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Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Filed under: Cell Searches, Lockdowns
South Dakota DOC Locks Down Third Prison in 2024 by On October 7, 2024, the South Dakota Department of Corrections (DOC) announced the results of searches conducted during a nearly three-week lockdown begun at the state penitentiary on September 15, 2024. During that time all visitation was suspended for its …
SCOTUS Stays Texas Execution With 20 Minutes to Spare by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After granting a rare stay of execution minutes before a condemned Texas prisoner’s date with death, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) agreed on October 4, 2024, to hear his challenge to a …
Alabama Guard, Prisoners Among 13 Sentenced in Phone Scam and Drug-Smuggling Ring by On July 1, 2024, the last of 13 people was sentenced in a drug-­smuggling scheme at Alabama’s Donaldson Correctional Facility that included five prisoners. The last of those, Otis “Big O” Bowers, 44, had been sentenced on …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$23,138 Plus Out-Of-State Transfer for Virginia Prisoner Who Accused Guards of Excessive Force and Altering Video by On March 25, 2024, Virginia prisoner Steven Allen Riddick, 50, agreed to accepted $23,138 from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to settle claims made in several civil rights cases filed in federal …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Illinois Pays $3 Million for Subjecting Prisoners to Degrading Mass Strip Search by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso After a dozen years of fighting over a mass strip-search conducted during a training exercise in an Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) prison for women, the federal court for the Central …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Baton Rouge Cops Indicted for Violent In-Custody Strip-Search by On June 26, 2024, a special grand jury in Louisiana’s East Baton Rouge Parish indicted four officers with the Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) for their violent strip search of a suspect in custody. The September 2020 incident was recorded when …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
3,500 Body-Worn Cameras Recalled from Rikers Island Guards After One Catches Fire by At New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on May 3, 2024, a guard’s body-­worn camera (BWC) malfunctioned and ignited, leaving the unnamed captain suffering burns and smoke inhalation. The city’s Department of Correction (DOC) then suspended …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Pro-Navalny Hackers Breach Russian Prison Computers, Lower Commissary Prices by Hours after Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny died in prison on February 16, 2024, anti-­government hackers took revenge, breaching information systems of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) and posting personal data of some 800,000 prisoners online. Prices at prison …
New York Revises 2,772 Prisoner Disciplinary Records After Inspector General Finds Defects in Another Contraband Drug Test by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A November 2023 report by the New York Office of the Inspector General (OIG) detailed grave defects uncovered by an investigation into the Contraband Drug Testing Program …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Seventh Circuit Finds No Problem With Surveillance of Chicago Detainees on Toilets by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 18, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials of Cook County in a civil rights action …
Suit Proceeds Against CoreCivic by Guard Strip-Searched at Georgia Prison by David Reutter by David Reutter   On March 13, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of Georgia denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a guard for private prison giant CoreCivic, alleging she was unconstitutionally …
Class-­Action Lawsuit Challenges Use of Presumptive Drug Tests by Washington DOC by A suit filed in Washington state court on September 22, 2023, challenges disciplinary sanctions imposed on prisoners by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) based on presumptive drug test results. DOC uses inexpensive colorimetric drug tests to examine …
California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Et Al v. U.S.A, CA, Order Granting the Motion for Class Certification, Solitary Confinement, 2024 Case 4:23-cv-04155-YGR Document 222 Filed 03/15/24 Page 1 of 45 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 Case No.: 4:23-cv-4155-YGR 4 5 CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR WOMEN …
Brief • February 9, 2024
Wall v. Rasnick, VA, Plaintiff's Response to Dft's Objections to Ruling on Motion for Sanctions, Spoliation of Video Evidence, 2024 Case 7:17-cv-00385-JPJ-PMS Document 169 Filed 02/09/24 Page 1 of 26 Pageid#: 2570 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ROANOKE DIVISION GARY WALL, Plaintiff, CASE …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Jail Guard Accused of Grabbing and Squeezing Detainee’s Penis by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On August 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to a Minnesota jail guard in a …
Brief • January 26, 2024
Wall v. Rasnick, VA, Plaintiff's Objection to Order and Memo Opinio Regarding Spoilation Sanctions, Spoliation of Video Evidence, 2024 Case 7:17-cv-00385-JPJ-PMS Document 163 Filed 01/26/24 Page 1 of 39 Pageid#: 2493 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ROANOKE DIVISION GARY WALL, Plaintiff, CASE NO. …
Brief • December 8, 2023
Filed under: Strip Searches
Phillips v. Hulett, IL, Order on Final Approval and Final Judgment, Strip Search, 2023 3:12-cv-03087-JEH # 323 Filed: 12/08/23 Page 1 of 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS PATRICIA PHILLIPS, et al., Plaintiffs, -vsMELODY HULETT, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) …
Brief • November 29, 2023
Filed under: Strip Searches
Phillips v. Hulett, IL, Settlement, Strip Searches, 2023 3:12-cv-03087-JEH # 322-2 Filed: 11/29/23 EXHIBIT 1 Page 1 of 25 3:12-cv-03087-JEH # 322-2 Filed: 11/29/23 Page 2 of 25 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD DIVISION PATRICIA PIDLLIPS, et al., Plaintiffs, -vsMELODY HULETT, et …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Connecticut Lawmakers Punt on Limiting Prison Strip Searches by David Reutter by David M. Reutter During their 2023 session, Connecticut lawmakers took a pass on legislation to rein in routine prison strip searches, which advocates testified were “humiliating” and “intrusive.” There was, however, widespread interest in appearing interested in the …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
DNA Matches Dead Australian to Nebraska Prisoner Who Escaped 56 Years Ago by After his death in 2010 at age 69, John Vincent Damon’s family members would occasionally walk through Tamborine Mountain Cemetery in Queensland, Australia, just to stand at his grave. He left behind a wife and two adult …
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