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Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Suit by HRDC Alleging GTL and Securus Violated Sherman Anti-Trust Act Survives Motion to Dismiss by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A suit brought by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) alleging a price-fixing and kickback scheme by prison telephone service providers Global Tel*Link Corp. (now known as ViaPath), Securus …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$90,000 Paid by Illinois County to Prisoner Tasered by Two Guards He Wasn’t Resisting by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After guards at the Lake County Jail (LCJ) in Illinois were sued for using excessive force by tasering an unresisting prisoner, the parties reached a settlement for $90,000 on …
HRDC Appeals Denial of Public Records Request for Documentation of Secret Settlement in Maine Jail Prisoner’s Excessive Force Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 6, 2021, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), publisher of Prison Legal News and Criminal Legal News, filed an appeal in Maine state …
Sixth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity for Failure to Protect Michigan Prisoner from Unsafe Working Conditions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held on August 24, 2021, that two Michigan prison employees were not entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$10,000 Awarded by Nevada Federal Court to Prisoner Assaulted by Former State Prison Guard by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 23, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada awarded a former state prisoner $5,000 for physical pain and another $5,000 for mental anguish caused by …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Prison Employee Union Fighting to Stop Closure of San Diego Federal Detention Center by Keith Sanders Marshals Service Also Eyeing Work-around by Keith Sanders On September 21, 2021, a little over a week before the federal government contract was set to expire at the Western Region Detention Facility (WRDF) in …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Lawsuit Over Winter Power Outage at Brooklyn’s Troubled Federal Detention Center Granted Class Certification by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Class-action status was granted on May 25, 2021, to a federal lawsuit brought by a half-dozen prisoners held by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at its Metropolitan Detention Center …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
North Carolina Renames Prisons Whose Names Honored Enslavers by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On September 30, 2021, over 156 years after the end of the Civil War, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced the renaming of four prisons and a drug addiction treatment facility whose previous …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Activists Play Whack-a-Mole Closing ICE Detention Centers by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Bloomberg Equality report published on January 11, 2022, gave little hope that the omicron variant behind a resurgence in the COVID-19 pandemic would spare immigrant detainees held for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with …
Investigations Into the Deaths of Several Prisoners and Two Guards Reveal Rampant Corruption, Cover-ups in California Prison by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders When Brant Daniel found himself in one of California’s most violent and corrupt prisons, the California State Prison (CSP) in Sacramento, known as New Folsom, he knew …
Settlement for New Jersey Special Needs Prisoner Students Includes Damages, Fees and Education by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On July 15, 2021, a settlement agreement and order was entered in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, putting an end to a four-year-old class action lawsuit against …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$7,500 Settlement for Pennsylvania Prisoner Assaulted by Guards And Denied Medical Care by On March 23, 2021, an agreement was executed paying $7,500 to settle three complaints a former pretrial detainee had brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
$1 Million Default Judgement for Michigan Jail Prisoner Against Health Care Provider in Sexual Assault by Mark Wilson But She Probably Won’t Collect It From the Defunct Provider by Mark Wilson On April 1, 2021, a Michigan federal court entered a $1 million default judgement for a woman who was …
Transgender Women in Illinois DOC Secure Injunction with Special Monitor by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Transgender women imprisoned in the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) notched another victory in their legal battle for gender dysphoria treatment on December 13, 2021, when the U.S. District Court for the Southern …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Seven Prisoners Died in 2021, One by Homicide, at Virginia’s Only Private Prison by The Lawrenceville Correctional Center (LCC), Virginia’s only remaining for-profit prison, now also has the dubious distinction of reporting seven prisoner deaths in 2021. One of those deaths has been confirmed as a homicide. One is suspected …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
‘They Know No Bounds’: Suffolk County New York Prosecutors Sent to Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The former District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, Thomas Spota, and his former top assistant, Christopher McPartland, appeared before a sentencing judge in a federal courtroom on August 10, 2021. But …
Tennessee CoreCivic Prison Guard Indicted for Beating Unresisting Prisoner, Attempting Cover-up by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On September 27, 2021, a three-count indictment was filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, accusing a former guard at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville of violating a …
Eighth Circuit Rules Guard’s History of Excessive Force too Prejudicial or a Jury to Hear in Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Case by Jacob Barrett, Matthew Clarke Another Guard Escapes Liability by Refusing to Participate by Jacob Barrett and Matt Clarke What happens to a prison guard accused of using excessive force who …
Brief • January 31, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
Shaikh v. ICE, Washington DC, Vijayan Declaration, Refusal to Provide Covid Booster, 2022 Case 1:22-cv-00231 Document 3-2 Filed 01/31/22 Page 1 of 11 DECLARATION OF TARA VIJAYAN, M.D., M.P.H. I, Tara Vijayan, declare: I. Background and Qualifications 1. My name is Dr. Tara Vijayan. I am an Associate Professor of …
Brief • January 31, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
Shaikh v. ICE, Washington DC, Memo in Support for Temporary Restraining Order, Refusal to Provide Covid Booster,2022 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Aamir SHAIKH, et al., Plaintiffs, No. 1:21-cv__________________ v. U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, et al., Defendants. PLAINTIFFS’ MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF THEIR …
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