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Pennsylvania: $99,000 Settlement for 22 Years in Solitary Confinement by David Reutter A Pennsylvania federal district court held that general issues of material fact required a jury to determine whether a prisoner’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was held in solitary confinement for over 22 years. …
Brief • February 2, 2017
Upthegrove v. Baird, WI, Settlement, Self Harm Cutting, 2017 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN SAMUEL S. UPTHEGROVE, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 15-CV-0509 LESLEY BAIRD, KURT SCHWEBKE, MARK ISAACSON, RONALD SWENSON, JEREMIAH MILLARD and ISAAC HART, Defendants.' AND IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT …
Indiana v. Timbs, IN, Appeal, Excessive Fines, 2017 ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT Curtis T. Hill, Jr. Attorney General of Indiana ATTORNEY FOR APPELLEE David W. Stone IV Stone Law Office & Legal Research Anderson, IN Justin F. Roebel Deputy Attorney General In the Indiana Supreme Court _________________________________ FILED Nov 02 2017, …
Disability Rights Florida v. Jones, FL, Motion for Summary Judgment, Disability Rights, 2017 Case 4:16-cv-00047-RH-CAS Document 62 Filed 01/30/17 Page 1 of 51 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Tallahassee Division DISABILITY RIGHTS FLORIDA, INC., Plaintiff, vs. CASE NO. 4:16-cv-47-RH-CAS JULIE JONES, in her official capacity as Secretary …
J.J. v. Litscher, WI, Complaint, Juvenile Solitary Confinement, 2017 Case: 3:17-cv-00047 Document #: 1 Filed: 01/23/17 Page 1 of 40 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN J.J., by and through his next friend, Sakeena Jackson; K.D., by and through her next friends John Levy and Meranda …
Oseguenda v. Stanislaus County Public Safety Center, CA, Order on MTD - Gang Segregation, 2017 Case 1:16-cv-01218-LJO-BAM Document 21 Filed 01/17/17 Page 1 of 23 1 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 3 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 5 ARMANDO OSEGUEDA and ROBERT PALOMINO, Plaintiffs, 6 Case No. 1:16-CV-1218-LJO-BAM 7 v. …
Texas: Complaint Filed Over Contaminated Water, Conditions at Eastham Unit by Panagioti Tsolkas The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has become a litmus test for dealing with toxic environmental conditions for prisoners. Earlier this year, prisoners at the Wallace Pack Unit and their advocates on the outside succeeded in …
Georgia Prison Guards Face Sexual Assault Charges by Two prison guards have been criminally charged with sexually assaulting prisoners at the Emanuel Women’s Facility in Twin City, Georgia. Capt. Edgar Daniel Johnson was the highest ranking officer at the prison, and Channel 2 Action News was present to record his …
Krome Detention Center has Long History of Detainee Abuse by David Reutter Immigration reform was a recurring theme in the recent presidential election. The national debate has focused on what should be done with the millions of undocumented immigrants who reside in the United States, but as events at the …
Michigan’s Wayne County Jails Plagued with Inhumane Conditions by The jails in Michigan’s Wayne County are “inhumane for everybody,” according to one law enforcement official. The outmoded and dangerous jails were supposed to be replaced, but cost overruns at a new state-of-the-art facility forced the county to discontinue the project. …
Three California Jail Guards Charged with Murdering One Prisoner, Assaulting Another by Christopher Zoukis Three California jail guards have been charged with assaulting and murdering a mentally ill prisoner after he was found unresponsive in his cell shortly after midnight on August 27, 2015. Santa Clara County jail deputies Jereh …
FCI Danbury Prisoners Finally Transferred to New Women’s Facility by Three years after a “temporary” move from FCI Danbury in Connecticut, over 100 women prisoners found themselves incarcerated in a Brooklyn jail instead of a promised new federal facility. The women were told the move, which occurred after Danbury was …
Mississippi: Hinds County Jails in Crisis, Face Mandated Reforms by David Reutter The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a letter in May 2015 that described the findings of an investigation which concluded two jails in Hinds County, Mississippi were violating prisoners’ rights. The county has since entered into a …
$325,002 Award to Michigan Prisoner Denied Medical Care for Joint Pain by A federal jury has awarded $325,002 to a prisoner upon finding Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) staff were deliberately indifferent to his chronic joint pain. State prisoner Temujin Kensu, 52, suffered for over two decades with medical issues …
Second Circuit Expands Protections from Sexual Abuse by Prison Staff by Derek Gilna In an October 7, 2015 corrected ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by two New York state prisoners alleging they had been sexually abused …
Continued Need for Prison and Criminal Justice Reforms by Advocates for prisoners’ rights and criminal justice reform have never forgotten the September 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, which resulted in the deaths of 33 prisoners and 10 employees. The institutionalized brutality at Attica, which led …
Lewis v. Cain, LA, Memo in Support of Motion, Systemic Medical Neglect, 2017 Case 3:15-cv-00318-BAJ-RLB Document 192-1 01/06/17 Page 1 of 21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA JOSEPH LEWIS, JR., KENTRELL PARKER, FARRELL SAMPIER, REGINALD GEORGE, JOHN TONUBBEE, OTTO BARRERA, CLYDE CARTER, CEDRIC EVANS, EDWARD GIOVANNI, RICKY …
Publication • January 4, 2017
Correcting Food Policy in Washington Prisons, Prison Voice Washington, 2016 This report describes how the unhealthy food served and sold to people incarcerated in state prisons directly violates the state’s Healthy Nutrition Guidelines and will lead to costly health care expenditures on preventable diseases, in violation of Executive Order 13-06. …
Brief • January 3, 2017
Abu-Jamal v. Wetzel, PA, Memorandum Opinion, Inmate Treatment of Hepatitis C, 2017 Case 3:16-cv-02000-RDM Document 23 Filed 01/03/17 Page 1 of 44 THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA MUMIA ABU·JAMAL, Plaintiff, v. 3:16·CV·2000 (JUDGE MARIANI) JOHN WETZEL, et aI., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION I. INTRODUCTION &PROCEDURAL …
A Culture of Harm - Taming the Dynamics of Cruelty in Supermax Prisons, Haney, 2008 Criminal Justice and Behavior http://cjb.sagepub.com A Culture of Harm: Taming the Dynamics of Cruelty in Supermax Prisons Craig Haney Criminal Justice and Behavior 2008; 35; 956 DOI: 10.1177/0093854808318585 The online version of this article can …
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