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Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
In Memoriam: Jane Kahn (1954-2018) by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For the past 15 years, the San Francisco law firm of Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP has represented Prison Legal News and its parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center, in censorship and public records cases in California, …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Report Shows 50 New York Prisoners Died from Inadequate Medical Care in Last Five Years by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A 2018 report by a New York State medical review board charged with reviewing prisoner deaths determined that at least 50 state prisoners had died within the past five …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Washington County, School District Pay $265,000 for Holding Juveniles in Solitary by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In August 2018, King County, Washington agreed to pay $240,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by four juveniles who were placed in solitary confinement at the county’s Regional Justice Center (RJC) in Kent. …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: New Trial Motions
Fifth Circuit Holds Magistrate Judge Has No Authority to Deem Motion for Reconsideration Withdrawn by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 21, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a federal magistrate judge had no authority to sua sponte deem a motion for reconsideration withdrawn in a …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Protests, Food
County Detainees Protest Food Served at New Hampshire Jail by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In mid-2018, prisoners at the Bristol County House of Correction (HOC) in Massachusetts participated in a hunger strike to protest inadequate food and medical care. Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson said those were the …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Forfeiture
Philadelphia Robbing the Poor Through Civil Forfeiture by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  In just the four zip codes of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, whose mainly black and Hispanic residents suffer high rates of poverty, civil asset forfeiture (CAF) proceedings netted 1,682 properties that were seized and sold by the District …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Eighth Circuit Finds Verified Complaint Defeats Summary Judgment Motion in Failure-to-Protect Case by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 20, 2018, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal filed by officials at the Northeast Arkansas Community Corrections Center (NEACCC) in a lawsuit alleging they had failed to …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
New Sheriff Ends Juvenile Solitary Confinement at North Carolina Jail by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Elected in May 2018 and sworn in seven months later, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Sheriff Garry McFadden has already made good on campaign promises to restore in-person visits at the local jail …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Smoking
Missouri Prisoner Awarded $111,000 in Second-Hand Smoke Case, DOC Bans Smoking by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Ecclesiastical Denzel Washington, a former death row prisoner who is now serving a life sentence, won a jury verdict against the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) and various prison officials totaling $111,000. Following …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Strip Searches
Sixth Circuit Reverses Injunction Against Delousing and Group Strip Searches at Ohio Jail by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On November 2, 2018, the Sixth Circuit reversed a permanent injunction and summary judgment order entered by a federal district court in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action filed by former …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Since 1996, U.S. Agriculture Department Gave Over $277 Million to Fund Local Jail Construction by Brian Sonenstein by Brian Sonenstein, Shadowproof The United States Department of Agriculture provided over $277 million in funding for county jail construction since 1996, according to documents obtained by Shadowproof. The funding came in the …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Without Interpreters, California’s Deaf Prisoners are Getting Stuck Behind Bars by Samantha Michaels “It’s the utmost violation of due process I can think of.” by Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones In 2016, a prisoner in Corcoran, California faced a dilemma. The parole board wanted to know whether he’d completed any self-help …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
U.S. Marshals Report: Ohio County Jail “One of the Worst in the Country” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  One week after the release of a report by the U.S. Marshals Service on November 21, 2018, which described Ohio’s Cuyahoga County jail system as “one of the worst in the …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Texas Accounts for Over Ten Percent of Nation’s Jail Deaths by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke There are over 1,000 prisoner deaths each year in U.S. jails, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and one of every ten occurs in Texas. Over the nine-month period between October 1, 2017 …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story reports on the long-familiar use of prison slave labor to perform dangerous, dirty work that few others in the U.S. are willing to do – and for slave wages at that. Ironically, with the current political attacks …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Juveniles, Juvenile Prisons
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Juvenile Prisoners’ Civil Rights Case by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the dismissal of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by two Iowa girls who alleged they were mistreated at the Wisconsin Girls State Training School at …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
The Kill Line by Will Tucker Should Prisons be in Business with One of the Most Dangerous Industries in America? by Will Tucker, Southern Poverty Law Center Frank Dwayne Ellington set out toward Ashland, Alabama on October 29, 2017, headed to the only place he could go: to work. He rode …
Ohio Jail’s Private Healthcare Provider Denied Summary Judgment in Failure to Treat Prisoner’s Fractured Pelvis by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio denied motions for summary judgment filed by private healthcare provider NaphCare Inc. (NaphCare) and its employee Emergency Medical …
ICE-friendly Policies. A String of Jail Deaths. Why Does This Sheriff Keep Getting Elected? by Kyle C. Barry Advocates say Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern is an odd fit for the Bay Area, but mounting a challenge has proved daunting. by Kyle C. Barry, The Appeal When Barbara Doss went …
Article • February 20, 2019
Kamala Harris’ Disturbing Brand of Criminal Justice Reform by Marie Gottschalk By Marie Gottschalk, In These Times The sad reality is that Harris is in step with a troubling Washington consensus on criminal justice reform. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released a new autobiography in January, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, …
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