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Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Fourth Circuit: ADA Relief Claims Improperly Dismissed in Virginia by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 20, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a Virginia prisoner’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) claim stemming from the denial of a prison …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Supermax prisons
Former BOP Director Norman Carlson, Who Developed Supermax Model, Dies at 86 by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The fourth director of the federal Bureau of Prisons and the man who developed the super maximum-security prison model, Norman Carlson, died August 9, 2020, in a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. He …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Justice Department Report Documents Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center’s Poor Response to COVID-19 Crisis by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York was investigated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concerning its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
New York Parole System Badly in Need of Repair by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss New York’s parole system is considered one of the nation’s worst, reincarcerating parolees at twice the national average, while parolees are the only segment of the state’s prison population that is still increasing. Reform advocates …
Pinellas County, Florida Sheriff’s Office Sued in Federal Court for Treatment of Transgender Prisoner by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Karla Bello, who claims that she was mistreated by Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office employees while in custody for 11 days for unpaid parking tickets, filed suit on September 10, 2020 …
Federal Judge Slaps ICE, GEO Group Over “Abominable Performance” and Officials Who Lied During Testimony by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 6, 2021, a federal court in California issued an injunction extending the provisions of a temporary restraining order it had handed down two weeks earlier and …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
No Summary Judgment on Oregon Prisoner’s Retaliatory Termination Claim by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On June 5, 2020, an Oregon federal court denied prison officials’ summary judgment on a prisoner’s First Amendment retaliation claim. Oregon prisoner Leumal Fred Hentz was assigned to work in the bakery at Oregon State …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Minnesota State and Federal Prisoners COVID Case Surge Sparks ACLU Lawsuit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna According to statistics compiled by The Marshall Project, one in five U.S. prisoners has already contracted COVID-19, a rate more than four times that of the general population. The problem has been particularly …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Missouri Prisoner Pleaded for Release Before Dying of COVID-19 by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel Rosen Waylon Young Bird, a 52-year-old federal prisoner with serious kidney disease, wrote over a dozen letters to the judge who sentenced him asking for compassionate release. He died of COVID-19 in early November 2020, …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Ninth Circuit Finds California Prisoner’s Administrative Remedies Effectively Unavailable by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 16, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a former California pretrial detainee’s suit for non-exhaustion. Joshua Franklin Snyder was a pretrial detainee …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Progress Made in Fight Against Prison Gerrymandering But Battle Continues by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Gerrymandering is defined in U.S. politics as “the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Fourth Circuit Holds Prisoner’s Indefinite Period of Solitary Confinement at Virginia Supermax May Amount to Atypical and Significant Hardship by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 10, 2020, the FourthCircuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court’s granting of summary judgment to Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) officials in …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
COVID-19: What Texas Must Do to Save Prisoners’ Lives by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon By December 2020, despite calls to release or parole prisoners at risk of COVID-19 — especially the elderly — the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) had reduced its prisoner count by only about 20,000, …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
New Mexico Corrections Pays $1.4 Million to Settle Whistleblower Complaint Alleging Retaliation for Exposing Deficiencies in Corizon Medical Care by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney An October 15, 2020 report from the Santa Fe New Mexican revealed that in March 2020, the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) paid $1.4 million …
Ninth Circuit Holds Intermediate Scrutiny Applies in Challenges to Facially Discriminatory Prison Regulations by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 21, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the proper standard of review to be applied to facially discriminatory prison regulations challenged as violating …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Staffing
Overtime Payouts in California Prison System Approach $500 Million by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel Rosen The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation paid out almost a half-billion dollars in overtime in 2019, nearly twice what it paid in regular salaries, CalMatters reported in August 2020. Responding to a public …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Legislative Exemption Let Fired Alaska Cop Be Rehired as Jailer by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The Alaska Police Standards Council (APSC) is charged with decertifying bad cops and preventing them from being rehired as cops elsewhere in the state. It was 37 years ago in 1983 when the APSC …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Filed under: Prison Labor, COVID-19
Prisoners Paid $2 Per Hour to Move COVID-19 Corpses in El Paso, Texas by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Texas city has used jail prisoners to move bodies of COVID-19 victims into refrigerated trailers that served as temporary morgues, paying them $2 an hour to do the dangerous and …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
NY Federal Court Denies Summary Judgment on Claims of Improper Medication Seizure, Evidence Fabrication, Improper Frisk During Prison Visit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 21, 2020, a New York federal court issued an order denying the state summary judgment on some claims arising from a woman’s visit …
Minnesota Man Out of Prison After Being Exonerated of Murder by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Javon Davis, aka James Lamar Davis, was talking to his girlfriend on the phone during the wee hours of April 12, 2014 as two men were gunned down while leaving their workplace at Target …
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