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Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
No Summary Judgment for Jail’s Denial of Mental Health Treatment; $150,000 Settlement by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On June 8, 2018, an Oregon fed-eral district court denied a summary judgment motion filed by jail officials, concluding that a reasonable jury could find a psychotic detainee’s 16-day confinement without treatment …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Closed Since 2013, Tamms Prison Now “Rampant” with Mold by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke As previously reported in PLN, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) closed the Tamms Correctional Center as part of a cost-cutting consolidation of state prisons pushed by then-Governor Pat Quinn in 2013. [See: PLN, June …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Female Prisoner Wore Wire to Take Down Rikers Island Guards, Wins $425,000 Settlement by Rick Anderson by Rick Anderson A female prisoner in New York who wore a wire to help bust three Rikers Island jailers who sexually abused her has received a $425,000 settlement from the city.  The trio …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Counties Modify, Cancel Contracts for Privately Operated Immigration Detention Centers by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  Using a type of contract known as an Intergovernmental Service Agreement (ISA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has partnered with local governments to place immigrant detainees in unused jail beds or detention centers built …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Transgender
Two Transgender Prisoners Transferred to Women’s Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke   In a rare move, in December 2018 the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) transferred a pre-operative male-to-female transgender prisoner from a men’s prison to a women’s facility in order to conform with the prisoner’s gender identity. …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Ohio Governor Commutes Death Sentences, Grants Reprieves for Another by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon As a child, Raymond Tibbetts lived a life straight out of a movie – a horror movie. He and his brothers were bounced from one foster home to another. Along their journey to adulthood, they …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
HRDC Settles Lawsuit Against Mississippi Jail that Only Allowed Religious Reading Materials by On October 24, 2018, the Human Rights Defense Center – the parent organization of Prison Legal News – and the Mississippi Center for Justice filed suit on behalf of HRDC in federal court against Forrest County, Sheriff …
Report Released on Deaths in Utah Prisons and Jails by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  A new law in Utah requires information about deaths in both the state’s prisons and local jails to be reported annually. The first death in custody report, released last November, revealed that around half of …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Indiana Prisoners Win Partial Summary Judgment in Jail Conditions Case by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  The Vigo County jail in Terre Haute, Indiana has a well-documented history of constitutional violations. In 2002, the county entered into a consent decree to cap the jail’s population at no more than 268 …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Free Phone Calls for Juvenile Offenders Jailed in Memphis, Tennessee by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin Bliss In November 2018, Shelby County, Tennessee – which includes the City of Memphis – renegotiated its contract with Global Tel*Link (GTL), the phone service provider for around 5,000 prisoners at the county’s four …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Seventh Circuit Excuses Exhaustion Requirement for Spanish-Speaking Prisoner by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the dismissal of an Illinois state prisoner’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit for failure to exhaust administrative remedies as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), based …
Connecticut Prisoner Survives DOC’s Summary Judgment Motion in Mental Health Suit by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Raudell Mercado initially entered the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) in 2013 as a youthful offender at the Manson Youth Institution. In March 2015, he was formally admitted to the DOC as a …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Santa Clara County Settles Lawsuit, Makes Jails Handicapped Accessible by Steve Horn by Steve Horn In November 2018, the parties in a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California agreed to settle the case in the form of a consent decree. The suit centered …
Illinois DOC Permanently Enjoined From Neglecting Prisoners’ Mental Health by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On October 30, 2018, a federal judge entered a permanent injunction that enjoined the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) from violating the Eighth Amendment and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with respect to mental health …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Idaho Supreme Court Vacates Conviction After D.A. Seizes Jailed Defendant’s Legal Notes by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  On November 30, 2018, in a substitute opinion, the Supreme Court of Idaho held that a trial court erred when it required a defendant to show he was prejudiced when the prosecution …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
JP Morgan Chase Bank Used Secretive Bonds to Finance Kansas Prison Construction by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Recently discovered evidence in a Thomson Reuters database revealed that, in June 2018, JP Morgan Chase Bank (JPMC) underwrote a $159.5 million bond to finance private prison operator CoreCivic’s construction of a …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Israeli Supreme Court Orders Increased Personal Space for Prisoners by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin  Researcher Lila Margalit, with the Israel Democracy Institute’s Amnon Lipkin-Shahak Center for Security and Democracy, published a blog entry on June 7, 2018 that detailed a landmark 2017 judgment entered by the Israeli Supreme Court. …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: RLUIPA, Religious Freedom
Eighteen Years After its Passage, Prisons and Jails Continue to Violate RLUIPA by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna After decades of complaints by prisoners that corrections officials frequently denied them the right to practice their religion, Congress took action and passed the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Alabama Prison Warden Lacks Authority to Make End-of-Life Decisions for Prisoners by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on October 2, 2018 that an Alabama prison warden was not entitled to qualified immunity because his actions of requesting a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order and decision to remove a prisoner from …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
$100,000 Settlement for Preventable Suicide in Virginia Department of Corrections by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Dai’yaan Qamar Longmire, a 19-year-old from Virginia Beach, was serving a four-year sentence at the Indian Creek Correctional Center (ICCC) in 2014 when he committed suicide in his cell using a sheet …
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