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Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Overcrowding
Ohio Prisoner’s Facebook Live a Plea for Help During COVID-19 Pandemic by "They’re literally leaving us in here to die,” said a prisoner live-streaming on Facebook in a plea for help April 3, 2020. The now-viral online video captures the desperation of prisoners during the coronavirus pandemic. The 31-year-old, wearing …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Santa Rita Jail Accused of Slave Labor in California Class Action by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Current and former prisoners at Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, California, filed a class action lawsuit on November 18, 2019 against the county, Sheriff Gregory Ahern, and Aramark Correctional Services for violating …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Open Prison: Lessons from the Past by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Open prison is unthinkable today in the United States, though in Scandinavia such institutions are heralded as models of civility and rehabilitation. The U.S. experimented with open prisons back in 1941, which proved there were better …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Chatham County Jail Reverses On Book Ban But Limits Number of Publications by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Following a letter from the ACLU of Georgia, the Chatham County sheriff rescinded a jail policy that banned detainees from receiving books and magazines from outside sources. The ACLU still took …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
$25 Million Jury Award to Baltimore City Prisoner For Guards Setting Up Retaliatory Gang Attack by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A jury awarded a prisoner brutally beaten at the Baltimore City Detention Center $25 million, after guards allegedly worked in concert with a gang and arranged a beating as …
Article • April 15, 2020
$2,500 Settlement by Indiana County Over Prisoner's Delayed Medical Care by Indiana’s Allen County agreed to pay $2,500 to settle a civil rights action alleging it denied medical care to treat a pretrial detainee’s prostate disease. Terry Ray Dowell was arrested on two misdemeanor charges and booked into the Allen County …
Article • April 2, 2020
Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Texas Prisoner’s Complaint Over Consequences of Prisoner Unrest as Frivolous by On February 20, 2020, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s pro se, in forma pauperis federal civil rights complaint primarily over the consequences flowing from a physical …
Article • April 2, 2020
Fifth Circuit Upholds Qualified Immunity for Guard Pepper-Spraying Prisoner Without Provocation by On February 11, 2020, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prison guard who pepper-sprayed a prisoner “for no reason” was entitled to qualified immunity. Prince McCoy, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoner, filed …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Protect Yourself and Your Facility from COVID-19 by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen, M.D. Introduction The novel coronavirus is now a global pandemic and is widespread in the United States, causing a disease called COVID-19. It is likely that a majority of the population will eventually become …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
$425,000 Settlement in Arkansas Detainee’s Death from Asthma Attack by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The estate of a pretrial detainee who died at Arkansas’ Pulaski agreed to a $425,000 settlement to resolve a civil rights action. The settlement requires payment from Pulaski County and its medical vendor, Turn …
Tenth Circuit Holds BOP’s Change in Policy and Delivery of Censored Issues at ADX Super Max Prison Moots PLN’s Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 13, 2019, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s dismissal of a federal lawsuit brought by PLN against the …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
All 50 States Report Prison Understaffing by Brian Sonenstein by Brian Sonenstein, Shadowproof Every state in the nation has reported prison staffing shortages since 2017, according to research by Shadowproof. This is concerning because “staff shortages” are historically used to push for greater investments in prison systems, oftentimes riding reform …
Continuing Problems at Texas Jail Roil County’s Relationship with GEO Group by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke As previously reported in PLN, Florida-based GEO Group has had a litany of problems at the jail it operates for Liberty County, Texas. During a rocky 57-day stretch in mid-2019, there were prisoner …
Former Captain at Louisiana Private Prison Sentenced for Conspiracy to Violate Ban on Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Bill Barton by Bill Barton Roderick Douglas, 38, of Monroe, Louisiana, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy with five other guards at Richwood Correctional …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: Voting, State Legislation
More States Restore Felony Voting Rights by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In 2019, Colorado, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Nevada enacted legislation to restore voting rights to felons who have been released from prison but are still under such supervision, the latest of 24 states to make similar …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
NY State Prisons Finally Stop Using Faulty Drug Testing Equipment; Class Action Lawsuit Filed by Victims by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Nadezda Steele-Warrick, a prisoner at Albion Correctional Facility, was on the right track. After her 2015 conviction for assault, she had been a model prisoner, obtaining her …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Massachusetts Supreme Court Orders DOC to Free Terminally Ill Prisoners After DOJ Investigates Mistreatment by Bill Barton by Bill Barton On January 28, 2020, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) voided several regulations used by the state Department of Correction (DOC) to justify denying 29 petitions by prisoners for medical …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Fund to Pay Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners in Michigan Is Broke Once Again by David Reutter by David M. Reutter With the 2016 passage if its Wrongful Imprisonment Act, Michigan became one of 33 states with legislation creating a fund to compensate wrongfully convicted people, paying them $50,000 per year of …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: Education, Art
Prison Plays Go on the Road, Teach Prisoners Life Skills by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) teamed up with the University of Denver’s Prison Arts Initiative and took some prison plays on the road last December. It’s the first time a prison play has …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Former Prisoners Find Career Success and Help Others to Achieve the Same by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Ex-felons are gaining more opportunities to rebuild their lives after release without having the stigma of incarceration hanging over their heads. With such measures as Ban the Box, Second Chance Employment, and …
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