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Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Push to Digitize Rikers Island Mail Based on Faulty Drug Tests by Since 2022, New York City’s Department of Correction (DOC) has warned that its Rikers Island jail complex was swamped with letters soaked in fentanyl and other contraband drugs. As a result, DOC officials called to follow the state …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Blood in the Water Author Wins Censorship Challenges Against Illinois, New York Prison Systems by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In 2016, University of Michigan Professor Heather Ann Thompson published Blood in the Water, a book about the 1971 uprising at New York’s Attica State Prison that claimed the lives …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Minnesota Prisoners Getting Scanned Mail, Kept Waiting 18 Months for Tablets by Starting November 1, 2024, prisoners held by the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) stopped getting physical mail, which is now diverted to Baltimore for electronic scanning by private contractor TextBehind. Printed copies of the scans—complete with all the …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
California Prisoner Awarded Over $1.26 Million in Suit Challenging Withheld Legal Mail Which Resulted in Habeas Loss by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 12, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of California entered judgment in favor of state prisoner Anthony Penton, adding $788,744.97 to an …
Filing • December 30, 2024
Human Rights Defense Center v. Pacific County, et al., WA, Complaint, Censorship, 2024 Case 3:24-cv-06068 Document 1 Filed 12/30/24 Page 1 of 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 7 8 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, No. 9 Plaintiff, COMPLAINT 10 …
Human Rights Defense Center v. Pacific County, et al., WA, Complaint, Censorship, 2024 Case 3:24-cv-06068 Document 1 Filed 12/30/24 Page 1 of 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 7 8 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, No. 9 Plaintiff, COMPLAINT 10 …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Georgia Jail Sued by Local Bookstore Banned from Sending Detainees Reading Materials by When the Avid Bookshop mailed several book orders to prisoners at the Gwinnett County Jail outside Atlanta in May 2023, the Athens retailer likely didn’t expect to become embroiled in a lawsuit almost a year later. Then …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Settlement Agreement and Release, 2024 Docusign Envelope ID: 19D17FBB-93C2-469E-876F-033496C202CE EXECUTION COPY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, v. Civil Action No. 5:21-CV-469-FL Plaintiff, SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ISHEE et al., Defendants. This SETTLEMENT …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Settlement Agreement and Release, 2024 Docusign Envelope ID: 19D17FBB-93C2-469E-876F-033496C202CE EXECUTION COPY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, v. Civil Action No. 5:21-CV-469-FL Plaintiff, SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ISHEE et al., Defendants. This SETTLEMENT …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Hometown Prison Examines Its Texas Neighbors by Incarcerated readers of PLN will not soon get a chance to see Hometown Prison, a new documentary film released on February 27, 2024, which explores the relationship between some 80,000 people who make their home in Huntsville, Texas and the seven prisons there …
Lawsuit Over Mailroom Abuses by Washington DOC Leads to Policy Changes by A settlement reached on November 1, 2023, between the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and current or former state prisoners resulted in changes to prison mail policies. While incarcerated at Monroe Correctional Complex (MCC), Adam Bauer, David Cochran, …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order re Court-Hosted Settlement Conference, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and official capacities; DARCELL CARTER, …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order re Court-Hosted Settlement Conference, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and official capacities; DARCELL CARTER, …
Kansas DOC Claims Discrimination Against Wiccans Was “Inadvertent” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 27, 2023, the Kansas Department of Corrections (DOC) appeared to back down from a fight over providing state prisoners materials from a Wiccan shop—though it maintained a ban on correspondence from the shop owner …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends by After banning state prisoners from receiving physical mail the year before, the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) extended the ban on September 25, 2023, to include books sent to prisoners from family or friends. The rule change …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Seventh Circuit Again Rejects Challenge to Three-Book Limit at Cook County Jail by Now-Dead Detainee by David Reutter David M. Reutter On April 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of a suit filed by a pretrial detainee challenging the contraband policy at the …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order Granting in Part Motion for Summary Judgment, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION NO. 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order Granting in Part Motion for Summary Judgment, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION NO. 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and …
Eleventh Circuit Revives Claim Against Florida Jail That Forced Detainee to Scan Legal Mail Into Computer with Memory Chip by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 8, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed dismissal of a claim alleging two guards at Florida’s Polk …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Censoring Women’s Health by Kwaneta Harris by Kwaneta Harris In prison, even learning about your own reproductive health is met with repression. This essay originally appeared in Inquest on October 19, 2023. The original can be found at https://inquest.org/censoring-womens-health/ “It’s coming out! Down there!” my twenty-year-old handcuffed neighbor, Mina, says …
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