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Brief • July 19, 2023
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition v. Desantis, FL, Complaint, Voter Rights, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-22688-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/19/2023 Page 1 of 74 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION, RHOSHANDA JONES, ANGEL SANCHEZ, AUTUMN WAITE, and BRANDON WALTHOUR, Plaintiffs, EM O …
Article • June 22, 2023
Arizona Exploiting Prisoner Labor for Profit by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss A new constitutional amendment proposed to Congress in June 2023 would remove the exception for prisoners to the U.S. ban on slavery. The effort follows a report from Arizona in December 2022, which found that private firms …
Publication • 2023
Carceral Deference-Courts and Their Pro-Prison Propensities, March 2023 DRAFT – NOT FOR CIRCULATION, DISTRIBUTION, OR CITATION. 3/7/23 5:21 AM CARCERAL DEFERENCE: COURTS AND THEIR PRO-PRISON PROPENSITIES Danielle C. Jefferis* 92 FORDHAM L. REV. ___ (2023) (forthcoming) ABSTRACT Judicial deference to non-judicial state actors, as a general matter, is ubiquitous. But …
Article • September 16, 2022
Wait,What? Florida DOC Bans Tee Shirts Promoting Prisoner Visits by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On August 5, 2022, the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) warned employees that certain t-shirts worn by visitors to state prisons “are considered inflammatory and a potential threat to security.” So what messages …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$250,000 Paid to Woman Forced to Give Birth in California Jail Cell by Guards and CFMG Nurses by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh Dye A woman who gave birth in a cell in 2017 at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, has been awarded $250,000 to settle a lawsuit she …
Brief • 2022
Investigation of Orange County D.A.'s Office and Sheriff's Department -Oct. 2022 Investigation of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division October 13, 2022 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 1 II. BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................... 4 A. Orange County, …
Publication • 2022
People Over Profit-The Case for Abolishing the Prison Financial System, 2022 People over Profit: The Case for Abolishing the Prison Financial System Sean Kolkey * The term “mass incarceration” is used to describe a crisis that, to many, is both abstract and distant. But for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, low-income, and …
Article • March 22, 2022
Colorado Prisoners Sue DOC and Governor for Violation of State Constitutional Prohibition Against Slavery by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On February 15, 2022, two prisoners at the Fremont Correctional Facility in Cañon City, Colorado, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the State of Colorado, Governor Jared …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Second Circuit Reverses Dismissal of NY Prisoner’s Due Process Claim on Grounds It Was Abandoned on Appeal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a ruling issued on January 19, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that a lower court erred in dismissing a …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
San Luis Obispo County Jail Conditions Violate Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On August 31, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division released a report detailing its investigation concerning the conditions inside San Luis Obispo County Jail. The findings of the report, conducted …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Prison Visitors Have Fourth Amendment Right to Refuse Strip Search and Option to Leave Prison by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a strip search of a prison visitor without first giving them the option of the leaving the prison was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment. The court, …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Arizona Federal Court Dismisses NAACP’s Challenge to Private Prisons as Violating Thirteenth Amendment by Commodifying Prisoners for Profit by An Arizona federal court dismissed a civil rights complaint brought in June 2020 by the Arizona State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) under the …
Turner v. City of Chicago, IL, Settlement, Unlawful Search & Seizure, 2021 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DOMINIQUE TURNER, et al, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, vs. CITY OF CHICAGO, et al, Defendants. Case No. 21-cv-704 Honorable Thomas M. Durkin …
Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Complaint, Solitary Confinement, 2021 IN THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION ALEXANDER FRIEDMANN ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. TONY PARKER, TONY MAYS, MICHAEL KEYS, GEORGE FIRESTINE; and CELESTA WILLIAMS In their individual and …
Brief • August 30, 2021
Williams v. City of West Palm Beach, FL, Complaint, Panhandling, 2021 Case 9:21-cv-81537-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 08/30/2021 Page 1 of 23 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA WEST PALM BEACH DIVISION Case No.: 9:21-cv-81537 ROSA WILLIAMS, GARY FRASHAW, and THOMAS HYLAND, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF …
Brief • August 30, 2021
Williams v. City of West Palm Beach, FL, Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Panhandling, 2021 Case 9:21-cv-81537-DMM Document 4 Entered on FLSD Docket 08/30/2021 Page 1 of 21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA WEST PALM BEACH DIVISION Case No. 9:21-cv-81537-DMM ROSA WILLIAMS, GARY FRASHAW, and THOMAS HYLAND, Plaintiffs, …
Brief • August 4, 2021
Knight First Amendment Institute v. BOP, NY, Complaint, Prisoners' Right to Mail, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-06579 Document 1 Filed 08/04/21 Page 1 of 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 1:21-cv-6579 v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS and …
Navar v. City of Chicago, IL, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION Y ARITSSA NA VAR, Plaintiff, V. CITY OF CHICAGO and CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER DANIEL P. GOLDEN (Star #10964), Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Brief • June 23, 2021
Messina v. City of Ft Lauderdale, FL, Order Granting Preliminary Injunction, Right to Panhandle, 2021 Case 0:21-cv-60168-RKA Document 56 Entered on FLSD Docket 06/23/2021 Page 1 of 43 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 21-cv-60168-ALTMAN/Hunt MARK MESSINA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, …
Sixth Circuit Refuses to Extend Bivens to BOP Prisoner’s First Amendment Claims by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 16, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a federal prisoner’s Bivens action, because First Amendment claims are not cognizable …
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