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Former AZ Assistant AG Disciplined for Misconduct in Muslim Prisoner’s Lawsuit by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney  In August 2021, the Arizona State Bar disciplined a former state Assistant Attorney General, Michael John Hrnicek, for his misconduct while opposing a prisoner’s lawsuit against several employees of the state Department of …
$650,000 Jury Verdict Upheld in NY Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Claim; Motion for Fees Denied Due to Contingency Agreement by David Reutter by David M Reutter On October 20, 2020, a federal judge in New York refused to overturn a $650,000 award made by a jury earlier that year to a state …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for the new year, as we enter 2022 and our 32nd year of publication. Last year we published an article in the June edition on the worst sheriffs in America, but like many things, …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
$150,000 Paid to Family of California Pretrial Detainee Who Died from Valley Fever by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A California federal court approved a $150,000 settlement on October 13, 2021, for the estate of a prisoner who died of valley fever at the Merced County Jail. The prisoner, …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
St. Louis Jail Guard Charged with Allowing Brutal Beating of Prisoner by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A former guard at the St. Louis Justice Center (SLJC) was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 28, 2021, on charges that she allowed two prisoners to beat a third in …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Should Sentencing Juries Consider Imprisonment Costs? by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Professor Michael Conklin recently released a law review article arguing the merits of allowing juries to consider imprisonment costs when they are deliberating sentences lengths, with the objective of lessoning mass incarceration. Conklin’s report is founded on and …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
California Federal Prison Warden Charged with Sexually Abusing Prisoner by The Federal Correctional Institution at Dublin, California, about 20 miles southwest of Oakland, has had its share of publicity since it opened in 1974. Publishing heir-turned-bankrobbing-militant Patty Hearst did time there, as did “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss, as well as …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Montana Renews CoreCivic Contract; Major Water and Sewage Problems Persist by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The private prison industry has been under fire recently across the country—from lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to federal policies mandating a slow and unsteady move away from for-profit prisons …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Rural Prisons
California Town Fighting to Keep Prison Open by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders In the 1950s, the timber mills in Susanville, California, began to shutter. For this isolated town of about 8,000 residents, the economic impact of losing its only industry was devastating. But in 1963 the California Department of …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Prosecutors Move to Close Case Against BOP Guards in Jeffrey Epstein Suicide by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Of the many mysteries surrounding Jeffery Epstein, including exactly where the billionaire got his fabulous wealth before committing suicide in a Manhattan cell in August 2020—while awaiting trial on charges of sex-trafficking …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
HRDC Advances in Suit Against Centurion to Obtain New Mexico Prisoner Medical Litigation Records by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 11, 2021, New Mexico’s First Judicial District Court, County of Santa Fe, denied a motion to dismiss a suit filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
$281,000 Awarded to Colorado Prisoner Retaliated Against for Grievances by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 14, 2020, a federal judge in Colorado refused to set aside a judgment for a state prisoner who won $180,002 the year before when a jury agreed that guards retaliated against him …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Indiana Supreme Court Denies Relief to Prisoner Whose Commissary Account Was Garnished by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On May 19, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Indiana refused to dismiss a lower court’s ruling against a state prisoner whose prison account was garnished by the state Department of …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Colorado Using SWIFT but Cheap Wildlands Firefighters by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon For many years PLN has reported on prison systems across the nation like those in Arkansas and Texas that pay prisoners nothing for the work they are required to perform. Others, like Louisiana, pay only pennies per …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Feds Declare Long COVID a Disability Under ADA, RA and ACA by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The COVID-19 pandemic is now a well-known, world-wide fact of life. Less well known is a lingering set of aftereffects that afflict some people infected with the disease, which the medical establishment has …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Michigan Supreme Court Holds Convicted Prisoner Entitled to Pre-Trial Jail Time Credit by On July 27, 2021, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled en banc that pre-trial detainees are entitled to jail time credit if they were unable to make bond except for jail time served after a parole revocation warrant …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Second Circuit Reverses Dismissal of NY Prisoner’s Due Process Claim on Grounds It Was Abandoned on Appeal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a ruling issued on January 19, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that a lower court erred in dismissing a …
Annual report • December 31, 2021
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER 2021 ANNUAL REPORT Human Rights Defense Center - Annual Report 2021 [1] As you read the summaries of HRDC’s work below, please know that much of this work was made possible because of the thousands of hours of pro bono legal representation from our partners and …
Brief • December 30, 2021
Filed under: Retaliation
Le v. County of Santa Clara, CA, Settlement Agreement, Hostile Work Environment, 2021 DocuSign Envelope ID: 631 F6F47-9EA 7-4171-9255-04079CB0921 A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE Amy Thulam Le ("Plaintiff'') and the County of Santa Clara ("County") enter into this Settlement Agreement and General Release ("Agreement"). Collectively, Plaintiff and the County …
Brief • December 30, 2021
Rodesky v. Pfister, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2021 1:15-cv-01002-JEH # 168 Page 1 of 15 E-FILED Thursday, 30 December, 2021 10:11:18 AM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD United States District Court For the Central District of Illinois Anthony Rodesky, Plaintiff. v. Randy Pfister, in his individual and official capacity as …
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