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PHR REPORT-ICE-Solitary-Confinement-February 2024

Publication • 2024

Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Detention - Generally

confinement in immigration detention, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), along with faculty and students at Harvard Law School (HLS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), have sought to spotlight what is happening ...

Carceral Deference-Courts and Their Pro-Prison Propensities, March 2023

Publication • 2023

Filed under: First Amendment, rights, Prisons

Anthony John Trenga, What Judges Say and Do in Deciding National Security Cases: The Example of the State Secrets Privilege, 9 HARV. NAT’L SEC. J. 1 (2018). 28 Redish, supra note XX at 1909-10. 29 Egbert v ...

Navedo v. Maloney-172 F.Supp.2d 276 (D MA 2001)

Case • 2001

. Istfan. Plainly, this is an issue of material fact, not amenable to resolution on summary judgment. b. Deliberate Indifference In addressing the question of what qualifies as deliberate indifference ...

Ruggiano v. Reish-307 F.3d 121 (3rd Cir. 2002).

Case • 2002

state (New York) conviction for gambling. This appeal turns on whether (and to what extent) the sentencing court intended Ruggiano's federal sentence to run concurrently with his state sentence ...

United States v. Reid-214 F.Supp.2d 84 (D.Mass. 2002).

Case • 2002

to the Director of the United States Marshals Service (the "Marshals Service"). When asked by the defense under what authority the particular SAMs were issued, and for written notice of their issuance ...

Thompson v. Upshur County, Tex.-245 F.3d 447 (5th Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

, sometimes falling and striking his head against the window, floor or concrete bench of his cell. Whorton was aware of this and noticed what she thought was blood flowing from Thompson's ears. After Thompson ...

Dotson v. Wilkinson-329 F.3d 463 (6th Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

this en banc court today involve the intersection of these two provisions. It is our task to determine under what circumstances a prisoner may use a section 1983 action, rather than a habeas corpus petition ...

Layton v. Beyer-953 F.2d 839 (3rd Cir. 1992)

Case • 1992

to M.C.U. or Prehearing M.C.U. He had an interest in not losing the limited liberties granted inmates who are in the general population, regardless of what restrictions on liberty (i.e. possibility ...

Livingston v. Goord-225 F.Supp.2d 321 (W.D.N.Y. 2002)

Case • 2002

. Act, § 9(2)), he did testify at the trial before Judge Nemoyer concerning his recollection of what happened in the elevator with plaintiff on July 10. Kauffman was also cross-examined by plaintiff ...

The Complicity of Judges in Wrongful Convictions

Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004

Filed under: Judicial Misconduct, Commentary/Reviews, Wrongful Conviction

are an immensely important part of our government. In a democracy, no portion of government should be a mystery. But what may be called "court-house government" still is mysterious to most of the laity." Judge ...

Pennsylvania County Jail System Overcrowded, Under-Regulated

Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Civigenics, Primecare Medical, Guard Misconduct, Threats by Staff, Jail Misconduct, Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Systemic Medical Neglect, Skin, OB/GYN, Criminal Prosecution, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Wrongful Imprisonment, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides, ACA, State Legislation

be subjected to them. "I just did not care at all about what it was like. But when I went to prison, my whole view of prison and people in prison changed," said Joe Kramer, who served almost four months ...

Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez-121 S.Ct. 1043 (2001)

Case • 2001

could "not involve an effort to amend or otherwise challenge existing law," because it "clearly seeks to discourage challenges to the status quo." Id., at 769-770. [41] Left to decide what part ...

In re Peter George Cooper-2008 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 9738

Case • 2008

).) Additionally, we noted that the Attorney General conceded that it could not specify what documents were actually reviewed by the Governor. This admission raised serious due process questions. [*2] However ...

Sass v. Board of Prison Terms-461 F.3d 1123 (9th Cir. 2006)

Case • 2006

, in and of themselves, are held to be enough to justify his present detention necessarily means that they are enough to justify his detention indefinitely, regardless of the majority's protestations as to what ...

Goebert v. Lee County-510 F.3d 1312 (11th Cir. 2007)

Case • 2007

) (per curiam); Shotz v. Cityof Plantation, Fla., 344 F.3d 1161, 1164 (11th Cir. 2003). On April 27, 2001, Goebert killed someone in Florida while driving under the influence (of what, the record does ...

Advanced Correctional Healthcare’s Brutal Brand of Jailhouse Medicine

Article • January 12, 2017

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Medical Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Medication, Cardiovascular, Private Contractors, Skin, Kidney, Hernias, Failure to Treat, Malpractice, Infections, Overcrowding, Jail Specific, Collateral consequences of prison

an expertise in providing treatment in the “correctional environment.” Central to ACH’s business model is the belief that what might be considered proper healthcare on the &lsquo ...

Crime Labs Still in Crisis

Article • April 10, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, DNA Testing/Samples, Police Searches, Crime Labs, Wrongful Conviction

soot the agents called “black rain” coating all the surfaces. He was also surprised that tours of the lab allowed outsiders into what should have been a controlled environment. After he ...

Unfair Punishment

Article • August 13, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014

Filed under: Victims, Collateral consequences of prison, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Restitution

;Restitution Fund.” It is from this pool of money, which has generally remained static in recent years, that the state compensates victims of violence – beyond what they receive directly from ...

Remembering Attica Forty Years Later

Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011

Filed under: Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Hunger Strikes, Protests, Statistics/Trends, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Shootings

of Western New York where the guards came from was mostly what some call “up South,” to denote the level of racial antipathy and outright bigotry endemic in the local population, and thus in the prison work ...

Kogut v County of Nassau Etal Ny Mtn Strike Expert Cassell False Confessions 2012

Brief • 2012

)............................................................................................................................. 16 G.H. Gudjonsson, J.F. Sigurdsson, & I.D. Sigfusdottir, Interrogations And False Confessions Among Adolescents In Seven Countries In Europe: What Background And Psychological Factors Best ...