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Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Montana Supreme Court: Jail’s Blanket Strip Search Policy Violates Law by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 15, 2020, the Montana Supreme Court reversed the granting of summary judgment in a case challenging a jail’s blanket strip search policy on constitutional and statutory grounds. The court held that the …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
As Prison COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Rise, Washington State Supreme Court Looks Away by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson We are not indifferent to the serious dangers faced by petitioners and other inmates at heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 in Washington’s correctional facilities.” That was a claim by a Majority …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
New Book on Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Anyone who has done time in a jail or prison has seen that one lone person, or sometimes two, who sits at a dayroom table for hours on end with pencil and paper. A …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Over Half the Prisoners Test Positive for COVID-19 at Arizona Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 8, 2020, the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) announced that 655 of the 1,066 prisoners held at the La Paz unit in the state prison complex in Yuma …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
First Former Felon Elected to Washington State Legislature by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen On Election Day in November 2020, Washington State attorney and former prisoner Tarra Simmons became the first person convicted of a felony elected to the state’s legislature. Prior to the election, she said she …
Former Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Complaint Cures Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that a former Pennsylvania prisoner’s civil rights action was not barred for failing to exhaust administrative remedies. The court found the prison’s grievance policy for a …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
U.S. Prisons Originally Designed to Prevent Spread of Disease Become Breeding Ground During Pandemic by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In precolonial days, U.S. jails and prisons were nothing like today’s in concept, practical use or design. Lengthy sentences and pretrial detentions for those pending trial were the exception rather …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
As Millions Suffer, Congress Awards BOP $356 Million for New Kansas Prison by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson As millions of Americans suffer economic pain from the coronavirus pandemic, it’s business as usual for fat cat lawmakers who continue to reveal how out of touch and indifferent they are to …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Tennessee Prisons “Naughty” List Shows Prison Staff Often Bring in Contraband by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Anyone even vaguely familiar with prison operations know how quick prison officials are to allege any contraband found inside a prison had to have been brought in by a visitor. Investigators with the …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Alabama Guards Accused of Excessive Use of Force, Hospitalizing One Prisoner and Injuring Another by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Christopher Hampton and Cortney Rolley, represented by Eric Artrip of Mastando & Artrip, LLC, filed a class-action suit against a group of guards at Elmore Correctional Facility (ECF) located near …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Louisiana’s COVID-19 Prisoner Furlough Panel Next to Useless by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On June 5, 2020, as Louisiana entered the second phase of its reopening program following shutdowns ordered to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DOC) suspended a panel it had …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
North Carolina Prisoners at Deadliest Federal Prison File Suit on COVID-19 Response by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 26, 2020, federal prisoners aided by civil rights groups and a major international law firm, filed a class action lawsuit challenging the handling of a COVID-19 outbreak by the Bureau …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Preliminary Studies: Black/Latino Populations Disproportionately Affected by COVID-19 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to a June 2020 report from Medical News Today, the infection and mortality rates — and a lack of testing — for COVID-19 disproportionately affects Black and Latino populations within the United States based upon …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
North Carolina Cancer Patient Dies From COVID-19 After BOP Denies Compassionate Release and Sentencing Judge Rejects Appeal by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On July 3, 2020, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) reported prisoner John Dailey died of COVID-19 at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Butner, North Carolina. …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19
Pandemic Medical Update: The Latest on Vaccines and Prisoners by Michael D. Cohen, MD by Michael D. Cohen, M.D. The pandemic was more widespread than ever in the United States, as PLN was going to press. Almost every day records were being set for the daily number of new cases …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Prisoner Media, Journalist
In Prisons, the Press Also Yearns to Be Free by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian Anyone who has any experience with a jail or prison knows that they are like small islands. Overcrowded, dysfunctional, and violent. Too frequently, prisoner rights violations, abusive behavior of guards and other related injustices occur …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Tennessee Juvenile Murderer’s Sentence Commuted by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon One of the late great singer Karen Carpenter’s hit songs was Bless the Beasts and the Children, wherein she lamented that neither has choice nor voice. Such was the case with young Cyntoia Brown, who found herself being trafficked …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
How Jails Became a Breeding Ground for the Coronavirus by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Back in August 2020, “things at Waseca were calm,” recalled Channing Lacy. Like many other women incarcerated in the low-security Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Waseca, Minnesota, the 33-year-old considered herself lucky that the prison …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Salt Lake County, Utah, Settles Federal Civil Rights Wrongful Death Claim for $950,000 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Salt Lake County, Utah settled in March of 2020 a wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from the in-custody death in 2016 of Lisa Marie Ostler, who died when jail officials ignored her symptoms …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Urban Redo: Lorton, Virginia Prison Recreated as Liberty Village by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Developers in Fairfax County, Virginia, are remaking the Lorton Reformatory historical landmark into a suburban village. County officials are using the prime real estate just off I-95 with good roads to D.C. and a growing …
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