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Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A convicted bank robber had 30 months added to his 17-year prison sentence on September 26, 2022, for bribing an Alabama jail guard to smuggle him a cellphone, K2 “spice” paper, and other contraband. According to a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, while …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
$215,000 Awarded to New Jersey Detainee Assaulted by Jail Guards by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On October 22, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey awarded $215,000 in damages to a former pretrial detainee at the Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) for injuries suffered during an …
Article • October 27, 2022
“She Needs to Be Buried”: New Jersey Jail Supervisor Accused of Retaliation by Guard Who Rebuffed Him by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On August 23, 2022, a guard at New Jersey’s Essex County Jail filed a discrimination lawsuit accusing a high-ranking male supervisor of sexual harassment. The …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A jail guard in Chilton County, Alabama, was arrested on July 21, 2022, and charged with promoting contraband, the Clanton Advertiser reported. The guard, Tyler Ryan Couch, is accused of organizing an effort to smuggle drugs to detainees. Though jail policy forbids guards from transmitting …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
New Jersey Supreme Court Forces County to Cough up Settlement Documents With Prisoner Raped By Jail Guard Who Snitched on Fellow Guards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 7, 2022, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a settlement agreement resolving a disciplinary action against a …
Brief • September 30, 2022
Estate of Kubiak v. CFG Health Systems, LLC, NJ, Settlement, Suicide-Medical Neglect, 2020 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS The SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS ("Agreement") is being entered into among and between ESTATE OF GREGORY KUBIAK BY AND THROUGH ITS ADMINISTRATOR AD PROSEQUENDUM DEANNA TESTA, ("ESTATE …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A federal prisoner in Birmingham was gunned down outside a privately-operated reentry facility on July 16, 2022. The Associated Press reported that the prisoner, Larry Taylor, 47, had just been released from the facility, which is operated under contract from the federal Bureau of Prisons …
Brief • August 23, 2022
Agudelo v. County of Essex, NJ, Complaint, Sexual Harassment, 2022 ESX-L-004983-22 08/23/2022 3:47:41 PM Pg 1 of 33 Trans ID: LCV20223051611 Matthew A. Luber, Esq. - NJ ID # 017302010 mal@njlegal.com R. Armen McOmber, Esq.- NJ ID # 018251998 ram@njlegal.com Tyler J. Burrell, Esq. - NJ ID # 377942021 tjb@njlegal.com …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19
COVID-19’s Impact on Prisoners Far Worse Than It Needed to Be by Kevin Bliss, Edward Lyon by Kevin Bliss and Ed Lyon In September 2021, a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit research and advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) gave a failing grade to 42 …
Brief • July 12, 2022
Estate of Moore v. Cumberland County, NJ, Complaint, Suicide- Inadequate Medical Care, 2022 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS The SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS ("Agreement") is being entered into among and between ESTATE OF MEGAN MOORE BY AND THROUGH ITS ADMINISTRATOR AD PROSEQUENDUM CHRISTINE B. MOORE …
After 49 Years in Prison for a Murder in Which He Didn’t Pull the Trigger, Former Black Liberation Army Member Sundiata Acoli Wins Parole by Chuck Sharman On May 10, 2022, the New Jersey Supreme Court reversed a state parole board decision and granted release to Sundiata Acoli, whose involvement …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Third Circuit Joins Fifth, Tenth and D.C. Circuits in Holding Heck Favorable-Termination Dismissals Are PLRA Strikes by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On October 29, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit handed a New Jersey prisoner a legal defeat. But in the process, it joined the …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Third Circuit Reinstates Suit Filed by Transgender Prisoner Assaulted at New Jersey Federal Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 1, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit overturned a lower court’s decision to dismiss the claim of a pre-operative transgender federal prisoner who accused …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
New Jersey Sex Offenders Excluded From Programming, Chances for Early Release by Mario Palomo byMario Palomo Prisoners at New Jersey’s Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center (ADTC)—all convicted sex offenders—do not have access to the same programs and benefits that other state prisoners do, according to a letter excerpted in a …
Article • May 31, 2022
Mentally Ill Detainee Paralyzed in Brutal New Jersey Jail Beating Files Suit by Edward Lyon By Ed Lyon A lawsuit was reportedly filed in New Jersey Superior Court for Essex County on April 26, 2022, on behalf of a mentally ill man left paralyzed from a brutal beating he suffered …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard in Birmingham was arrested on March 9, 2022, for allegedly beating a prisoner to death, according to the Alabama Political Reporter. As PLN previously reported, prison officials at first insisted no foul play was suspected in the death of Victor …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Guard Arrested for Running “Fight Club” in New Jersey Prison Kitchen by Ashleigh Dye, Jayson Hawkins by Ashleigh Dye and Jayson Hawkins A New Jersey prison guard was arrested on October 1, 2021, on charges he ran a “fight club” in the kitchen he supervised at Bayside State Prison, regularly …
Estate of Conroy v. Cumberland County, NJ, Settlement, Suicide-Failure to Protect, 2022 SJ£TTLEMENTAGIIBEMENI AND GRNF.RAL RJU,RASE OF CLAIMS The SETTLEtvIENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS ("Agreeme)tt") is being entered into among and betweenFSTATF. OF DAVTD B. CONROY ("EST ATE OF DAVID B. CONROY") or(" Releasur") AND IIIS ATTORNEYS CONRAD …
Brief • April 13, 2022
Estate of Watson v. Cumberland County, NJ,Distrubtion Cost, Suicide-Inadequate Medical Care, 2022 Case 1:16-cv-06578-JHR-AMD Document 190-1 Filed 04/13/22 Page 2 of 5 PageID: 3857 ESTATE OF JON LEON WATSON, et al. v. CUMBERLAND COUNTY, et al. DISTTRIBUTION Gross Settlement $200,000.00 Costs $ 74,821.77 Subtotal $125,178.23 Total $ 41,726.07 Net to …
Brief • April 13, 2022
Estate of Lewis v. Cumberland County, NJ, Distribution of Cost, Suicide-Failure to Protect, 2022 Case 1:16-cv-03503-RBK-AMD Document 182-1 Filed 04/13/22 Page 2 of 3 PageID: 3018 Estate of Lewis v. Cumberland County Jail, et. al. DISTRIBUTION Gross Settlement. ......... , ......................................................... . $157,500.00 Costs ................................................................................ , .. . $67,257.58 Sub …
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