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Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Medicare Penalties Await Released Prisoners Who Apply After Age 65 by Derek Gilna Add potential penalties for late Medicare registration to the list of hurdles that prisoners must clear if they are released after their 65th birthday. Medicare regulations impose a penalty of 10% per year for each year of …
Al-Kadi v. Ramsey County et al., MN, Amended Complaint, Religious Discrimination, 2017 CASE 0:16-cv-02642-JRT-TNL Document 28 Filed 03/02/17 Page 1 of 25 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA AIDA SHYEF AL-KADI, Civil No. 16-2642 (JRT/TNL) Plaintiff, AMENDED COMPLAINT v. RAMSEY COUNTY, RAMSEY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, and OFFICER JESSICA WALKER, …
Article • February 24, 2017
Our Bail System Is Leaving Innocent People To Die In Jail Because They’re Poor by When freedom is only available to those who can afford it, many end up paying with their lives. By Nick Wing, The Huffington Post Of the nearly 750,000 inmates confined in jails around the U.S. …
Brief • February 22, 2017
Maynor v. Morgan County, AL, Mot for Order Req Show Cause Contempt, Inmate Fund Misappropriation, 2017 FILED Case 5:01-cv-00851-AKK Document 133 Filed 02/22/17 Page 1 of 14 2017 Feb-22 AM 11:32 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHEASTERN …
Brief • February 13, 2017
Flora v. SW IA Narcotics Enforcement Task Team, IA, Order, Traffic Stop and Seizure, 2017 Case 1:16-cv-00002-JEG-SBJ Document 50 Filed 02/13/17 Page 1 of 30 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA WESTERN DIVISION PHILLIP ANTHONY FLORA, Plaintiff, v. SOUTHWEST IOWA NARCOTICS ENFORCEMENT TASK TEAM, BRIAN MILLER, …
Brief • February 8, 2017
Pederson v. County of Plumas, CA, Order on Consent Decree, Conditions at Jail, 2017 Case 2:89-cv-01659-KJN Document 85 Filed 02/08/17 Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 PEDERSON, et al., 12 13 …
Brief • January 17, 2017
Filed under: Money/Property
Foster v. City of Alexander City, AL, Settlement, Debtors Prison, 2017 Case 3:15-cv-00647-RCL-WC Document 93-2 Filed 01/17/17 Page 1 of 24 EXHIBIT 1 TO JOINT MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY APPROVAL OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND NOTICE TO CLASS MEMBERS Case 3:15-cv-00647-RCL-WC Document 93-2 Filed 01/17/17 Page 2 of 24 IN …
Brief • January 17, 2017
Cook v. Black, LA, Amended Complaint, Debtors Prison, 2017 Case 2:16-cv-11024-ILRL-MBN Document 67 Filed 01/17/17 Page 1 of 44 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA LATASHA COOK, ROBERT LEVI, EBONY ROBERTS, ROZZIE SCOTT, RICHARD BOLGIANO, BENNY GRAHAM, JAMES LORIO, BRADLEY MOSES, and MARISA PAM, …
Boozer v. Waltman, PA, Complaint, Wrongful Arrest, 2017 Filed and Attested by the Office of Judicial Records 16 JAN 2017 03:35 pm J. OSTROWSKI Case ID: 160900497 IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA KHANEFAH BOOZER 1322 McKinley Street Philadelphia, PA 19111 CIVIL ACTION Plaintiff v. RYAN …
Article • January 12, 2017
Chain Gang 2.0: If You Can’t Afford This GPS Ankle Bracelet, You Get Thrown In Jail by Eric Markowitz by Eric Markowitz, International Business Times On a recent broiling August day, Antonio Green, an out-of-work construction worker, sat in his living room, a folder full of receipts open across his legs. …
Report Finds Charging Criminal Justice Fees Perpetuates Mass Incarceration by Matthew Clarke The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law released a report in May 2015 titled, “Charging Inmates Perpetuates Mass Incarceration.” Mass incarceration refers to the fact that the United States, which has around 5% …
Kissinger v. LeBlanc, LA, Complaint, Retaliation for Media Contact, 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00011-JWD-EWD Document 1 01/09/17 Page 1 of 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA WILLIAM KISSINGER, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) JAMES LEBLANC, BURL CAIN, ) DARRYL VANNOY, SETH SMITH, ) ROBERT TANNER, TIM …
Exonerated Ohio Prisoner’s Claim for Improperly Released Medical Record to Proceed by An Ohio Court of Appeals held a trial court improperly granted summary judgment to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) in a lawsuit claiming invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The suit was …
Article • January 3, 2017
Massachusetts DOC Fails to Spend Nearly $2 Million Surplus in Prisoner Benefit Funds by Christopher Zoukis A report compiled by a well-respected prisoner group indicates that while the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) is diligent in collecting profits from prisoners' commissary purchases, it has failed to spend those funds on …
Charging the Poor - Criminal Justice Debt & Modern-Day Debtors' Prisons, Sobol, 2016 Legal Studies Research Paper Series Research Paper No. 16–09 Charging the Poor: Criminal Justice Debt & Modern-Day Debtors' Prisons Neil L. Sobol This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper …
Bail Fail - Why the U.S. Should End the Practice of Using Money for Bail, JPI, 2012 BAIL FAIL: Why the U.S. Should End the Practice of USING Money for BaiL JUSTICE POLICY INSTITUTE | SEPTEMBER 2012 2 justice policy institute CONTENTS 3 PART 1: INTRODUCTION 5 PART 2: BACKGROUND …
Report Finds Criminal Justice System Financially Overburdens Prisoners and Their Families by Christopher Zoukis The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit focused on racial and economic policy, in conjunction with Forward Together and a dozen other community and civil rights organizations recently released a study which surveyed hardships …
Missouri Jail Detainee Becomes Comatose, Treated in Hospital for Three Weeks by Christopher Zoukis In September 2015, Bernard Scott, 44, was arrested for various traffic violations and jailed at the Pine Lawn, Mo. jail in St. Louis County. He was held on a $360 bond. While in detention he called …
Cost of Incarceration Assessment Handcuff Poor Releasees by David Reutter The imposition of cost of incarceration fees upon released prisoners is a “permanent financial sentence” that overwhelms those trying to successfully integrate into society. Fees for room and board are authorized in at least 43 states.  “We’re seeing it all …
Ferguson, Missouri Under Fire for Revenue-based Criminal Justice System by Christopher Zoukis Following 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri ignited by the killing of an unarmed black youth by a white police officer, some local law enforcement practices have been changed. The reforms were spurred, in large part, by a U.S. …
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