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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 …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Court Rejects Class Status for Nebraska Prisoners Facing Substandard Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Nebraska Federal district court denied class certification in a lawsuit alleging systematic deficiencies in the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NCDS) health-care system. Individual claims of some of the lead incarcerated …
Private Health Care Services in County Jails Comes at High Price by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss An analysis published on October 26, 2020 by Reuters showed U.S. jails that contracted with private health care companies had higher death rates on average among prisoners and detainees than those with government-run …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Sixth Circuit Holds Ohio Prisoner Can Be Executed Despite Previous Botched Attempt by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 23, 2020, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an Ohio prisoner could be executed despite a previous botched attempt. Romell Broom was taken to the Ohio execution chamber …
Second Circuit: No Error in Blocking New York Parolee from Attending His Own Civil Rights Trial Against Prison Officials by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 12, 2020, the Second Circuit court of appeals held that a federal court did not commit error when it denied a New York …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
My Ankle Monitor Won’t Let Me Take Out The Garbage by Eleanor Bader While we live under “house arrest” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s a good time to revisit what the real thing is like. by Eleanor Bader, The Indypendent When most of us think about house arrest, ankle monitors …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Seventh Circuit Holds Illinois Prisoners Retain Fourth Amendment Rights to Bodily Privacy, Overruling Circuit Precedents by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 11, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that prisoners retain Fourth Amendment rights to bodily privacy requiring that physical and visual strip searches be reasonable. …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Food, Water
Georgia Prisoners Lacked Food, Water, Leading to Melee by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A violent disturbance was reported inside Georgia’s Ware State Prison in early August 2020. A prisoner reporting from inside the prison on an illegal cellphone cited health issues, three meals a day consisting only of cheese …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Some Prisons Bear Names of Enslavers, Oppressors, Racists and Segregationists by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Questions are currently being raised about the historic figures in whose honor statues were erected and schools and streets were named. Names include those of segregationists, slave owners and racists. Now, attention is being …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19, Juvenile Prisons
COVID-19 Hits Fairfax, Virginia Juvenile Detention Center by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss An outbreak of COVID-19 began September 29, 2020, at the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in Fairfax County, Virginia, with eight staff and six juveniles testing positive over the next 10 days for the novel coronavirus that causes …
Federal Class Action Settlement Aims to Eliminate Horrific Conditions at Santa Barbara, California Jails in Three Years by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A federal class action lawsuit filed in December of 2017 alleging numerous humanitarian violations at Santa Barbara County Adult Detention Facilities (County Jail) settled on July 17, …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Almost Half of North Dakota Jail Tests Positive for COVID-19 by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Nearly half the population at North Dakota’s Grand Forks County Correctional Center (GFCCC) tested positive for COVID-19 on November 17, 2020. Of the jail’s 20 housing units, there were positive cases in 16 …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Drug Addiction
Opioid Crisis in Canadian Prisons Needs to be Addressed by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Claire Bodkin, Matthew Bonn and Sheila Wildeman wrote an article in March 2020 for The Conversation addressing the need for more comprehensive opioid testing and treatment programs in Canada’s prisons and jails. The crisis has …
CoreCivic and Securus Technologies Agree to Pay $3.7 Million to Settle Suit for Illegally Recording Attorney-Client Conversations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 31, 2020, a motion was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri revealing that CoreCivic and Securus Technologies (Defendants) had …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
$2 Million Settlement in Lawsuit Over N.Y. Prisoner Denied Emergency Eye Surgery Until She Went Blind by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 10, 2020, the U.S. signed off on a settlement of $2 million, including up to 25% in attorney fees, in a lawsuit brought by a federal …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Cell Phone Access
Scottish Prisoners Issued Mobile Phones During Pandemic by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Lockdowns instituted because of the coronavirus pandemic have had a benefit for Scottish prisoners. The Scottish Prison Services (SPS) spent over 160,000 pounds on mobile phones for prisoners to stay in touch with their families. The SPS …
Annual report • December 31, 2020
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER 2020 Annual Report __________________________________________________________ CONTENTS NOTABLE DEVELOPMENTS 1 THE MAGAZINES PRISON LEGAL NEWS CRIMINAL LEGAL NEWS 1 1 3 BOOK DISTRIBUTION 4 BOOK SALES BOOK PUBLISHING 4 4 HRDC WEBSITES 4 HRDC STAFF 5 HRDC BOARD OF DIRECTORS 5 FUNDING IN 2020 7 ACTIVISM & ADVOCACY …
Brief • December 31, 2020
Estate of Reavis v. Saint Louis County, MO,Receipt and Satisfaction of Partial Judgment, Wrongful Death, 2020 Case: 4:19-cv-02916-MTS Doc. #: 70 Filed: 12/31/20 Page: 1 of 2 PageID #: 393 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI TAMARA REAVIS, Plaintiff, v. SAINT LOUIS COUNTY, MISSOURI, et al. …
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