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Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
New York: Former Rikers Guard Gets 30 Years for Civil Rights Violations, Conspiracy by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin PLN has previously reported on the December 2016 conviction of former Rikers Island jail complex guard Brian Coll, 47, for his role in the 2012 death of detainee Ronald Spear. In …
California: Mentally Ill Jail Prisoner Dies after Two Days in Restraint Chair; $5 Million Settlement by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A 36-year-old California prisoner with a documented history of schizophrenia died in a jail cell on January 22, 2017, less than an hour after his release from a restraint …
Prison Administrators and Criminology Students Study Radical New Approach: Treat Prisoners Like Human Beings by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Attorney Donald Specter has spent his career working to bring change to the American carceral system. He began as a volunteer at the Prison Law Office – a Berkeley, California-based …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
California Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty Reform Law by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Proposition 66, also known as the Death Penalty Reform and Savings Act, was passed by 51.13% of California voters on November 8, 2016. Prop. 66 was intended to “facilitate the enforcement of judgments and achieve cost …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Corruption Among Prison Guards in North Carolina Spurred by Low Pay by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A “dirty staff gang” of corrupt employees in North Carolina’s prison system is circumventing security measures by smuggling contraband that creates dangers not only for prisoners and staff members, but also for …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Tennessee Sheriff Offered “Church Release” to Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Maury County, Tennessee Sheriff Bucky Rowland was elected to office in 2014 on a platform that promoted prisoner rehabilitation. While it is not unusual for an elected official to give lip service to the concept of rehabilitating …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright I would like to thank everyone who donated to HRDC’s annual fundraiser last year. When we started our fundraiser, our goal was to raise enough money to be able to hire a full-time investigative reporter. Within a few weeks, though, we …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Medication, Death Penalty
Florida Supreme Court Approves Use of Hypnotic Drug for Executions by On August 14, 2017, the Florida Supreme Court approved a new lethal injection drug protocol that includes the hypnotic drug etomidate. The introduction of etomidate into the state’s execution protocol is the latest move to preserve the death penalty …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Morgan McCurdy, 23, a nurse at the DeKalb County jail, was arrested on July 20, 2017 after surveillance video confirmed suspicions that she was involved with smuggling drugs into the facility. DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris said the licensed practical nurse was jailed on charges …
Article • March 19, 2018
Filed under: PLRA
Missouri Prison Litigation Reform Act's Fee Requirement Affirmed by Edward Lyon by Edward B. Lyon Twenty-one Jefferson City, Missouri Correctional Center prisoners filed a class action challenge to the state's Prison Litigation Reform Act's (MPLRA) fee requirement for habeas corpus petitions in Cole County's circuit court. The court denied service of process, dismissed the …
Article • March 12, 2018
ACLU Sounds Alarm: LA Council Free Speech Restrictions by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees free speech to all Americans, but apparently the Los Angeles, California City Council and the Los Angeles Police Department(LAPD) feel that their compliance with that core citizen protection …
Article • March 12, 2018
Prosecutor Deciding Disparate Sentencing for Drug Convictions by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Massachusetts Supreme Court held that the prosecutor, not the judge, determines the applicable sentence under drug laws that authorize two different sentences for the same conduct. Massachusetts General Law, chapter 94C, section 32A criminalizes the distribution …
Article • March 7, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Tenth Circuit: Lengthy Denials of Outdoor Exercise Protected by Qualified Immunity by The Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued two decisions in July 2017 which held prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity for denying outdoor exercise to prisoners for 11 and 25 months. Colorado state prisoners Jonathan …
The Criminalization of the Mentally Ill in Maine by by Lance Tapley, Pine Tree Watch In April, 2017, while incarcerated at the Maine State Prison’s Intensive Mental Health Unit in Warren, James Staples removed his own eyeball. The 66-year-old prisoner, who has a lengthy history of both mental illness and assault …
From Cages to the Community: Prison Profiteers and the Treatment Industrial Complex by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Criminal justice reform is slowly taking hold in the U.S. Since 2014, at least 30 states have passed legislation aimed at reducing their prison populations. And following the election of “law and …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Federal Judge Grants Compassionate Release but Questions BOP’s Motivation by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis U.S. District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf, who has written judicial opinions in cases involving former mobster and FBI informant James “Whitey” Bulger, knows a rat when he sees one. And when he was presented …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
$5 Million Settlement After Mentally Ill Prisoner Dies in Restraint by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A 36-year-old California prisoner with a documented history of schizophrenia died in a jail cell on January 22, 2017, less than an hour after his release from a restraint chair where he had been …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Federal Lawsuit Filed in Dehydration Death at Wisconsin Jail; Three Jailers Charged by by Derek Gilna A federal civil rights suit was filed in federal court in Wisconsin on August 14, 2017, after a prisoner died at the Milwaukee County Jail (MCJ) – reportedly after being deprived of water for …
Major Scabies Outbreak at CoreCivic Facility in Tennessee by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Three lawsuits, filed in June and July 2017, allege corrections officials ignored an outbreak of scabies at the Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility (MDCDF) in Nashville, Tennessee. Affecting 89 prisoners, the outbreak also spread to at …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Prison Doctor Dies of Legionnaires’ Disease by A lawsuit filed on May 4, 2017 by the family of a doctor at SCI-Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania claims he died of Legionnaires’ disease contracted through the facility’s water system. Dr. Joseph Mollura, 60, decided he liked his part-time job at SCI-Pittsburgh so much …
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