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Teen Who Murdered Out of Jealousy Killed in Exercise Yard of Northern California Prison by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott Nineteen-year-old Michael Hastey, sentenced in June 2021 to life with possibility of parole for murdering a romantic rival two years before in Trinity County, was killed by two …
Brief • March 7, 2022
Filed under: False Imprisonment
Galloway v. County of Nassau, NY, Memorandum Decision and Order, False Imprisonment, 2022 Case 2:19-cv-05026-AMD-JMW Document 154 Filed 03/07/22 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: 3502 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK --------------------------------------------------------------- X : GALLOWAY, : Plaintiff, : MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER – against – : …
Brief • March 7, 2022
Greene v. Crawford County, MI, Settlement, Lack of Medical Care, 2022 Case 1:18-cv-11008-TLL-PTM ECF No. 141, PageID.6413 Filed 03/07/22 Page 1 of 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN NORTHERN DIVISION CHERYL GREENE, Personal Representative of the Estate of DWAYNE GREENE, deceased, Plaintiff, Case No. 1:18-cv-11008 Honorable Thomas …
Brief • March 3, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Coe v. Pearson, IL, Verdict, Denial of Medical Care, 2022 ~T'Ci \ ~ (_ oQ_ fl.. 61 (oL'L This correspondence Is From An Inmate Of The IL oep\ Of corrections \c0 7 ~ \ \ \", rD, ~ 'CL~- \"t;S W- \\()\_x::,_r-o) \ L MAR \ 3 2023 lo"LO "-\c\ …
Article • March 1, 2022
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Rhode Island Joins the Movement to End Prison Gerrymandering by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In February 2022, Rhode Island joined twelve other states that have addressed “prison gerrymandering,” the practice which counts people in prison as residents of the cell in which they are detained instead of …
Virginia DOC Terminates Contract with Armor Correctional Healthcare by Ashleigh Dye Plans to de-privatize prisoner healthcare by Ashleigh Dye On December 11, 2021, the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) announced that the state Supreme Court had denied an Emergency Motion to Stay and Petition for Review filed by Armor Correctional …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
“The Worst Prison in New York State” by Victoria Law The situation at Rikers is bad, but at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security facility more than 200 miles north of New York City, it’s worse. by Victoria Law Conditions in New York City jails have reached a boiling point, …
$500,000 Default Judgment for Tennessee Woman Sexually Assaulted by Probation Officer by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 17, 2021, a federal district court in Tennessee awarded a $500,000 default judgment, plus another $60,863.75 in attorney’s fees, to a woman who alleged in a lawsuit that her probation …
HRDC Wins Appeal in Florida Public Records Request Case Against Armor Correctional Health Services by In an opinion reached on December 1, 2021, Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) in its suit seeking records from Armor Correctional Health Services, the …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Settlement Reached to Protect Hawaii Prisoners from COVID-19 by David Reutter Just in Time for the ‘Omicron Winter’ by David M. Reutter On November 10, 2021, one day before first detection of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, a federal district court in Hawaii approved a settlement …
Show Me the Money: Tracking the Companies that Have a Lock on Sending Funds to Incarcerated People by Stephen Raher, Tiana Herring We looked at all fifty state departments of corrections to figure out which companies hold the contracts to provide money-transfer services and what the fees are to use …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
BOP Greenlights Sex Reassignment Surgery for Federal Prisoner in Texas by Matthew Clarke Wisconsin DOC Ordered to Provide the Surgery, Too by Matt Clarke and Chuck Sharman In a federal court filing on January 31, 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) indicated that a transgender prisoner in Texas could …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Department of Justice Reports on Two Decades of Prisoner Suicides by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When actor Peter Robbins died by suicide in California on January 18, 2022, the news saddened fans of Charlie Brown, whose voice he provided for animated Peanuts specials in the 1960s. But Robbins, 65, …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Guard’s Lawsuit Claiming Other Guards Raped Her in Texas Prison by On November 18, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated a suit filed by a former Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) guard alleging three other guards raped her at the …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Michigan DOC Agrees to Expand Recognition of Religious Groups After DOJ Investigation by On October 29, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had reached an agreement with the Michigan Department of Corrections (DOC) that resolves an investigation begun nearly two years earlier into denial of religious exercise …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Michigan Prisons Ordered to Provide Jewish Prisoners Meat and Dairy on Sabbath and Holidays; Sixth Circuit Affirms by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 12, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court’s judgment in favor of Michigan prisoners who sought a …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Former Florida Prison Guard Sentenced for Conspiracy to Assault Youthful Offenders by On September 8, 2021, a former guard with the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) was sentenced to 33 months in prison and two years of supervised release for “conspiring to assault youthful offender inmates at the South Florida …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Federal Court Hears that Mental Healthcare in Louisiana Prison is “Almost Non-existent” by Matthew Clarke State’s “scorched-earth” strategy runs up $3 million legal tab by Matt Clarke A bench trial opened at a federal court in Louisiana on January 10, 2022, with dramatic testimony from a former state prisoner, who …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Federal Judge Finds Alabama DOC Mental Health Care Horrendous, Orders: Start Hiring by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 27, 2021, four years after calling Alabama’s treatment of mentally ill prisoners “horrendously inadequate”—due largely to chronic understaffing—a federal judge issued a new mandate to the state Department …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In Mobile on January 21, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced that an 18-month federal prison sentence for bribery had been handed down by a federal court to Lakerdra Shanta Snowden, 31, a former guard at the Escambia County …
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