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Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Justice Department Releases Ten-Year Recidivism Study by Matthew Clarke Follows a half-million state prisoners released in 2008 by Matt Clarke From 2016 through 2019, the last years for which reliable data are available, about 10.5 million arrests were made in the U.S. annually. Averaged over a decade, that’s less than …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Audit Reveals Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Chaplaincy Services Branch Critically Depleted by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The Office of the Inspector General completed an audit of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Chaplaincy Services Branch (CSB) in July 2021. The CSB is responsible for the BOP’s religious services …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Seventh Circuit: PLRA Mandates Dismissal for Deceit on IFP Application by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that when a prisoner deliberately misrepresents their financial status when seeking in forma pauperis (IFP)status, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requires dismissal. In another case …
Publication • 2020
Systemic Oppression and the Contested Ground of Information Access for Incarcerated People 2020 DE GRUYTER Open Information Science 2020; 4: 169–185 Research Article Jeanie Austin*, Melissa Charenko, Michelle Dillon, Jodi Lincoln Systemic Oppression and the Contested Ground of Information Access for Incarcerated People https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0013 Received October 30, 2019; accepted July …
Article • April 2, 2020
Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Texas Prisoner’s Complaint Over Consequences of Prisoner Unrest as Frivolous by On February 20, 2020, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s pro se, in forma pauperis federal civil rights complaint primarily over the consequences flowing from a physical …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Are Prison Law Libraries Adequate? by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell If you’ve ever had to rely on a prison law library to research for a court filing, you know just how sorely lacking they can be. And that’s if you were even able to access the law library. Many …
Larocque et al. v. Turco et al., MA, order, prisoners' access to attorneys, legal materials, 2020
Article • January 12, 2020
Filed under: Court Access
Civilly Dead Prisoner Unable to Sue in Rhode Island by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Rhode Island’s “civil death” statute (GL 1956 § 13-6-1) provides that a person serving a life sentence in that state is “civilly dead” and therefore legally unable to avail him or herself of relief in …
Article • December 1, 2019
Filed under: Court Appearances
Oregon Release Agreement Did Not Require Personal Appearance; FTA Conviction Reversed by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a first-degree failure to appear conviction, finding that the release agreement allowed for an appearance through counsel rather than personal appearance. Zachary Michael Lobue was detained in …
$250,000 Awarded to Mississippi Woman After Being Jailed 96 Days Without Bail Hearing or Lawyer by Douglas Ankney by Dale Chappell  A woman who spent 96 days in the Choctaw County Jail in Mississippi without being granted a lawyer or bail hearing was awarded $250,000 by a federal jury March …
FAMM, Washington Lawyers’ Committee, NACDL Launch Compassionate Release Clearinghouse by FAMM First Step Act paves the way for a massive pro bono effort to represent sick, dying, and elderly prisoners in court. The following is a press release from FAMM, June 19, 2019 WASHINGTON – Thousands of sick, dying, and …
Article • June 11, 2019
Civil Rights Attorney Sues to Collect Fees by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Emily Posner is a Louisiana attorney representing state prisoner Kenneth Idel in a federal civil rights lawsuit. Idel alleges that prison guard Richard Pope broke and caused permanent damage to his jaw when Pope kneed the back …
Brown v. DPSCS, MD, Final General Settlement Argreement, Discrimination Against Blind Prisoners, 2019 RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This Release and Settlement Agreement (“Agreement”) is entered this 5th day of June, 2019, between Steven Brown, Wilbert Delano, Gregory Hammond, Sedric Holley, Russell Hopkins, Johnny James, Tyrell Polley, Maynard Snead and Robert …
Brown v. DPSCS, MD, Settlement Exhibit, Discrimination Against Blind Prisoners, 2019 Steven Brown, et al. v. Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Exhibit 1 to Release and Settlement Agreement Non-Monetary Term Sheet All of the following terms apply to currently incarcerated Plaintiffs in Brown v. Department of …
Faison v. Held, IL, Settlement, 2019 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EAST ST. LOUIS DIVISION JEAN-MARC FAISON, #R-41130, Plaintiff, vs. C/0 HELD, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 16-598-NJR-GCS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This …
Goston v. Brady, IL, Settlement, 2019 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EAST ST. LOUIS DIVISION JAMES A. GOSTON, #N-73283, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) V. ) BARRY BRADY, ) ) ) Defendant. Case No. 15-1357-MJR-SCW ) SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This Settlement …
Publication • May 13, 2019
New York City Board of Correction Annual Lockdown Report, 2019 New York City Board of Correction Annual Lockdown Report May 2019 Executive Summary Background According to New York City Department of Correction (“DOC” or “the Department”) policy, during emergency lock-ins (or “lockdowns”) people in custody are confined to their cells …
Tenth Circuit: Prisoner Forfeited ADA Abrogation of Sovereign Immunity Argument by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that a former Colorado prisoner waived his argument that Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) abrogates sovereign immunity. The court …
Article • February 11, 2019
‘I Didn’t Lay Down’: How A California Man Convicted Of Murder May Have Saved His Own Life by Maura Ewing Death penalty mitigation offers juries a chance to see defendants in a different light by Maura Ewing, The Appeal The odds were stacked against Ernesto Martinez. Last fall, he was on …
Lawsuits Filed Over South Dakota Replacing Prison Law Libraries with Tablets by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Two federal lawsuits were filed by South Dakota prisoners in May and June 2018 against the state Department of Corrections (DOC) over the introduction of tablet computers to replace prison law libraries and …
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