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Article • December 14, 2018
Filed under: Correct Care Solutions, DUI
Head of Nashville’s Correct Care Solutions arrested for DUI by Rick Anderson by Rick Anderson Jerry Boyle, CEO of Correct Care Solutions, was arrested for driving under the influence on June 16, 2015, after police found him in the parking lot of the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce in Murfreesboro, …
Article • December 13, 2018
$375,000-plus Settlement in Wrongful Death Suit Against Jail by R. Bailey by R. Bailey  A family’s wrongful death lawsuit filed against a Nisqually tribal jail operated by a sovereign Indian tribe was settled for $375,000, plus an undisclosed amount paid by the tribe. Andrew Wrestling, 19, was arrested by police …
Article • December 13, 2018
Va. court finds prison employees met reasonable suspicion burden in visitor strip search by R. Bailey by R. Bailey A Virginia federal district court granted the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging constitutional violations occurred when a visitor was strip searched. Angela Calloway sued VDOC …
Article • December 13, 2018
Return from darkness, a road without a path. Lessons on humane and effective punishment from the Nordic Countries by Pablo Sartorio by Pablo Sartorio*  “As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked up and …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
$550,000 Settlement for Detainee Rendered Quadriplegic by Guard’s Excessive Force by The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee agreed to pay $550,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a guard at the Davidson County Male Correctional Development Center (CDC) used excessive force on a pretrial detainee, leaving him a …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Missouri Sheriff Who Vowed to Clean Up Crime Faces Criminal Charges, Lawsuits by R. Bailey by R. Bailey In March 2018, a federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment against Mississippi County, Missouri Sheriff Cory Hutcheson. Hutcheson, 34, already faced robbery charges as well as a wrongful death suit filed …
Florida Private Prisons Seek $4 Million for Employee Raises by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a show of continued support for privately-operated prisons, the Florida legislature considered giving the state’s for-profit prison contractors a $4 million raise. The GEO Group, MTC and CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America, …
New York Federal District Court Allows Prisoner’s § 1983 Action to Proceed by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A New York state prisoner’s civil rights case proceeded to trial in federal district court after the judge denied the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s motion for summary …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Appointment of Counsel
Pro Se Prisoner Demonstrated Need for Recruitment of Counsel by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court abused its discretion when it denied a Wisconsin prisoner’s repeated motions to recruit counsel. Before the appellate court was a case involving prisoner Randy McCaa, whose 2016 civil rights …
Report: Homelessness and Housing Insecurity are Hurdles for Former Prisoners by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna More than a half-million Americans are homeless on any given day, and for the five million ex-prisoners in the U.S., the rate of homelessness is almost 10 times higher than among the general population. …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Garnishment Action in Federal Court to Collect Jury Award was Improper by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that garnishment actions are “suits” for Eleventh Amendment purposes. That holding compelled the appellate court to find a prisoner could not pursue a garnishment motion in federal court to redirect funds …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Federal Prisons Use Nurses and Cooks as Guards While Officials Push to Fill Private Prisons by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) houses over 181,400 prisoners in more than 120 facilities nationwide. As a rule, federal prisons are overcrowded and understaffed. With the Trump administration …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Michigan Prisoner Awarded $16,500 for Guard’s Assault and Cover-up by A Michigan federal jury found a guard at the Gus Harrison Correctional Facility (GHCF) had assaulted a prisoner and tried to cover it up, and awarded $16,500 in damages. Ali Muthana was being served a meal in his confinement cell …
Florida: Suit Continues Against CoreCivic for Rape of Developmentally Disabled Child by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin In November 2017, a U.S. District Court judge set a February 2019 trial date in a civil suit to resolve allegations that CoreCivic – formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America – failed …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Crime, Statistics/Trends
Brookings Institute Study Finds Direct Connection between Poverty and Crime Rates by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Brookings Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based research group, has published a study that demonstrates, through empirical data, what many have long suspected: That extreme poverty leads to increased crime rates. The same study, …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Family of Wrongfully Convicted Missouri Prisoner Receives $14 Million by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The family of former Missouri prisoner George Allen received a $14 million settlement in a wrongful conviction suit filed against the state, the City of St. Louis and others responsible for his illegal imprisonment. Mary …
Ninth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Favor of Jail Where Three Detainees Died by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In an unpublished June 7, 2018 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit partially reversed a district court’s ruling that Cowlitz County, Washington was entitled to summary judgment …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Sentenced to Prison Slavery by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Most Americans were taught that slavery was banned in 1865 with the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But prisoner rights advocates note that the amendment’s exception clause actually allowed slavery to persist – in prisons. …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Dental Care
Experts Call for Improvements in Prisoner Dental Care by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Over four decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97 (1976) that the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment guarantees prisoners the right to be free from “deliberate …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Amid Scandal, Missouri Governor Issues Commutations and Pardons, Passes New Laws Before Resigning by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell As his resignation was about to take effect late on June 1, 2018, scandal-plagued Missouri Governor Eric Greitens pardoned five convicted felons, commuted the sentences of four others and signed 77 …
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