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Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Death Sentences and Executions Ebbing in the “Capital of Capital Punishment” by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Harris County, Texas is known for many things. The county seat is Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest in Texas. It has its own shipping channel and a …
Denver Pays $100,000 to Settle DOJ Suit Over Failure to Accommodate Diabetic Deputy by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 15, 2018, the City and County of Denver, Colorado agreed to pay $100,000 to an unidentified deputy sheriff who was fired from his position at the Denver County jail …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Washington: Jail Detainee Obtains $1 Million Settlement for Spinal Injury by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Bryan Telford, who was held as a pretrial detainee at the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle, Washington in September 2016, recently obtained a $1 million settlement in a lawsuit filed against the county. …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Public Outcry Forces Florida DOC to Back Down on Limits to In-Person Visitation by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Following an onslaught of pressure from the public and action by the Florida legislature’s Joint Administrative Procedures Committee (JAPC), the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) was forced to withdraw a …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Filed under: Prisoner Media
Podcast Produced by Wisconsin Prisoner Tackles Criminal Justice Topics by Steve Horn by Steve Horn A Wisconsin state prisoner is leading the way in getting a new podcast out to the public that covers issues faced by people behind bars. Podcasts are radio-style audio series that can be downloaded and …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Justice Sotomayor Slams Solitary Confinement, but Supreme Court Declines to Accept Colorado Solitary Case by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The U.S. Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions for writ of certiorari from federal appellate rulings each term and denies the vast majority of those applications, generally with a one-sentence …
Arkansas: $21,000 Settlement in Jail Release Debit Card Class-Action Suit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A federal class-action complaint filed against the Benton County, Arkansas Sheriff’s Office and Keefe Commissary company, over the practice of issuing fee-laden debit cards to prisoners containing their release funds, has settled for just …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For the past 28 years, Prison Legal News has reported on prison and jail medical care that ranges from abysmal to the barbaric. With the possible exception of California, whose prison system’s health care is under federal receivership, medical and mental …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Antwone Wilson broke out of the St. Clair County Correctional Facility on December 4, 2017 along with fellow prisoner Ronald Odell King. The pair separated, and King was quickly captured. While on the lam, Wilson contacted a TV station in his hometown to clarify why …
On the Inside: The Chaos of Arizona Prison Health Care by Jimmy Jenkins by Jimmy Jenkins, KJZZ.org The Arizona Department of Corrections contracts with privately owned correctional health care company Corizon Health to oversee all medical, mental and dental care at 10 state prisons. However, that care has come under scrutiny …
Article • October 26, 2018
Filed under: Voting Rights Act
Voting rights: Tennessee Man Convicted of Murder No Longer Infamous by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Tennessee places a great deal of reverence on voting rights. The state’s citizens do not automatically lose their voting rights upon conviction of a felony unless that crime is among those on a list …
Article • October 14, 2018
Vermont Cancels Contract with Pennsylvania to House State Prisoners by Matthew Clarke In February 2018, the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDC) gave six months’ notice to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) that it was canceling a contract under which around 260 Vermont prisoners were incarcerated in the DOC. The …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Washington State: Jail Phone Rates Increase as Video Replaces In-Person Visits by Steve Horn, Iris Wagner by Steve Horn and Iris Wagner A comprehensive set of public records obtained by Prison Legal News from the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and most of the state’s county jails indicates that the …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Crime
Florida: Federal Prison Guard Sentenced for Accepting Bribe by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Former FCC Coleman guard Albert Larry Harris, Jr., 27, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on February 15, 2018 after Senior U.S. District Court Judge James D. Whittemore accepted his guilty plea for taking a …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Class-action Settlement in Mississippi “Debtors’ Prison” Case by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In April 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced a settlement in a federal class-action suit filed against the city of Corinth, Mississippi that accused the municipality and its chief Municipal Court judge, John C. Ross, …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Colorado Accused of Failing to Comply with Settlement in Mental Health Care Suit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On June 13, 2018, attorneys representing mentally ill defendants held in Colorado jails moved to reopen a 2012 class-action settlement in which the state agreed to cease “warehousing” mentally ill prisoners …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
California Attorney Specializes in Representing Prisoners Victimized by Fraud by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Peter Borenstein graduated from law school in 2014 with a burning passion for criminal justice reform ignited by his 20-year pen-pal relationship with a federal prisoner who had been a client of his father’s. He …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Angola Prison Lawsuit Poses Question: What Kind of Medical Care do Prisoners Deserve? by Amanda Aronczyk, Katie Rose Quandt by Amanda Aronczyk & Katie Rose Quandt, WNYC Radio In 2005, Francis Brauner was a quarter of the way through a 20-year prison sentence at the Dixon Correctional Institute in Louisiana, when …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Pro se Texas Prisoner Wins $250,550 Default Judgment in Use of Force Case by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon William Gerald Fitzgerald was a pre-trial detainee at a jail in Harris County, Texas when, on May 18, 2013, he was attacked from behind by jailer Myron Nelson. Nelson struck Fitzgerald …
Humanism to be Recognized as Approved Faith in North Carolina Prisons by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss On March 28, 2018, a federal district court entered a summary judgment order that held Humanism was in fact a faith group that must be recognized by the North Carolina Department of Public …
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