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Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Censorship
Third Circuit Revives Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Censorship of Incoming Mail Containing Key Evidence by Matthew Clarke, Dale Chappell by Matt Clarke and Dale Chappell On August 9, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the dismissal of a prisoner’s lawsuit alleging his due-process and access-to-courts …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On November 17, 2021, a former Alabama state prison guard was sentenced in federal court in Birmingham to 87 months in prison. As reported by the Birmingham News, a search found the guard, Gary Charles Dixon, Jr., 36, with 497 grams of methamphetamine when he …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Seventh Circuit Holds Dismissal of Lawsuit Removed to Federal Court Cannot Count as PLRA “Strike” by On December 22, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that when a lawsuit is removed to federal court from state court and then dismissed for failure to state a …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
She Tried to Report Sexual Harassment in Jail. After Her Suicide, the Guard Was Convicted of Assaulting Four Other Women by C.J. Ciaramella by C.J. Ciaramella, Reason.com The family of a 23-year-old woman who committed suicide in a rural Washington jail in December 2019 says she tried to report sexual …
Washington Federal Court Grants Preliminary Injunction Halting Release of Transgender Prisoners’ Personal Information; Class Certified by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins On April 8, 2021, the Federal court for the Eastern District of Washington issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) to preserve the status quo and halt the release by …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19, Pardons/Clemency
Covid-19 Pandemic Bumps Still Anemic Clemency Numbers by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, health and penology experts have urged state and federal governments to depopulate their prison systems. State governors remain under increasing pressure to use their executive clemency powers to achieve this …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Corizon, Failure to Treat
USDA Gives $1,000,000 Grant to Corizon to Treat More Sick Prisoners Remotely by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Tennessee-based Corizon Health, one of the nation’s largest private for profit health care providers to prisons, with annual revenues of at least $800 million, announced on November 3, 2021, that it had …
Former AZ Assistant AG Disciplined for Misconduct in Muslim Prisoner’s Lawsuit by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney  In August 2021, the Arizona State Bar disciplined a former state Assistant Attorney General, Michael John Hrnicek, for his misconduct while opposing a prisoner’s lawsuit against several employees of the state Department of …
$650,000 Jury Verdict Upheld in NY Prisoner’s Excessive-Force Claim; Motion for Fees Denied Due to Contingency Agreement by David Reutter by David M Reutter On October 20, 2020, a federal judge in New York refused to overturn a $650,000 award made by a jury earlier that year to a state …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for the new year, as we enter 2022 and our 32nd year of publication. Last year we published an article in the June edition on the worst sheriffs in America, but like many things, …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
$150,000 Paid to Family of California Pretrial Detainee Who Died from Valley Fever by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A California federal court approved a $150,000 settlement on October 13, 2021, for the estate of a prisoner who died of valley fever at the Merced County Jail. The prisoner, …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
St. Louis Jail Guard Charged with Allowing Brutal Beating of Prisoner by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A former guard at the St. Louis Justice Center (SLJC) was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 28, 2021, on charges that she allowed two prisoners to beat a third in …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Should Sentencing Juries Consider Imprisonment Costs? by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Professor Michael Conklin recently released a law review article arguing the merits of allowing juries to consider imprisonment costs when they are deliberating sentences lengths, with the objective of lessoning mass incarceration. Conklin’s report is founded on and …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
California Federal Prison Warden Charged with Sexually Abusing Prisoner by The Federal Correctional Institution at Dublin, California, about 20 miles southwest of Oakland, has had its share of publicity since it opened in 1974. Publishing heir-turned-bankrobbing-militant Patty Hearst did time there, as did “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss, as well as …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Montana Renews CoreCivic Contract; Major Water and Sewage Problems Persist by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The private prison industry has been under fire recently across the country—from lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to federal policies mandating a slow and unsteady move away from for-profit prisons …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Rural Prisons
California Town Fighting to Keep Prison Open by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders In the 1950s, the timber mills in Susanville, California, began to shutter. For this isolated town of about 8,000 residents, the economic impact of losing its only industry was devastating. But in 1963 the California Department of …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Prosecutors Move to Close Case Against BOP Guards in Jeffrey Epstein Suicide by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Of the many mysteries surrounding Jeffery Epstein, including exactly where the billionaire got his fabulous wealth before committing suicide in a Manhattan cell in August 2020—while awaiting trial on charges of sex-trafficking …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
HRDC Advances in Suit Against Centurion to Obtain New Mexico Prisoner Medical Litigation Records by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 11, 2021, New Mexico’s First Judicial District Court, County of Santa Fe, denied a motion to dismiss a suit filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
$281,000 Awarded to Colorado Prisoner Retaliated Against for Grievances by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 14, 2020, a federal judge in Colorado refused to set aside a judgment for a state prisoner who won $180,002 the year before when a jury agreed that guards retaliated against him …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Indiana Supreme Court Denies Relief to Prisoner Whose Commissary Account Was Garnished by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On May 19, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Indiana refused to dismiss a lower court’s ruling against a state prisoner whose prison account was garnished by the state Department of …
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