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Publication • October 1, 2018
Reforming Restrictive Housing: The ASCA-Liman Nationwide Survey of Time-in-Cell, 2018 Reforming Restrictive Housing: The 2018 ASCA-Liman Nationwide Survey of Time-in-Cell Reforming Restrictive Housing: The 2018 ASCA-Liman Nationwide Survey of Time-in-Cell The Association of State Correctional Administrators The Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School October 2018 The …
At the Federal Supermax, When Does Isolation Become Torture? by Alan Prendergast by Alan Prendergast, Westword You see them on TV, usually around the time they are arrested. Men who have declared war on America, combatants in a conflict that never ends. They are captured on the street and at airports, …
$60,000 settlement reached in prisoner's case against officer by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A man suffering from schizophrenia at Tangipahoa Parish Jail (TPJ) in Louisiana, who was not always provided with necessary medications and was attacked and injured by other detainees through staff indifference, received a $60,000 settlement in …
Rethinking Restriction Housing, Vera Institute of Justice, 2018 May 2018 Rethinking Restrictive Housing Lessons from Five U.S. Jail and Prison Systems Léon Digard, Elena Vanko, and Sara Sullivan About This Report This project was supported by Grant No. 2014-DB-BX-K009, awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice …
Brief • April 13, 2018
Jerra v. United States, CA, Judgment, Wrongful Confinement, 2018 Case 2:12-cv-01907-ODW-AGR Document 336 Filed 04/13/18 Page 1 of 3 Page ID #:5648 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 CASE CLOSED 8 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 10 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 11 WESTERN DIVISION 12 JAMES M. JERRA, 13 …
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 …
Solitary Troubles, Cardozo School of Law, 2018 Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law · Yeshiva University Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies February 20, 2018 Faculty Research Paper No. 536 Solitary Troubles Forthcoming 93 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 927 Alexander A. Reinert Professor of Law Cardozo Law School 55 …
ICE Detainee Sent to Solitary Confinement for Encouraging Protest of “Voluntary” Low-Wage Labor by Spencer Woodman by Spencer Woodman, reprinted with permission from The Intercept In June, officials at a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in rural Georgia sentenced an immigrant detainee to a month in solitary …
$6,500 Settlement after Ninth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Retaliatory Ad-seg Case by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On October 26, 2016, the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a suit filed by a California prisoner who claimed prison officials had wrongly punished him for reporting staff misconduct. …
Illinois Pays $450,000 to Prisoner Who was Raped, Punished for Reporting It by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton An Illinois State prisoner who was raped agreed to settle his lawsuit against Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) officials who punished him for reporting the sexual assault. The $450,000 payout was one …
Braggs v. Dunn, AL, Opinion and Order, 2017 Case 2:14-cv-00601-MHT-TFM Document 1285 Filed 06/27/17 Page 1 of 302 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, NORTHERN DIVISION EDWARD BRAGGS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. JEFFERSON S. DUNN, in his official capacity as Commissioner of …
Solitary Confinement Is Used to Break People -- I Know Because I Endured It by Monica Cosby by Monica Cosby, Truthout Solitary confinement. Administrative segregation. Administrative detention. Restrictive housing. Temporary confinement. Protective custody. Appropriate placement. There are many names for solitary confinement. In the Illinois prisons where I was incarcerated, it …
Dismissal of Federal Prisoner’s Lawsuit over Improper Solitary Confinement Affirmed by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has dealt a blow to the constitutional rights of imprisoned writers. On December 11, 2012, after serving a lengthy sentence for arson-related crimes in connection with …
Jerra v. United States, CA, Verdict, Wrongful Confinement, 2017 Case 2:12-cv-01907-ODW-AGR Document 284 Filed 04/12/17 Page 1 of 10 Page ID #:3683 1 2 a 3 :̀~ CLFPK, U.S. D;~TRIrT COl}RT 4 APR ! 2 2QI7 5 ~ gy 6 • '~',t~ r ig , ~ ;' ~ IA DEPUTY …
Pennsylvania: $99,000 Settlement for 22 Years in Solitary Confinement by David Reutter A Pennsylvania federal district court held that general issues of material fact required a jury to determine whether a prisoner’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was held in solitary confinement for over 22 years. …
Texas: Complaint Filed Over Contaminated Water, Conditions at Eastham Unit by Panagioti Tsolkas The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has become a litmus test for dealing with toxic environmental conditions for prisoners. Earlier this year, prisoners at the Wallace Pack Unit and their advocates on the outside succeeded in …
Nebraska: Portions of Lawsuit over Guard’s Sexual Assault Allowed to Proceed by Last year, the Nebraska Court of Appeals held a prisoner’s claim alleging an intentional tort related to a sexual assault by a guard was barred by the State Tort Claims Act (STCA), but claims of intentional and negligent …
Solitary Confinement, Prisoners Legal Services, 2016 Sol i t a r yConf i ne me nt : TheCa s ef orCha ngei nMa s s a c hus e t t s Nov e mbe r2016 AWhi t ePa pe rby Executive Summary EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Evidence Supports Reducing Reliance …
Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative - Findings and Recommendations for ODOC, Vera, 2016 October 2016 The Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative: Findings and Recommendations for the Oregon Department of Corrections Allison Hastings, Elena Vanko, and Jessi LaChance © 2016 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. Additional copies can be …
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