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Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Ohio Jails Under Investigation by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A pattern of deaths, escapes and alleged civil rights abuses statewide have spurred investigations of at least two major county jails and increased oversight of 313 detention facilities in Ohio, local media revealed in January 2020. Governor Mike DeWine admitted …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Commissary, Telephone Rates
San Francisco Eliminates Fees on Jail Phone Calls by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson We are never again going to take a commission or make money off of products and services provided to incarcerated people and their support networks, their families,” declared Anne Stuhldreher, director of the San Francisco Treasurer’s …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Maine DOC, Medical Provider, Pay $250,000 Settlement Due to Excessive Force on 11-Year-Old by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The state of Maine and medical provider CorrectCare Solutions (now Wellpath) paid a 14-year-old $250,000 after two guards at a juvenile detention center “bashed” his face into a metal bed frame, …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Wisconsin: Court Dismisses Prisoners’ Suit Over Asbestos, Mold on Procedural Grounds by Chad Marks by Chad Marks An October 8, 2019, order from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin dismissed for procedural violations a lawsuit brought by prisoners at the state’s Prairie Du Chien Correctional Institution. …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Shock Incarceration
Consultants Advising Rich on Prison Life by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Even before he was found guilty in New York on two counts of rape on February 24, 2020, Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein hired a prison consultant – Craig Rothfeld, CEO of Inside Outside Ltd. – to teach …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Does Increased Guard Violence Mean Texas Prisoners Are at Greater Risk? by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Violence perpetrated against prisoners by staff of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has risen dramatically over the past decade, according to the prison system’s own statistics. From 6,624 use-of-force incidents by …
Transgender Woman Who Says She Was Raped, Beaten, Sues Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center by A transgender woman who was housed with male prisoners at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. (MDC), sued the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on the grounds that staff ignored her requests for safety, resulting …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Jails and Prisons Have Reduced Their Populations in the Face of the Pandemic, but Not Enough To Save Lives by Emily Widra, Peter Wagner Our updated analysis finds that the initial efforts to reduce jail populations have slowed, while the small drops in state prison populations are still too little …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
The Prison Was Built to Hold 1,500 Inmates. It Had Over 2,000 Coronavirus Cases by Dara Lind Prison overcrowding has been quietly tolerated for decades. But the pandemic is forcing a reckoning. by Dara Lind, ProPublica This article was originally published June 18, 2020, by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
How Long Can You Hide a Dead Body in a Prison Cell? by Keri Blakinger Mental-health problems, short staffing plague a Texas lockup in COVID lockdown. by Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project, originally published July 13, 2020 Source Materials If things were a little too quiet in a particular cell …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California:In June 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) commuted 21 state prisoners’ sentences, a dozen of them were for murder convictions, patch.com reported. Seven were committed when the prisoner was 22 or younger. Half of the prisoners are now 59 or older. One commutation went to …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Court Approves $1,250,000 Settlement in Suit Against Tennessee County for Fair Labor Violations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 10, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Eastern Division, modified and approved a $1.25 million settlement of a lawsuit against Madison County, Tennessee that …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
New Jersey: Commission Recommends State Take 100 Steps to Improve Re-Entry for Ex-Prisoners by Chad Marks by Chad Marks A commission that was legislatively mandated recommended in an October 2019 report that New Jersey improve re-entry services for those leaving prison. The Reentry Services Commission outlined 100 steps to aid …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Williams & Connolly, HRDC Win Censorship Case Against Virginia Regional Jail, $210,000 in Attorney Fees by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Williams & Connolly LLP of Washington, D.C. and the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), parent organization of Prison Legal News (PLN), have won a federal civil rights judgment against …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Kansas Leads Country in Female Incarceration Rates by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss According to the latest surveys, the national female prison population is increasing more rapidly than males — and Kansas is one of the leading contributors to this trend. A report put out by the Prison Policy Initiative …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Hepatitis, Failure to Treat
Court Orders South Carolina Prisons to Move Forward with Hepatitis C Treatment by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On January 14, 2020, Judge Margaret Seymour of the Florence division of the U.S. District Court for South Carolina signed preliminary approval of a settlement order granting hepatitis-C (HCV) testing and treatment …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
New Law in Maryland Reveals Pathetic Prison Wages by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A new law in Maryland approved last year required disclosure of wages paid to prisoners, information that The Baltimore Sun reported on January 2, 2020. The law covered the Division of Correction (DOC), which employs about …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Voting, Voting Rights
DC Council Approves Voting in Prison Ahead of November Election by Nicole D. Porter by Nicole D. Porter The DC Council approved an emergency bill July 7, 2020 that included the Restore the Vote Amendment, authorizing voting by residents incarcerated in jail or prison with a felony conviction. The District …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
BOP Guard Pleads Guilty to Sexually Molesting Prisoners at MCC Manhattan by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell On March 4, 2020, federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Colin Akparanta pleaded guilty to the 2017 sexual abuse of a female prisoner at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, thereby …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Supreme Court Affirms Lower-Court Dismissal of Colorado Prisoner In Forma Pauperis Actions by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Prisoner Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) of 1995 barred prisoners from filing a new lawsuit “in forma pauperis (IFP),” or without payment of a filing fee, if the prisoner had previously had …
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