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Article • January 20, 2023
Mother of Kansas City Meth Distributor Charged With Abetting His Escape from Jail by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A convicted drug trafficker who broke out of a Kansas City-area jail was back in custody on December 30, 2022 – along with his mother, who was charged with …
Brief • January 7, 2023
Shaw v. Jones, KS, Response to Order to Show Cause Regarding Plaintiff's Claim for Injunctive Relief, Police Misconduct, 2023 Case 6:19-cv-01343-KHV Document 358 Filed 01/07/23 Page 1 of 32 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS BLAINE FRANKLIN SHAW, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 19-1343-KHV-GEB v. …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A detainee assaulted aguard at the Calhoun County Jail on August 6, 2022, the Anniston Star reported. Sheriff Matthew Wade blamed an ongoing staffing shortage, which has typically left three guards on duty to supervise 300 detainees. One of them, Jacob Hammett, was out of …
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 …
Supreme Court of Kansas: Lower Court Did Not Have Authority to Revoke Probation Without a Warrant by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 28, 2022, the Supreme Court of Kansas held that a state court has no authority to revoke and remand a state probationer to prison …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by   Alabama:The Birmingham News reported that a jail guard in Mobile was arrested on May 17, 2022, for smuggling adult movies intoMobile County Metro Jail. The guard, Fredrick Johnson, 37, was charged with 21 counts of promoting contraband that included a camera, phone chargers, and flash drives, …
Video Released of Guards Killing Kansas Teen at Juvenile Facility; DA Says “Stand-Your-Ground” Law Prevents Him from Filing Charges by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders The webpage of Kansas’ Sedgwick County crashed on June 10, 2022, under the weight of a surge in traffic driven by the release of surveillance …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Kansas Appeals Court Vacates Prison Dentist’s Conviction for Sexually Abusing Prisoner, Says Touching Wasn’t “Lewd” by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson “Not all touching is lewd, even when committed with sexual intent,” the Kansas Court of Appeals declared on December 23, 2021, vacating a former prison dentist’s conviction for sexually …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard in Birmingham was arrested on March 9, 2022, for allegedly beating a prisoner to death, according to the Alabama Political Reporter. As PLN previously reported, prison officials at first insisted no foul play was suspected in the death of Victor …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News In Brief by Arizona: After two escaped prisoners were recaptured and returned to the Arizona State Prison in Florence on January 31, 2021, Phoenix station KNXV reported that at least part of the blame for their escape was assigned to short-staffing of guards at the state Department of Corrections …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
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News in Brief by Alabama: On November 17, 2021, a former Alabama state prison guard was sentenced in federal court in Birmingham to 87 months in prison. As reported by the Birmingham News, a search found the guard, Gary Charles Dixon, Jr., 36, with 497 grams of methamphetamine when he …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A 20-year-old guard at the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, was arrested on October 29, 2021, on charges that he attempted to smuggle methamphetamine into the jail. According to a report by Huntsville TV station WHNT, the guard, Matthew Moran, faces one count …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
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News in Brief by Alabama: On August 19, 2021, twoconvicted robbers were convicted of murder in the death of a fellow prisoner they and two others attacked in 2017 at Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama. According to a report by Montgomery TV station WSFA, Dominique Covin and Roderick DeLaune …
Tenth Circuit Rejects Government’s Appeal Over Recorded Attorney Calls and Visits at Private Prison in Leavenworth by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Over five years ago, federal prosecutors in Kansas used recordings of attorney visits and phone calls to obtain convictions in numerous criminal cases. The recordings were made by …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
HRDC Settles Censorship Lawsuit with Johnson County, Kansas Jail for $50,000 and Policy Changes by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent organization of Prison Legal News (PLN), on May 12, 2021, settled its civil lawsuit filed in September of 2020 in U.S. district court …
Filing • April 29, 2021
HRDC v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al., KS, Censorship, Settlement, 2021 IN THE MATTER OF: Human Rights Defense Center v. Johnson County, KS, et al. Case No. 2:20-cv-02447 U.S. DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF KANSAS ___________________________________________ SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT (hereinafter referred to as the “Agreement”) is made and entered …
Brief • April 29, 2021
HRDC v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al., KS, Censorship, Settlement, 2021 IN THE MATTER OF: Human Rights Defense Center v. Johnson County, KS, et al. Case No. 2:20-cv-02447 U.S. DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF KANSAS ___________________________________________ SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT (hereinafter referred to as the “Agreement”) is made and entered …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Government Refuses to Follow Federal Court’s Discovery Order After Being Caught Recording Attorney Meetings with Prisoners at Leavenworth by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In a federal appellate court filing on August 20, 2020, nearly five years after a federal judge ordered officials to stop recording privileged calls between attorneys …
Filing • September 11, 2020
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
HRDC v. Board of County Commissioners for Johnson County, Kansas, et al., KS, Censorship, Complaint, 2020 Case 2:20-cv-02447 Document 1 Filed 09/11/20 Page 1 of 14 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, ) ) Plaintiff, ) v. ) ) BOARD OF …
Brief • September 11, 2020
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
HRDC v. Board of County Commissioners for Johnson County, Kansas, et al., KS, Censorship, Complaint, 2020 Case 2:20-cv-02447 Document 1 Filed 09/11/20 Page 1 of 14 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, ) ) Plaintiff, ) v. ) ) BOARD OF …
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