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Brief • December 2, 2021
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Estate of Katherine Johnson v. City of Redding, CA, Deposition of Alfred Joshua, Wrongful Death, 2021 Deposition of Alfred Joshua, M.D. December 02, 2021 Johnson vs. City of Redding www.aptusCR.com I 866.999.8310 Johnson vs. City of Redding Alfred Joshua, M.D. ·1· ·2· ·3· · · ·4· · · ·5· · …
Brief • December 2, 2021
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Johnson v. City of Redding, CA, Deposition of Alfred Joshua, M.D., Wrongful Death, 2021 Deposition of Alfred Joshua, M.D. December 02, 2021 Johnson vs. City of Redding antus. ~ www.aptusOR.com LI RT ~ E. PO R. TI I 866.9 99'.8310 ,G Johnson vs. City of Redding Alfred Joshua, M.D. ·1· …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Eighth Circuit Holds Arkansas Jailers Entitled to Qualified Immunity in Prisoners’ Suit Over Black Mold in Showers, Lack of Cleaning Supplies by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that Arkansas jailers were entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit brought by …
ABA’s Private Prisons Prophecy Comes to Pass by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Prison populations exploded in every state across the country during the 1980s and ‘90s. It was during that massive expansion that the modern private prison industry was born as a “way to ease the burden on taxpayers …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Dismissal
Michigan Prisoner’s Corizon Suit Dismissed Due to “Morass of Irrelevancies” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a prisoner’s civil rights complaint because it was filled with “pages of irrelevant and unspecific allegations.” The Court said that in drafting a …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Seven Ohio Guards Fired After Killing Prisoner, No Criminal Charges by On January 26, 2021, 55-year-old Michael McDaniel entered the Corrections Reception Center in Orient, Pickaway County, Ohio, to serve a sixteen-month sentence for aggravated assault in Franklin County, Ohio. Jada McDaniel, his sister, said that he was a Black …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Third Circuit: Gratuitous Use of Force on Prisoner Negates Qualified Immunity Defense by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment in a lawsuit against a guard at New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ). The Court held the guard was …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Forty-One Oregon Prisoner Firefighters have Sentences Commuted by Oregon endured a devastating wildfire season in 2020. The fires raged across the state incinerating over one million acres of land and more than 4,000 homes. Prisoners enslaved in the Oregon Department of Corrections stepped up to assist their fellow citizens, risking …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Environmental Indifference by Anthony Moffa Exposure to Radon in Prisons May Be Functioning as a Form of Mass Capital Punishment by Anthony Moffa I can’t breathe. –Eric Garner, George Floyd, and at least seventy others   The thought of radioactive gas in the night air in the place you lay …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A 20-year-old guard at the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, was arrested on October 29, 2021, on charges that he attempted to smuggle methamphetamine into the jail. According to a report by Huntsville TV station WHNT, the guard, Matthew Moran, faces one count …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This is the last issue of Prison Legal News for 2021 and it is ending pretty much where it started in terms of widespread COVID outbreaks in prisons and jails across the country. The good news is there are now vaccines …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Medical, Malpractice
$15,379,091 Judgment Entered Against Delaware DOC’s Former Health Care Provider for Narcotics and Medicare Fraud by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Under a pair of consent judgments filed in federal court on October 29 and November 1, 2021, troubled former Delaware Department of Corrections (DOC) health care contractor Connections Community …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Fourth Circuit Holds CoreCivic Immigration Detainees in New Mexico Not “Employees” Under FLSA by A panel of judges in the Fourth Circuit agreed with the dismissal of an appeal brought by former ICE detainees held by CoreCivic at their Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, New Mexico. The ruling was …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Report Highlights Force Feeding of Hunger Striking Asylum Seekers by ICE and GEO by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regardless of what people without first-hand knowledge of prisons or detention centers believe, prisoners are generally not the blood-thirsty, brutal animals depicted in the media. In fact, especially in the face …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Federal Jury Orders GEO Group to Pay $23 Million for Immigrant Detainee Slave Labor in Washington by In a landmark case, a federal jury decided against the GEO Group for paying $1 dollar a day wages to immigrant detainees at its privately-operated prison in Washington. The facility in question is …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
San Luis Obispo County Jail Conditions Violate Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On August 31, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division released a report detailing its investigation concerning the conditions inside San Luis Obispo County Jail. The findings of the report, conducted …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Education
How Trump Made a Tiny Christian College the Nation’s Biggest Prison Educator by Eli Hager by Eli Hager, The Marshall Project Six years ago, Ashland University, a small Christian college in the north-central region of Ohio known as the “Buckeye Bible Belt,” was in trouble. The school was $70 million …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
BOP Trust Fund Accounts Reportedly Shield Prisoners from Payment Obligations by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Imagine being able to “hide” your money in an account where the government supposedly has no access to it and cannot force you to pay any court-ordered financial obligations, such as child support or …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Strip Searches, Settlements
$53 Million Settlement in Los Angeles Jail Strip Search Lawsuit Approved by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A California federal district court approved a $53 million settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging women held by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) were subjected to “highly invasive body …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Disenfranchisement the Old Fashioned Way by Jayson Hawkins A federal district court judge looks at the history and impact of keeping prisoners from the polls by Jayson Hawkins In the aftermath of the 2020 election, legislatures across the nation responded to claims of election fraud by proposing a flurry of …
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