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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 …
Tenth Circuit: Mentally Ill Prisoners Have No Clearly Established Right to Be Kept Out of Solitary Confinement by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On October 21, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a complaint filed by the estate of a mentally ill …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
$40,251 Default Judgment for Detainee in Malicious Prosecution by Georgia Police Officer by On March 26, 2021, a federal district court in Georgia awarded a $40,251 default judgment in a lawsuit alleging malicious prosecution by a Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Officer. The damages were mainly due to the time spent in …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Alleging Inadequate COVID-19 Response at Maryland Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Under a settlement agreement reached on August 23, 2021, officials at the Prince George’s County Jail in Maryland agreed to a raft of safety protocols overseen for at least four months by …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
California Court of Appeal Holds Prisoner May Challenge Administrative Disciplinary Violation Already Served by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A recent ruling by a California courtunderlines the importance for a prisoner to zealously guard his prison record, even after a challenge seems moot, for the impact it may yet hold …
“Abject Cruelty”: California Jail Guards Sentenced for Coordinating Prisoner Excrement Fights by Two Sheriff’s deputies in Alameda County, California, were sentenced to prison on August 18, 2021, after pleading guilty to charges that they orchestrated a disgusting fight at the county jail, directing detainees to throw urine and fecal matter …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Wellpath Founder and CEO Pleads Guilty to Federal Bribery Charges by David Reutter A lesson in why privatized prison health care is the wrong answer by David M. Reutter On Friday, January 18, 2022, three days before sentencing in a pay-to-play bribery and corruption scandal involving health care at the …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on Wellpath treads a familiar road for PLN readers of how profit-driven medical care has resulted in a huge expense for taxpayers and extremely low quality health care for hundreds of thousands of prisoners around the country. …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
JPay Founder Ryan Shapiro Indicted for Securities Fraud by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On January 6, 2022, Ryan Shapiro, the 44-year-old founder of prison financial services firm JPay, was charged in federal court in Boston with conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Also named in the criminal complaint was Shapiro’s …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Guards Not Vaxxing Across the U.S. by Jo Ellen Nott Government Continues Showing Cruel Indifference to Prisoners’ Lives by Jo Ellen Nott Entering the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, those incarcerated in U.S. prisons remain sitting ducks for the ever-mutating virus, due to their poor access to health care …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Oregon Federal Court Sides with HRDC, Denies Motion to Compel Arbitration by “NUMI” Stored Value Cards by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On December 6, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon denied a motion to compel arbitration by Stored Value Cards in a case filed by …
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