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Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Exposure to Cold
Frozen in Place: How Winter Storms Push Texas Jails and Prisons to the Brink by Tyler Hicks by Tyler Hicks When Jerome Van Zandt was booked into Harris County Jail in November 2020, he was optimistic. “There’s no way I’ll be here more than three months,” he told himself. A …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Federal Judge in Louisiana Issues Sweeping Opinion Finding Numerous Eighth Amendment, ADA and RA Violations at Angola by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Louisiana State Prison (LSP) in Angola, Louisiana, was found “deliberately indifferent” to the Eighth Amendment rights of its nearly 6,400 prisoners to receive competent medical care, according …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Food
Massachusetts Appellate Court Reinstates Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Food Substitution by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 20, 2021, the Appeals Court of Massachusetts reversed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a prisoner challenging frequent food substitutions at Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Norfolk, as well as …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
After Two Detainee Deaths, CoreCivic Hit With $2,500 Daily Fine for Chronically Short-Staffed Florida Jail by On February 15, 2022, an on-going staffing crisis at Florida’s Citrus County Detention Facility (CCDF) prompted county officials to start fining its privately contracted operator, Tennessee-based CoreCivic, $2,500 a day for running the prison …
Deaths and Violence Mount at Overcrowded Alabama Prisons While Parole Rate Hits New Low by Kevin Bliss, Jo Ellen Nott by Kevin Bliss and Jo Ellen Nott On February 5, 2022, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a nine-year sentence had been handed down to the last of four …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Alabama Plan to Relieve Prison Overcrowding: Tap COVID-19 Funds to Build “Mega-Prisons” by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) signed legislation in October 2021 to take $400 million of the state’s pandemic relief funds from the American Rescue Plan to build a trio …
Fourth Circuit Refuses to Reinstate Suit by NC Jail Detainee Alleging Denial of Access to Grievance System and Timely Medical Care Prisoner Didn’t Ask the Court to Extend Kingsley Protections by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders The U.S. Supreme Court lowered the bar for a pre-trial detainee to sustain a …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$1.5 Million Awarded for Failure to Protect Rikers Jail Prisoner Who Was Attacked Repeatedly by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On June 2, 2021, a federal jury in New York City ruled in favor of a prisoner at the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex, deciding the city and …
Brief • March 31, 2022
Ortiz v. Maricopa County, AZ, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2022 MUTUAL RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This Mutual Release and Settlement Agreement ("Agreement") is made and entered into this ..1lfil_ day of March, 2022, by and between Selene Ortiz, as guardian of Brian Ortiz, an incompetent person, and Selene Ortiz, individually …
Brief • March 29, 2022
Meagher v. King County, WA, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 2:19-cv-00259-JLR Document 119 Filed 03/29/22 Page 1 of 5 1 Honorable James L. Robart 2 3 4 5 6 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 8 9 10 11 12 …
Article • March 28, 2022
Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Failure to Protect Claim Premised on Nearly Deaf Guard Not Responding to Prisoner’s Cries for Help by Sam Rutherford By Sam Rutherford On February 5, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the summary judgment dismissal of a pretrial detainee’s federal …
Brief • March 22, 2022
Exe v. Bowser, OR, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 6:22-cv-00451-YY Document 1 Filed 03/22/22 Page 1 of 5 John Burgess, OSB No. 106498 johnburgess@lawofficeofdanielsnyder.com Carl Post, OSB No. 061058 carlpost@lawofficeofdanielsnyder.com LAW OFFICES OF DANIEL SNYDER 1000 S.W. Broadway, Suite 2400 Portland, Oregon 97205 Telephone: (503) 241-3617 Facsimile: (503) 241-2249 …
Brief • March 21, 2022
Lake v. CoreCivic, Inc.,MT, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 4:21-cv-00116-BMM Document 17 Filed 03/21/22 Page 1 of 13 Melinda A. Driscoll FRED LAW FIRM, PLLC 214 N. 24th Street P.O. Box 2157 Billings, MT 59103-2157 (406) 294-8396 (T) (406) 294-8398 (F) mdriscoll@fredlawfirm.com Attorney for Plaintiff IN THE UNITED STATES …
Lake v. CoreCivic, MT, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 4:21-cv-00116-BMM Document 17 Filed 03/21/22 Page 1 of 13 Melinda A. Driscoll FRED LAW FIRM, PLLC 214 N. 24th Street P.O. Box 2157 Billings, MT 59103-2157 (406) 294-8396 (T) (406) 294-8398 (F) mdriscoll@fredlawfirm.com Attorney for Plaintiff IN THE UNITED STATES …
Teen Who Murdered Out of Jealousy Killed in Exercise Yard of Northern California Prison by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott Nineteen-year-old Michael Hastey, sentenced in June 2021 to life with possibility of parole for murdering a romantic rival two years before in Trinity County, was killed by two …
Article • March 1, 2022
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Rhode Island Joins the Movement to End Prison Gerrymandering by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In February 2022, Rhode Island joined twelve other states that have addressed “prison gerrymandering,” the practice which counts people in prison as residents of the cell in which they are detained instead of …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
“The Worst Prison in New York State” by Victoria Law The situation at Rikers is bad, but at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security facility more than 200 miles north of New York City, it’s worse. by Victoria Law Conditions in New York City jails have reached a boiling point, …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Federal Judge Finds Alabama DOC Mental Health Care Horrendous, Orders: Start Hiring by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 27, 2021, four years after calling Alabama’s treatment of mentally ill prisoners “horrendously inadequate”—due largely to chronic understaffing—a federal judge issued a new mandate to the state Department …
“Abject Cruelty”: California Jail Guards Sentenced for Coordinating Prisoner Excrement Fights by Two Sheriff’s deputies in Alameda County, California, were sentenced to prison on August 18, 2021, after pleading guilty to charges that they orchestrated a disgusting fight at the county jail, directing detainees to throw urine and fecal matter …
Brief • February 7, 2022
Smith v. Domitrovich, AZ, Settlement Agreement, Failure to Protect, 2022 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 9 10 11 Estate of Clinton Dewayne Smith; and Sabrina Smith, as personal representative of the Estate and in her personal capacity, 12 13 14 …
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