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Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Filed under: News, News in Brief
by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for charging a client $50,000 to defend him against a drunk driving charge. Fordham said he is being punished for working too hard, claiming he spent 227 hours preparing ...
to a particular concern. The Court held that although it may be constitutional to deny Native American faith articles in their entirety because they are dangerous or susceptible to abuse, prison officials did ...
the women and to shoot them if they told anyone. When Flores-Brown was transferred to an Arizona jail, she promptly reported the abuse to the jail commander who promptly called Extraditions International ...
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
courts. This means that cases at the district court level that deny summary judgment to prison or jail defendants will rarely be reported in PLN unless they decide new or novel issues of law. We ...
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Attorney General's Office (AG) agreed to defend the suit and filed a motion to dismiss because Belton had neither filed an affidavit setting forth the operative facts of all previous litigation nor proof ...
for their efforts expended in Yeskey. Next, defendants asked the court to constrain the award under the fee cap provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d), because Armstrong's ...
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Corizon, Centurion
and agreed instead to have the case heard by the Court, Judge Green ruled that “Corizon failed to carry its burden to establish that Defendant’s decisions to award the contract at issue ...
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
and violates civil liberties. “Contemporary civil commitment measures grew out of interwoven panics concerning ‘stranger danger,’ satanic ritual abuse, and violent crime,” said historian ...
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
’s request and nearly eliminated the damages against him awarded to a prisoner that a jury found had been sexually abused. That chopped the award to the prisoner, De Shawn Drumgo, from $501,000 ...
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
he recorded and sold 15,000 copies of an album of love songs. Mabasa’s murder and Bantag’s arrest have brought attention to this long history of abuses. Justice secretary Jesus Crispin ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2009
;rsquo;s federal court. The 7,000-circulation publication, which reports on prison issues, is seeking policy changes, unspecified damages and attorney’s fees. Defendants named included Gene M ...
In-the-News Article • January 12, 2015
sentencing this week. “But when law enforcement officers abuse inmates and attempt to cover-up their misconduct, the Department of Justice stands ready to hold those officers accountable ...
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
% of arrests, while only 3% of male juveniles are incarcerated for such offenses. A major concern here is that these particular offenses are possible responses to abuse and should be treated more conscientiously ...
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
, causing the July 2023 death of another detainee, Kaitlyn Evans, 31. Filed by her mother, Heather Walstrom, with the aid of Philadelphia attorneys from Williams Cedar LLC, the suit’s named defendants ...
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
, 29, who was found unresponsive in her jail cell in May 2022. She was pronounced dead a short time later at a hospital. An autopsy blamed drug abuse. But Jon Copeland still didn’t understand why ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2011
about 7,000 paid subscribers. Much of the content is written by prisoners and former prisoners who share stories about the abuse of inmates' rights, corrupt officials and news about the prison system ...
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
. Plaintiffs had alleged in their initial complaint that, “Defendants fail(ed) to inform their customers that they will be charged a service or set-up fee which will be deducted from their advance pay ...
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
makes those who have a prior conviction for violence on their record ineligible for cash bail. Making it harder for pre-trial detainees to make bail only increases the likelihood of abuse and neglect ...
Article • May 9, 2022
treatment of the defendant was called “pretty hostile and aggressive” by an Army psychiatric nurse, Cpt. Blaine Ropson. Asked during the trial whether such comments might trigger someone like ...
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
of unconstitutional treatment. “Were it otherwise, the defendants, not the plaintiffs, would have prevailed in the school cases and other class actions challenging social discrimination in the 1960s and 1970s ...
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