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Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Planned Massive Shortfall in Funding to Maintain Minnesota Prisons by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Despite an urgent and growing need for maintenance in Minnesota’s prisons, the governor and legislature are proposing a token amount be spent while deferring the vast majority of the growing problem. Traditionally, the state …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Smart Communications Contract Reveals Plans for Expanding Privatized Prison Mail by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) has been negotiating with a newly organized company called Smart Communications (SC), per a March 24, 2021 article in Vice. Built by CEO Jon Logan, the company’s purpose …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Florida Supreme Court Disbars Attorney For Making Sex Films in Jail Visiting Room by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 21, 2021, the Supreme Court of Florida disbarred a lawyer who pleaded guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges related to multiple instances of making pornographic movies with female prisoners …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Justice Delayed in California Jails: Lengthy Pretrial Imprisonment Common by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen In the most comprehensive accounting to date of California’s pretrial detention population, a recent CalMatters investigation found 8,600 prisoners who had been jailed for more than a year, and 1,300 jailed longer than …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
New York State Law Ends Long-Term Solitary Confinement in Prisons and Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 1, 2021, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law a bill that ends long-term solitary confinement in that state starting in April 2022. “Having spent a lot of …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Damages, Public Records
$1,000 Award to Ohio Prisoner for Violation of Public Records Act by The Ohio Supreme Court concluded that an official at Toledo Correctional Institution (TCI) violated the Ohio Public Records Act by failing to identify all records requested by a prisoner. In addition to ordering relief for the prisoner to …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 9, 2021, a former guard at the Federal Correctional Institution in Aliceville, Alabama, agreed to plead guilty to federal charges that he had sexual intercourse with a prisoner in the laundry room at the women’s prison west of Tuscaloosa. According to the Birmingham …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
$550,000 in Damages Ordered to Woman Prisoner Raped by New York Guard by Calling the crime “reprehensible,” a Manhattan federal judge ordered a former New York prison guard on May 28, 2021, to pay $550,000 in damages to a prisoner he was convicted of sexually assaulting. According to a report …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Children of Prisoners
California Juvenile Court Erred in Removing Child from Imprisoned Father’s Care by California’s Second District Court of Appeal vacated a juvenile court’s finding that an incarcerated father was a detriment to the child. It also vacated the order that removing the child from the father’s custody. The court’s April 2, …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Anti-Parole Whistleblower Prompts Investigation of Virginia Parole Board by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Following a series of complaints resulting from the parole of 329 Virginia state prisoners in 2020, a whistleblower released several emails sent between members of the Virginia Parole Board (“VPB”) employees. The leaked emails were …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
South Carolina to Use Firing Squads to Execute Prisoners by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders In recent decades, the inability of state corrections departments to procure the necessary drugs to carry out lethal injections and kill people has led to a gradual decline in the number of executions in America. …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19
Medical Update: COVID is Not Over by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen MD Worldwide Pandemic As I write this in mid-July the pandemic has again changed direction and cases are rising throughout the world. Deadly surges are beginning or continuing in Africa, Latin America and South Asia. …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
No Qualified Immunity for Oregon Prison Officials’ COVID-19 Response; Class Certified by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson "The law is clearly established that individuals in government custody have a constitutional right to be protected against a heightened exposure to serious easily communicable diseases,” concluded United States Magistrate Stacie F. Beckerman …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Virginia Federal Court Sentences Former Superintendent of Rockbridge County Jail to 51 Months in Prison for Brutality and Corruption by In May 2021, the former supervisor of Virginia’s Rockbridge County Regional Jail was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after he was convicted for violating the civil rights of …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Wrongful Death
U.S. Department of Justice Publishes Statistics on Prisoners’ Deaths by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In April 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) published two reports on prisoner deaths in the U.S. Report number NCJ 255970 covered mortality in state and federal prisons 2001 - …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
HRDC Settles Censorship Lawsuit with Johnson County, Kansas Jail for $50,000 and Policy Changes by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), the parent organization of Prison Legal News (PLN), on May 12, 2021, settled its civil lawsuit filed in September of 2020 in U.S. district court …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Resisting a Prison Without End by Jayson Hawkins, Panagioti Tsolkas by Jayson Hawkins and Panagioti Tsolkas The fantasy of those who profit off the Prison Industrial Complex has long been perpetual incarceration. This dream has seeped into reality in recent decades as many states began adopting LWOP (life without parole) …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Staffing
Florida Prisons Face Ongoing Staff Shortages Due to Low Pay And Long Hours by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For the last two decades, theFlorida Department of Corrections (FDC) has faced a staff shortage. Mark Inch, Secretary of the FDC, urged lawmakers earlier this year to provide $26.1 million …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Environmental Law
America’s Biggest Jails Are Frontline Environmental Justice Communities by Adam Mahoney The three biggest county jail systems in the U.S. demonstrate how incarcerated people are uniquely exposed to environmental hazards. by Adam Mahoney, Environmental Justice Fellow with Grist.org For more than half a century, 441 Bauchet Street has been the …
Federal Judge Rejects BOP’s Attempts to Keep Videos of Force-Feeding Prisoners at ADX Secret by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell   A federal judge has rejected attempts by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to keep videos of staff force-feeding a prisoner on a hunger strike at the Administrative Maximum Facility …
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