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Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Filed under: Work Release, Prison Labor
Wildfires Threaten Prisoners in West, While New California Law Helps Prisoner-Firefighters to Continue Work After Release by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell It used to be that specially trained prisoners who worked on the front lines fighting wildfires couldn’t continue to work as firefighters after their release. Thanks to a …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Ford Foundation President’s Support to Replace Rikers With Other Jails Criticized by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Ford Foundation President Darren Walker published a blog titled, “In Defense of Nuance” in the fall of 2019. A larger portion of the missive supported the building of four smaller detention centers to …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Lawsuit Over Hellish 9-Day Prisoner Transport Reinstated by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 29, 2020, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment to Inmate Services Corp. (ISC), allowing to continue a civil rights action alleging a pretrial detainee’s constitutional rights were violated …
Article • July 20, 2020
Vt. Supreme Court Holds Complainant Has No Right to Psychologist’s Response to Disciplinary Complaint Unless Disciplinary Charges Are Filed by The Vermont Supreme Court recently held that a prisoner who filed a disciplinary complaint against a prison psychologist alleging the psychologist falsified a risk assessment extending his incarceration by 14 …
Brief • June 2, 2020
Filed under: Work Release
Sparks v. Mills, ME, Complaint, Jobless Benefits, 2020 Case 2:20-cv-00190-LEW Document 1 Filed 06/02/20 Page 1 of 19 PageID #: 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE MARC SPARKS, on behalf of himself and those similarly situated Plaintiffs v. JANET MILLS, in her official capacity …
Article • November 23, 2019
Arkansas Supreme Court Denies Judicial Review of Prisoner’s Disciplinary Case by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Malik Muntaqim, a prisoner assigned to the Arkansas Department of Correction’s (ADC) Ouachita River Unit, was seeking a transfer to a different prison unit and experienced racial discrimination. In his written transfer request, Muntaqim …
Steep Cost for Sending Hawaii Prisoners to Mainland Facilities by Hawaii has long been considered a tropical paradise, but those who run afoul of the law on the islands stand a good chance of being exiled. Over a third of Hawaii’s prisoners are shipped to a privately-operated facility in Arizona …
Article • May 2, 2019
Ohio High Court Denies Relief to Prisoner Challenging White Supremacist Classification by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Ohio state prisoner William H. Evans Jr. was designated to be a white supremacist by a classification committee’s ruling in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), the state’s prison system. This …
State of Hawai’i HCR 85 Task Force on Prison Reform - Creating Better Outcomes, Safer Communities, 2018 Creating Better Outcomes, Safer Communities Final Report of the House Concurrent Resolution 85 Task Force on Prison Reform to the Hawai‘i Legislature 2019 Regular Session Prepared by the HCR 85 TASK FORCE with …
Prison Systems Solve Bed Space Problems by Using Out-of-State Facilities by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Several state prison systems are facing a dilemma: too many prisoners and not enough beds. An increasingly popular solution to this problem is to transfer prisoners to facilities in other states, sometimes thousands of …
Mentally Ill Wisconsin Prisoners Held in Solitary Improperly Reclassified by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has employed a unique method to reduce the number of seriously mentally ill prisoners being housed in solitary confinement: Their mental health classification competency levels were administratively changed without an …
Former Prisoner, Jailhouse Lawyer Mujahid Farid Has Died by Laura Whitehorn by Laura Whitehorn This issue of Prison Legal News is dedicated to Mujahid Farid. Farid, 69, who died of cancer on November 20, 2018 in the Bronx, New York, often said he was only one of many people who …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Some Arizona Prison Logs Show Temperatures up to 119 Degrees; Others Falsified by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Since February 2015, a settlement and stipulation in Parsons v. Ryan has required the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) to monitor and log indoor temperatures at state prisons. According to the Phoenix …
Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Federal Compassionateless Release by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell For thousands of federal prisoners who have filed for compassionate release after the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) expanded eligibility criteria in 2013, the response has been a familiar and consistent refrain: “Denied.” Over the following four years, just six percent of …
Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Federal Prisoner’s Custody Status Continues While “on Loan” to Face State Charges by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on November 21, 2017 that a federal prisoner remains in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General despite being held on behalf of state officials. Bud Ray Brown was serving …
Manus v. Erie County, PA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2018 Case Case1:18-cv-00202-SPB 1:05-mc-02025 Document Document 1011 Filed Filed07/20/18 07/20/18 Page Page11ofof17 17 IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA BRYANNA MANUS and AMANDA TUCHOLSKI, as CO-ADMINISTRATORS of the ESTATE of FELIX L. MANUS, Plaintiffs​, v. ERIE COUNTY, JOSHUA …
Article • July 6, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
UK Court Blocks Extradition of Accused Hacker to United States by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In a virtually unheard of ruling, a British appellate court has refused to allow a citizen of the United Kingdom to be extradited to the U.S. to face federal charges. The court found that …
Ms. L, et al. v. U.S. Immigration, order on class certification, 2018 Case 3:18-cv-00428-DMS-MDD Document 82 Filed 06/26/18 PageID.1706 Page 1 of 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 Ms. L.; et al., Case No.: 18cv0428 DMS …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Ohio Death Row Prisoner Avoids Execution then Dies in Prison by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On March 3, 2018, Alva Campbell, a 69-year-old death row prisoner convicted of two murders, died in prison. Ironically, he passed away just five months after his poor health forced the postponement of his …
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Mentally Incompetent Detainees Stuck in California Jails Spark Class-action Lawsuit, Fines by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis California county jails are facing lawsuits and court-imposed fines over their handling of detainees who have been determined incompetent to stand trial due to mental illness. In Ventura County, the families of mentally …
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