Demler v. Inch, Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, FL, class action complaint, confiscation of prisoners' lawfully purchased digital music and books, 2019 Case 4:19-cv-00094-MW-CAS Document 1 Filed 02/19/19 Page 1 of 27 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Tallahassee Division WILLIAM DEMLER, individually, and on behalf …
SPLC Americans for Immigrant Justice: Prison by Any Other Name - A Report on South Florida Detention Facilities, 2019 PRISON BY ANY OTHER NAME A REPORT ON SOUTH FLORIDA DE TENTION FACILITIES ABOUT THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER The Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Alabama, is a nonprofit …
Florida Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria Requires Hormone Therapy, Social Transitioning Treatment by Following a bench trial, on August 22, 2018 a Florida federal district court held that state prison officials were deliberately indifferent to transgender prisoner Reiyn Keohane’s serious medical condition of gender dysphoria. The court said the denial of hormone …
Florida DOC Agrees to Reform Prisoner Mental Health Care by Disability Rights Florida, the state’s Protection and Advocacy organization for people with disabilities, has reached a settlement agreement with the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) that includes widespread changes to mental health treatment for prisoners. The agreement was filed in …
Florida Prisoners Get Tablets, Lose $11.3 Million in Digital Music by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In 2011, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) entered into a contract with Access Corrections that allowed prisoners to purchase MP3 players which could be hooked up to a kiosk for music …
National Center for Youth Law - The Flores Settlement Agreement & Unaccompanied Children in Federal Custody, 2019 Tornillo, photo courtesy of Reuters The Flores Settlement Agreement & Unaccompanied Children in Federal Custody February 2019 U.C. Davis Immigration Law Clinic This briefing document was prepared by the National Center for Youth …
Securus v. FDOC, FL, Complaint, Phone Justice, 2019 Filing # 84039055 E-Filed 01/29/2019 10:15:45 AM IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC., and BRYAN E. CARRELL, Plaintiffs, vs. Case No. __________________ FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS and MARK INCH, in his official capacity as Secretary of the …
Former Guard Who Scalded Florida Prisoner to Death Hired, Fired by Police Department by David Reutter by David Reutter On June 23, 2012, Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) guard Roland Clarke placed Darren Rainey, a prisoner at the Dade Correctional Institution (DCI), into a shower and locked the door. He …
$1 Million Award for Two Women Sexually Assaulted by Florida Jail Guard by A Florida federal jury awarded $1 million to two women who were sexually assaulted by a guard at the Bay County Jail (BCJ). Brandy Carnley and Virginia Lindsey alleged in a May 2017 civil rights complaint that …
Florida Prisoner’s Suit Proceeds Against Guards for Use of Force, Retaliation by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell On March 14, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida ruled that a prisoner’s lawsuit against Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) guards could move forward, denying the FDOC’s motion …
DOJ Launches Investigation into Abuse at Florida Women’s Prison by Prompted by claims of sexual abuse highlighted in a 2015 Miami Herald news report, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation into Florida’s Lowell Correctional Institution (LCI), the largest prison for women in the state and the …
Settlement in HRDC Suit Against Solitary Confinement of Juveniles at Florida Jail by On November 15, 2018, the Human Rights Defense Center, PLN’s parent organization, as well as the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Florida and the law firm of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, announced a settlement …
Reply Brief - Prison Legal News v. Secretary, Florida Dept. of Corrections No. 18-355 In the Supreme Court of the United States ________________ PRISON LEGAL NEWS, v. Petitioner, SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, ________________ Respondent. On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the …
Florida Private Prisons Seek $4 Million for Employee Raises by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a show of continued support for privately-operated prisons, the Florida legislature considered giving the state’s for-profit prison contractors a $4 million raise. The GEO Group, MTC and CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America, …
Florida: Suit Continues Against CoreCivic for Rape of Developmentally Disabled Child by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin In November 2017, a U.S. District Court judge set a February 2019 trial date in a civil suit to resolve allegations that CoreCivic – formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America – failed …
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. …
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 …
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 …
H.C. v. Bradshaw, Order Granting Class Certification, Preliminary Settlement Approval, 2018 Case 9:18-cv-80810-WM Document 79 Entered on FLSD Docket 11/16/2018 Page 1 of 4 U N ITED ST ATE S D ISTRIC T C O U RT SO UTH ERN D ISTR ICT O F FLO R IDA CivilN o.l8-cv-8o8lo-M …
H.C. v. Bradshaw, Florida Juvenile Solitary Confinement Settlement, 2018 Case 9:18-cv-80810-WM Document 78-1 Entered on FLSD Docket 11/15/2018 Page 1 of 43 H.C. at al v. PBSO et al., Civil Action No.: 9:18-cv-80810 Settlement Agreement UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Civil No. 18-cv-80810 – Dimitrouleas/Matthewman H.C., a …
