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Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Rhode Island Prison Chief Wrist-Slapped for Ethics Violation by On August 23, 2024, the Rhode Island Ethics Commission approved an informal resolution and settlement of ethics violation claims against Wayne Salisbury, Director of the state Department of Corrections (DOC). He was fined a mere $200 for failing “to properly disclose …
Nebraska Supreme Court Spanks Attorney General, Orders Felons Be Allowed to Vote by Voting rights for Nebraskans with felony convictions were up in the air until October 16, 2024. That’s when the state Supreme Court ruled against Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R), who had declared a new re-enfranchisement law unconstitutional …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Warden, Top Deputy Walked Off the Job at “Wild West” Missouri Prison by Warden Michele Buckner’s 25-year career with the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) came to an abrupt end on January 7, 2025, when she was reportedly walked off the job at South Central Correctional Center (SCCC) in Licking. …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
New Mexico Settles Suit Alleging Failure To Implement Expanded Voting For Felons by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On September 26, 2024, voting rights group Millions for Prisoners (M4P) sued New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D), alleging that state policies, practices, and procedures substantially denied access …
Biden Clemencies Include Imprisoned Native American Activist, “Kids for Cash” Judge by Before leaving office on January 20, 2025, outgoing Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) issued a raft of clemency orders—including a sentence commutation for a Native American activist who was considered a political prisoner by Amnesty International and …
Ninth Circuit Remands Transgender Idaho Prisoner’s $2.63 Million Attorney Fee Award for Recalculation— Against Bankrupt Corizon Health Successor by Transgender Idaho state prisoner Adree Edmo filed suit in 2017 seeking gender-confirming surgery. She suffered from an extreme case of gender dysphoria—a recognized medical condition—and had repeatedly attempted self-castration. As PLN …
Filing • February 24, 2025
HRDC v. Baxter County, AR, Censorship, Appeal, 2025 United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 23-1888 ___________________________ Human Rights Defense Center Plaintiff - Appellee v. Baxter County, Arkansas Defendant - Appellant -----------------------------Clark-Fox Family Foundation; The Marshall Project; Prison Journalism Project; Arch City Defenders; Missourians to Abolish …
Brief • February 24, 2025
HRDC v. Baxter County, AR, Censorship, Appeal, 2025 United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 23-1888 ___________________________ Human Rights Defense Center Plaintiff - Appellee v. Baxter County, Arkansas Defendant - Appellant -----------------------------Clark-Fox Family Foundation; The Marshall Project; Prison Journalism Project; Arch City Defenders; Missourians to Abolish …
Filing • February 18, 2025
Filed under: Public Records Act
HRDC v. Arizona Dept of Corrections, AZ, Complaint, Public Records Violation, 2025 y FEB 1 8 2025 1 David l Bodney (006065) bodneyd@ballardspahr.com 2 Matthew E. Kelley (037353) 3 kelleym@ballardspahr.com Helen Hitz (039579) 4 hitzh@ballardspahr.com 5 BALLARD SPAHR LLP 1 East Washington Street, Suite 2300 6 Phoenix, AZ 85004-2555 Telephone: …
Brief • February 18, 2025
Filed under: Public Records Act
HRDC v. Arizona Dept of Corrections, AZ, Complaint, Public Records Violation, 2025 y FEB 1 8 2025 1 David l Bodney (006065) bodneyd@ballardspahr.com 2 Matthew E. Kelley (037353) 3 kelleym@ballardspahr.com Helen Hitz (039579) 4 hitzh@ballardspahr.com 5 BALLARD SPAHR LLP 1 East Washington Street, Suite 2300 6 Phoenix, AZ 85004-2555 Telephone: …
Brief • February 17, 2025
Filed under: Public Records Act
HRDC v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, NM, Settlement, Public Records, 2025 Settlement Agreement and Release NOW COMES the Human Rights Defense Center ("HRDC") and enters this Settlement Agreement and Release ("Agreement") with Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC ("Centurion") (collectively "Parties") as set forth below: WHEREAS, …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Seventh Circuit Offers Wisconsin Prisoner Just a Little Help in Suit Alleging He Was Held in Feces-Stained Cell Without Water by On June 26, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit partially vacated a summary judgment dismissal of a Wisconsin prisoner’s civil rights suit alleging that …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Ohio Guard Killed by Prisoner in Christmas Day Attack by On December 25, 2024, Ohio prisoner Rashawn Cannon, 27, was accused of killing Ross Correctional Institution guard Andrew Lansing, 62. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director of the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), said that Cannon veered off from a group …
Former South Carolina Jailer Spared Prison After Testimony Fails to Convict Former Sheriff by A former South Carolina jailer who cut a plea deal and testified against his former boss is now the only one of the two to be convicted. But David Andrew Cook, 30, will not spend any …
Florida to Trans Prisoners: We’re Coming for Your Bras by The Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) incarcerates more people—nearly 87,000—than all but two other states. Yet only 100 of them have been identified as transgender and provided hormone therapy. So it was unclear what motivated the announcement of a major …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Rikers Island Continues Long Practice of Denying Education to Young Adults by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As PLN reported 25 years ago, the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) was accused in a suit filed by attorneys with the Legal Aid Society of denying educational opportunities to young …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Presumption of Innocence Not Violated by Jail Courtroom by On November 20, 2024, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned a lower appellate ruling that found holding a jury trial in a jail courtroom violated a defendant’s right to a presumption of innocence. The Court …
New York Governor Orders Firing of 13 Guards, Nurse in Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by On December 22, 2024, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) ordered 13 state prison guards fired, along with a nurse, all of whom were involved in the fatal beating of state prisoner Robert Brooks, 43. Five …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Historic $7 Million Settlement in Lawsuit Over Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 20, 2024, the Wayne County Commission in Detroit approved a $5 million payment on top of $2 million paid by the County’s insurer to settle a lawsuit brought by the …
Federal Prison Oversight Act Becomes Law by On July 25, 2024, Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) signed into law the Federal Prison Oversight Act, now codified at 5 U.S.C. § 413. The law takes effect 90 days after appropriations are made available by Congress to implement and carry out the …
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