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Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Nine Deaths in Three Years at CoreCivic Jail in Florida, None From COVID-19 by The Citrus County Detention Facility(CCDF) in Lecanto, Florida, serves a modest-sized county with a population of 149,383, slightly over the average in all 2,843 jail jurisdictions in the U.S. The mortality rate in all U.S. jails …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Fifth BOP Staffer Arrested in “Rape Club” at California Federal Prison by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Once known for famous prisoners from Hollywood, the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) at Dublin, California, is now in the spotlight for a different reason: As of March 2022, at least five …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Trapped in The Floods: With Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces by Alleen Brown by Alleen Brown The flooding in Dixie County, Florida, began in July, brought on by Tropical Storm Elsa. Then the rains kept falling. By August, the ground was saturated, and the semirural county …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
California Federal Court Approves Consent Decree Upgrading Mental Health Care at Alameda County Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved a Consent Decree in a class-action lawsuit filed against the Alameda County Jail in …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$11 Million Settlement Reached in Tennessee Suit Alleging False Arrest and False Imprisonment of Minors by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On December 20, 2021, a settlementwas approved by a federal court in a lawsuit alleging the illegal arrest and detention of some 1,500 children at the Rutherford County Juvenile …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
DOJ Reaches Settlement Over Disability Access With Vermont Prison System by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On October 28, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement with the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) to remedy conditions in state prisons that fail to comply with the Americans with …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Guard Arrested for Running “Fight Club” in New Jersey Prison Kitchen by Ashleigh Dye, Jayson Hawkins by Ashleigh Dye and Jayson Hawkins A New Jersey prison guard was arrested on October 1, 2021, on charges he ran a “fight club” in the kitchen he supervised at Bayside State Prison, regularly …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Death Penalty
Lifting Six-Year Moratorium, Oklahoma Treats Witnesses to Convulsing and Vomiting Prisoner During Execution by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders  Several journalists spoke out about what they witnessed during the execution by lethal injection of Oklahoma prisoner John Marion Grant on October 28, 2021, saying the 60-year-old convulsed over a dozen …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Tenth Circuit Says Disabled Colorado Prisoner Offered Diapers Rather Than Bathroom Pass May Deserve Damages Under ADA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In an opinion issued on September 8, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled the federal district court in Colorado erred in …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Nevada Federal Court Denies Motion to Compel Arbitration by Rapid Financial Solutions in Debit Card Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 30, 2021, a federal district court in Nevada denied a motion to compel arbitration in a lawsuit alleging that forcing prison release debit cards upon …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$6,500 Paid by Nevada DOC After Ninth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity for Withholding Evidence From Prisoner Accused of Smuggling Meth in Mail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED BY PLN, OFficials with the Nevada Department of Corrections (DOC) in 2020 lost a suit filed …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Education
What to Know about Using Pell Grants to Take College Classes in Prison by Richard Hahn by Richard Hahn THE VALUE OF POST-SECONDARY EDUCAtion to people who complete courses in prison is well established. The Second Chance Pell (SCP) Pilot, which offered federal grants to help prisoners pay for college …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$725,000 Settlement Reached in North Carolina Prisoner’s Suicide at Troubled Jail by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On January 18, 2019, Melissa Middleton Rice committed suicide while in custody at the Jackson County Detention Center (JCDC) in Sylva, North Carolina. As she sat in the jail’s booking room, Rice hanged …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Staffing, Guards/Staff
Absenteeism Skyrockets for New York City Jail Guards, Up 215% Over the Last Two Years by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In New York City, 25 jail guards have run up an absentee rate over the last two years which is “breathtaking in its magnitude,” according to local …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
$316,673 Settlement in New Mexico Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Stabbing at GEO-Operated Private Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 1, 2021, the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) and the private operator of one of its prisons, the GEO Group, agreed to pay $316,673.53 to settle a lawsuit brought …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Drug Treatment/Rehab
Con Who Conned Cons is Sentenced to Federal Prison by The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has no parole, but there are ways for a federal prisoner to shorten a sentence length. One way is to successfully complete a 13-week Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), earning up to 12 months …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Ninth Circuit Says Nevada DOC Not Micromanaged by Requirement to Treat Prisoner’s Severe Mental Illness; Upholds Preliminary Injunction by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 30, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit took the Nevada Department of Corrections (DOC) to task over a four-year delay …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Sweetheart Deal Nets GEO Group $15 Million Payout from ICE for Haitian Deportation Flights by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh Dye In September 2021, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid more than $15 million to private prison operator GEO Group for deportation flights to repatriate thousands of Haitian migrants. The …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Eighth Circuit Rules Pretrial Detainees and Prisoners Have Right to Visit Family Members by Eighth Circuit Rules Pretrial Detainees and Prisoners Have Right to Visit Family Members In a precedential ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has held that “prisoners and pretrial detainees have a right …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Tenth Circuit Says Parolee May Not be Forced to Participate in Religious Program Under Threat of Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a lawsuit alleging prison officials used coercion to force an atheist parolee into participating in Christian programming, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth …
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