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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 ...
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
at the local, state and federal levels, and well-documented cases of prosecutorial misconduct that are often reported in Prison Legal News [see: PLN, Nov. 2014, p.1], criminal justice experts had hoped ...
. The Court of Appeals first noted that the district court erred in 1) refusing to consider Rivera’s website evidence, and 2) refusing to appoint counsel to assist Rivera in answering the summary judgment ...
Claims Act Section 189(1)(a-b) ... [and] declaring that Armor has converted, disposed of, obtained, and/or received public funds without right,” by falsifying payment vouchers and providing ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
if something like this happens to them.” See: Hernandez v. Johnson, U.S.D.C. (D. Colo.), Case No. 1:16-cv-01036-RBJ.  Additional sources: www.kdvr.com, www.westword.com   ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Settlements, Restitution
, to pay $432,930 in restitution. While serving his sentence at FCI Low in Arkansas, Simpson-El sustained an injury to his lower left leg at the ankle on September 1, 2009, which caused severe pain ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
out of the hearing during Hamill’s comments, disagreed. “Inmates are in restraints while they are at a restraint desk in level 1 because of safety concerns for staff and other inmates,&rdquo ...
of the defendants except Watson. See: Doe v. Dart, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Ill.), Case No. 1:14-cv-08296.  Additional source: www.chicagotribune.com ...
Article • July 2, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
; He was represented by the Chicago law firm of Loevy & Loevy. See: Burgess v. Baltimore Police Department, U.S.D.C. (D. MD), Case No. 1:15-cv-00834-RDB.  Additional sources ...
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