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Article • April 8, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
HRDC Sues New Hampshire Jail over Publications Banned under No-Hard-Copy Mail Policy by Sam Rutherford By Sam Rutherford On March 11, 2022, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), PLN’s publisher, filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the …
Brief • April 8, 2022
Gartman v. Cheatham, AL, Judgment, Medical Neglect, 2022 Case 2:18-cv-00534-MHT-JTA Document 274 Filed 04/08/22 Page 1 of 4 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, NORTHERN DIVISION TRENTON GARTMAN, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) PATRICK CHEATHAM, an ) Individual; ) …
Article • April 7, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
HRDC Sues Nebraska Department of Correctional Services for Banning its Books by Sam Rutherford By Sam Rutherford On February 25, 2022, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), publisher of PLN and Criminal Legal News (CLN), filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska against Scott Frakes, Director …
Brief • April 6, 2022
Riley v. Hamilton County Government, TN, Deposition of Miriam Laracuente, Unlawful Search, 2022 1 1 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE 3 AT CHATTANOOGA -----------------------------------------------4 ) SHANDLE MARIE RILEY, ) 5 ) Plaintiff, ) 6 ) 1:19-CV-304-TRM-CHS vs. ) 7 ) Consolidated HAMILTON COUNTY GOVERNMENT, …
Brief • April 4, 2022
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Patrick Labat, GA, Order Approving Settlement, Lack of Mental Care, 2022 Case 1:19-cv-01634-WMR Document 343 Filed 04/04/22 Page 1 of 54 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION GEORGIA ADVOCACY OFFICE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PATRICK LABAT, in his …
Brief • April 4, 2022
Filed under: Discrimination
Brown v. Prince George's County, MD, Memorandum Opinion and Order, Discrimination, 2022 Case 8:19-cv-01988-PWG Document 79 Filed 04/04/22 Page 1 of 15 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND Southern Division * ENRICO BROWN, * Plaintiff, * v. Case No.: PWG 19-cv-1988 * PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, …
Brief • April 4, 2022
Cain v. JPay, CA, Minutes on Order Denying Motion to Stay, Prepaid Card, 2022 Case 2:21-cv-07401-FLA-AGR Document 82 Filed 04/04/22 Page 1 of 3 Page ID #:432 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA CIVIL MINUTES – GENERAL Case No. 2:21-cv-07401-FLA (AGRx) Title Adam Cain v. JPay, Inc. et …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Medical Paroles Revoked in California and Massachusetts by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Medical parole has always been rare, but new policies in California and Massachusetts are causing medical parolees to be reincarcerated and further limiting those eligible for medical parole. California has approved 210 medical paroles since 2014, far …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Food
$1 Million Settlement in Inadequate Nutrition Class-Action Against New York Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 2, 2021, a federal district court in New York approved an agreement by Montgomery County to pay $1 million to resolve a federal class-action lawsuit alleging it provided inadequate nutrition …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$100,000 Paid by Pennsylvania DOC to Family of Pro Se Prisoner Litigant Who Committed Suicide by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A Pennsylvania prisoner’s long and contentious history with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) came to a bitter end on September 29, 2021, with an agreement by the state …
Settlement Relieves Death Row Isolation in Louisiana: Four Hours Daily Out of Cell, Five Hours Per Week in New Yard by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins In recent years, courts have begun to recognize that extended periods of solitary confinement are detrimental to the physical and mental health of prisoners. …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News In Brief by Arizona: After two escaped prisoners were recaptured and returned to the Arizona State Prison in Florence on January 31, 2021, Phoenix station KNXV reported that at least part of the blame for their escape was assigned to short-staffing of guards at the state Department of Corrections …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Advocacy
Advocating for Objective Standards in a Post-Kingsley World by Megha Ram by Megha Ram, Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center A fight over the correct standard for jail conditions cases is playing out in courts across the country. This is an important fight with far-reaching consequences for the constitutional rights …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Resources
John Boston, The PLRA Handbook: Law and Practice Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act by Michael Mushlin Reviewed by Michael B. Mushlin, Professor of Law, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University The PLRA Handbook is an essential indispensable resource for anyone who is planning to file a prisoners’ …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Exposure to Cold
Frozen in Place: How Winter Storms Push Texas Jails and Prisons to the Brink by Tyler Hicks by Tyler Hicks When Jerome Van Zandt was booked into Harris County Jail in November 2020, he was optimistic. “There’s no way I’ll be here more than three months,” he told himself. A …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Texas Rangers Often Lackadaisical in Prisoner Death Investigations by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke “The Texas Rangers are investigating.” The words bring all the swagger of the Lonestar State’s frontier-justice history to reports of crime, lending a wild-west ring to them even today, when the state has 29 million residents, …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Federal Judge in Louisiana Issues Sweeping Opinion Finding Numerous Eighth Amendment, ADA and RA Violations at Angola by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Louisiana State Prison (LSP) in Angola, Louisiana, was found “deliberately indifferent” to the Eighth Amendment rights of its nearly 6,400 prisoners to receive competent medical care, according …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
ICE Settles Florida Detention Facility COVID-19 Class Action, All Detainees Offered Vaccination by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On December 22, 2021, a Florida federal court approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit challenging conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic in three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities in …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Food
Massachusetts Appellate Court Reinstates Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Food Substitution by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 20, 2021, the Appeals Court of Massachusetts reversed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a prisoner challenging frequent food substitutions at Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Norfolk, as well as …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
With $2.95 Million Settlement, San Diego County Jail Racks Up Over $15 Million in Wrongful Death Payments by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On October 6, 2021, San Diego County agreed to a $2,950,000 settlement in a wrongful death suit filed by the wife of Heron Moriarty, a mentally ill …
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