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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 …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
ICE Refused Help in Containing Coronavirus in New Mexico Detention Centers by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) stated that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency refused help controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in its detention centers, jeopardizing detainees’ lives and stonewalling efforts …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Experts Find “Deplorable” Conditions at Mississippi’s Parchman Prison by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The conditions under which residents exist at Parchman are subhuman and deplorable in a civilized society,” wrote Dr. Marc Stern, a correctional health-care consultant hired by lawyers representing Parchman prisoners, in a report to federal …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Pennsylvania Correctional Emergency Response Teams Face New Scrutiny in “Noose” Controversy by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A Correctional Emergency Response Team, also known as CERT, is under investigation for allegedly placing a noose on the bunk of a Black prisoner, Aaron Tyson, at State Correctional Institution Houtzdale, in Pennsylvania. …
Ninth Circuit Reverses Lower Court’s Dismissal of California Prisoner’s Religious Freedom Lawsuit by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 21, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s religious freedom suit that had been dismissed as time barred. …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Minnesota Prison Guard Fired for Excessive Force After Brawl Linked to Floyd Protests by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A Minnesota prison guard was fired on June 18, 2020, after evidence showed he used “chemical irritants” on an inmate, who was subdued following a prison brawl during which the …
New Details Emerge on Senseless Death in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin Jail by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Recent public outrage over the needless killings of Black men at the hands of police has led to greater scrutiny of the many instances in which people of color die either while being …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
$1.1 Million Settlement in Kentucky Jail Sex Abuse Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 7, 2020, Kentucky’s Larue County Detention Center agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit alleging former guard Jerome Perry sexually abused nine prisoners. The women’s lawsuit alleged that between February …
Federal Judge in Georgia Grants Class Action Status to Prisoners’ Suit Against Global Tel*Link by Monday, November 30, 2020, was a big day for a group of Georgia prisoners suing their phone service provider, Global Tel*Link (GTL), over the company’s allegedly hidden policy of confiscating any unused funds in their …
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