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PLN Prevails in Motion to Unseal Settlement in CCA Class Action FLSA Case by On August 28, 2009, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas unsealed a settlement agreement in a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm. On July …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Missouri DOC Permits Gift Books in Response to PLN Demand Letter by On September 15, 2009, the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to revise its policy prohibiting prisoners from receiving books purchased for them by third parties or sent to them free of charge. The DOC also agreed to …
Brief • September 16, 2009
Prison Legal News v EOUSA, CO, Order releasing certain info, 2009 Case 1:08-cv-01055-MSK-KLM Document 26 Filed 09/16/2009 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 16 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Honorable Marcia S. Krieger Civil Action No. 08-cv-01055-MSK-KLM PRISON LEGAL NEWS, Plaintiff, v. EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR …
Brief • September 16, 2009
Friedmann v. CCA, TN, Opinion, FOIA public records request, 2009 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE June 25, 2009 Session ALEX FRIEDMANN v. CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA Appeal from the Chancery Court for Davidson County No. 08-1105-I Claudia C. Bonnyman, Chancellor No. M2008-01998-COA-R3-CV - Filed September 16, …
Brief • August 20, 2009
Prison Legal News v. City and County of San Francisco, CA, Complaint, Public Records Request, 2009 1 SANFORD JAY ROSEN - 062566 KENNETH M. WALCZAK - 247389 2 ELIZABETH H. ENG - 239265 3 ROSEN, BIEN & GALVAN, LLP 3 15 Montgomery Street, 10th Floor 4 San Francisco, California 94104-1823 …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
PLN Files Suit Against Los Angeles County for Failure to Comply with Public Records Act by As part of ongoing research, PLN submitted a public records request to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on January 29, 2008, seeking records related to settlements and verdicts resulting from tort, overdetention and …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
Massachusetts DOC Settles PLN Censorship Suit by Effective May 12, 2009, the Massachusetts Dept. of Correction (MDOC) agreed to settle a First Amendment censorship lawsuit filed by PLN. PLN brought suit in U.S. District Court on April 23, 2008 following repeated efforts over a 5-year period to be added to …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
PLN Awarded Summary Judgment In FOIA Case Again by Brandon Sample On March 26, 2009, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton entered summary judgment for PLN in an ongoing battle between Prison Legal News and the BOP over the release of certain records. In 2003, PLN submitted a Freedom of Information …
Brief • June 10, 2009
Filed under: PLN Litigation, PLN related
Prison Legal News v. MS DOC, Dismissal Order, GTL phone, 2010 ~~1t51 A TRUE COPy t\ FILED JUN 1 0 2009 IN TH CHANCERY COURT OF HINS COUNTY, ~~~ ;.HA~YCLE FIRST JUDICIAL DIS~l..7.";~"" BY V ("~ D.C. , ":i"" PRISON LEGAL NEWS ~\ PLAINTIFF ~~ ~ "" ..I * "- …
Brief • May 13, 2009
Prison Legal News v. PA DOC, PA Complaint, public records, 2009
Brief • May 12, 2009
Prison Legal News v. MADOC, MA, Settlement Agreement, censorship, 2009 05/12/2003 PAGE LEGAL 5177277403 15:14 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT is entered into by and bet.'een PRISON LEGAL NEWS ("PLN") and the MF.SSACHUSETTS DEP7IRTMENT OF CORRECTION (" DEPARTMENT"), on behalf of itself and HAROLD OLARKE, JAMES BENDER, JOHN ~lARSHALL, WHEREAS, …
Brief • March 2, 2009
Prison Legal News v. CCA,TN, MTF Amicus Brief, public records, 2009
Nominal Damages for Atlanta Georgia Jail’s Ban on Magazines, Books and Newspapers by On April 17, 2008, a Georgia federal court granted a prisoner summary judgment and nominal damages in a lawsuit over a jail policy that barred prisoners from receiving books, newspapers and magazines. David Robertson was incarcerated in …
PLN Attorneys Awarded $137,672 for Post-Settlement Work in CDCR Censorship Case by John Dannenberg PLN Attorneys Awarded $137,672 for Post-Settlement Work in CDCR Censorship Case by John E. Dannenberg On April 10, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California awarded $137,672 in supplemental legal fees and …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright The link between solitary confinement and mental illness is well known, well documented and largely ignored by the prison officials and policy makers who decide to imprison tens of thousands of American prisoners in solitary confinement on any given day for months, years and …
PLN Wins Kansas Censorship Suit by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby On October 1, 2007, in a lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News (PLN), the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas held that a Kansas prison policy limiting the amount of money prisoners can spend on publications, a …
PLN Loses Final Round in FDOC Writer Pay Ban / Censorship Suit by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Florida district court’s grant of judgment to the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) in a lawsuit filed by PLN challenging the FDOC’s writer pay ban and policy of …
Complaint Against Utah DOC for Non-Delivery of PLN Fails Because Defendants Only Negligent; Jail Publication Ban Illegal by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has rejected several Utah-based civil rights complaints concerning the denial of reading material to prisoners, including issues of Prison …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright The past several months have been even busier than usual for PLN. In addition to getting the magazine published each month we have seen an upsurge in censorship activities in prisons and jails around the country. As noted in this issue of PLN, after …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
PLN Sues Massachusetts DOC Over Book Ban, Added to Approved List One Week Later by For the past five years Prison Legal News has been unable to sell or distribute books to prisoners in Massachusetts because PLN was not on the Dept. of Correction’s (DOC) approved vendor list. Massachusetts prisoners …
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