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Herrera v. United States, et al., NY, complaint, sexual abuse of female prisoners, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-10206 Document 1 Filed 12/04/20 Page 1 of 50 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK KARILIE HERRERA, FRANCHESCA MORALES, and CAROLYN RICHARDSON, Plaintiffs, -againstUNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COLIN AKPARANTA, NORMAN …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Chanting “not one more,” about 30 carloads of protesters from “Alabamians Who Care” caravanned to the governor’s mansion in Montgomery on August 1, 2020, protesting a plan by Gov. Kay Ivey (R) to build three new “mega-prisons.” According to a report by Montgomery TV station …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
$5.9 Million Settlement in Death of Transgender Prisoner at New York’s Rikers Island by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In August 2020, New York City agreed to settle a lawsuit over the death 15 months before of a Dominican-born transgender detainee who died of epileptic seizures while in segregation at …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Suicides in New York SHUs Surge to Epidemic Levels by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders After being placed in solitary confinement at New York State’s Fishkill Correctional Center in 2014, 21-year-old Ben Van Zandt, a former honors student who struggled with an undiagnosed mental health condition, begged his family to …
Publication • November 23, 2020
New York State Police, Trooper Michael G. Raap Letter of Censure, 2020 Jnsp. 11 Rev 6/10 Personnel Complaint Work Sheet Tvoe: Personnel Inv. Initiated Bv: ISub Tvoe: Iincident Date: 5/12/20 I Detail ~ Troop ICTV: F3659 [8:JC = Citizen □ s = NYSP I I Case Number ID ID Incident …
Villalobos v. Smith, NY, Complaint, Failure to Protect (Staff), 2020 Case 1:20-cv-09736-PKC Document 1 Filed 11/19/20 Page 1 of 29 Jaehyun Oh, Esq. (5668512) THE JACOB D. FUCHSBERG LAW FIRM, LLP 3 Park Avenue, 37th Floor New York, NY 10016 (212) 869-3500 Attorneys for Plaintiffs UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: The Birmingham News reported that an Alabama prison guard had been arrested for drug trafficking after a search of his vehicle when he arrived for work at the St. Clair County prison turned up 138 grams of methamphetamine and 16 grams of heroin. Ivan Caldwell, …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Second Circuit: Denial of Exercise Over Four Months Defeats Summary Judgment by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 18, 2020, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to prison officials in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging the officials’ failure to clear …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Rikers Island Death Case Against City of New York Settles for $5.5 Million by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A wrongful death action filed by the decedent’s estate of a Rikers Island prisoner against the City of New York, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., Prison Health Services, …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
New York City BOP Prisoner Dies After Being Pepper-Sprayed by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Jamel Floyd, a 35-year-old Black male held at the federal Bureau of Prison’s (BOP) Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, died after being pepper sprayed by guards June 3, 2020. Floyd was serving a 12- …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Staffing, Excessive Force
Violence at New York City’s Rikers Island Jail Increasing Even as Population Falls by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon For decades, New York City’s Rikes Island Jail Complex (RIJC) has been the largest urban lock-up in the United States. It has also been infamous as among the most violent jails …
Doe v. NYPD, NY, Amended Complaint, Restraints on Pregnant Prisoners, 2020 Case 1:20-cv-01344-ARR-LB Document 25 Filed 10/27/20 Page 1 of 35 PageID #: 149 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK JANE DOE, on her own behalf and on behalf of her minor son, BABY DOE, Plaintiff, No. …
Brief • October 23, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
Nunez v. City of New York, NY, 10th Monitor Report, Covid Response, 2020 Case 1:11-cv-05845-LTS-JCF Document 360 Filed 10/23/20 Page 1 of 296 Tenth Report of the Nunez Independent Monitor Tenth Monitoring Period January 1, 2020 – June 30, 2020 Case 1:11-cv-05845-LTS-JCF Document 360 Filed 10/23/20 Page 2 of 296 …
Brief • October 20, 2020
American Council of the Blind v. City of New York, NY, Opinion & Order, ADA Compliance, 2020 Case 1:18-cv-05792-PAE Document 126 Filed 10/20/20 Page 1 of 67 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND OF NEW YORK, INC., MICHAEL GOLFO, and CHRISTINA CURRY, …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
New York Jail Accused of Discrimination by Female Prisoners by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss n March 2020, the Oneida County Correctional Facility in New York was accused of discrimination against the women who are housed there. Two months prior to that, all the women were moved from pods that …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
NYC Floating Jail May Finally be Closed by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx was emblematic of the Big Apple’s rotten core in the 1990s, an area saturated with drugs, homelessness and prostitution. Facing an influx of inmates from rising crime rates, the city …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Ford Foundation President’s Support to Replace Rikers With Other Jails Criticized by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Ford Foundation President Darren Walker published a blog titled, “In Defense of Nuance” in the fall of 2019. A larger portion of the missive supported the building of four smaller detention centers to …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19
New York Governor Cuomo Creates Prison Nursing Home During Pandemic by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A recent report by The Interceptoutlined New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan to move elderly prisoners to an “isolated” upstate prison to allegedly protect them during the pandemic, and how this plan may …
Publication • September 22, 2020
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Letter to Governors Cuomo and Hutchinson Regarding Affordable Prison Communication Services September 22, 2020 The Honorable Andrew Cuomo Governor of the State of New York and Chair of the National Governor’s Association The Honorable Asa Hutchinson Governor of the State of Arkansas and Vice Chair of the National Governor’s Association …
Bobbit v. Marzan, et al., NY, order, strip search, ADA, 2020 Case 1:16-cv-02042-AT-OTW Document 260 Filed 09/21/20 Page 1 of 34 Case 1:16-cv-02042-AT-OTW Document 260 Filed 09/21/20 Page 2 of 34 et seq., the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., and New York state tort law, …
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