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Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Ninth Circuit Says Arizona DOC Policy Cannot Be Used to Censor Prisoner’s Free Expression by David Reutter by David Reutter  An Arizona prisoner’s civil rights claim is headed to trial in June 2023, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated it, saying his prison’s policy on …
Article • June 13, 2023
Filed under: Banned Book Lists
Florida DOC Bans Book About Wrongful Conviction by Gregory Teixeira by Gregory P. Teixeira There’s a new victim in the troubling book-banning trend by the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC). Already boasting the nation’s longest list of books banned behind bars –over 20,000 titles [See: PLN, Feb. 2, 2023, online] …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order Granting Motion to Compel, 2023 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION No. 5:21-CV-00469-FL Human Rights Defense Center, Plaintiff, Order v. Casandra Skinner Hoekstra, et al., Defendants. Plaintiff Human Rights Defense Center claims the North …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order to Recover Attorneys Fees and Expenses, 2023 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION No. 5:21-CV-00469-FL Human Rights Defense Center, Plaintiff, Order v. Casandra Skinner Hoekstra, et al., Defendants. The court has found that Plaintiff …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order Granting Motion to Compel, 2023 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION No. 5:21-CV-00469-FL Human Rights Defense Center, Plaintiff, Order v. Casandra Skinner Hoekstra, et al., Defendants. Plaintiff Human Rights Defense Center claims the North …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order to Recover Attorneys Fees and Expenses, 2023 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION No. 5:21-CV-00469-FL Human Rights Defense Center, Plaintiff, Order v. Casandra Skinner Hoekstra, et al., Defendants. The court has found that Plaintiff …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Despite Official Claims, Stopping Mail to Missouri Prisoners Has No Effect on Drug Overdoses by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart The drugs are coming in the mail. Or so they say. There’s no question that the drugs are coming into Missouri state prisons; an average of 34 prisoner overdoses a …
Article • February 7, 2023
Michigan Prisons Ban 1,000 Books, Most Would Be Considered Harmless by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott  After a review of public records from Michigan, online magazine and video channel Motherboard found that the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) has restricted prisoner access to at least 1,000 books between …
Article • February 2, 2023
Florida Tops the Nation for Number of Books Banned in Prisons by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 21, 2022, after a year of records requests and research by criminal justice nonprofit The Marshall Project, a database of 54,000 banned books was compiled from prisons in 18 …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: Due Process
Federal Judge Says Alaska DOC Policy Rejecting Prisoner Mail Without Notice Violates Due Process by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Can a prisoner’s mail be rejected without any notice whatsoever? Not without violating his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights. That was the decision of a federal court in Alaska on …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, First Amended Complaint, Censorship, 2022 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION CASE NO. CASE NO. 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Plaintiff, vs. CASANDRA SKINNER HOEKSTRA, ERIK A. HOOKS, TIM MOOSE, DOUG PARDUE, …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, First Amended Complaint, Censorship, 2022 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION CASE NO. CASE NO. 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Plaintiff, vs. CASANDRA SKINNER HOEKSTRA, ERIK A. HOOKS, TIM MOOSE, DOUG PARDUE, …
Filing • July 8, 2022
Prison Legal News v. Ryan, AZ, Ninth Circuit Opinion, PLN Censorship, 2022 Case 2:15-cv-02245-ROS Document 341-1 Filed 08/01/22 Page 1 of 28 FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT PRISON LEGAL NEWS, a project of: other Human Rights Defense Center, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CHARLES L. RYAN, in …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$6,500 Settlement After Eleventh Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Florida Jail Officials Who Repeatedly Opened Detainee’s Legal Mail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 12, 2021, a settlement was reached under which four officials at the Duval County Jail (DCJ) in Jacksonville agreed to pay …
Article • May 31, 2022
Overdoses Climb in Colorado Prisons and Jails With Drugs Smuggled by Mail, Uber Eats by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead A Denver jail guard was fired on April 29, 2022, after an investigation revealed he allowed deliveries from Uber Eats in which drugs were hidden and later used by a …
Article • April 8, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
HRDC Sues New Hampshire Jail over Publications Banned under No-Hard-Copy Mail Policy by Sam Rutherford By Sam Rutherford On March 11, 2022, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), PLN’s publisher, filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the …
Article • April 7, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
HRDC Sues Nebraska Department of Correctional Services for Banning its Books by Sam Rutherford By Sam Rutherford On February 25, 2022, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), publisher of PLN and Criminal Legal News (CLN), filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska against Scott Frakes, Director …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
$781 Settlement Paid to Oregon Prisoner Over Censorship of ‘Sexually Explicit’ Text Message by On July 21, 2021, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a suit filed by a state prisoner whose private text message to his intimate partner was flagged for violating prison policy because it contained the …
Brief • March 1, 2022
Filed under: Mail Regulations
Benning v. Ward, GA, Order and Recommendation, Censorship, 2022 Case 1:17-cv-00152-LAG-TQL Document 290 Filed 03/01/22 Page 1 of 29 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ALBANY DIVISION RALPH HARRISON BENNING, Plaintiff, : : : : VS. TIMOTHY WARD, et al., Defendants. : : : …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Federal Prisons’ Switch to Scanning Mail Is a Surveillance Nightmare by Lauren Gill The Bureau of Prisons has piloted a program that can give authorities “huge secret intelligence into the public sender of postal mail.” by Lauren Gill, originally published by The Intercept, September 26, 2021 In a Pennsylvania federal prison, …
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