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Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Wellpath Founder and CEO Pleads Guilty to Federal Bribery Charges by David Reutter A lesson in why privatized prison health care is the wrong answer by David M. Reutter On Friday, January 18, 2022, three days before sentencing in a pay-to-play bribery and corruption scandal involving health care at the …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on Wellpath treads a familiar road for PLN readers of how profit-driven medical care has resulted in a huge expense for taxpayers and extremely low quality health care for hundreds of thousands of prisoners around the country. …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
JPay Founder Ryan Shapiro Indicted for Securities Fraud by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On January 6, 2022, Ryan Shapiro, the 44-year-old founder of prison financial services firm JPay, was charged in federal court in Boston with conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Also named in the criminal complaint was Shapiro’s …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Oregon Federal Court Sides with HRDC, Denies Motion to Compel Arbitration by “NUMI” Stored Value Cards by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On December 6, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon denied a motion to compel arbitration by Stored Value Cards in a case filed by …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
After Sixth Death in Six Years, Virginia Jail Cuts Ties with Corizon Health by Jayson Hawkins, Keith Sanders Corizon Employee Charged with Falsifying Records by Jayson Hawkins and Keith Sanders On February 1, 2022, a 41-year-old Black man being held on a trespassing charge was found unresponsive in his cell …
Sixth Circuit Holds Subjective Prong of Deliberate Indifference Test Inapplicable to Pretrial Detainee’s Claims; Reinstates Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 22, 2021, in a case with enormous impact on the way jails may treat pretrial detainees, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
$638,250 Judgment Against Georgia Jail Guard Who Orchestrated Prisoner’s Beating by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On November 9, 2021, a federal judge ordered a former guard to pay $638,250 to a prisoner whose beating by fellow prisoners the guard orchestrated at the Newton County Jail in Covington, Georgia, in …
Federal Judge Sanctions Former Arizona DOC Director’s Foot-Dragging Attorneys in Pro Se Prisoner’s Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 12, 2022, a federal judge advanced a former Arizona state prisoner one step closer to collecting fees for his own pro se legal work in a suit against …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
$21,525 Awarded by Federal Court to Indiana Prisoner Subjected to Battery by Guard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal district court in Indiana awarded $21,525 to a prisoner on May 30, 2021, after granting partial summary judgment in a civil rights action he filed alleging battery by …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Third Circuit: Retroactive Application of Amended New Jersey Parole Guidelines May Violate Ex Post Facto Clause by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 22, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a pro se prisoner’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint, …
Corrections Special Applications Unit Builds a Lucrative National Track Record of Abuse and Torture by J.D. Schmidt by J.D. Schmidt On December 13, 2021, a group of 49 current and former prisoners sued the York County Prison (YCP) in Pennsylvania, along with a contractor hired to train its guards, Corrections …
Massachusetts DOC Fires COVID-19 Mitigation Ombudsman Over Previous Allegations of Document Falsification by On September 22, 2021, Seth Peters, the first person appointed to the newly created position of Ombudsman for Public Health Standards Compliance and COVID-19 Mitigation for the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC), was fired after a Boston …
Second Circuit Holds N.Y. Prisoner’s Short-Term Injury May Qualify As Disability under ADA by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On June 30, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a district court’s finding that a New York prisoner’s knee injury did not qualify …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Illinois Prisoner’s Suit Over ‘Orange Crush’ Shakedown by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on August 25, 2021, that a district court erred in dismissing a state prisoner’s pro se lawsuit by failing to make a finding …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Dallas County Prisoner Trust Fund Bilked of $700,000 With Faked Debit Release Cards by Jail Employee by On October 19, 2021, auditors for Dallas County, Texas, reported to commissioners that lax oversight allowed an employee in the county Sheriff’s Department (DCSD) to use hundreds of damaged debit-release cards to draw …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
All Writs Act Provides Authority for Medical-Imaging Transport Order for Condemned Ohio Prisoner Challenging His Conviction; Certiorari Granted by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 26, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit agreed with a district court that an Ohio state prisoner must be …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Oregon Prisoners Face Off in Guards’ Legal Fight Over COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate by As of December 1, 2021, just 99 Oregon employees—0.25% of the state’s 40,000 workers, had been fired for violating a mandate that they must be vaccinated against COVID-19. It was unclear how many of those were fired …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Justice Department Releases Ten-Year Recidivism Study by Matthew Clarke Follows a half-million state prisoners released in 2008 by Matt Clarke From 2016 through 2019, the last years for which reliable data are available, about 10.5 million arrests were made in the U.S. annually. Averaged over a decade, that’s less than …
Brief • March 1, 2022
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Patrick Labat, GA, Fees, Lack of Mental Care, 2022 Case 1:19-cv-01634-WMR Document 337-10 Filed 03/01/22 Page 1 of 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION GEORGIA ADVOCACY OFFICE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PATRICK LABAT, in his official capacity …
Brief • March 1, 2022
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Patrick Labat, Ga, Cost, Lack of Mental Care, 2022 Case 1:19-cv-01634-WMR Document 337-9 Filed 03/01/22 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) GEORGIA …
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