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Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Throws Prisoners Under the Bus to Adopt New Heat Rules by In a desperate bid to get new heat-­related workplace safety rules adopted before summer arrived, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) agreed on April 18, 2024, to drop prisons and jails from the measure. Two temperature …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$23,138 Plus Out-Of-State Transfer for Virginia Prisoner Who Accused Guards of Excessive Force and Altering Video by On March 25, 2024, Virginia prisoner Steven Allen Riddick, 50, agreed to accepted $23,138 from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to settle claims made in several civil rights cases filed in federal …
FCC Slashes Prison and Jail Phone Rates, Caps Video Call Cost, Eliminates “Site Commission” Kickbacks by On August 26, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published its final rule in the Federal Register, formalizing rulemaking that the agency issued the previous month which significantly reduces the cost of phone and …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Private Prisons
Houston Detainees Shipped to Private Jails in Mississippi and Louisiana by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso With the Harris County Jail (HCJ) short 139 guards, minimum staffing ratios set by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) have mathematically capped the number of beds that can be filled at …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Illinois Pays $3 Million for Subjecting Prisoners to Degrading Mass Strip Search by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso After a dozen years of fighting over a mass strip-search conducted during a training exercise in an Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) prison for women, the federal court for the Central …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Third Circuit Finds Relation-Back Rule Misapplied to Philadelphia Prisoner’s “Crappy” Ordeal Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 21, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated summary judgment in favor of a Philadelphia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard, who was accused of leaving …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Prisoners Reportedly Locked in Showers in Oklahoma, Florida by David Reutter by David M. Reutter According to a lawsuit removed to federal court for the Western District of Oklahoma on May 1, 2024, prisoners at Great Plains Correctional Center (GPCC) were confined in a tiny shower stall for days on …
CDCR Slammed for Reclassifying Staff Misconduct Allegations as Routine Grievances by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A report issued by California’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on January 29, 2024, harshly criticized the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for taking prisoner grievances that contained allegations of …
Indiana Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Corruption, County Pays $328,000 to Jail Detainees for “Night of Terror” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In federal court for the Southern District of Indiana on April 11, 2024, Clark County officials agreed to pay $328,000 to settle claims filed by 25 former detainees …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
$7.25 Million Paid for Psychotic Detainee’s Suicide After 20 Days in Solitary at Indiana Jail by On May 28, 2024, remaining claims were dismissed in federal court for the Southern District of Indiana by the Estate of Joshua McLemore, a psychotic Jackson County Jail detainee who starved himself to death …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Suspended South Carolina Sheriff Acquitted of Using Excessive Force on Jail Detainee by Former Sheriff Charles Lemon of South Carolina’s Marlboro County was acquitted by a federal jury on August 19, 2024, of violating the civil rights of a detainee whose brutal assault was caught on video at the county …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Private Contractors
Maryland Extends Contract with YesCare Despite Bankruptcy of Predecessor Corizon Health by For-profit prison healthcare contractor Corizon Health had a sordid reputation even before it attempted a legal maneuver known as the “Texas Two-Step,” using that state’s laws to put its valuable assets in a new company called YesCare and …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Paternity Questions Dog Miami Jail Birth by A South Florida woman gave birth to a baby girl at Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGK) on June 19, 2024. But it remained unclear how Daisy Link, 29, became pregnant or who the child’s father is. Link is accused of …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
South Carolina Prison Guard Supervisor Charged With Taking Over $219,000 in Bribes to Smuggle Cellphones by A former guard captain at South Carolina’s Broad River Correctional Institution is headed to trial after she was indicted on April 2, 2024, on charges of taking at least $219,360 in bribes over five …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
California Bar Accuses L.A. Lawyer of Deceiving Prisoners Seeking Resentencing by The California Bar filed disciplinary charges on August 26, 2024, against Los Angeles attorney Aaron Spolin, 39, accusing him of moral turpitude, charging unconscionable fees and 16 other violations of professional conduct rules and the state business code. After …
Iowa Qualified Immunity Law Lets County Off the Hook for Guard’s Sex Abuse of Jail Detainee by Although a guard was fired from Iowa’s Polk County Jail for forcibly kissing and touching him while detained there, Justin Mowry’s lawsuit for damages against the county was dismissed on June 20, 2024. …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
After Positive Drug Test, Kentucky Prisoners Allegedly Forced to Choose Between Tasing or Drinking Urine by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Over more than three decades of publication, PLN has chronicled some outlandish and horrifying stories of prisoner abuse, but few can compete with the Hobson’s choice guards at …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Trust Accounts
Massachusetts Appeals Court Revives Prisoners’ Challenge to DOC Trust Account Policy Change by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) changed its Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in January 2019 to prohibit prisoners from sending money from their trust accounts to private individuals, it didn’t promulgate …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Ninth Circuit Provides Cover to Oregon Governor for Prioritizing Guards Over Prisoners for COVID-19 Vaccine by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against a class of Oregon prisoners suing over the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal court …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Two Wrongful Tennessee Convictions Result in Payouts Over $1 Million by An undisclosed settlement with Grundy County on May 22, 2024, added to a $1 million payout that former Tennessee prisoner Adam Braseel had already received for 12 years he spent wrongfully imprisoned. That earlier award from the state Department …
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