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Tougher Than the Rest: No Criminal Justice Reform “Miracle” in Texas by Marie Gottschalk by Marie Gottschalk For more than a decade now, politicians and policymakers — from Barack Obama to Donald Trump — have lauded Texas as a model for criminal justice reform. They have praised the Lone Star …
Freeman v. Lashbrook, IL, Complaint, Deliberate Indifference, 2020 Case 3:18-cv-02144-RJD *SEALED* Document 106 Filed 11/04/20 Page 1 of 20 Page ID #803 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS GEOFFREY W. FREEMAN, ) ) Plaintiff, ) JURY TRIAL DEMANDED vs. JACQUELlNE LASHBROOK, KEVIN REICHERT, JOSHUA …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Exposure to Heat
Texas: Prison Air Conditioning Needs Revisiting by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In 1855, young General Philip H. Sheridan was a second lieutenant at Fort Clark, located in present-day Kinney County, Texas. When someone asked him how he liked the state, he replied “If I owned Texas and Hell, I …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Exposure to Heat
Animal Shelters Provide Cooler Temperatures Than Florida Prisons in Summer by David Reutter by David M. Reutter With the heat of summer’s arrival, Florida prisoners endure living in outdated infrastructure. The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC), in a July 14, 2020 email to prisoners, said it “is making efforts to …
Brief • December 11, 2019
Cole et al. v. Collier, et al., TX, memorandum and order, failure to report high prison temperatures per settlement, 2019 Case 4:14-cv-01698 Document 1504 Filed on 12/11/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 8 United States District Court Southern District of Texas ENTERED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS …
Haslett v. Shurtz, IL, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2019 16-CV-1301-SMY-RJD Haslett, Darryl #R01829 v. Smith, et al. 12/2/16 5/23/17 closed STA TE OF' ILLINOIS - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS-LEGAL SETILEMENT CASE CLOSURE FORM Atty FEIN#: Pint SS#: 01:pcsltior~ ~-:: hpn□in P.r:!ial ~e11leiren1 0 Q 0 0 Av11,~1nai1 0 CoUll0rdm/Sin:tioOl sew: [.________j Sign …
Paige v. Wexford, IL, Settlement, Conditions of Confinement, 2019 1o. I r - . +-!... ;: ~ ,.a, ■ .. Case# I • l 16-858 SD Official Case# 16-CV-858 Case Name Paige, Cory #M02717 v. Wexford, et al. • ••· ... ._.. • . .. r • ..., t•.·. 4 …
Article • October 7, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
As Climate Changes, High Temperatures Plague Prisons and Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke At a September 2019 hearing, a U.S. District Court judge threatened to throw officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) into the same excessively hot prison cells that the agency had failed to …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Texas Prisoner’s Excessive Heat Death Reveals Continuing Danger by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) settled a lawsuit over excessive heat filed by prisoners at the Wallace Pack Unit, by agreeing to air condition the facility and move heat-sensitive prisoners to cooler cells, …
Solitary Watch, American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, Jesuit Social Research Institute: A Report on Lockdown - A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons, With Testimony from the People Who Live It, 2019 Louisiana on Lockdown A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in …
Casias v. New Mexico DOC, NM, Jury Verdict, Prisoners Left in Hot Van, 2019 Case 1:16-cv-00056-JMC-SCY Document 221 Filed 04/04/19 Page 1 of 9 Case 1:16-cv-00056-JMC-SCY Document 221 Filed 04/04/19 Page 2 of 9 Case 1:16-cv-00056-JMC-SCY Document 221 Filed 04/04/19 Page 3 of 9 Case 1:16-cv-00056-JMC-SCY Document 221 Filed 04/04/19 …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Texas Prison Air Conditioning Costs Much Lower than Expected by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Between 1998 and 2014, at least 23 Texas prisoners died due to excessive heat in housing units and transport buses. Most Texas state prisons are not air conditioned. A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of …
Paige v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Conditions of Confinement, 2018 Case 3:16-cv-00858-SMY-RJD Document 60 Filed 09/10/18 Page 1 of 19 Page ID #510 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR TH'ftEC EIVEO SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS CORY PAIGE, SEP 1 7 20!8 ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. ) KIMBERLY BUTLER, …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Some Arizona Prison Logs Show Temperatures up to 119 Degrees; Others Falsified by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Since February 2015, a settlement and stipulation in Parsons v. Ryan has required the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) to monitor and log indoor temperatures at state prisons. According to the Phoenix …
Article • August 6, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Filed under: Shelter, Exposure to Heat
Arpaio’s Infamous Tent City is Gone but Arizona State Prison’s Tent City Remains by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke Soon after he was sworn in as sheriff for Maricopa County, Arizona, Paul Penzone began phasing out the infamous Tent City jail erected by his predecessor, Joe Arpaio, who was found …
Article • June 29, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Litigation Heats Up Over Extreme Temperatures in Prisons, Jails by Matthew Clarke, Christopher Zoukis by Matt Clarke and Christopher Zoukis During a heat wave in the summer of 2017, dozens of protesters gathered outside the Medium Security Institution in St. Louis, Missouri and chanted “shut it down,” after a video …
Prison Activist Resource Center - PARC National Prisoner Resource Directory, 2018 PARC National Prisoner Resource Directory Core Volunteers Jessie Backer Greetings, Marka Ellertson Welcome to the June 2018 edition of PARC’s National Prisoner Resource Directory. We have updated information on organizations that are new to us, and on ones that …
Article • April 18, 2018
Fifth Circuit: Court May Not Mandate Maximum Heat Index on Louisiana’s Death Row by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On January 31, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred when it mandated a maximum-allowable heat index measure for a Louisiana’s death row. The court …
Louisiana Prison Officials Sued for Trying to Block Investigation into Abuse of Disabled Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Alleging a “culture of cover-up and excessive force,” the MacArthur Justice Center and the Advocacy Center of Louisiana (ACL) filed a class-action lawsuit in February 2018 against officials at …
The Campaign to Close the Workhouse and Promote a New Vision for St. Louis, 2018 -EXECUTIVE SUMMARY- The City of St. Louis condemns hundreds of mostly poor and Black people to suffer in unspeakably hellish and inhumane conditions at the “Workhouse,” officially known as the Medium Security Institution. Over 95% …
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