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Circuit Court Orders Hawaii to Release Names of Prisoners Who Die in State’s Jails and Prisons

Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023

Filed under: Wrongful Death, Official Report

Circuit Court Orders Hawaii to Release Names of Prisoners Who Die in State’s Jails and Prisons by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On November 14, 2022, a Hawaiian court ordered the state Department of Public Safety (DPS), the agency that runs state prisons and jails, to reveal the names of …

HI Correctional System Oversight Commission-OCCC Site Tour Observations-March 2023

Publication • March 7, 2023

Filed under: COVID-19, Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Showers, Prison Tourism/Consumerism

HI Correctional System Oversight Commission-OCCC Site Tour Observations-March 2023 JOSH GREEN, M.D. MARK PATTERSON GOVERNOR CHAIR CHRISTIN M. JOHNSON OVERSIGHT COORDINATOR STATE OF HAWAII HAWAII CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM OVERSIGHT COMMISSION 235 S. Beretania Street, 16 Floor th COMMISSIONERS HON. MICHAEL A. TOWN (ret.) HON. RONALD IBARRA (ret.) TED SAKAI MARTHA TORNEY …

Ninth Circuit Says Statements Relayed at Criminal Trial By Nurse and Doctor Are Admissible, Not Hearsay

Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023

Filed under: Statements for Medical Diagnosis

Ninth Circuit Says Statements Relayed at Criminal Trial By Nurse and Doctor Are Admissible, Not Hearsay by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When is hearsay evidence not hearsay? On August 31, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit provided its answer. Affirming the conviction of a …

News in Brief

Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: WHNT in Huntsville reported on December 16, 2022, that a Morgan County Jail detainee was charged with assaulting a guard. Ashley Nicole Taymon, 36, had gotten into an altercation at the Community Corrections Office five days earlier and was taken to a hospital. There she …

News in Brief

Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: On November 2, 2022, a former state prison guard at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility near Birmingham pleaded guilty to federal contraband smuggling charges. The Birmingham News reported that Wilson Brian Clemons, 32, was arrested on November 23, 2021, on state counts of marijuana …

Hawaii Inmate Deaths Are The Highest In 10 Years. But The State Can’t Say Why Corrections officials still aren’t providing a cause of death for 20 of the 23 prisoners who died in Hawaii prisons and j...

Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023

Filed under: Medical Neglect/Malpractice

Hawaii Inmate Deaths Are The Highest In 10 Years. But The State Can’t Say Why Corrections officials still aren’t providing a cause of death for 20 of the 23 prisoners who died in Hawaii prisons and jails last year. by Kevin Dayton by Kevin Dayton Hawaii had more inmates die …

Fatai v. City and County of Honolulu, HI, Memorandum Response in Opposition to Dft's Partial MSJ, Fabrication of Evidence, 2022

Brief • December 12, 2022

Filed under: Evidence - Destruction/Fabrication/Manipulation of

Fatai v. City and County of Honolulu, HI, Memorandum Response in Opposition to Dft's Partial MSJ, Fabrication of Evidence, 2022 Case 1:19-cv-00603-DKW-WRP Document 293 Filed 12/12/22 Page 1 of 33 PageID.4958 JENNIFER BROWN, #10885 P.O. Box 8415 Honolulu, HI 96830 (808) 554-5576 jenlbrownlaw@gmail.com DAVID B. OWENS* LOEVY & LOEVY (312) …

Reyes v. Tanaka, HI, Verdict, Sexual Assualt, 2022

Brief • November 16, 2022

Filed under: Sexual Assault

Reyes v. Tanaka, HI, Verdict, Sexual Assualt, 2022 Case 1:17-cv-00143-JAO-KJM Document 699 Filed 11/16/22 Page 1 of 8 ORIGINAL PageID.19743 FILEOINTHE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF HAWAII NOV 16 2022 at.1o'clock andflllmin/¼.M IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COUR), FOR THE DISTRICT OF HAWAll John A. Mannie, Clertc CIVIL NO. …

Hawaii Governor Finally Appoints Coordinator for State DOC Oversight Commission

Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022

Filed under: Central Monitoring

Hawaii Governor Finally Appoints Coordinator for State DOC Oversight Commission by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney It took him three years to do it, but Hawaii Gov. David Ige (D) finally appointed a director for the state Correctional Systems Oversight Commission (CSOC). On April 4, 2022, former New York City …

