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Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
San Diego County Pays $250,000 After Detainee Suicide in County Jail by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins On March 29, 2022, the federal court for the Southern District of California approved a settlement between the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department (SDSD) and the widow of a 21-year-old U.S. Marine who …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Education
New Federal ‘Fresh Start’ Student Loan Policy May Help Prisoners in Default by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 26, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced a new “fresh start” policy for people whose student loans are in default, and it may help prisoners who would otherwise …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Excessive-Force Claim by Now-Incarcerated Former Maryland Guard Survives by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On September 2, 2021, the federal court for the District of Maryland denied a motion for summary judgment made by a state prison guard who is the defendant in a case brought by a prisoner who …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Mississippi Attempts to Offload Prisoner Healthcare Costs Onto Medicaid by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On April 21, 2022, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed H.B. 936, a new law creating “special care facilities” to house and provide healthcare for about 600 “medically frail” state prisoners eligible for parole …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Informants, Tape Recordings
Wisconsin High Court Admits Into Evidence Secret Tape of Prisoner Made by Fellow Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 1, 2022, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin decided that just because a jailhouse snitch used a government-provided device to tape incriminating statements made by a fellow pretrial …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$2.1 Million Settlement for Estate of Detainee Who Committed Suicide in Scandal-Plagued Ohio Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 5, 2022, Ohio’s Cuyahoga County agreed to pay $2.1 million to the estate of a mentally ill detainee arrested on bogus charges who was then left to …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Escapes, Murder by Escapees
Alabama Prisoner Who Escaped With Jail Guard Lover Charged in Her Death on the Run by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On July 12, 2022, the District Attorney (DA) for Alabama’s Lauderdale County announced murder charges against a former detainee in the county jail who escaped with the help …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Experimenting on Prisoners: New California Lawsuits Reveal Old Abuses by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD The City of Philadelphia formally apologized on October 6, 2022, for medical experiments conducted on some 300 men — mostly Black, many of them pretrial detainees — incarcerated at the now-shuttered Holmesburg Prison …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Fifth Circuit Upholds Nearly $13.5 Million Restitution Order Against Federal Prisoner by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On February 25th, 2022, winning turnedout to be losing for a federal prisoner when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a massive restitution order issued by a district …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Maine Settles Suit Over COVID-19 Jobless Benefits Seized From Prisoners by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Like many prison systems across America, Maine’s Department of Corrections (DOC) has a work-release program that allows prisoners to hold jobs in local communities while serving their sentence. But when the COVID-19 pandemic struck …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A convicted bank robber had 30 months added to his 17-year prison sentence on September 26, 2022, for bribing an Alabama jail guard to smuggle him a cellphone, K2 “spice” paper, and other contraband. According to a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, while …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Death Penalty
South Carolina Judge Halts State Executions by Electrocution and Firing Squad by David Reutter, Edward Lyon by David M. Reutter and Ed Lyon On September 6, 2022, the Richland County Court of Common Pleas granted an injunction in a challenge brought by four condemned South Carolina prisoners to 2021 state …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Michigan Supreme Court Says Prisoner’s Possession of Cell Phone by Itself Doesn’t Show Threat to Security by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 28, 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court held that possession of a cell phone by a prisoner may not justify an enhanced sentence under the state …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Ohio County Pays $2.5 Million for Photographing Female Detainees’ Tattooed Private Areas by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On January 7, 2022, Ohio’s Franklin County Board of Commissioners settled a suit brought by a class of former female detainees in the county jail who claimed their constitutional rights were …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
San Diego County Pays $3.488 Million After Jail Detainee Dies in Cell Extraction by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In October 2022, PLN successfully concluded a months-long effort to obtain a copy of an agreement by San Diego County to pay nearly $3.5 million to settle its part of a …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Federal Judge Calls Out BOP’s ‘Plinko’ Tactics, Orders Surgeon Found for Trans Prisoner’s Gender-Confirming Procedure by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On April 18, 2022, after finding the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) “employed tactics similar to the game of Plinko on The Price is Right,” an exasperated federal judge …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
San Diego County Pays $8.1 Million After Jail Guard Fatally Shot Fleeing Detainee in the Back by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 22, 2022, San Diego County agreed to pay $8.1 million to settle claims that a deputy outside a county jail chased a fleeing detainee and fatally …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Tablet Advertising That Can Also Issue Discipline by Dave Mass by Dave Maas Imagine you’ve been arrested and are sitting in county lock-up. You need to make arrangements for bail, a lawyer, and a caretaker for your kids or pets. Maybe you need someone to …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief by Anastasia Valeeva, Weihua Li, Susie Cagle by Anastasia Valeeva, Weihua Li, and Susie Cagle President Biden’s signature American Rescue Plan Act gave local governments $350 billion to recover from COVID-19. They spent much of it on …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
North Dakota Prisoner’s Conviction for Assault on Guard Vacated Due To Erroneous Jury Instruction by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 26, 2022, the SupremeCourt of North Dakota vacated a state prisoner’s conviction for aggravated assault of a guard because the trial court committed error by instructing the …
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