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Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Public Records Suit Filed Against Florida DOC To Obtain Formula Used To Compute Sentences by The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida has filed a second public records lawsuit against the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) to obtain the formulas used to calculate a prisoner’s release date. The first …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Drug Testing, junk science
Unreliable Drug Tests Standard for Law Enforcement and Prisons by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Illicit drugs pose a serious problem for both prisoners and officials inside America’s prisons and jails. To combat smuggling, many state and federal prisons use field test kits to evaluate substances introduced into the facilities. …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Public Records
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Sanctions and Award of $118,458 in Attorney Fees Against DOC for Withholding Documents Requested Under Right-to-Know Law by On December 22, 2020, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a decision of a lower court finding the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) acted in bad faith in responding …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
$170,000 Settlement and New Policy on Gender Identity from Lawsuit Against New Jersey DOC by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The New Jersey Department of Corrections had a policy of housing prisoners according to their gender assignment at birth, regardless of whether they are transgender or of any non-binary sexual …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Settlements, Censorship
Sherburne County, MN, Settles with HRDC for $98,000 Plus New Jail Publications Policy by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A settlement was reached on May 11, 2021, in a censorship complaint filed in August 2020 against Sherburne County, Minnesota, and its Sheriff, Joel Brott, by the Human Rights Defense Center …
Brief • November 18, 2021
HRDC v. Cook County State's Attorney, IL, Complaint, Public Records Request, 2021 Hearing Date: 3/24/2022 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM Courtroom Number: 2601 Location: District 1 Court Cook County, IL FILED DATE: 11/18/2021 12:48 PM 2021CH05850 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Sixth Circuit Holds Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Rule on Summary Judgment in Retaliation Suit by BOP Prisoner by Walter Himmelreich was a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, Ohio for one count of producing child pornography on October 20, 2008, when he was assaulted by another prisoner, Peter …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$8.6 Million Award Against Wexford for Deliberate Indifference to Prisoner’s Kidney Cancer by An Illinois prisoner was awarded $11 million by a federal jury in a lawsuit alleging doctors with Wexford Health Sources, Inc. (Wexford), were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by failing to treat his kidney cancer. …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$23,000 Settlement Against Pennsylvania Dental Healthcare Company for Inadequate Dental Care by Charles Talbert settled with Correctional Dental Associates (CDA) and Dental Practitioner Dr. Schneider for $23,000 in a lawsuit brought by him for inadequate dental treatment while housed in the Philadelphia Department of Prisons (PDP). While being held in …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Settlements, Overdetention
$731,000 Jury Award to Illinois DOC Prisoner Held 23 Months Beyond Release Date, Over $210k in Fees Awarded As Well by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Illinois federal district court found that a prison records clerk deprived a former prisoner of his liberty and caused him to serve …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Massachusetts Department of Corrections Sued Over Use of “Fake” Drug Tests on Legal Mail by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) has been knowingly using drug tests described by plaintiff’s lawyers as “fake” on legal mail to both interfere with attorney/client communications and impose …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Filed under: Summary Judgment, Sanctions
Seventh Circuit: Local Rules Requiring Specific Filings to Summary Judgments Should Not be Used as a Sanction by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Providing an example of how the rules apply to everyone—even pro se prisoners—the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the motion of summary judgment …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
D.C. Federal Court Rules District Providing Unlawfully Inadequate Education to Incarcerated Youth with Disabilities, Grants Preliminary Injunction by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 16, 2021, a federal court in the District of Columbia (D.C.) provisionally certified a class of disabled youth incarcerated in D.C. jails who were not …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$72,000 Settlement Over Corizon’s Lack of Medical Treatment to Injured Arizona Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 8, 2020, Corizon Health, Inc. agreed to pay $20,000 to settle its part of a federal lawsuit brought by an Arizona prisoner who suffered a partial foot amputation after Corizon …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
HRDC Prevails Over Wellpath as Vermont Supreme Court Rules Private Contractor Must Release Public Records by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Vermont Supreme Court concluded that under the Public Records Act (PRA) when “the state contracts with a private entity to discharge the entirety of a fundamental and …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Prison Officials Actions to Correct Inhumane Cell Conditions Merit Judgement in Their Favor by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an Illinois district court’s summary judgment dismissal of a prisoner’s claim that he was subjected to inhumane conditions and denial of medical care. The Court’s ruling found that the …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Indiana DOC Settles HRDC Mail Censorship Suit by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On September 21, 2021, the Indiana Department of Corrections (INDOC) agreed to a slate of policy reforms embodied in a consent decree to settle a censorship lawsuit filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), publisher of …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$750,000 Settlement in South Carolina Pretrial Detainee’s Suicide by Southern Health Partners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 17, 2021, Southern Health Partners paid $750,000 to resolve a lawsuit alleging it failed to take proper steps in caring for a pretrial detainee who entered South Carolina’s Marlboro …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
$1 Million Settlement in Georgia Prisoner’s Preventable Suicide Attempt and Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A $1 million settlement was reached in a civil rights lawsuit alleging officials at Georgia State Prison (GSP) failed to take action to prevent a prisoner’s suicide attempt, which resulted in his …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Settlements
$500,000 Settlement for California Jail Rape, Deputy Fired and Sentenced by A Ventura County, California jail deputy finds himself on the other side of the law after Superior Court Judge Gilbert Romero recently found him guilty of sexual misconduct with a female prisoner. The county of Ventura has paid $500,000 …
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