News in Brief

Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: A jail guard in Chilton County, Alabama, was arrested on July 21, 2022, and charged with promoting contraband, the Clanton Advertiser reported. The guard, Tyler Ryan Couch, is accused of organizing an effort to smuggle drugs to detainees. Though jail policy forbids guards from transmitting …

$1.375 Million Award in Hawaii Prisoner’s Suicide

Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022

Filed under: Settlements, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides, Emotional Distress

$1.375 Million Award in Hawaii Prisoner’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 29, 2022, the First Circuit Court of Hawaii awarded $1.375 million to the estate of Joseph O’Malley, who committed suicide while incarcerated at the Halawa Correctional Facility (HCF) in July 2017. O’Malley, 28, was …

News in Brief

Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: A federal prisoner in Birmingham was gunned down outside a privately-operated reentry facility on July 16, 2022. The Associated Press reported that the prisoner, Larry Taylor, 47, had just been released from the facility, which is operated under contract from the federal Bureau of Prisons …

Three Former Hawaii Jail Guards Convicted in Assault on Prisoner and Cover-Up

Article • August 18, 2022

Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Official Report

Three Former Hawaii Jail Guards Convicted in Assault on Prisoner and Cover-Up by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On July 8, 2022, a federal jury convicted three former guards from the Hawaii Community Correctional Center for a vicious assault on a prisoner in June 2015. The three, Jason …

News in Brief

Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: A former Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was indicted on April 22, 2022, for assaulting three prisoners and then filing a false report to cover it up, the Associated Press reported. The guard, Lorenzo Mills, 55, was charged with beating three male prisoners with a wooden baton at Draper Correctional …

Hawaii Supreme Court Orders New Parole Hearing for Prisoner Held Since 1979

Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022

Filed under: Restitution, Conditions of, Ability to Pay

Hawaii Supreme Court Orders New Parole Hearing for Prisoner Held Since 1979 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Over 42 years after he was sentenced to Life with Possibility of Parole (LWPP), a pro se Hawaii prisoner took a step closer to the promise contained in his sentence on October …

Chief of Training for Hawaii Prison and Jail Guards Charged with Falsifying Educational Credentials, Out on Paid Leave

Article • May 1, 2022

Filed under: BOP Litigation Reports, Staff Training, False Statements/Perjury

Chief of Training for Hawaii Prison and Jail Guards Charged with Falsifying Educational Credentials, Out on Paid Leave by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Hawaii Department of Public Safety (DPS) Public Training Officer J. Marte Martinez, who oversaw the training of thousands of state prison guards and deputy …

O'Malley v. State of Hawaii, HI, Finding of Facts, Wrongful Death, 2022

Brief • March 29, 2022

Filed under: Medical Neglect/Malpractice

O'Malley v. State of Hawaii, HI, Finding of Facts, Wrongful Death, 2022 Electronically Filed FIRST CIRCUIT 1CC191001021 29-MAR-2022 01:46 PM Dkt. 168 FOF IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT STATE OF HAWAIʻI MICHAEL J. O’MALLEY, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of JOSEPH P. O’MALLEY, Deceased, …

Settlement Reached to Protect Hawaii Prisoners from COVID-19

Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022

Filed under: COVID-19, Settlements, Injunctions/Injunctive Relief

Settlement Reached to Protect Hawaii Prisoners from COVID-19 by David Reutter Just in Time for the ‘Omicron Winter’ by David M. Reutter On November 10, 2021, one day before first detection of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, a federal district court in Hawaii approved a settlement …

Whistleblower Alleges Hawaii Prison Officials Provided False Audit Data

Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021

Filed under: Corrections Audits, Misrepresentations

Whistleblower Alleges Hawaii Prison Officials Provided False Audit Data by Kevin Dayton A staffer says false data in a 2018 audit of the Maui jail hid deviations from staffing requirements under the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act. by Kevin Dayton, Honolulu Civil Beat State officials submitted data for a federal …

Chatman v. Otani, HI, Order Approving Settlement, Covid Response, 2021

Brief • November 10, 2021

Filed under: COVID-19

Chatman v. Otani, HI, Order Approving Settlement, Covid Response, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-00268-JAO-KJM Document 131 Filed 11/10/21 Page 1 of 25 3349 PageID #: IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF HAWAII ANTHONY CHATMAN, FRANCISCO ALVARADO, ZACHARY GRANADOS, TYNDALE MOBLEY, and JOSEPH DEGUAIR, individually and on behalf of …