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Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Kentucky Corrections, Parole Officials Fired by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Rodney Ballard served as commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) from March 2016 to May 2017. He then abruptly left that job with a $100,000-plus annual salary for the private sector, and was replaced by deputy commissioner …
CoreCivic Prisons in Tennessee Have Twice as Many Murders, Four Times the Homicide Rate as State-Run Facilities by On June 10, 2019, the Human Rights Defense Center and No Exceptions Prison Collective reported that from 2014 through June 2019, there were twice as many murders in the four Tennessee prisons …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Strip Searches, Settlements
$30,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Excessive Strip Search Suit by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County Prison (LCP) paid $30,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a female pre-trial detainee was strip searched four times over her three-day stay at the facility. Rebecca Brown was arrested on …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Cook County Sheriff’s Office Pays $110,000 to Settle PLN Censorship Suit by On June 25, 2019, Cook County, Illinois finalized a settlement in a lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News, a project of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), over the censorship of publications mailed to prisoners at the county …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Prison Legal News has long reported on control units in general and the federal “super max” prisons in particular, first USP Marion in Illinois and then ADX in Florence, Colorado after it opened in 1995. Many of the worst human rights …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Force-Feeding is Cruel, Painful and Degrading – and American Prisons Won’t Stop by Aviva Stahl In a Colorado supermax facility, hunger-striking inmates have been force-fed and barred from sharing their ordeal with the outside world. A prisoner breaks his silence for the first time. by Aviva Stahl, The Nation It was …
Drug Treatment Is Reaching More Prisons and Jails by JB Nicholas Recent legal victories have spurred counties and states to provide medication-assisted treatment to prisoners struggling with substance use. by JB Nicholas, The Appeal, a nonprofit criminal justice news site Her father sold her drugs. Her sister was strung out. …
Article • July 28, 2019
Filed under: Jail Specific, Trials
Body-Wire Evidence of Oregon Jail Murder for Hire Plot Must be Suppressed; Solicitation Does Not Support Attempted Murder Conviction by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson  The Oregon Court of Appeals held that a prisoner who solicited another prisoner to kill a witness cannot be convicted of attempted aggravated murder. It …
CoreCivic Prisons in Tennessee Have Twice as Many Murders, Four Times the Homicide Rate as State-Run Facilities by On June 10, 2019, the Human Rights Defense Center and No Exceptions Prison Collective reported that from 2014 through June 2019, there were twice as many murders in the four Tennessee prisons …
Article • July 3, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Terrance Andrews, 24, was pronounced dead from multiple stab wounds at 4:20 p.m. on December 29, 2018 after a fight with a fellow prisoner at the St. Clair Correctional Facility. Cedric Leshawn Davis, 35 is suspected to be the killer. Andrews was serving 25 years …
Article • July 3, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Former Prisoner Becomes California Coffee Entrepreneur by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer John Krause, an ex-prisoner who served time at San Quentin, has remade himself into a coffee entrepreneur. In October 2014 he opened Big House Beans, a roastery that specializes in coffees made from beans from Ethiopia, El Salvador, …
Article • July 3, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Motions to Dismiss by Corizon and Wexford Denied in Lawsuit Over Florida Prisoner’s Double Leg Amputation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  On December 14, 2018, a federal district court in Florida denied motions to dismiss by Wexford Health Sources and Corizon Health in a medical deliberate indifference case where …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claims by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 16, 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated excessive force claims raised by a Texas prisoner in a federal civil rights suit.  Michael Bourne was being held in a segregation cell when he …
Article • July 3, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Michigan: Settlement in Class-Action Suit by Prisoners with Hearing Disabilities by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has approved a final settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service (MPAAS) on behalf of about 200 deaf and …
Montana Parolee Sues CoreCivic Over Prison Assault, Brain Injury by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A former prisoner at the Crossroads Correctional Center near Shelby, Montana is suing the facility’s private operator, CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) and its contract medical provider, alleging staff allowed another prisoner to assault him …
Article • July 3, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Sheriff, Undersheriff and Deputies Resign Over Safety Issues at Oklahoma Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  On March 18, 2019, Terry Sue Barnett, the sheriff of Nowata County, Oklahoma, resigned. So did her undersheriff, all of her deputies and everyone else in the sheriff’s department except for two dispatchers …
Article • July 3, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Texas Prisoner Sues Former Guards for Planting Screwdrivers in His Cell by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2019, Texas state prisoner Neil Giese filed a lawsuit against four former Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) guards – including a major, a lieutenant and a sergeant – who allegedly …
$3 Million Settlement Where Prison Doctor Failed to Treat Disabled Illinois Prisoner by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Mario Ramirez is disabled, more so now than when he was incarcerated at the Graham Correctional Center in Illinois. The facility contracted with Wexford Health Sources, owned by The Bantry Group Corp., …
Florida: No Qualified Immunity for Jail Medical Staff in Prisoner’s Death by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A Florida federal district court has held that a doctor and nurse at the Orange County Jail (OCJ) were not entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit filed by the estate of …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Texas Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Reaction to Prison Blankets Moves Forward by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A lawsuit filed by a Texas prisoner with a wool allergy, who has spent a decade trying to get a blanket that will not cause an adverse reaction, has survived the state’s attempt to …
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