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Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
New Jersey Supreme Court Revives Parolee’s Challenge to Administratively Imposed Treatment Program by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 3, 2023, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a state prisoner’s parole could not be conditioned on his enrollment in a residential treatment program (RTP) when he is …
New Jersey Private Prison Ban Voided by The issue of illegal immigration is a contentious one. Though entering the country illegally is a violation of civil immigration law, migrant families and children who do so are most often treated like criminals and held in prison-like detention centers. Some are jails …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Within 48-hours of booking into the Morgan County Jail on August 29, 2023, Miles Rea Batson, 39, had two second-degree assault charges added to his public intoxication charge as well as another for disarming a law enforcement agent. WHNT in Huntsville reported that during booking …
New Jersey Prisoner’s Suit Survives Seeking to Validate the Nation of Gods and Earth as a Religion by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 12, 2022, the federal court for the District of New Jersey denied a motion for summary judgment by the defendant New Jersey Department of …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Three jail guards in the Yellowhammer State were hit with drug smuggling charges in August 2023 and another the month after. WAFF in Huntsville reported that Morgan County Jail guard Bobby Simmons, 19, was arrested on August 3, 2023, when he was charged with promoting …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
Almost $2.4 Million in Settlements For Seven Suicides at New Jersey Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The families of two women and five men who committed suicide while held in pretrial detention between July 2014 and November 2018 at New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) have received …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
DOJ Reaches Consent Decree with New Jersey Jail to Improve Mental Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed both a federal civil rights complaint and a proposed consent decree to resolve allegedly unconstitutional conditions at New Jersey’s …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: According to WSFA in Montgomery, a guard at the Montgomery County Detention Center was charged on July 18, 2023, with conspiracy to provide contraband to a prisoner as well as bribing a public official. Timothy Bernard Summerlin, 33, had worked at the lockup for roughly …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was arrested on June 10, 2023, for allegedly smuggling drugs, including meth, to a prisoner at Kilby Correctional Facility, 1819 News reported. Charlie Townsend, 28, resigned from his position upon his arrest by the Law Enforcement Services Division. …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A guard with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was indicted on April 27, 2023, on charges he sexually abused two prisoners at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Aliceville, according to a report by the Birmingham News. Robert D. Smith allegedly had sexual intercourse …
Brief • May 17, 2023
USA v. Cumberland County, NJ, Consent Decree, Failure to Provide Mental Health Care, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-02655 Document 2-3 Filed 05/17/23 Page 1 of 30 PageID: 48 AGREEMENT TO RESOLVE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE’S INVESTIGATION OF THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY JAIL Case 1:23-cv-02655 Document 2-3 Filed 05/17/23 Page 2 of 30 PageID: …
Brief • May 17, 2023
USA v. Cumberland County, NJ, Complaint, Failure to Provide Mental Health Care, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-02655 Document 1 Filed 05/17/23 Page 1 of 10 PageID: 1 MERRICK B. GARLAND ATTORNEY GENERAL PHILIP R. SELLINGER United States Attorney MICHAEL E. CAMPION Chief, Civil Rights Division JUNIS L. BALDON Assistant U.S. Attorney 970 …
Brief • May 5, 2023
Smith v. County of Hudson, NJ, Complaint, Retaliation, 2023 HUD-L-001581-23 05/05/2023 11:58:49 AM Pg 1 of 56 Trans ID: LCV20231464862 Christian V. McOmber, Esq. – NJ ID #012292010 cvm@njlegal.com Peter D. Valenzano, Esq. – NJ ID #037892010 pdv@njlegal.com Lauren M. Hill, Esq. – NJ ID #304102019 lmh@njlegal.com McOMBER McOMBER & …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On March 26, 2023, a former state prison guard at Easterling Correctional Facility was arrested for taking bribes to smuggle contraband into the lockup. The Montgomery Advertiser reported that Quindarius Thagard, 27, was fired and charged with use of office for personal gain and promotion …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: WBAM in Birmingham reported that a guard at the Blount County Jail was taken into custody and fired on January 31, 2023. Joseph Snow, 43, was charged with second-degree assault for injuring a detainee during an incident captured on surveillance video. Sheriff Mike Moon called …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief Alabama: On January 9, 2023, the Montgomery Police Department (MPD) arrested a guard at the city jail for an alleged off-duty assault, the Birmingham News reported. It’s unclear who filed the misdemeanor complaint against Reba Foulks, 36; MPD didn’t begin its investigation until …
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 …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: Commissary
New Policy Banning Care Packages Makes Life Harder for N.Y. Prisoners by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins To justify rules making life difficult for prisoners, officials often point to contraband — even when facts point in another direction. That was the case when the New York Department of Corrections and …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
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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 …
Fourteen Officials Indicted in New Jersey Women’s Prison Abuse Scandal, $21 Million Class-Action Settlement Reached by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye On September 27, 2022, a New Jersey grand jury indicted 14 officials at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility (CF), the state’s only women’s prison. It was the latest fallout …
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