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Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Suicides
Court Orders Changes to Alabama Prison System After 15 Suicides; Feds Threaten Suit by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer A May 4, 2019 federal district court order in a five-year-old lawsuit over inadequate mental health care and a resultant high suicide rate in Alabama’s prison system was entered “in the …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Department of Justice Report Shows Small Decrease in U.S. Prison Population by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer A report by Jennifer Bronson, Ph.D. and E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in April 2019, found that at the end of 2017, …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Medical
Compassionate Releases Needed for an Aging Prisoner Population by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon From 2007 to 2016, New York’s prison population dropped by 17 percent, mainly due to efforts to divert low-level, first-time offenders into alternatives to incarceration. But during that same period the state’s number of elderly prisoners …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Florida Supreme Court Issues Death Penalty Rulings by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The final two weeks of 2018 were extremely busy for Florida’s Supreme Court with respect to capital punishment jurisprudence. Florida codefendants Gerald Murray and Steven Taylor were convicted in separate trials for capital murder and sentenced to …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Lockdowns, Mental Health
Washington State Settles Suit Over 15-Hour-a-Day Lockdown of Mentally Ill Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In June 2019, Washington State officials settled a lawsuit over conditions of confinement for mentally ill prisoners at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP), by agreeing to improve their living conditions. The settlement will …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Medical, Wrongful Death
South Carolina: Lawsuit Alleges Medical Staff, Guards Negligent in Baby’s Death by Bill Barton by Bill Barton Sinetra Geter Johnson discovered she was pregnant just two days before she was required to report to prison on a parole violation. In October 2012, she began serving a two-year sentence at the …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System, by Alec Karakatsanis by Sam Feldman   (The New Press, Oct. 2019). 208 pages. $24.99 hardcover Book review by Sam Feldman Over 2.2 million people in America are being held in cages by the government, and Alec Karakatsanis’ new …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
Arizona Court Grants Partial Summary Judgment to PLN in Censorship Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 18, 2019, an Arizona federal district court granted in part a motion for summary judgment filed by Prison Legal News in a lawsuit over censorship by the Arizona Department of Corrections …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: War on Drugs, Education
Study Finds that War on Drugs Kept Black Men from Higher Education by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer In April 2019 study by Universityof California, Berkeley professor Tolani Britton established a link between the so-called “War On Drugs,” embodied in the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, and college enrollment by …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Parole
Maryland: Parole Changes Needed for Life-Sentenced Prisoners by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In Maryland, prisoners sentenced to life with the possibility of parole must serve 15 years before they can be considered for release. After serving the minimum 15-year term, they have an initial hearing before two commissioners. Once …
Man Mistakenly Released 13 Years Ago Won’t Have to Return to Prison by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Connecticut man arrested for his unintentional failure to serve a 13-year-old federal prison sentence was released from custody in March 2019. Philadelphia native Demetrius Anderson had not only remained free for those …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Corizon, Medical
Allegheny County Settles Three Lawsuits Over Medical Care at County Jail by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Allegheny County, Pennsylvania has settled a lawsuit over lack of adequate care by Corizon Health, the medical contractor at the county’s jail, for failing to feed a prisoner, which led him to go …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Sovereign Immunity
West Virginia Regional Jails Entitled to Sovereign Immunity by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In May 2019, a circuit court held the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority was entitled to sovereign immunity in a lawsuit seeking payment for prisoner medical bills. The suit was brought …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Medical
Seventh Circuit: Failure to Provide Medical Accommodation is Deliberate Indifference by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held in a June 26, 2019 ruling that sufficient evidence existed for a reasonable juror to conclude that prisoner LeRoy Palmer’s congenital deformity constituted a serious medical condition, …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Three Deaths in Three Days at Illinois Prison Spur Calls for Greater Transparency by Chad Marks by Chad Marks In September 2018, three prisoners died on three consecutive days at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois. Kevin Curtis, 31, who was on suicide watch, died on September 5. The next …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Medical, Food
Missouri Sheriff Tells Judge that County Won’t Pay for Prisoners’ Food, Medical Care by Bill Barton by Bill Barton In April 2019, Clay County Sheriff Paul Vescovo sued the Missouri county’s three-member commission, claiming that it slashed his operating budget by over 40 percent “in retaliation for a criminal referral …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
No Fourth Amendment Violation for Abusive Group Strip Search of Female Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On July 16, 2019, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a two-to-one ruling, affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a Fourth Amendment claim prior to a jury trial, at which the …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Pattern of Abuse and Mismanagement at North Carolina Jail by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The sheriff’s office in Cherokee County, North Carolina lost five veteran deputies to abrupt firings and resignations in just two months following an October 2018 news report that described allegations of staged fights …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Settlements, Wrongful Death
$3.1 Million Settlement for Washington Jail Detainee’s Death by Douglas Ankney “Will You Get Back Up?” by Douglas Ankney In November 2017, Piper Travis was arrested for failure to appear on two misdemeanor counts of stealing a TV and a $3.48 bag of Easter candy from a Walmart in Washington …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Seventh Circuit: Non-Medical Prison Staff Entitled to Qualified Immunity by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 1, 2019, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that non-medical correctional staff were entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit alleging they had failed to provide a medical accommodation to a prisoner …
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