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Protesters Blockade CoreCivic Headquarters in Nashville; 19 Arrests by As dawn broke on August 6, 2018, the light shone on a group of about two dozen protesters who had blockaded the main entrance to the Nashville, Tennessee headquarters of CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), the nation’s largest for-profit prison …
Washington Prisoner Has First Amendment Right to Threaten to File Suit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In June 2012, following a dispute with officials at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP), prisoner John Thomas Entler filed written complaints in which he said he would file lawsuits and seek criminal charges …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Colorado County Settles Lawsuit Over Jail Prisoner’s Death for $3.5 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In November 2017, Summit County, Colorado reached a $3.5 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by the family of a prisoner who died at the county’s jail. Zachary Moffitt, 33, was being treated …
HRDC Files Suit Against FDOC Over Mentally Ill Prisoner’s Starvation Death by On August 1, 2018, PLN’s parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court on behalf of the mother of a Florida state prisoner who died of starvation and inadequate medical …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Ohio City, Medical Center Settle Lawsuit Over Jail Prisoner’s Death for $210,000 by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke In January 2018, the City of Cleveland Heights, Ohio agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a lawsuit over the death of a prisoner two days after she arrived at the city’s jail. …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Death Row
Federal Court Issues Injunction Over Conditions on Virginia’s Death Row by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On February 21, 2018, a federal district court issued an injunction prohibiting the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) from reverting conditions of confinement on death row to those that existed when a lawsuit challenging …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Some Arizona Prison Logs Show Temperatures up to 119 Degrees; Others Falsified by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Since February 2015, a settlement and stipulation in Parsons v. Ryan has required the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) to monitor and log indoor temperatures at state prisons. According to the Phoenix …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
New CNN Film, “American Jail,” Shows How the Poor Get – and Stay – Incarcerated by Steve Horn by Steve Horn On July 1, 2018, the film “American Jail” made its premiere screening before a cable television audience on CNN. Given how seldom criminal justice-related issues – let alone the …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Filed under: Seizures, Failure to Treat
Illinois: $4.75 Million Settlement in Jail Seizure Injury Case by David Reutter by David Reutter Cook County, Illinois has paid $4.75 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging it failed to provide doctor-ordered accommodations for a pretrial detainee who suffered seizures. In October 2014, Michael Joseph Borys was booked into …
Oklahoma Prisoners, Advocacy Group File Short-lived Lawsuit Alleging Corruption by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In August 2017, Oklahoma state prisoners and the non-profit All In One Project filed a federal civil rights suit arguing political contributions made by private prison firms to state officials led to contracts with those …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Filed under: Settlements, Parole
California Supreme Court Modifies Settlement to Revise Parole Process by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna California state prisoner Roy Butler, serving an indeterminate prison term for second-degree murder, sought habeas corpus relief on December 12, 2012, contesting the California Parole Board’s process of calculating the length of his sentence. Butler …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Florida Board Rules Convicted Prison Guard Can’t Collect Retirement Benefits by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin PLN’s regular readers will recall our previous coverage of the arrests and convictions of three Ku Klux Klan members who formerly worked as prison guards at Florida’s Reception and Medical Center, who conspired to …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Filed under: JPay, Inc., Money/Property
JPay Vulnerability Exploited by Idaho Prisoners for $225,000 in Credits by Steve Horn by Steve Horn In the realm of prisons and jails, many companies have positioned themselves to profit from mass incarceration. Few have done so in the area of prisoner communications with as much vigor as JPay, whose …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Lawsuit, Ballot Initiative Seek to Reform Felon Disenfranchisement in Florida by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In 1868, in response to the abolition of slavery following the Civil War (except for prisoners), Florida enshrined in its constitution the permanent disenfranchisement of people convicted of a felony. The deprivation of …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Pennsylvania: Class-action Suit Against USP Lewisburg Reinstated by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Sebastian Richardson, a former prisoner held in the Special Management Unit (SMU) at the federal prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, has won an important legal victory against the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In a July 15, 2016 ruling, …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN! We have been reporting on the federal ADX supermax since it opened in 1994 as the U.S. government’s highest-security prison dedicated to destroying human beings through total isolation. Over the years we have covered the …
Article • September 2, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Rikers Island Beat Down Suit Settles for $165,000, but Victim Won’t See a Penny by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On October 30, 2012, several guards at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City used batons to beat handcuffed prisoner Gabino Genao, 31, into unconsciousness. In the wake …
Article • September 2, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: The Pima County Board of Supervisors passed a historic resolution on December 19, 2017 to prohibit the county from entering into contracts with private prison companies like CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) and GEO Group. “Big for-profit corporations operate on the cheap by cutting …
At the Federal Supermax, When Does Isolation Become Torture? by Alan Prendergast by Alan Prendergast, Westword You see them on TV, usually around the time they are arrested. Men who have declared war on America, combatants in a conflict that never ends. They are captured on the street and at airports, …
Article • September 1, 2018
Ninth Circuit rules on 'pattern of behavior' issue in Corizon Health case by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Corizon Health Inc. acted as a state agency when providing health care to Arizona prisoners, and established a policy of neglect that violated constitutional …
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