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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 …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Tenth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Gang Member’s Failure-to-Protect Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 19, 2017, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a federal civil rights suit brought by a prisoner who alleged Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) officials ignored his warnings that …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Indiana Prisoner Obtains $85,000 Settlement After Being Beaten and Tased by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Brandon Garwood was incarcerated at a jail in Cass County, Indiana in October 2015. He was being held on a charge of endangering another person while driving drunk. On October 2, 2015, video cameras …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Violent Incidents Follow Settlement to End Dangerous Conditions at Alabama Prison by Within a year after a settlement was reached between the non-profit Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) to address violence at the St. Clair Correctional Facility in Springville, three prisoners were killed and …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Ex-Washington Prison Superintendent Under Investigation for Misuse of Funds by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Douglas Cole, the former superintendent of the Cedar Creek Corrections Center in Thurston County, was quietly moved to another Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) position after a whistleblower exposed his alleged misuse of prison money. …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Angola Closes its Notorious Camp J, “A Microcosm of a Lot of Things That are Wrong” by Grace Toohey by Grace Toohey, The Advocate After more than 40 years as one of the most restrictive housing units within Louisiana’s Angola prison, corrections officials have closed Camp J – which at its …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
New Jersey Federal Court Certifies Class-Action Suit Against Global*Tel Link by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has certified a class-action lawsuit against Global Tel*Link (GTL), one of the nation’s largest prison telecom companies. According to the court, the plaintiffs – …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Lawsuit by Washington AG Against GEO Group for Wage Violations Proceeds, Granted Class-Action Status by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In December 2017, a federal judge denied a motion by GEO Group, the private operator of the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, to dismiss a lawsuit filed by …
Defy Ventures Founder Steps Down Amid Accusations of Misconduct by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Catherine Hoke used to work on Wall Street, employed by a private equity firm. She left the world of high finance to start the Prison Entrepreneurship Program for Texas prisoners in 2004. But after five …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Former Jailhouse Lawyer Bobby Battle Dies at Age 80 by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Former prisoner Bobby Battle, an Oklahoma City native with a sixth-grade education who filed a lawsuit that ultimately led to historic reforms and the desegregation of Oklahoma prisons, died on December 25, 2017 at the …
Florida District Court Allows Suit Against Prisoner Transport Companies to Proceed by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell On July 30, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings filed by Prisoner Transportation Services, LLC (PTS) and its subsidiary, U.S. …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright You are reading the last issue of Prison Legal News for 2018. This month’s cover story reports on the widespread practice of prison and jail officials censoring books, magazines and correspondence sent to prisoners. Increasingly, that includes restrictions or bans on …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Florida Detainee Died from Deliberate Indifference to Septic Shock, Lawsuit Charges by Nurses at the Orange County jail in Orlando, Florida accused a pretrial detainee of “faking” the painful symptoms that led him to plead for medical care. In reality he had sepsis – blood poisoning caused by an untreated …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship
PLN Files Cert Petition with Supreme Court Over Florida DOC Censorship by Steve Horn by Steve Horn On September 14, 2018, Prison Legal News submitted a petition for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving censorship by the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), which has banned …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: On March 16, 2018, the Arizona Department of Corrections issued a report that concluded private prison operator CoreCivic (formerly CCA) had properly responded to a February 25, 2018 riot at the Red Rock Correctional Center. The two-hour “major disturbance,” which left 13 prisoners and two …
Censorship in Prisons and Jails: A War on the Written Word by Christopher Zoukis “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” — Ray Bradbury by Christopher Zoukis In its landmark ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) – …
Seventh Circuit Reversal: Guards Immune from Prosecution in Wrongful Death Claim by Kevin Bliss Daniel Martin was booked into the Clay County, Indiana, jail on December 13, 2013, for drunk diving. His intake was performed by officers Landon Herbert and Zachary Overton. The two logged a 0.16 percent blood-alcohol content …
Article • November 18, 2018
Investigation of Central New York Central Psychiatric Center Turns Up Drugs by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna  The Central New York Psychiatric Center, located near Syracuse, New York, which houses sex offenders, already roiled by claims of employee misconduct and mismanagement, was hit with new charges of illegal drugs, unreported …
Article • November 7, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Louisiana Sex Offender Restrictions, Harsh Laws Prolong Prison Sentences by “There is nothing else I have left to complete,” said Antoine Hartley. The Louisiana prisoner became eligible for release in 2013. But his inability to find post-release housing approved for sex offenders will likely force him to complete his entire …
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