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California Prisons Struggle with Environmental Threats from Sewage Spills, Contaminated Water, Airborne Disease by Rick Anderson by Rick Anderson "When I walk into my cell and see a [toilet] bowl full of brown water, I’m reminded of my status in the world; I’m reminded of my value. All the pious …
Jackson v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Conditions of Confinement, 2017 J(Rev. 06/12) Summons in a Civil Action UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the No1thern District of Illinois Romeo Jackson ) ) ) ) ) Plai11tiff(s) V. Wexford Health Services, Inc.; Saleh Obaisi, M.D.; Major James Burzinski; Lieutenant Anthony Robinson; and Sergeant …
Heard v. Kramer, IL, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2018 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE BOBBY J. HEARD v. KRAMER, LEWIS, CONKLIN AND DAVIS ND IL Case No. 17 CV 3435 AND BOBBY J. HEARD v. ROBINSON ND IL Case No. 17 CV 5461 This Settlement Agreement and General Release ("Agreement") …
Johnson v. Pfister, IL, Merit Review, Conditions of Confinement 2017 1:17-cv-01174-SLD # 9 Page 1 of 3 E-FILED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS HENRY JOHNSON, Plaintiff, V. ) ) ) ) ) RANDY PFISTER et al., Defendants. Friday, 16 June, 2017 03:36:03 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, …
National Institute of Corrections, NE Department of Correctional Services Tecumseh State Correctional Institutional Review Team Report, Inmate Review of Disturbance and Death of Two TSCI Inmates, 2017
Florida County Votes against New Jail on Former EPA Superfund Site, Opts to Stay in Flood Zone by Panagioti Tsolkas Controversy arose at a November 12, 2015 Escambia County Commission meeting in Pensacola, Florida over a plan to construct a new jail. The county’s old jail had been damaged by …
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 …
Connecticut Prisoners File Suit Over Exposure to Radon Gas by Panagioti Tsolkas This summer, prisoners at the Garner Correctional Institution (GCI) in Newtown, Connecticut responded to more than two decades of radon exposure at the facility by filing a class-action lawsuit. “The length of time this went on didn’t have …
Wisconsin: Prison Hunger Strike Reaches Crisis Point by According to an August 22, 2016 report from Workers World, an ongoing hunger strike at the Waupun Correctional Institution in Wisconsin has reached a crisis point. A group of at least eight prisoners at Waupun and the Columbia Correctional Institution began refusing …
Federal Judge Orders Texas Department of Criminal Justice to Provide Safe Water to Prisoners by Derek Gilna On June 21, 2016, U.S. District Court Judge Keith Ellison ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to provide prisoners at the Wallace Pack Unit in Navasota with drinking water free of …
Grenier v. Semple, CT, Class Action Complaint, Prisoner Exposure to Gas, Case 3:16-cv-01465-AVC Document 1 Filed 08/26/16 Page 1 of 36 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT LEE GRENIER; TAVORUS FLUKER; ANTHONY ROGERS; THOMAS MARRA; LAWRENCE TOWNSEND; TERRENCE EASTON; LAMONT SAMUEL; IAN COOKE; and J. MICHAEL FARREN on behalf …
Brief • August 18, 2016
Bordeaux v. Berkeley County, SC, Complaint, Conditions of Confinement, 2016 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA ) COUNTY OF .cB,::E,::R,,cKceEc:,L,::E:..:Yc...__ _ _ _ ) ) BRANDON BORDEAUX, LEE DELL BRADLEY, IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CORNELIUS CASE NO. _ _ _ -CP - CHISOLM, WILLIAM COUNTEE ill, …
Contaminated Sites and Prisons in New Jersey by Panagioti Tsolkas When journalist Raven Rakia embarked on an investigation of “the Superfund State” of New Jersey, she found another layer to the environmental justice disaster that sits just south of New York City. While New Jersey leads the nation in federally-designated …
Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Letcher Co KY Prison, BOP, Mar 2016 REVISED FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR PROPOSED UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY AND FEDERAL PRISON CAMP Letcher County, Kentucky Prepared for: United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons Capacity Planning and Construction Branch March 2016 (This page intentionally …
Welcome to Appalachia’s Gulag Archipelago by By Skyler Simmons / Earth First! Newswire Exile in the Mountains It is hard to imagine the hollers and hills of southern Appalachia ever being a place of punishment. With its lush coves filled with ginseng, ramps, towering oaks, and tulip poplars. Its abundant springs, …
Long & Hodges v. Pickell, MI, Consent Decree, 14th Am 8th Am toxic water, 2016 2:16-cv-10842-AC-SDD Doc # 10 Filed 06/23/16 Pg 1 of 6 Pg ID 41 2:16-cv-10842-AC-SDD Doc # 10 Filed 06/23/16 Pg 2 of 6 Pg ID 42 2:16-cv-10842-AC-SDD Doc # 10 Filed 06/23/16 Pg 3 of …
Incarceration, Justice and the Planet: How the Fight Against Toxic Prisons May Shape the Future of Environmentalism by Panagioti Tsolkas Prisons inspire little in terms of natural wonder. It might be a weed rises through a crack and blooms for a moment. It might be a prisoner notices. But prisoners, …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Criminologist Jonathan Simon refers to prisons as human toxic waste dumps where the ruling class dumps its human waste: out of sight and out of mind. Sadly, toxic waste is not just a literary analogy when discussing American prisons and jails. As PLN has …
Publication • June 2, 2016
Toxic Confinement - Can the Eighth Amendment Protect Prisoners, Helppie-Schmieder, 2016 HELPPIE-SCHMIEDER (DO NOT DELETE) Copyright 2016 by Brenna Helppie-Schmieder 4/21/2016 11:53 PM Printed in U.S.A. Vol. 110, No. 3 TOXIC CONFINEMENT: CAN THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT PROTECT PRISONERS FROM HUMAN-MADE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARDS? Brenna Helppie-Schmieder ABSTRACT—What would you do if …
Long & Hodges v. Pickell, MI, Complaint, 14th Am 8th Am toxic water, 2016 4:16-cv-10842-AC-SDD Doc # 1 Filed 03/08/16 Pg 1 of 11 Pg ID 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION DOUGLAS LONG and RENEE HODGES, individually, and on behalf of all …
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