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Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Food
$1 Million Settlement in Inadequate Nutrition Class-Action Against New York Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 2, 2021, a federal district court in New York approved an agreement by Montgomery County to pay $1 million to resolve a federal class-action lawsuit alleging it provided inadequate nutrition …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$100,000 Paid by Pennsylvania DOC to Family of Pro Se Prisoner Litigant Who Committed Suicide by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A Pennsylvania prisoner’s long and contentious history with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) came to a bitter end on September 29, 2021, with an agreement by the state …
Settlement Relieves Death Row Isolation in Louisiana: Four Hours Daily Out of Cell, Five Hours Per Week in New Yard by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins In recent years, courts have begun to recognize that extended periods of solitary confinement are detrimental to the physical and mental health of prisoners. …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News In Brief by Arizona: After two escaped prisoners were recaptured and returned to the Arizona State Prison in Florence on January 31, 2021, Phoenix station KNXV reported that at least part of the blame for their escape was assigned to short-staffing of guards at the state Department of Corrections …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Advocacy
Advocating for Objective Standards in a Post-Kingsley World by Megha Ram by Megha Ram, Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center A fight over the correct standard for jail conditions cases is playing out in courts across the country. This is an important fight with far-reaching consequences for the constitutional rights …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Resources
John Boston, The PLRA Handbook: Law and Practice Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act by Michael Mushlin Reviewed by Michael B. Mushlin, Professor of Law, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University The PLRA Handbook is an essential indispensable resource for anyone who is planning to file a prisoners’ …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Exposure to Cold
Frozen in Place: How Winter Storms Push Texas Jails and Prisons to the Brink by Tyler Hicks by Tyler Hicks When Jerome Van Zandt was booked into Harris County Jail in November 2020, he was optimistic. “There’s no way I’ll be here more than three months,” he told himself. A …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Texas Rangers Often Lackadaisical in Prisoner Death Investigations by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke “The Texas Rangers are investigating.” The words bring all the swagger of the Lonestar State’s frontier-justice history to reports of crime, lending a wild-west ring to them even today, when the state has 29 million residents, …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Federal Judge in Louisiana Issues Sweeping Opinion Finding Numerous Eighth Amendment, ADA and RA Violations at Angola by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Louisiana State Prison (LSP) in Angola, Louisiana, was found “deliberately indifferent” to the Eighth Amendment rights of its nearly 6,400 prisoners to receive competent medical care, according …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
ICE Settles Florida Detention Facility COVID-19 Class Action, All Detainees Offered Vaccination by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On December 22, 2021, a Florida federal court approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit challenging conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic in three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities in …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Food
Massachusetts Appellate Court Reinstates Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Food Substitution by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 20, 2021, the Appeals Court of Massachusetts reversed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a prisoner challenging frequent food substitutions at Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Norfolk, as well as …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
With $2.95 Million Settlement, San Diego County Jail Racks Up Over $15 Million in Wrongful Death Payments by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On October 6, 2021, San Diego County agreed to a $2,950,000 settlement in a wrongful death suit filed by the wife of Heron Moriarty, a mentally ill …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
After Two Detainee Deaths, CoreCivic Hit With $2,500 Daily Fine for Chronically Short-Staffed Florida Jail by On February 15, 2022, an on-going staffing crisis at Florida’s Citrus County Detention Facility (CCDF) prompted county officials to start fining its privately contracted operator, Tennessee-based CoreCivic, $2,500 a day for running the prison …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
CFPB Report: ‘Criminal Justice Financial Ecosystem Exploits Families at Every Stage’: Finds ‘Products and Services Rife with Burdensome Fees and Lack of Choice’ by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A report released on January 31, 2022, by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) shows the financial burden that falls …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$325,000 to Detainee Assaulted at East Texas Jail, 90 Days to Former Deputy Who Beat Him While Restrained in Wheelchair by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On February 24, 2022, a former sheriff’s deputy in Harrison County, Texas, was sentenced for savagely beating a restrained detainee at the …
Deaths and Violence Mount at Overcrowded Alabama Prisons While Parole Rate Hits New Low by Kevin Bliss, Jo Ellen Nott by Kevin Bliss and Jo Ellen Nott On February 5, 2022, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a nine-year sentence had been handed down to the last of four …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Alabama Plan to Relieve Prison Overcrowding: Tap COVID-19 Funds to Build “Mega-Prisons” by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) signed legislation in October 2021 to take $400 million of the state’s pandemic relief funds from the American Rescue Plan to build a trio …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story is part of our ongoing coverage from the killing fields of Southern prisons, where Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida are vying for the title of deadliest prison system in America. The political and moral bankruptcy of …
Fourth Circuit Refuses to Reinstate Suit by NC Jail Detainee Alleging Denial of Access to Grievance System and Timely Medical Care Prisoner Didn’t Ask the Court to Extend Kingsley Protections by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders The U.S. Supreme Court lowered the bar for a pre-trial detainee to sustain a …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Death by Incarceration: Study Reveals High Death Rates Inside NY’s State Prisons by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders  In 1972, when the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed capital punishment, New York state had been executing people since 1608. The total number of individuals put to death by the state in that …
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