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Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Was Indiana Women’s Prison Willfully Ignorant About COVID-19 Numbers? by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke During the summer of 2020, Indiana Women’s Prison in Indianapolis went weeks without reporting a single case of COVID-19. That changed in September, when the number of cases at the over 600-bed prison exploded. Between …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Idaho Supreme Court Holds Prisoners Have No Right to Paid or Unpaid Employment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 5, 2020, the Idaho Supreme Court held that state prisoners have no right to paid or unpaid employment despite a state law stating that the board of correction “shall …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Troubled Ohio Jail Faces Two More Lawsuits by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In late 2020, the Board of Commissioners in Gallia County, Ohio, locked in $12.8 million in tax-exempt bonds to fund construction of a new jail. The move comes after two federal lawsuits were filed the previous summer …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, Fire Hazards
Arizona Pays Prisoners Pennies on the Dollar to Fight Fires, All in the Name of Saving Money by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell When historic wildfires burned through Arizona in June 2020, two out of three of the firefighters who brought the blazes under control were state prisoners who were …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
$4.65 Million Settlement for Florida Female Prisoner Left Quadriplegic After Brutal Beating by Guards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) on August 6, 2020 agreed to pay $4.65 million to prisoner Cheryl Weimar, who was beaten “to within an inch of her life” …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
COVID-19: The Politics of Prisoner Vaccination by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Colorado Governor Jared Polischanged the state’s coronavirus vaccination plan after Republican district attorney George Brauchler railed in a Denver paper op-ed that it was unfair for the state to inoculate someone like Nathan Dunlap, convicted of murdering four …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Mellon Foundation to Provide $5.25 Million in Program to Distribute Books to Prisoners by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced in June 2020 that it would spend more than $5.25 million on a program to distribute large, curated collections of books to prisons and juvenile …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
ICE Refused Help in Containing Coronavirus in New Mexico Detention Centers by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) stated that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency refused help controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in its detention centers, jeopardizing detainees’ lives and stonewalling efforts …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Experts Find “Deplorable” Conditions at Mississippi’s Parchman Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The conditions under which residents exist at Parchman are subhuman and deplorable in a civilized society,” wrote Dr. Marc Stern, a correctional health-care consultant hired by lawyers representing Parchman prisoners, in a report to federal …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Pennsylvania Correctional Emergency Response Teams Face New Scrutiny in “Noose” Controversy by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A Correctional Emergency Response Team, also known as CERT, is under investigation for allegedly placing a noose on the bunk of a Black prisoner, Aaron Tyson, at State Correctional Institution Houtzdale, in Pennsylvania. …
Ninth Circuit Reverses Lower Court’s Dismissal of California Prisoner’s Religious Freedom Lawsuit by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 21, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s religious freedom suit that had been dismissed as time barred. …
New Details Emerge on Senseless Death in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin Jail by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Recent public outrage over the needless killings of Black men at the hands of police has led to greater scrutiny of the many instances in which people of color die either while being …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
$1.1 Million Settlement in Kentucky Jail Sex Abuse Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 7, 2020, Kentucky’s Larue County Detention Center agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit alleging former guard Jerome Perry sexually abused nine prisoners. The women’s lawsuit alleged that between February …
Federal Judge in Georgia Grants Class Action Status to Prisoners’ Suit Against Global Tel*Link by Monday, November 30, 2020, was a big day for a group of Georgia prisoners suing their phone service provider, Global Tel*Link (GTL), over the company’s allegedly hidden policy of confiscating any unused funds in their …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Global Tel*Link Hit with Sanctions For Discovery Violations in Georgia Prison Call Class Action by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Global Tel*Link (GTL) has long been one of the principal beneficiaries of the $1 billion prisoner call industry, through a combination of astute business practices, intense lobbying, and a business …
Private Prison Companies Face Stock Crash, Credit Crunch by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Once darlings of Wall Street, CoreCivic and GEO Group — the nation’s two biggest publicly traded private prison companies — have suffered a precipitous drop in stock prices, following a pressure campaign by foes of mass …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Fourth Circuit: ADA Relief Claims Improperly Dismissed in Virginia by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 20, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a Virginia prisoner’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) claim stemming from the denial of a prison …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Supermax prisons
Former BOP Director Norman Carlson, Who Developed Supermax Model, Dies at 86 by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The fourth director of the federal Bureau of Prisons and the man who developed the super maximum-security prison model, Norman Carlson, died August 9, 2020, in a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. He …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Justice Department Report Documents Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center’s Poor Response to COVID-19 Crisis by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York was investigated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concerning its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
New York Parole System Badly in Need of Repair by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss New York’s parole system is considered one of the nation’s worst, reincarcerating parolees at twice the national average, while parolees are the only segment of the state’s prison population that is still increasing. Reform advocates …
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