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Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Living and Dying on Rikers Island: The Latest Installment by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss  When 55-year-old William Brown, a pretrial detainee from Brooklyn, suffered a medical emergency and died on December 15, 2021, it was the 16th death recorded for the year of someone incarcerated at Rikers Island, the …
Fifth Circuit Says Federal Habeas Action May Not Be Used to Challenge Conditions of Confinement Related to COVID-19 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke As previously reported by PLN, federal appellate courts in the U.S. have taken a dim view of challenges to conditions of confinement that place prisoners at …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
After Second Circuit Rules in His Favor, Connecticut Prisoner Required to Exercise in Full Restraints for Six Months Takes $100,000 Settlement by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After a federal appeals court vacated a district court’s judgment in favor of Connecticut prison officials, they settled for $100,000 with a prisoner …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Omicron Winter by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the omicron variant of the coronavirus is affecting prisons and jails across the U.S. Just how bad is it during these winter …
Sixth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity for Failure to Protect Michigan Prisoner from Unsafe Working Conditions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held on August 24, 2021, that two Michigan prison employees were not entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Lawsuit Over Winter Power Outage at Brooklyn’s Troubled Federal Detention Center Granted Class Certification by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Class-action status was granted on May 25, 2021, to a federal lawsuit brought by a half-dozen prisoners held by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at its Metropolitan Detention Center …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
North Carolina Renames Prisons Whose Names Honored Enslavers by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On September 30, 2021, over 156 years after the end of the Civil War, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced the renaming of four prisons and a drug addiction treatment facility whose previous …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Fifth Circuit Refuses to Issue Injunction After Mississippi Psychiatric Prison Improves Conditions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 5, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit refused to reverse a district court and order an injunction against the Mississippi Department of Corrections (DOC) because, during …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Montana Renews CoreCivic Contract; Major Water and Sewage Problems Persist by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The private prison industry has been under fire recently across the country—from lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to federal policies mandating a slow and unsteady move away from for-profit prisons …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Filed under: Rural Prisons
California Town Fighting to Keep Prison Open by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders In the 1950s, the timber mills in Susanville, California, began to shutter. For this isolated town of about 8,000 residents, the economic impact of losing its only industry was devastating. But in 1963 the California Department of …
Publication • December 21, 2021
U.S. DOJ Investigation of Manson Youth Institution U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General 950 Pennsylvania Ave, NW - RFK Washington, DC 20530 December 21, 2021 The Honorable Ned Lamont Governor of Connecticut State Capitol 210 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106 RE: Investigation of Manson Youth Institution …
Brief • December 10, 2021
Williams v. CDCR, CA, Class Action Complaint, Conditions of Confinement, 2021 Case 5:21-cv-09586 Document 1 Filed 12/10/21 Page 1 of 39 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Felicia Medina (SBN 255804) fmedina@medinaorthwein.com Jennifer Orthwein (SBN 255196) jorthwein@medinaorthwein.com Shauna Madison (SBN 299585) smadison@medinaorthwien.com Mackenzie …
Brief • December 8, 2021
Perry v. Littlejohn, IN, Verdict, Failure to Protect, 2021 Case 1:18-cv-02437-JPH-MJD Document 275 Filed 12/08/21 Page 1 of 2 PageID #: 1672 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION JASON SETH PERRY, Plaintiff, V. FRANK LITTLEJOHN, RICHARD BROWN, Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Eighth Circuit Holds Arkansas Jailers Entitled to Qualified Immunity in Prisoners’ Suit Over Black Mold in Showers, Lack of Cleaning Supplies by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that Arkansas jailers were entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit brought by …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Environmental Indifference by Anthony Moffa Exposure to Radon in Prisons May Be Functioning as a Form of Mass Capital Punishment by Anthony Moffa I can’t breathe. –Eric Garner, George Floyd, and at least seventy others   The thought of radioactive gas in the night air in the place you lay …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
San Luis Obispo County Jail Conditions Violate Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On August 31, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division released a report detailing its investigation concerning the conditions inside San Luis Obispo County Jail. The findings of the report, conducted …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
New Jersey Women’s Prison to Close After Latest Abuse Debacle by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins On the night of January 20, 2021, as the nation was buckling beneath the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a cascade of violence was unfolding inside a women’s prison in New Jersey. Prisons …
Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Preliminary Injunction Ruling, Solitary Confinement, 2021 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION ALEXANDER FRIEDMANN, Plaintiff, v. TONY PARKER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) NO. 3:21-cv-00721 MEMORANDUM OPINION Alexander Friedmann is a pretrial detainee who has …
Friedmann v. Parker, TN, Order, Solitary Confinement, 2021 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION ALEXANDER FRIEDMANN, Plaintiff, v. TONY PARKER, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) NO. 3:21-cv-00721 ORDER For the reasons set forth in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, Plaintiff …
G.H. V. Tamayo, FL, Order Compelling Discovery, Solitary Confinement of Juveniles, 2021 Case 4:19-cv-00431-RH-MJF Document 169 Filed 11/18/21 Page 1 of 3 Page 1 of 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION G.H. and R.L., Plaintiffs, v. CASE NO. 4:19cv431-RH-MJF DEPARTMENT OF …
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