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Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
UK Supreme Court Rules Against Unlawful Use of Solitary Confinement by Christopher Zoukis On July 29, 2015, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled against prison officials in an action brought by prisoners Kamal Bourgass and Tanvir Hussain concerning their prolonged solitary confinement. According to British laws related to solitary, …
Warden’s Decision to Quarantine Handicapped Person in Unaccommodated Cell Actionable; $200,000 Settlement by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a warden who placed a double amputee prisoner with MRSA in a segregation unit without handicap accommodations was not entitled to qualified immunity. When Martinique Stoudemire, 23 at the …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Why is California Thumbing its Nose at a Federal Court? by Caleb Mason The Ex Post Facto Clause of the Constitution provides that the government can’t retroactively increase the penalty for criminal conduct. It applies not just to initial sentence length but also to potential “good-time credit” prisoners can earn …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Fourth Circuit Finds 20 Years in Solitary an Atypical and Significant Hardship by David Reutter On July 1, 2015, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals found the “20-year period of solitary confinement” endured by a South Carolina prisoner “amounts to an atypical and significant hardship in relation to the general …
Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts v. Hodgsen, MA, Complaint, Public Records Request, 2016 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, SS SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL ACTION NO. I ) PRISONERS' LEGAL SERVICES OF ) MASSACHUSETTS, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) THOMAS M. HODGSEN, in his official) capacity as Sheriff of Bristol …
Robertson v. Contra Costa County, CA, Complaint, Solitary Confinement, 2016 Case 3:15-cv-d._ A9-WHO Document 20 Filed 04/1( _d Page 1 of 59 1 MICHAEL W. BIEN~ 096891 LISA ELLS - 243657 2 VAN SWEARINGEN - 259809 ROSEN BIEN GALV~ & GRUNFELD LLP 3 50 Fremont Street, 19 Floor San Francisco, …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Irish High Court Bars Extradition of Terror Suspect to U.S., Citing Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement by Derek Gilna The High Court of Ireland has declined to extradite a terrorism suspect to the United States to face justice, quashing an extradition request filed by American officials. Ali Charaf Damache, born in …
$2.5 Million Settlement in North Carolina Prisoner’s Dehydration Death by The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of a mentally ill prisoner who died after spending 35 days in an isolation cell. Michael Anthony Kerr’s death in 2014 occurred during a …
Tennessee Prisoner Awarded $60,000 for Guards’ Use of Excessive Force by A Tennessee federal jury awarded $60,000 to a prisoner after finding three guards at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) in Nashville had used excessive force. The verdict found that prison guards Joshua McCall, Gaelen Doss and Sean Stewart …
DOJ Settlement to Improve Conditions at Mississippi Juvenile Facility by The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a settlement to address conditions at Mississippi’s Leflore County Juvenile Detention Center (LCJDC). The settlement agreement is the culmination of a DOJ investigation and a March 31, 2011 findings letter from the …
Lawsuit Claiming CMUs Lack Due Process on Appeal to D.C. Circuit by Derek Gilna The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) first instituted Communication Management Units (CMUs) in 2006 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, then added another unit to the supermax in Marion, Illinois in 2008. CMUs were designed …
Brief • March 31, 2016
Peoples et al v. Annucci et al, NY, Order approving settlement, solitary confinement, 2016 Case 1:11-cv-02694-SAS Document 329 Filed 03/31/16 Page 1 of 30 Case 1:11-cv-02694-SAS Document 329 Filed 03/31/16 Page 2 of 30 Dewayne Richardson, also appearing pro se, was joined with Peoples’ case. Similarly to Peoples, Richardson was …
Following Settlement, Use of Seclusion Plummets in Ohio Juvenile Prisons by Matthew Clarke On May 21, 2014, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and private plaintiffs announced a settlement agreement with Ohio requiring the Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS) to dramatically reduce and eventually eliminate the use of …
Publication • March 15, 2016
Letter to DOJ re overuse of solitary confinement in Florida prisons, 03-11, 2016
Final Investigation - Inmate Death at Somerset County Jail 05-28, ME DOC, 2014 Department of Corrections State of Maine Department of Corrections State House Station 111 Tyson Building Augusta, ME 04333-0111 Operations Division Phone: (207) 287-2711 FAX: (207) 287-4370 Email: Bob.Lancaster@maine.gov Memorandum To: Ralph Nichols, Director of Operations, MDOC From: …
California Prisoners Unite in Hunger Strike to Protest SHU by David Reutter Official with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) devised a plan in 2006 that aimed to chop the head off of prison gangs. What CDCR did not consider was that the gang leaders it indefinitely isolated …
Review of Solitary Confinement in Texas Lacks Funding to Proceed by Joe Watson A legislatively-mandated, detailed review of the use of solitary confinement in Texas prisons—where the average stay in administrative segregation, or "ad seg," is more than three years—had not been initiated four months after Gov. Rick Perry signed …
Online Series Exposes Effects of Solitary Confinement on Women by Joe Watson An online series on women in solitary confinement illustrates that the practice of extreme isolation is as sadistic and corrosive to female prisoners—if not more so—as it is to men. The two-part series at solitarywatch.com, written by prisoner …
Last Member of “Angola 3” Released from Louisiana Prison after 44 Years by David Reutter The last remaining member of the “Angola 3” – believed to have served the longest term in solitary confinement in the United States – was released from prison after almost 44 years, while consistently maintaining …
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