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Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Preliminary Injunction Bars Arkansas from Confiscating Prisoners’ COVID Stimulus Money by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Arkansas federal district court issued a preliminary injunction that bars the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) from carrying out a state law that confiscates prisoners’ stimulus money and distributes it to the …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Benevolent or Predatory? by Casey Bastian Lake Ozark Politician Gives Women Prisoners Help, Gets Sex by Casey J. Bastian In 2015, Gerry Murawski was an elected city alderman for Lake Ozark, Missouri. Murawski was also engaging in questionable relationships with several young women. During the period of 2015-2016, Murawski would …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Editorials
Language Matters: Why We Use the Words We Do by Paul Wright by Paul Wright   Recent years have seen efforts by a lot of well-meaning people referring to prisoners as “people in prison” or “incarcerated people,” former prisoners as “returning citizens,” “formerly incarcerated people” and more. Pretty much since …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, Escapes
Oregon Suspends Outside Prisoner Work Crews After Prisoner Escape Sparks International Incident by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On September 22, 2021 Oregon prison officials suspended outside prisoner work crews “in order to review any potential changes following a walk away earlier this year” according to an internal memo sent …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Pepper Spray/Tear Gas
$5,000 Award for Pro Se Florida DOC Prisoner in Unjustified Pepper Spraying by A Florida federal district court awarded $5,000 to a prisoner on September 16, 2020, for a guard’s use of excessive force. While at Everglades Correctional Institution, Florida prisoner Mazzard B. McMillian and other prisoners were found in …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Arizona Federal Court Dismisses NAACP’s Challenge to Private Prisons as Violating Thirteenth Amendment by Commodifying Prisoners for Profit by An Arizona federal court dismissed a civil rights complaint brought in June 2020 by the Arizona State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) under the …
CoreCivic Prison at Center of Georgia Drug Trafficking Investigation by Jessica “The Madam” Burnett is set to plead guilty to a series of charges which included conspiracy to distribute methamphetamines and marijuana as part of a major drug trafficking investigation covering several southern Georgia counties and correctional facilities. Burnett was …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Fifth Circuit Holds Confessed Medical Malpractice Does Not Insulate Prison Medical Providers From Finding of Deliberate Indifference by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 11, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a confession of medical malpractice by prison health care providers does …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Prison Officials Actions to Correct Inhumane Cell Conditions Merit Judgement in Their Favor by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an Illinois district court’s summary judgment dismissal of a prisoner’s claim that he was subjected to inhumane conditions and denial of medical care. The Court’s ruling found that the …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Broward County Florida Sheriff Rejects Independent Reviews of Detainee’s Death by Florida’s Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) has refused overtures to allow an independent investigation into the death of a pretrial detainee. Kevin Desir, 43, lost consciousness during a January 17, 2021, confrontation with guards at the Broward County Jail …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Religious Grooming
Forced Shaving of Muslim Colorado Prisoner’s Beard Unconstitutional by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a Colorado prisoner’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging a guard violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by forcing him to shave off his …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Fifth Circuit Holds Defendants Entitled to Sovereign Immunity For Denial of Sex-Reassignment Surgery to Texas Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 30, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated orders denying sovereign immunity to some defendants in a lawsuit brought by a …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Lawsuit Over Denial of Medical Treatment for Painful Erection Causing Impotence in Oklahoma County Jail Reinstated by Tenth Circuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 19, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that a county sheriff and three jail guards were not …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Wrongfully Convicted Man Freed for Murder of Oregon DOC Director, But State Wants Him Back In Prison by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson "The State can no longer afford to manufacture a case built on lies and half-truths,” wrote Patrick and Kevin Francke in their letter to a federal judge …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright After editing PLN for over 31 years now, it seems like all 370-plus issues of the magazine kind of blend together in my mind like one big, long magazine. A lot of stories don’t have a beginning, middle or an end …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Indiana DOC Settles HRDC Mail Censorship Suit by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On September 21, 2021, the Indiana Department of Corrections (INDOC) agreed to a slate of policy reforms embodied in a consent decree to settle a censorship lawsuit filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), publisher of …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
HRDC Represents Wrongfully Convicted Florida Man Who Spent 37 Years in Prison for a Rape Murder He Did Not Commit by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A Florida man who spent 37 years in prison on a wrongful rape murder conviction filed a federal lawsuit on October 4, 2021, against …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19
Fifth Circuit Overturns Permanent Injunction Requiring Texas Prison to Observe COVID-19 Precautions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 26, 2021, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals overturned a permanent injunction that required a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison to observe certain precautions against the spread of …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$750,000 Settlement in South Carolina Pretrial Detainee’s Suicide by Southern Health Partners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 17, 2021, Southern Health Partners paid $750,000 to resolve a lawsuit alleging it failed to take proper steps in caring for a pretrial detainee who entered South Carolina’s Marlboro …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Arizona Auditor’s Report Finds Underfunding of DOC’s Capital Funding Requests and Unreconciled Prisoner Trust Fund Accounts by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In October 2020, the Arizona Auditor General’s Office published a report on a performance audit of the Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DOC). The audit reviewed the …
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