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Brief • January 28, 2025
Filed under: False Imprisonment
Puryear v. Dotson, VA, Settlement, False Imprisonment, 2025 Case 3:24-cv-00479-REP Document 55-1 Filed 01/28/25 Page 1 of 83 PageID# 449 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA RICHMOND DIVISION LESLIE PURYEAR, on behalf of himself and all those similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 3:24-cv-00479-REP CHADWICK DOTSON, in …
In-the-News Article • January 25, 2025
Human Rights Defense Center sues Jefferson County sheriff, officials over jail censorship Jan. 25, 2025 Articles about PLN Litigation MSNBC DENVER — A prison advocacy group is suing Jefferson County officials over claims the jail is censoring books and magazines sent to inmates in violation of the organization’s free speech and due …
In-the-News Article • January 16, 2025
BREAKING NEWS: Publisher Files Censorship Suit Against Jail in Pacific County, Washington Jan. 16, 2025 Articles about PLN Litigation Flannery Publications South Bend – On December 30, 2024, the non-profit organization Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to …
In-the-News Article • January 16, 2025
Lawsuit alleges civil rights violations by jail Jan. 16, 2025 Articles about PLN Litigation Chinook Observer SOUTH BEND — Attorneys at Macdonald Hoague and Bayless, acting on behalf of the nonprofit Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), have filed a 600-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Western District …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fourth Circuit: Baltimore County Prisoners May Qualify as Employees under FLSA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 8, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit clarified the standards to determine whether Baltimore County prisoners are considered employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nearly $12 Million Paid to Mentally Disabled Indiana Prisoner Wrongly Convicted of Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 8, 2023, the Indiana city of Elkhart agreed to pay former state prisoner Andrew Royer, then 44, nearly $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed over his wrongful murder …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
“Locked In, Priced Out”: Markups and Kickbacks in Prison Commissaries by Drawing from a research database of commissary pricing and markups culled from 26 state prison systems, a report published by The Appeal on April 17, 2024, found commissary prices “up to five times higher than in the community,” with …
Video of Autistic Ohio Teen’s Jail Death Undercuts Sheriff’s Report Calling It Suicide by Surveillance video from Ohio’s Montgomery County Jail surfaced from an unidentified source in early June 2024, showing the last hours before 19-year-old Isaiah Trammell died in custody in March 2023. As PLN reported, he died three …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Australia: Brisbane Correctional Center prisoner Jack James Peterson, 29, was sentenced to an additional 18 months in January 2023 for assaulting a guard with a squash racket, the Courier reported. Peterson struck the unnamed 34-year-old during a confrontation involving a riot response team, leaving him with …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Since our inception in 1990 the Human Rights Defense Center has focused on the financial exploitation of prisoners and their families in particular and poor people in general by the American criminal justice system. A sad commentary on the state of …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
“Whoppergate” Embroils Georgia Sheriff by A Georgia Sheriff who sent deputies to a local Burger King when displeased with its service endured weeks of taunts on his department’s Facebook page in October 2024. It was then that Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens, Sr. (D) blocked the page’s comments section to …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
With HRDC Amicus Brief, Survivor of Dead Washington Prisoner Wins Public Records Case by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford On April 11, 2024, the Supreme Court of Washington held that the one-year statute of limitations (SOL) for bringing a lawsuit under the state Public Records Act (PRA), RCW 42.56.001, et …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
First Circuit Rejects Request by Securus and Pay Tel to Stay FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps by On November 18, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued two orders denying motions filed by Securus Technologies, LLC, and Pay Tel Communications, Inc., seeking to stay implementation …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Securus/JPay Video Calling Service Potentially Threatened by New Rate Caps by On November 19, 2024, prison telecom Securus Technologies, Inc., along with subsidiary JPay, notified users of services provided by the firms at prisons and jails of steps being taken to comply with a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order. …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fifth Circuit Leaves Louisiana Prisoner Waiting for Reinstated Parole by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 6, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released a mandate it earlier withheld, which in turn ordered the release of Louisiana prisoner Samuel K. Galbraith—nearly eight years after he …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nebraska Pioneers Diversion Program to Help Arrested Veterans Avoid Jail by With a law signed by Gov. Jim Pillen (R) in April 2024, Nebraska became the first state to adopt a model program for diverting military veterans from jail into programs offering treatment for the issues underlying their arrest. When …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Lawsuit Over Death or Severe Injury of 29 Houston Jail Detainees Survives Motion to Dismiss by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 7, 2024, the federal court for the Southern District of Texas refused a motion by Defendant Harris County Jail officials in Houston to fully dismiss claims made …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Texas Executioners Playing Fast and Furious to Obtain Lethal Drugs by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has been buying a drug used to execute condemned prisoners from a compounding pharmacy with a history of safety violations, according to an investigation reported by NPR News on July 10, 2024. …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fourth Circuit Revives West Virginia Prisoner’s RLUIPA Claim Over Religious Diet with Soy He Can’t Digest by On March 20, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed dismissal of an Islamic prisoner’s federal civil rights lawsuit accusing West Virginia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Wellpath Declares Bankruptcy by On November 11, 2024, Wellpath Holdings, Inc., and its affiliated corporate entities filed for bankruptcy protection in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Wellpath is a private, for-profit medical and mental health care provider at approximately 420 detention facilities in 39 states; …
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