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Article • June 29, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Litigation Heats Up Over Extreme Temperatures in Prisons, Jails by Matthew Clarke, Christopher Zoukis by Matt Clarke and Christopher Zoukis During a heat wave in the summer of 2017, dozens of protesters gathered outside the Medium Security Institution in St. Louis, Missouri and chanted “shut it down,” after a video …
Prison Activist Resource Center - PARC National Prisoner Resource Directory, 2018 PARC National Prisoner Resource Directory Core Volunteers Jessie Backer Greetings, Marka Ellertson Welcome to the June 2018 edition of PARC’s National Prisoner Resource Directory. We have updated information on organizations that are new to us, and on ones that …
Article • April 18, 2018
Fifth Circuit: Court May Not Mandate Maximum Heat Index on Louisiana’s Death Row by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On January 31, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred when it mandated a maximum-allowable heat index measure for a Louisiana’s death row. The court …
Louisiana Prison Officials Sued for Trying to Block Investigation into Abuse of Disabled Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Alleging a “culture of cover-up and excessive force,” the MacArthur Justice Center and the Advocacy Center of Louisiana (ACL) filed a class-action lawsuit in February 2018 against officials at …
The Campaign to Close the Workhouse and Promote a New Vision for St. Louis, 2018 -EXECUTIVE SUMMARY- The City of St. Louis condemns hundreds of mostly poor and Black people to suffer in unspeakably hellish and inhumane conditions at the “Workhouse,” officially known as the Medium Security Institution. Over 95% …
Brief • January 31, 2018
Ball v. LeBlanc, LA, Order and Opinion, Death Row Conditions, 2018 Case: 17-30052 Document: 00514330178 Page: 1 Date Filed: 01/31/2018 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 17-30052 United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED January 31, 2018 Lyle W. Cayce Clerk ELZIE BALL; …
Article • September 11, 2017
"No Toilet, No Ventilation": Prisoners Describe Horrific Conditions in Harvey's Flood Zone by Candice Bernd by Candice Bernd, Truthout This story is the sixth piece in "America's Toxic Prisons," an investigative, collaborative series between Truthout and Earth Island Journal. This series dives deeply into the intersection between mass incarceration and …
Brief • August 24, 2017
Adams v. Livingston, TX, Deposition of Owen Murray, Heat Stroke Death, 2017 1 OWEN MURRAY, D.O. - 8/24/2017 · · · · · · ·IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT · · · · · · ·FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS · · · · · · · · …
Gardner v. USA, MD, Memo re Jurisdiction, Wrongful Death Extreme Heat, 2017 Case 1:15-cv-02874-JKB Document 74 Filed 08/16/17 Page 1 of 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND * DOROTHY F. GARDNER et al., * Plaintiffs * v. * UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant * …
Article • July 28, 2017 • from PLN August, 2017
Forced to Endure Extreme Heat, Prisoners are Casualties of Texas’ Climate Denial, Documents Show by Candice Bernd by Candice Bernd, Truthout On a spring day in May, temperatures in Dallas, Texas were already in the 90s. Sunlight glinted off the barbed wire perimeter outside the Hutchins State Jail, located just …
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright As the summer months wear on we are again reporting on the ongoing outrage of American prisons that are deliberately built without air conditioning in some of the hottest parts of the country. As an article in this issue of PLN …
Advocacy Center v. LeBlanc, LA, Complaint, Solitary Mental Health, 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00468-JWD-EWD Document 1 07/20/17 Page 1 of 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA BATON ROUGE DIVISION ADVOCACY CENTER, * * PLAINTIFF, * * * * VS. * * JAMES M. LEBLANC, SECRETARY OF * THE LOUISIANA …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
Settlement in Baltimore Prison Conditions Class-Action Suit by The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (MDPSCS) agreed to a settlement in a class-action suit challenging conditions of confinement and the provision of medical care at the Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC). The case encompassed BCDC and the Women’s …
Settlement in Baltimore Prison Conditions Class-action Suit by The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (MDPSCS) agreed to a settlement in a class-action suit challenging conditions of confinement and the provision of medical care at the Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC). The case encompassed BCDC and the Women’s …
Federal Court Certifies Class in Texas Prison Excessive Heat Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke On January 22, 2016, a federal district court in Texas certified a class and two subclasses, and appointed class counsel, in a lawsuit challenging excessive heat at a state prison. Keith Cole, Ray Wilson, Jackie Brannum, Dean …
Michigan’s Wayne County Jails Plagued with Inhumane Conditions by The jails in Michigan’s Wayne County are “inhumane for everybody,” according to one law enforcement official. The outmoded and dangerous jails were supposed to be replaced, but cost overruns at a new state-of-the-art facility forced the county to discontinue the project. …
Maryland Prisoner’s Death Occurs Under Unusual Circumstances by The death of prisoner Louis S. Leysath III, 35, at Maryland’s Jessup Correctional Institution was the subject of an investigation after he was found dead in a steam-filled cell on February 20, 2015. Leysath, serving a 30-year sentence after pleading guilty to …
Federal Judge Orders Texas Department of Criminal Justice to Provide Safe Water to Prisoners by Derek Gilna On June 21, 2016, U.S. District Court Judge Keith Ellison ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to provide prisoners at the Wallace Pack Unit in Navasota with drinking water free of …
“Deadly Heat” in U.S. Prisons is Killing Inmates and Spawning Lawsuits by By Alice Speri, The Intercept In the summer months, 84 inmates at the Price Daniel Unit, a medium-security prison four hours west of Dallas, share a 10-gallon cooler of water that’s kept locked in a common area. An …
Publication • August 3, 2016
Deadly Heat in Texas Prisons, HRC, 2014 This report does not represent the official positon of the School of Law or of The University of Texas, and the views presented here reflect only the opinions of the individual authors and of the Human Rights Clinic. 1 Contents Acronyms & Abbreviations …
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