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CoreCivic Creates Nonprofit Foundation, Ostensibly to Reduce Recidivism by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  Private prison companies are known for their cynical motives. They lobby and give money to politicians to expand the for-profit prison industry, and have provisions in their contracts that guarantee minimum occupancy levels at many of …
Fifth Circuit Vacates Dismissal of Suit by Civilly Committed Sex Offender by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In December 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a civilly committed Texas sex offender against Tarrant County, Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson and Avalon …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Claim Denied; No Proof New York Prison Guards Acted Within Scope of Their Employment by On June 13, 2018, the New York Court of Claims in Saratoga Springs found in favor of prison guards accused of assaulting a prisoner without provocation. Although it was undisputed that the prisoner had been …
Article • May 3, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Inspector General: California Prison Guards Violate Use of Force Policies Half the Time by Steve Horn by Steve Horn A report released in July 2018 by California’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that with respect to use of force incidents reported by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Staffing Shortage at Ohio Legislative Oversight Committee has Interns Inspecting Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke An administrative staffing shortage at the Ohio legislature’s bi-chamber, eight-member Correctional Institution Inspection Committee has left unpaid interns responsible for inspecting 27 adult prisons and three juvenile facilities.  Five years ago, the Committee …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Medical
Humane Treatment for Terminally Ill Prisoners by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss “No prisoner dies alone.” That’s the motto of a group of prisoners, pastoral care workers and other volunteers at the California Medical Facility’s (CMF) hospice program, one of only two licensed prison hospices in the state. …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Prison Reform
The Uphill Road to Prisoners’ Rights by F.T. Green by F.T. Green, The Crime Report In the fall of 2010, a 12-year-old was in a fight at her middle school in northern Mississippi. The police officer assigned to the school as a School Resource Officer arrested her for simple assault …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Virginia Court Improperly Denied Transgender Prisoner’s Name Change by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  On December 13, 2018, the Supreme Court of Virginia held that a state circuit court improperly denied a transgender prisoner’s application for a name change.  Federal prisoner Brian Allen Leonard filed an application in Virginia state …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Attorneys, Attorney Client
Attorney-Client Privilege Under Attack in Jails Across the Nation by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As previously reported in PLN, the constitutional rights of prisoners at the Leavenworth Detention Center (LDC) in Kansas were violated by CoreCivic, the private operator of the facility for the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Incarceration Decrease? Drop in Prison Numbers Called “Anemic” by Ted Gest by Ted Gest, The Crime Report Although the U.S. prison population has declined over six years, after increasing for nearly four decades, a new analysis by researcher Malcolm C. Young, published by the Center for Community Alternatives, concludes that …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Welcome to the 29th anniversary issue of Prison Legal News! We published the first issue of PLN on May Day in 1990, which was 348 issues ago. At the time PLN consisted of 10 hand-typed pages and the inaugural issue was …
Article • May 2, 2019 • from PLN May, 2019
Vermont Prisoner Sexually Abused at Private Prison in Michigan Receives $750 by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Bernard Carter was incarcerated at the privately-operated North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan when he alleged a prison nurse coerced him into sexually uncomfortable situations. In a federal lawsuit, Carter v. GEO …
Horrific Deaths, Brutal Treatment: Mental Illness in America’s Jails by Gary A. Harki by Gary A. Harki, The Virginian-Pilot Bradley Thomas had bipolar disorder and was in a severe depressive episode when he was arrested for a misdemeanor in Oregon. He had spit on his landlord’s face and threatened her …
Article • May 2, 2019
Ohio High Court Denies Relief to Prisoner Challenging White Supremacist Classification by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Ohio state prisoner William H. Evans Jr. was designated to be a white supremacist by a classification committee’s ruling in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), the state’s prison system. This …
Human Rights Watch 2014 Report Set Goals to Reduce Human Costs of Excessive Incarceration by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna  The nonprofit Human Rights Watch in 2014 published a 21-page report, “Nation Behind Bars: A Human Rights Solution,” which outlined the problems caused by mass incarceration and offered suggestions on …
Article • April 22, 2019
First Circuit: Denial of Humira Psoriasis Treatment Not Deliberately Indifferent by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that a lower court properly granted summary judgment to a Massachusetts prison doctor who refused to prescribe Humira to treat a pretrial detainee’s …
Seventh Circuit Upholds Nationwide Injunction on Trump’s Attempt to Deny ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Federal Funding by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a nationwide injunction, enjoining the Trump Administration from denying law enforcement grant funding to “sanctuary cities.” Finding that one …
Article • April 22, 2019
Third Circuit Reverses Federal Prisoner’s FOIA Request Denials by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the dismissal of a federal prisoner’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Federal prisoner James Biear made FOIA requests of the Criminal Division of the …
Seventh Circuit Accepts Illinois Guard’s Concession that Summary Judgment Improperly Granted on Retaliation Claim Against Him by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit accepted a guard’s concession that he was improperly granted summary judgment on a prisoner’s retaliation claim against him. …
$25,000 Settlement Over Connecticut False Arrest and Malicious Prosecution Claims by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The City of Norwalk, Connecticut, paid $25,000 to settle false arrest and malicious prosecution claims against a Norwalk Police Department (NPD) detective. On October 3, 2013, Robert Ragsdale complained to the NPD that he …
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