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Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: Exposure to Heat
North Carolina Prisoners Languish Without Air Conditioning by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The North Carolina General Assembly approved a $30 million budget to air condition all state prisons in late 2021, but none of it had been spent by May 2022. That left about 15,400 of some 37,000 …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Boiling Behind Bars In Sweltering Texas, Prisons Without Air Conditioning Are About to Get a Lot Hotter by Alleen Brown by Alleen Brown This article was originally published by The Intercept on February 12, 2022. It is reprinted here with permission. The original, along with photos and maps, may be …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Eleventh Circuit Holds No Qualified Immunity on Deliberate Indifference in Heat Exhaustion Case by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found a Georgia Sheriff’s Deputy employed excessive force by detaining a pretrial detainee “in a hot, unventilated, and unair-conditioned transport van for approximately two …
Freeman v. Lashbrook, IL, Settlement, Deliberate Indifference, 2021 Information Sheet for Case Number Official Case# Case# 18-CV-2144-SMY 18-2144 Opp osing Counsel : Freeman, Geoffrey #N40858 v. Lashbrook, et al. IDOC# Plaintiffs: Filed Case Name Defendants: Date Served Received 2/8/19 Status closed 2/15/ 19 Class Act ion □ On Appeal D …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Mentally Ill Alabama Prisoner Dies in 101-Degree Cell by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Hardly a summer passes that prisoners do not die from heat illnesses of one variety or another. This is especially true in the southern part of the country where retributive attitudes prevail along with an enslavement …
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 …
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