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New Policy Banning Care Packages Makes Life Harder for N.Y. Prisoners
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: Commissary
New Policy Banning Care Packages Makes Life Harder for N.Y. Prisoners by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins To justify rules making life difficult for prisoners, officials often point to contraband — even when facts point in another direction. That was the case when the New York Department of Corrections and …
News in Brief
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A detainee assaulted aguard at the Calhoun County Jail on August 6, 2022, the Anniston Star reported. Sheriff Matthew Wade blamed an ongoing staffing shortage, which has typically left three guards on duty to supervise 300 detainees. One of them, Jacob Hammett, was out of …
Fourteen Officials Indicted in New Jersey Women’s Prison Abuse Scandal, $21 Million Class-Action Settlement Reached
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Class Actions
Fourteen Officials Indicted in New Jersey Women’s Prison Abuse Scandal, $21 Million Class-Action Settlement Reached by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye On September 27, 2022, a New Jersey grand jury indicted 14 officials at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility (CF), the state’s only women’s prison. It was the latest fallout …
News in Brief
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 …
$215,000 Awarded to New Jersey Detainee Assaulted by Jail Guards
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements
$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 …
“She Needs to Be Buried”: New Jersey Jail Supervisor Accused of Retaliation by Guard Who Rebuffed Him
Article • October 27, 2022
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Retaliation
“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 …
News in Brief
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 …
New Jersey Supreme Court Forces County to Cough up Settlement Documents With Prisoner Raped By Jail Guard Who Snitched on Fellow Guards
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
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 …
Estate of Kubiak v. CFG Health Systems, LLC, NJ, Settlement, Suicide-Medical Neglect, 2020
Brief • September 30, 2022
Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides
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 …
News in Brief
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 …
Agudelo v. County of Essex, NJ, Complaint, Sexual Harassment, 2022
Brief • August 23, 2022
Filed under: Sexual Harassment, Supervisor-Staff Harassment
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 …
COVID-19’s Impact on Prisoners Far Worse Than It Needed to Be
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 …
Estate of Moore v. Cumberland County, NJ, Complaint, Suicide- Inadequate Medical Care, 2022
Brief • July 12, 2022
Filed under: Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Suicides
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
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders, Racial Profiling, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release
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 …
Third Circuit Joins Fifth, Tenth and D.C. Circuits in Holding Heck Favorable-Termination Dismissals Are PLRA Strikes
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Consent Decrees - Termination of
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 …
Third Circuit Reinstates Suit Filed by Transgender Prisoner Assaulted at New Jersey Federal Prison
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Failure to Protect (Transgender)
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 …
New Jersey Sex Offenders Excluded From Programming, Chances for Early Release
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Sex Offender Treatment, Conditions of
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 …
Mentally Ill Detainee Paralyzed in Brutal New Jersey Jail Beating Files Suit
Article • May 31, 2022
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Mental Health
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 …
News in Brief
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 …
Guard Arrested for Running “Fight Club” in New Jersey Prison Kitchen
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 …
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