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Preliminary Injunction Halts Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill Prisoners at New York Lockup Where Wildcat Guard Strike Began

Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025

Filed under: Work Strikes, Staffing, Exercise, Sanitation, Injunctions (PLRA), Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

in their cells for 24 hours a day, in violation of 2008 Sess. Law News of N.Y. Ch. 1 (S. 6422). That law created the Residential Mental Health Unit (RMHU) where the prisoners were held and mandated that they get ...

Eleventh Circuit Declines to Extend to Summary Judgment Proceedings a Rule Requiring District Courts to Notify Pro Se Litigants

Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Harassment, BOP Litigation Reports, Summary Judgment, Pro Se Issues, Unlawful Detention

on the parties’ prior submissions, granted summary judgment in favor of the guards. Horton appealed, arguing: (1) “the Bank rule required the district court to sua sponte allow him the opportunity ...

Fire to the Prisons Winter 2010-2011

Publication

Filed under: Magazines, Fire to the Prisons Magazine

. While searching for courtroom fights, I was also looking for cases of police and neighborhood conflict. I watched for almost two hours something called “hood fights”1, which better portrays everyday life ...

City of Watseka v. Illinois Public Action Council-796 F.2d 1547 (7th Cir. 1986).

Case • 1986

Cir. 07/18/1986) [1] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT [2] No. 84-2605 [3] 1986; 796 F.2d 1547 [4] decided: July 18, 1986. [5] CITY OF WATSEKA ...

Journal 12-3

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Filed under: Magazines, ACLU National Prison Project Journal

. At 51, citing Williams v. Smith: A supervisory official is liable for constitutional violations if he or she (1) directly participated in the violation; (2) failed to remedy the violation after learning ...

Churchill Pacifism as Pathology

Publication

Filed under: Military

) available by law at essentially no charge through the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C. INTRO ______________________________________ 1 LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER ____________ 3 ...

Buried Alive - Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons and Jails, AFSC, 2007

Publication • February 16, 2016

Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

. Summary of Key Findings 1. Prisoners in supermax units have higher rates of mental illness. People with mental illnesses are more likely to wind up in supermax because their symptoms cause them ...

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

Publication • 2023

Filed under: First Amendment, rights, Prisons

the “animating principle” of the U.S. Supreme Court’s criminal law jurisprudence as a “pathological deference to the government.”1 Benjamin Levin asserts deference “lies at the heart of criminal law’s ...

Weaver v. Toombs-948 F.2d 1004 (6th Cir. 1991)

Case • 1991

Weaver v. Toombs - 948 F.2d 1004 (6th Cir. 1991) - 1991 Weaver v. Toombs, 948 F.2d 1004 (6th Cir. 11/06/1991) [1] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT [2] No. 90-1012 ...

Bagola v. Kindt-131 F.3d 632 (7th Cir. 1997)

Case • 1997

) [Editor's note: footnotes (if any) trail the opinion] [1] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit [2] No. 97-1503 [3] Loren Bagola, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. [4] Thomas Kindt, et ...

Tabron v. Grace-6 F.3d 147 (3rd Cir. 1993)

Case • 1993

) [Editor's note: footnotes (if any) trail the opinion] [1] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit [2] No. 93-2366 [3] CARLOS M. GUTIERREZ, [4] Plaintiff-Appellant, v. [5 ...

Asherman v. Meachum-957 F.2d 978 (2nd Cir. 1992)(en banc)

Case • 1992

Asherman v. Meachum - 957 F.2d 978 (2nd Cir. 1992)(en banc) - 1992 Asherman v. Meachum, 957 F.2d 978 (2nd Cir. 02/13/1992) [1] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT [2 ...

McGuckin v. Smith-974 F.2d 1050 (9th Cir. 1992)

Case • 1992

McGuckin v. Smith - 974 F.2d 1050 (9th Cir. 1992) - 1992 McGuckin v. Smith, 974 F.2d 1050 (9th Cir. 08/24/1992) [1] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT [2] No. 90 ...

Ayo v. Bathey-106 F.3d 98 (5th Cir. 1997)

Case • 1997

) [Editor's note: footnotes (if any) trail the opinion] [1] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit [2] No. 93-2366 [3] CARLOS M. GUTIERREZ, [4] Plaintiff-Appellant, v. [5 ...

Gutierrez v. Peters-111 F.3d 1364 (7th Cir. 1997)

Case • 1997

) [Editor's note: footnotes (if any) trail the opinion] [1] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit [2] No. 93-2366 [3] CARLOS M. GUTIERREZ, [4] Plaintiff-Appellant, v. [5 ...

Mathis v. Sauser-942 P.2d 1117 (Alaska 1997)

Case • 1997

Mathis v. Sauser - 942 P.2d 1117 (Alaska 1997) - 1997 MATHIS v. SAUSER, 942 P.2d 1117 (Alaska 07/18/1997) [1] Supreme Court of Alaska. [2] No. S-6773. [3] 942 P.2d 1117, 1997 ...

Bailey v. Turner-736 F.2d 963 (4th Cir. 1984).

Case • 1984

Bailey v. Turner - 736 F.2d 963 (4th Cir. 1984). - 1984 Bailey v. Turner, 736 F.2d 963 (4th Cir. 06/07/1984) [1] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT [2] No. 82-6552 ...

Pino v. Dalsheim-605 F.Supp. 1305 (SD NY 1984)

Case • 1984

, 1984 COUNSEL: [**1] Fish & Neave, Esqs., New York, New York, Patricia A. Martone, Esq., Norman H. Beamer, Esq., Jonathan D. Zischkau, Esq., for Plaintiff. Robert Abrams, Esq ...

Branti v. Finkel-445 U.S. 507, 100 S.Ct. 1287, 63 L.Ed. 2d. 574 (19

Case • 1980

Branti v. Finkel - 445 U.S. 507, 100 S.Ct. 1287, 63 L.Ed. 2d. 574 (19 - 1980 BRANTI v. FINKEL ET AL., 100 S. Ct. 1287, 445 U.S. 507 (U.S. 03/31/1980) [1] SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ...

Shabazz v. O'Lone-782 F.2d 416 (3rd Cir. 1986)(en banc)

Case • 1986

Shabazz v. O'Lone - 782 F.2d 416 (3rd Cir. 1986)(en banc) - 1986 Shabazz v. O'Lone, 782 F.2d 416 (3rd Cir. 01/27/1986) [1] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT [2 ...