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Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Sixth Circuit Affirms Tennessee DOC’s Hepatitis C Treatment Due to Lack of Funds by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s grant of judgment for prison officials in a class action that alleged that the Tennessee Department of Corrections’ (TDOC) Hepatitis …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Afghanistan: As fighting continued between Taliban forces and the Afghan military on September 3, 3020, both parties announced they had nearly completed a prisoner exchange negotiated the previous February. According to a report by Japan’s public broadcasting company, HNK, the Taliban said all 1,000 Afghan prisoners …
The Way Prisoners Flag Guard Abuse, Inadequate Health Care and Unsanitary Conditions Is Broken by Shannon Heffernan Prisoners rely on grievances as an early-warning system for dangerous conditions, from poor medical care to abuse. But in Illinois, experts say the system is sputtering, with little oversight, resulting in injuries to prisoners. …
How a Private Prison Company’s Defamation Suit Against One of Its Critics Backfired by Madison Pauley A judge finds that CoreCivic played a role in the family separation crisis. by Madison Pauley, Mother Jones, December 11, 2020 he mother who would end the Trump administration’s family separation policy arrived at …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Victims, Juveniles
Child Sexual Abuse: It’s Never Too Late to Speak Out by Darrell Cochran by Darrell Cochran According to the Prison Policy Initiative, nearly 2.3 million people are incarcerated in the United States right now, the largest per capita prison population in the world. But how do people get there? There …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
After $625,000 Settlement, Oregon Deputy Charged in Assault of Prisoner by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On June 30, 2020, an Oregon county agreed to pay Albert Molina $625,000 to settle his claim that a jail guard fractured his skull in an unprovoked 2018 attack. Two days later, county prosecutors …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Collateral Consequences of Mass Incarceration by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon A study released September 15, 2020 by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice shows that when it comes to employment and housing having a criminal record in the U.S. makes an enormous difference on the outcomes a person …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Failure to Treat, COVID-19
Pandemic Update: News on Vaccines and Prison and Jail Staffing by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen, M.D. Widespread community transmission of COVID-19 disease continues in the U.S. New records have been set daily for numbers hospitalized, numbers in ICU and deaths. Total U.S. deaths were over 400,000 …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Almost 300,000 Fell Ill and 2,000 Died from COVID-19 in U.S. Jails, Prisons by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Health experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agree that keeping people from coming in close contact with one another through social distancing is the most reliable …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Urgent Need for Vaccine Administration in Prisons, Jails and Detention Centers by Sharon Dolovich, Aaron Littman, Maya Chaudhuri by Maya Chaudhuri, Sharon Dolovich, and Aaron Littman The UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project collects and reports on the rates of COVID-19 in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers across …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Federal Educational Aid Restored for State and Federal Prisoners by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Need help paying for college while in prison? Getting financial aid in prison for college got easier on December 20, 2020. That’s when Congress passed a $1.4 trillion government spending bill for 2021 that included …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright For decades, prisoncrats have claimed that if they were given an opportunity to rectify complaints by prisoners there would be no need for litigation. Everyone involved knows that is a lie. Since the passage of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) in 1996, prisoners …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
California Loses Round in Legal Fight to Deny Parole Based on Gang Affiliation by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a ruling August 3, 2020, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals encouraged a lower court to extend its supervision over a settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit brought …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Was Indiana Women’s Prison Willfully Ignorant About COVID-19 Numbers? by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke During the summer of 2020, Indiana Women’s Prison in Indianapolis went weeks without reporting a single case of COVID-19. That changed in September, when the number of cases at the over 600-bed prison exploded. Between …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Idaho Supreme Court Holds Prisoners Have No Right to Paid or Unpaid Employment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 5, 2020, the Idaho Supreme Court held that state prisoners have no right to paid or unpaid employment despite a state law stating that the board of correction “shall …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Troubled Ohio Jail Faces Two More Lawsuits by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In late 2020, the Board of Commissioners in Gallia County, Ohio, locked in $12.8 million in tax-exempt bonds to fund construction of a new jail. The move comes after two federal lawsuits were filed the previous summer …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, Fire Hazards
Arizona Pays Prisoners Pennies on the Dollar to Fight Fires, All in the Name of Saving Money by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell When historic wildfires burned through Arizona in June 2020, two out of three of the firefighters who brought the blazes under control were state prisoners who were …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
$4.65 Million Settlement for Florida Female Prisoner Left Quadriplegic After Brutal Beating by Guards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) on August 6, 2020 agreed to pay $4.65 million to prisoner Cheryl Weimar, who was beaten “to within an inch of her life” …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
COVID-19: The Politics of Prisoner Vaccination by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Colorado Governor Jared Polischanged the state’s coronavirus vaccination plan after Republican district attorney George Brauchler railed in a Denver paper op-ed that it was unfair for the state to inoculate someone like Nathan Dunlap, convicted of murdering four …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Mellon Foundation to Provide $5.25 Million in Program to Distribute Books to Prisoners by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced in June 2020 that it would spend more than $5.25 million on a program to distribute large, curated collections of books to prisons and juvenile …
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