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Article • August 19, 2016
Eighth Circuit Holds Missouri Prisoner with Vacated Conviction May Not Sue for Being Placed in Solitary Confinement by Missouri prisoner Brent Ballinger was serving an eight-year sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) when a state judge granted his motion, pursuant to Missouri Supreme Court Rule 29.15(k), to vacate …
Article • August 19, 2016
Annual Seg Reviews Inadequate, Case Remanded by On November 19, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded a suit by a prisoner challenging the frequency of segregation reviews he was receiving.             Edward Hernandez sued the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC), claiming that its …
Article • August 11, 2016
California: Mentally Ill Prisoners to Get Special Housing, More Treatment by Lonnie Burton In the latest installment of a 24-year battle over the treatment of mentally ill prisoners in the California prison system, the state agreed in August 2014 to begin removing those prisoners from isolation units and transition them …
Publication • August 11, 2016
Out of Sight, Out of Mind - Colorado’s continued warehousing of mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement, ACLU, 2014 Out of Sight, Out of Mind Colorado’s continued warehousing of mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to fulfilling …
Mentally Ill Held in Canadian Prison's 'Unsuitable' Former Segregation Unit by Joe Watson Despite recommendations from the United Nations, the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) and from within its own federal corrections system, Ontario, Canada's Millhaven Institution continues to lock up prisoners with acute mental illnesses inside cells that are …
Locked Up Alone - Detention Conditions and Mental Health at Guantanamo, Human Rights Watch, 2008 United States/Counterterrorism H U M A N Locked Up Alone R I G H T S Detention Conditions and Mental Health at Guantanamo W A T C H Locked Up Alone Detention Conditions and Mental …
Publication • August 10, 2016
Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in the US Detention System, PHR, 2013 Physicians for Human Rights Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in the US Detention System April 2013 physiciansforhumanrights.org About Physicians for Human Rights Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is an independent nonprofit organization that uses medical and scientific expertise to investigate …
Department of Justice Gives Formal Approval on Bureau of Prisons' Communications Management Units by Christopher Zoukis Nearly a decade after the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) began operating its notorious "Communications Management Units" (or CMU's), the Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally issued a final rule approving the BOP's restrictive …
Colorado Shuts Down $208M Boondoggle; Taxpayers On Hook for Empty Prison by A new Colorado prison built exclusively for solitary confinement was itself abandoned by the state on Nov. 1, 2012, much like the people it was supposed to incarcerate. Now, unless the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) bails out …
Amnesty International Says ADX-Florence Supermax Violates International Law by Mark Wilson The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is subjecting prisoners to cruel, degrading and “inhuman” conditions, in violation of international law, by locking them in long-term solitary confinement at the Administrative Maximum facility (ADX) at Florence, Colorado, according to a recent …
Solutions: American Leaders Speak Out on Criminal Justice, Brennan Center for Justice, 2015 SOLUTIONS: AMERICAN LEADERS SPEAK OUT ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE Edited by Inimai Chettiar and Michael Waldman at New York University School of Law Foreword by President William J. Clinton Authors Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Cory Booker Chris Christie …
Prisoner Settles with Federal Bureau of Prisons Over Civil Right Violations by Christopher Zoukis Lonnie Benefield, a prisoner housed at United States Penitentiary Florence, Colorado, settled his claim against the Federal Bureau of Prisons for $150.00. Benefield's suit was filed in March, 1998, and settled in June, 2002. The settlement …
Publication • August 3, 2016
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, U.N. General Assembly, 2011 A/66/268 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 5 August 2011 Original: English Sixty-sixth session Item 69 (b) of the provisional agenda* Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the …
Sixth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Federal Prisoner’s Bivens Claim, Discusses Inmate Accident Compensation Act by Derek Gilna On May 11, 2016, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s dismissal of a former prisoner’s civil rights action. Stephen Ted Koprowski, who was incarcerated at USP Ft. McCreary in …
$7,000 Settlement after Second Circuit Reverses Dismissal of New York Prisoner’s Suit by Derek Gilna In 2007, prisoner Aaron Willey filed a pro se federal civil rights lawsuit against guards employed by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, alleging harassment, inadequate nutrition, theft of legal documents, …
BOP Pays $340,000 in SHU Cellmate Assault by The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) agreed to a $340,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought by a prisoner who was assaulted upon being moved into a Special Housing Unit (SHU) cell. Prisoner Brendan Reilly was incarcerated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, now …
BOP Over-detention of Prisoner Nets $35,000 Settlement by The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $35,000 to settle a claim alleging it over-detained a prisoner by 154 days. Lester Coleman was due to be released on July 5, 2000, but he was not released until December 7, 2000.  His complaint stated …
Juveniles in Solitary Confinement, Human Rights Watch, 2012 Growing Up Locked Down Youth in Solitary Confinement in Jails and Prisons Across the United States H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H Growing Up Locked Down Youth in Solitary Confinement in Jails …
Edge of Endurance - Prison Conditions in California's Security Housing Units, Amnesty International, 2012 USA: the edge of endUrAnce PRISON CONDITIONS IN CALIFORNIA’S SECURITY HOUSING UNITS Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in more than 150 countries and territories who campaign …
DC Prisoner Awarded $70,000 for ADA Violations at CCA-run Jail by Derek Gilna William Pierce, a prisoner held by the District of Columbia’s Department of Corrections (DCDOC), has won a $70,000 jury verdict for repeated violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Pierce, who suffers from severe hearing loss, …
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