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Brief • May 2, 2022
Encinias v. New Mexico Corrections Department, et al., NM, Amended Complaint (Federal), Wrongful Death (Medical), 2022 Case 1:21-cv-01145-KG-SCY Document 45 Filed 05/02/22 Page 1 of 53 Centurion 002626 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO TRINI ENCINIAS, as personal representative of the ESTATE OF ADONUS …
Mitchell Hamline School of Law-The Sex Offense Litigation and Policy, 2022 MITCHELL HAMLINE Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center SORNA 2022: A Guide for Practitioners to New Federal SORNA Regulations Effective January 7, 2022 The Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center (SOLPRC) at Mitchell Hamline School of Law …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Ninth Circuit: Error to Instruct Jury to Defer to Medical Staff’s Asserted Security Justification for Terminating California Prisoner’s Morphine Prescription Without Tapering by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 15, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that a federal district court in California erred …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Food, Religious Diet
Preliminary Injunction Granted to Illinois Prisoner to Receive Non-Allergenic Kosher Meals by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Illinois federal district court issued a preliminary injunction in favor of a state prisoner on October 12, 2021, requiring prison officials to provide him fresh or frozen kosher meal entrées because …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Connecticut Supreme Court Rules That Prisoner Was Denied Due Process with Sex Offender Classification by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On July 17, 2021, the Supreme Court of Connecticut held that when the state Department of Corrections (DOC) classified him as a sex offender despite not having a conviction on …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Washington State Supreme Court Holds that Denying Wheelchair-Bound Prisoner Access to Water and Toilet Facilities Violates State Constitution by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney In an opinion issued on October 7, 2021, the Supreme Court of Washington ruled that holding wheelchair-bound prisoner Robert Rufus Williams in a cell that lacked …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard in Birmingham was arrested on March 9, 2022, for allegedly beating a prisoner to death, according to the Alabama Political Reporter. As PLN previously reported, prison officials at first insisted no foul play was suspected in the death of Victor …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Prison Reform
Ecuador’s Prison System in Catastrophic Crisis by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon After a riot in Ecuador’s El Turi prison left 20 prisoners dead on April 4, 2022, Interior Minister Patricio Castillo responded with a vow to “drain the cesspit” that his nation’s prisons have become. But how exactly? Castillo …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Hawaii Supreme Court Orders New Parole Hearing for Prisoner Held Since 1979 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Over 42 years after he was sentenced to Life with Possibility of Parole (LWPP), a pro se Hawaii prisoner took a step closer to the promise contained in his sentence on October …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Multiple Florida DOC Guards Convicted of Assault, Smuggling and Child Sex Abuse by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On March 6, 2022, a judge in Citrus County, Florida, handed down a prison term to a former state prison guard for child sex abuse, just days after three other …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Attorney Fees (PLRA)
$260,000 in Attorney Fees Awarded by California Federal Court after Finding Governing State Law Not Impacted by PLRA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After finding the award of attorney’s fees under California’s Code of Civil Procedure is not impacted by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. …
Article • May 1, 2022
Oklahoma Prison Guard and Gilbert Postelle’s Brother Among 125 Convicted in Drug Ring by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott On April 5, 2022, federal prosecutors announced convictions in a massive drug-trafficking conspiracy for 125 associates of an Oklahoma-based prison gang, one of whom was a state prison guard …
Article • May 1, 2022
Indian Prison Superintendent Sentenced to Seven Days for Denying Parole During Pandemic by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Nagpur, an educational and cultural center of nearly three million located at the geographical center of India, made judicial headlines on March 16, 2022, when the local bench of the …
Article • May 1, 2022
Chief of Training for Hawaii Prison and Jail Guards Charged with Falsifying Educational Credentials, Out on Paid Leave by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Hawaii Department of Public Safety (DPS) Public Training Officer J. Marte Martinez, who oversaw the training of thousands of state prison guards and deputy …
Article • May 1, 2022
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Massachusetts DOC Will Close Long-Time Maximum-Security Prison by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) announced on April 7, 2022, that it will close one of its oldest prisons, Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) Cedar Junction, citing a falling incarceration rate and nearly $30 million …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
PrimeCare: Less Medical Care for Prisoners, Higher Expenses for Taxpayers, More Profits for Corporate Owner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The news from Pennsylvania on April 4, 2021, had a sadly familiar ring to it: A prisoner died a preventable death in a county lockup, costing a bundle to …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Vermont Supreme Court: Removing Prisoner From Programming Is Reviewable When Catalyst Was Punitive by In a decision reached on October 8, 2021, the Vermont Supreme Court held that a determination by state prison officials to remove a prisoner from programming was reviewable when the catalyst was punitive. The claim at …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue of PLN marks our 32nd anniversary. Having published 384 issues since May 1990, we have been reporting on the growth of the American police state for 32 years as its prison and jail population has more than doubled from one million to …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$5.5 Million Settlement to California Prisoner Left Incapacitated After Suicide Attempt at Santa Cruz County Jail by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On December 16, 2021, a federal court in California approved a $5.5 million settlement between Santa Cruz County and the estate of a former prisoner at the county …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Pittsburgh Jail Records 13 Deaths in Two Years, Only One From COVID-19 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, deaths have more than doubled at the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) in downtown Pittsburgh, even as the jail …
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