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Article • August 5, 2022
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
More BOP Guards at FCI-Dublin “Rape Club” Accused of Sex Abuse by Female Prisoners by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Marie Washington and Laura Chaney, former prisoners at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Dublin, California, are the latest women to allege they were victims of sexual abuse …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
California Appellate Court Reverses $2.7 Million Award for Wrongful Death of Woman Murdered by Grandson on Parole by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett In a stunning decision reached on December 16, 2021, the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Third Appellate District, absolved the state Department of Corrections …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
$350,000 Paid to Victim Beaten in Jail by California Sheriff’s Deputy by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On August 18, 2018, Milan Jackson was riding on Caltrain near the rail system’s stop in Redwood City, California. At some point Jackson, who suffers ADHD and autism, lay down on the train …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Florida and California Experiments Use Direct Cash Assistance to Newly Released Prisoners to Combat Recidivism by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson “Guaranteed income is a wayto recognize everyone’s inherent dignity,” declared an op-ed in Florida’s Gainesville Sun on November 5, 2021. Penned by Mayor Lauren Poe (D) and Kevin Scott, …
$35,000 Settlement Paid by California County After Jail Death of Elderly, Mentally Ill Detainee by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart California’s San Luis Obispo County reached a settlement on February 10, 2021, agreeing to pay $35,000 to resolve wrongful death claims filed by the widow of an elderly man with …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 3, 2022, a guard was arrested for having sex with a prisoner at Alabama’s Pickens County Jail, according to a report by WTVA in Tupelo, Mississippi. The guard, Marquita Booker, 28, was fired after her arrest, which followed an investigation that earlier in …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Final Settlement Agreement Approved in COVID-19 Class Action at California Immigration Detention Center by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 10, 2022, a final settlement agreement was approved in a federal class-action lawsuit challenging the safety from COVID-19 of detainees held for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in …
L.A. Juvenile Detention Center Remains “Unsuitable for the Confinement of Minors” by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On July 15, 2022, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for California’s Los Angeles County reported that the county’s juvenile detention facilities remain out of compliance with the requirements of a settlement …
Brief • July 19, 2022
Filed under: Sexual Assault
Luttreel v. Hart, CA, Order Granting in Part and Denying Part Dft's Motion for Summary Judgment, Sexual Assault, 2022 Case 5:19-cv-07300-EJD Document 111 Filed 07/19/22 Page 1 of 15 1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 TYLER LUTTRELL, 8 …
Article • July 18, 2022
$350,000 Paid To Victim Beaten in Jail by California Sheriff's Deputy by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On August 18, 2018, Milan Jackson was riding on Caltrain near the rail system’s stop in Redwood City, California. At some point Jackson, who suffers ADHD and autism, lay down on the train …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
COVID-19’s Impact on Prisoners Far Worse Than It Needed to Be by Kevin Bliss, Edward Lyon by Kevin Bliss and Ed Lyon In September 2021, a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit research and advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) gave a failing grade to 42 …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by   Alabama:The Birmingham News reported that a jail guard in Mobile was arrested on May 17, 2022, for smuggling adult movies intoMobile County Metro Jail. The guard, Fredrick Johnson, 37, was charged with 21 counts of promoting contraband that included a camera, phone chargers, and flash drives, …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Bail Bonds
California Court Rules Bail Bond Companies Must Give Cosigners Financial Impact Notice by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 29, 2021, the Court of Appeal for the First District of California decided that a “bail bond premium financing agreement” is a consumer credit contract and, under California …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Suit Over California Detainee’s Suicide Survives Corporate Shell Game by Wellpath and HIG Capital by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On February 7, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of California allowed claims to proceed against Nevada County and a group of its jail guards for the 2019 …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
$1 Million Settlement Reached in Suicide of Mentally Ill Detainee at San Diego Jail by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders   People incarcerated at the San Diego County Jail have been suffering through a raging public health crisis. Unfortunately, this crisis has been as lethal or more so than COVID-19. …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Mental Health
Court Bars Electroshock Therapy for Incompetent California Prisoner Without Considering Whether He Would Consent If Competent by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On January 11, 2022, the Court of Appeal for the State of California, Fourth District, vacated a lower court’s authorization of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for a state prisoner, …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Eligibility for Parole
California Supreme Court Rules Proposition 57 Early Parole Review May be Denied for Any Violent Felony Conviction, Even If Not “Primary Offense” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On January 3, 2022, the Supreme Court of California held that the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) did not abuse …
Brief • July 13, 2022
Gomez v. The GEO Group, CA, Complaint, Forced Labor, 2022 Case 1:22-cv-00868-BAK Document 1 Filed 07/13/22 Page 1 of 50 1 GAY C. GRUNFELD – 121944 ERNEST GALVAN – 196065 2 MICHAEL FREEDMAN – 262850 JESSICA WINTER – 294237 3 ROSEN BIEN GALVAN & GRUNFELD LLP 101 Mission Street, Sixth …
Brief • July 11, 2022
Shidler v. County of San Bernardino, CA, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2022 Tammy Shidler and Gary Shidler, et al. v. County o/San Bernardino, et al. Case No. 5: l 9-cv-00503-AB-SHK SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS This Settkment Agreement and Rcle:Jse (hercinaHer "Ag1·eement") is intended to constitute an enforceable contract …
Article • June 29, 2022
Filed under: Fraud and Theft Loss
Woman Masterminds $2 Million Unemployment Fraud from California Prison Cell by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A woman serving a life sentence in a California prison and a dozen accomplices she allegedly led were charged on May 18, 2022, in a scheme to defraud the state of at …
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