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’s dismissal of a suit filed by a California prisoner who claimed prison officials had wrongly punished him for reporting staff misconduct. The 2-1 decision vacated a grant of summary judgment ...
Article • December 12, 2017
Filed under: Bail, Bail Bonds
of the scourge of money bail”, said Equal Justice Under Law. See: Thompson v. Moss Point, Mississippi, USDC, S.D. Mississippi, Case NO 1:15-CV-182; Pierce v. The City of Velda , USDC, E.D. Missouri, Case ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
days later. He then filed a regular grievance, which was denied a week later due to insufficient information about when he was assigned to the upper tier. On October 1, 2014, Custis amended his regular ...
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
and of obedience to the judicial hierarchy.” The strong policy reasons behind it include “(1) avoidance of indefinite litigations; (2) consistency of results in [the] same litigation; (3) essential ...
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
of Killmer Lane & Newman, LLP and Haddon Morgan & Foreman, P.C. See: Partridge v. Pelle, U.S.D.C. (D. Col.), Case No. 1:17-cv-02941-CMA-STV.  Sources: www.denverpost.com, www.westword.com ...
;s office by September 1, 2018. While Reyna said there may need to be changes with respect to the SCU, he noted that “it will require action by the state legislature to change current statutes ...
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
abuses of the American police state, as well as doing what we can to end those abuses. Your donations and support help make our work possible. If every person reading this editorial donated $1, we would ...
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Amid Scandal, Missouri Governor Issues Commutations and Pardons, Passes New Laws Before Resigning by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell As his resignation was about to take effect late on June 1 ...
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
’s prison population by 10 percent and its corrections budget by $262 million over the next decade. The Act was signed into law by Governor John Bel Edwards on November 1, 2017 in an attempt ...
Article • August 10, 2016
a medical evaluation. Three hours later, at about 1:45 a.m., he was released. By law, according to McRedmond, the jail could not detain Grigorieff or even ask him to stay for his own welfare. The jail lobby ...
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct
away, police saw the erratically driven Mercedes-Benz. Imperato knew she had been pulled over for “weaving,” and she refused to take a breathalyzer test. Then, on May 1, 2014, Judge Gisele ...
rate of incarceration. The U.S. accounts for 5% of the world's population, but 25% of the prisoners on the planet. An estimated 2.3 million U.S. adults, 1/32 of the U.S. adult population, are under ...
and then transfer them to prison-like facilities before they are deported. In some cases, U.S. citizens are expatriated by mistake. [See: PLN, April 2013, p.1; March 2013, p.40]. ICE claims to have revised its ...
, on April 1, 2015, Holmgren confirmed that he had been fired. While he would not disclose the reason, the Associated Press reported that sterilization had been part of plea bargain discussions in at least ...
of violence in Georgia’s prison system. [See: PLN, Feb. 2014, p.1]. Sources: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, www.dailymail.co.uk, www.wrdw.com, www.sandrarose.com, www.chronicle.augusta.com, www.41nbc.com ...
that qualified immunity was unavailable absent “prompt action to comply with Earley.” See: Betances v. Fischer, U.S.D.C. (S.D. NY), Case No. 1:11-cv-03200-SAS. On December 16, 2015, the Second Circuit ...
jail system. Specifically, the DOJ investigation found that Hinds County had violated prisoners’ rights by “(1) failing to provide conditions of confinement that offer reasonable safety ...
for $273,250. See: Heard v. Illinois DOC, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Ill.), Case No. 1:06-cv-00644 and Heard v. Wexford Health Sources, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Ill.), Case No. 3:09-cv-00449-JPG. At some point after his 2007 surgery ...
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Filed under: Medication, Death Penalty
. 2016, p.30], the Supreme Court held that in order to successfully challenge a method of execution, a prisoner must plead and prove: 1) that the proposed method presents a risk that is ‘“sure ...
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
newspaper. Citybeat reported that San Diego County had the highest mortality rate among California’s largest jail systems based on data from 2007 to 2012.” [See: PLN, Oct. 2013, p.1]. Although ...
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