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Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Kansas Jail Prisoners Win Lawsuit Over Postcard-only Policy by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon When Wilson County, Kansas Sheriff Pete Figgins instituted a postcard-only correspondence policy at the county jail, prisoners were only allowed to send and receive letters to and from attorneys. No notice was provided when mail was …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Prisons Don’t Damage Only Prisoners; Guards at Risk of PTSD and Suicide, Too by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In Prison Legal News, much of our reporting addresses the abuses that the U.S. carceral system inflicts on prisoners. But prisoners (and their families) aren’t the only ones whose lives are …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Texas Prisoner in Administrative Segregation Transition Program Murders Cellmate by On January 17, 2018, a Texas state prisoner who was participating in the Administrative Segregation Transition Program (ASTP) at the Ramsey Unit murdered his cellmate. It was the first prisoner-on-prisoner homicide in Texas this year. Alfred Brosig, 48, who was …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Transgender Prisoner Issues Result in Litigation, Policy Changes by In two recent settlements, corrections officials were forced to pay for their failure to honor the chosen gender identity of transgender prisoners and where they were housed. But in a third case, a court’s refusal to second-guess a housing decision by …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Mentally Ill Colorado Prisoner Who Gouged Out His Eyes Sues Sheriff by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On December 7, 2017, Ryan Partridge, a mentally ill prisoner, sued the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office and other county employees, claiming they failed to provide him with adequate mental health care and abused …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Trinity Services Group Faces Complaints Due to Inadequate Prison and Jail Food by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon A tide of complaints has surfaced around Florida-based Trinity Services Group, one of the largest food service providers to correctional facilities in the nation. At issue is the provision of adequate, nutritious …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Guantanamo Bay Prison to Remain Open, Trump Announces by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In his State of the Union address in January 2018, President Donald Trump announced that he had signed an executive order to ensure the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, commonly known as Gitmo, would remain …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Idaho DOC and Corizon Held in Contempt in Long-standing Lawsuit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) and its contracted private medical care provider, Corizon Health, were held in contempt of consent orders entered in 1984 and 2014 in a class-action suit. The original November …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
New California Parole Board Guidelines, Reforms Face Opposition by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon California is getting serious about reversing its long history of mass incarceration. From a 2008 state supreme court ruling that abolished parole denials based on the seriousness and nature of the offense to a 2011 U.S. …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Ohio: Federal Lawsuit Over Jail Beating Settles for $70,000 by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A federal lawsuit alleging various constitutional and state law violations related to the beating of a jail detainee in Euclid City, Ohio settled in October 2017 for $70,000. On January 14, 2015, Lucille Dumas was …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Mississippi DOC Announces Phone Rate Cuts by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin The Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) announced on March 17, 2018 that phone calls from state prisons would be less expensive for prisoners and their families, effective immediately. “The reduced rate will make services even more accessible and …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Ninth Circuit Orders Sealing of Court Documents that Reveal Informant by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 12, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal district court’s denial of a defendant’s motion to seal all documents related to the lower sentence he received because he informed …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Kansas Prisoner Who Warned “Something is Eating my Brain” Dies of Untreated Brain Infection by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The family of Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) prisoner Marques Davis filed suit in federal district court in October 2017, alleging that officials at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility and the …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Indiana County Pays $28,000 to Settle Prisoner’s Excessive Force Suit by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell LaPorte County, Indiana has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a former prisoner who claimed county jailers used excessive force against him. The suit, filed by Marcin Kulbacki, alleged that guards at the …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Percentage of Americans with Felony Convictions Increases, Especially for Blacks by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A January 2018 report from Pew Charitable Trusts indicated that the number of U.S. residents with a felony record rose sharply in every state between 1980 and 2010. The report analyzed data from a …
Article • June 7, 2018
California Law Allows Transfer to Jail in Another County, But Prisoner Must First Exhaust Administrative Remedies, Court of Appeal Holds by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In a case of first impression, the California Court of Appeal held that State law does allow a prisoner to request a transfer to …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Federal Civil Rights Suit for California Jail Beating Settles for $100,000 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In September 2017, Derek Connor, incarcerated at the Placer County jail in Auburn, California, filed a federal lawsuit against the county and numerous deputies and jail employees over an unprovoked beating and other …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
Ohio: $275,000 Settlement in Jail Detainee’s Suicide by A $275,000 settlement was reached in a lawsuit over the March 5, 2015 suicide of a pretrial detainee at Ohio’s Fairfield County Jail. It was the second settlement related to a suicide at the facility since 2009. Jesse Whitlatch, 32, was arrested …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Ex-cons Turn Prison Workouts into Real Jobs, Transform Lives by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell When criminal defense attorney William Kroger visited his clients in California prisons, he noticed that just a few months behind bars seemed to whip many of them into shape. Because the state had removed all …
Article • June 7, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
California: A Prison by any Other Name is Still a Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The City of Adelanto in San Bernardino County, California owns a detention center – not a prison – according to Pablo Paez, a spokesman for the GEO Group, a private prison firm. “The …
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