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Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: News
Land Swap Seeks to Reinstate Construction of New Jail in Detroit by A three-party land swap has apparently cleared a logjam that has left the Wayne County jail in Detroit unfinished since 2013. The county commission voted in June 2018 to ratify a deal made by County Executive Warren Evans …
Correct Care Solutions Redux: Poor Medical Care Leads to More Deaths, Lawsuits by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Correct Care Solutions (CCS) is one of the nation’s largest for-profit healthcare providers for prisoners, with annual revenue exceeding $1 billion. The Nashville, Tennessee-based firm supplies medical and mental health services to …
BJS Report Finds Prisoner Sexual Abuse Allegations Continue to Rise by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss A July 2018 report by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) found the number of alleged incidents of sexual victimization among state and federal prisoners increased 180 percent from 2011 to 2015. …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Dismissal of Pro Se Prisoner’s Sexual Assault, Excessive Force Case Reversed by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania state prisoner Gregory L. Ricks against Paul Keil and D. Shover, guards at SCI Graterford, after his case was dismissed by …
Prison Systems Solve Bed Space Problems by Using Out-of-State Facilities by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Several state prison systems are facing a dilemma: too many prisoners and not enough beds. An increasingly popular solution to this problem is to transfer prisoners to facilities in other states, sometimes thousands of …
Long-Term Segregation Can Establish Imminent Danger of Serious Physical Injury for PLRA Purposes by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a mentally ill prisoner who spent 11 years in solitary confinement and had a history of attempted self-harm could plausibly allege that …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Wealthy? Upgrade to a First Class Criminal Justice Experience! by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis They say money can’t buy happiness, and more money just leads to more problems. But when it comes to the criminal justice system, wealth can get an accused murderer out on bail, a celebrity a …
Mentally Ill Wisconsin Prisoners Held in Solitary Improperly Reclassified by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has employed a unique method to reduce the number of seriously mentally ill prisoners being housed in solitary confinement: Their mental health classification competency levels were administratively changed without an …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Telephone Rates
New York City Council Passes Ordinance to Make All Jail Phone Calls Free by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On July 18, 2018 the New York City Council passed Introduction No. 741-A, which ended the practice of telecom companies profiting from providing phone services for prisoners at inflated rates. Instead, …
Federal Judge Orders Washington Prison Officials to Properly Feed Ramadan Participants by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In what could be the fastest injunction ever granted in a prison-related case, U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Leighton issued a temporary retraining order in favor of Muslim prisoners mere hours after they …
Under “In-House Parole,” New Mexico Prisoners Remain in Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Parole is generally defined as conditional release from prison before a sentence has expired. But in New Mexico, every month dozens of “release-eligible” offenders join a pool of paroled state prisoners who nevertheless remain incarcerated. …
Former Prisoner, Jailhouse Lawyer Mujahid Farid Has Died by Laura Whitehorn by Laura Whitehorn This issue of Prison Legal News is dedicated to Mujahid Farid. Farid, 69, who died of cancer on November 20, 2018 in the Bronx, New York, often said he was only one of many people who …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Military-Style Attack on Brazilian Prison Kills 20 Prisoners, One Guard by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On April 10, 2018, a group of gunmen attacked the Santa Izabel Prison Complex near the northern Brazilian city of Belem. The state security service said 21 people were killed in the military-style assault …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Report on Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania Released; Moratorium Continues by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In June 2018, a death penalty task force commissioned by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly in 2012 finally released its report. Finding that neither judicial economy nor fairness is served – because 97 percent of all …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Suicides
Suicides Increasing in Massachusetts Prisons and Jails by In April 2017, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez hanged himself in his cell at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts. His death focused the attention of state authorities, and the public, on the problem of prisoner suicides. Bristol …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Ohio Prison Officials Announce Measures to Prevent Another Transport Bus Murder by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 8, 2018, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) announced new measures to prevent another murder from occurring on its transport buses. Those measures included replacing a “significant number” of …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Louisiana’s Rejection of $3.5 Million Prison Tracking Software to be Reconsidered by R. Bailey by R. Bailey An audit recommended replacing outdated data management software used by Louisiana’s prison system with a previously-rejected upgrade, if the new system could be salvaged. The upgrade would help implement the Justice Reinvestment Act …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
$17 Million Payout for Yet Another Wrongful Conviction in Chicago by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On June 29, 2018, a federal jury awarded over $17 million to a Chicago man who spent 21 years in a maximum-security prison for a murder he did not commit. Jacques Rivera, now 52, …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Alabama Prisoner in Failed Execution Attempt will Not Face Another by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In March 2018, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) agreed not to set another execution date for death row prisoner Doyle Lee Hamm. The settlement resolved a lawsuit that followed a failed attempt …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Multiple Charges, Lawsuits Filed Against Lackawanna Prison Staff for Sexual Abuse by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Employees at the Lackawanna County Prison (LCP) in Scranton, Pennsylvania have been under a year-long investigation into the sexual abuse of women prisoners at the facility. The culture of abuse, said to have …
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