials with the Nevada Department of Corrections (DOC) in 2020 lost a suit filed …
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