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Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
San Francisco Supervisor Calls for “Mass Arrests” and Compulsory Addiction Treatment in “Drug Jails” by In a letter of inquiry submitted on January 3, 2025, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey (D) called for “mass arrests” of addicts and their incarceration in “drug jails,” where they would be forced …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Despite Prevalence, Most ADHD Behind Bars Goes Undiagnosed and Untreated by In an interview on September 27, 2024, former New Zealand prisoner Ricky Wakelin, 42, described the “lightbulb moment” when he learned about Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD)—intense anger, shame and anxiety triggered by real or perceived criticism—that often accompanies Attention …
$150,000 Settlement But No Charges After Schizophrenic Florida Detainee Killed by Jail Guards by On June 7, 2024, officials in Florida’s Marion County agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a suit filed by the survivors of Scott L. Whitley III, 46, a diagnosed schizophrenic who died naked and Tasered under …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Monterey County Pays $1 Million to Settle Suit Over Detainee Suicide by Toilet Tissue; Wellpath Pays Another Undisclosed Sum by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 18, 2024, the United States Court for the Northern District of California approved a series of settlements totaling $1 million that resolved a …
DOJ Directs BOP, U.S. Marshals to Improve Suicide Prevention by On December 3, 2024, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco issued a directive updating suicide prevention protocols and improving mental health assessments for federal prisoners and detainees. The reforms apply to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the U.S. …
Oregon DOC Investigation Puts Top Medical Officials on Leave by A mid an investigation into complaints about prisoner medical care, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) put two top healthcare officials on leave on December 5, 2024. Assistant Director of Health Services Joe Bugher and Chief of Medicine Dr. Warren …
Video of Autistic Ohio Teen’s Jail Death Undercuts Sheriff’s Report Calling It Suicide by Surveillance video from Ohio’s Montgomery County Jail surfaced from an unidentified source in early June 2024, showing the last hours before 19-year-old Isaiah Trammell died in custody in March 2023. As PLN reported, he died three …
Suits Filed Over Dehydration Deaths at Two Texas Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 9, 2024, the grandmother of a mentally ill detainee who died of dehydration at Texas’ Denton County Jail (DCJ) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing jail staff of deliberate indifference in allowing …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Mentally Incompetent Maine Defendants Sent to South Carolina Wellpath Lockup Called “Essentially Prison” by Pre-trial detainees found not criminally responsible in Maine are being quietly transferred from the state’s Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta to Columbia Regional Care Center, a South Carolina psychiatric lockup owned by Wellpath, Inc. Wellpath has …
Four-Month Wait for 40 Percent of South Carolina Jail Detainees Needing Psychiatric Evaluation by A backlog in court-ordered psychological evaluations had stranded 136 South Carolina detainees in jail by the end of September 2024, nearly 40% of them held over 120 days. Waiting on admission to the state’s forensic psychiatric …
Top Doc Sacked from Maryland Psych Hospital with “Climate of Chaos” by At Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, Maryland’s primary secure psychiatric facility, a team from the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors arrived on October 8, 2024, to conduct a two-day evaluation of processes, policies and procedures …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Suicidal Texas Prisoners Held in Phone-Booth-Size “Containment Cages” by In an essay published by Slate on October 20, 2024, Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoner Jeremy Busby admitted that even after 20 years behind bars, what he found when released from a 23-month solitary confinement in 2022 left him …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Trends Show Mortality Risks Increase with Higher Jail Turnover Rates by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Thousands of people die in local jails annually. The causes of death vary, leading researchers to seek identifiable trends. A report published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on December 19, 2023, …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Spit Hoods, Modern Legacy of Torture by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Spit hoods are a type of restraint used by prison and jail guards, as well as other law enforcement and custodial healthcare professionals, ostensibly to protect themselves from the bites and spit of detainees. The instructions are …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$28.75 Million Settlement Paid by New York City in Suit Alleging Rikers Guards Stood by and Watched Detainee Hang Himself by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On April 5, 2024, the City of New York agreed to pay $28.75 million to settle a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint filed by Madeline …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Ninth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for California Jail Nurse Who Cleared Detainee for Release Just Before His Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On May 3, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to Los Angeles County Jail nurse Trieste …
$1.5 Million Settlement Approved in Chicago Jail Suicide Case by On July 12, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois approved a $1.5 million settlement in a case involving the suicide of detainee Areon Marion in Chicago’s Cook County Jail. The order directed how the funds …
“Like Being Back in Jail”: Wisconsin Returns Released Sex Offenders to Lifetime GPS Monitoring by On April 1, 2024, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) signed SB 874 into law, effectively nullifying a state Supreme Court ruling issued the previous year that directed the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to remove …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
$7.25 Million Paid for Psychotic Detainee’s Suicide After 20 Days in Solitary at Indiana Jail by On May 28, 2024, remaining claims were dismissed in federal court for the Southern District of Indiana by the Estate of Joshua McLemore, a psychotic Jackson County Jail detainee who starved himself to death …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Minnesota’s $100 Million-Per-Year Civil Commitment Program Has No “Discernible Impact” on Sex Crimes by A report released on April 16, 2024, concluded that Minnesota’s Sex Offense Civil Commitment (SOCC) program, which is operated by the state Department of Human Services at a cost of over $100 million per year, has …
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