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Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
Get Celebrity Endorsement and Get Pardoned by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney President Trump purchased an ad during the February 2 Super Bowl directed at African American voters that depicted black grandmother Alice Johnson in tears, saying, “I’m free to hug my family. I’m free to start over. This is …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption
18-Month Prison Sentence for Former Alabama Sheriff in Food Bank Scam by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The former sheriff of Alabama’s Pickens County was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for a scam to defraud a food bank and his church, and pocketing leftover funds to …
Court Holds Federal Tort Claim Against BOP Can Proceed in MCC Beating Death by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The United States Southern DistrictCourt of New York ruled that Nicole Morrison could proceed with her claim against the U.S. for its negligence in the death of Roberto Grant while in …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Settlements
Sacramento County Jail Settles Solitary Confinement Class Action Suit by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Sacramento County has two jails, which together house about 3,800 people at any one time. A July 2018 complaint filed in federal court by Lorenzo Mays, Ricky Richardson, Jennifer Bothun, Armani Lee, Leertese Beirge, Cody …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Santa Rita Sheriff’s Office Says Prisoners Not Being Maltreated; Prisoners’ Protest Says Otherwise by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Detainees and prisoners at the Santa Rita Jail (SRJ) in Dublin, California, participated in a peaceful protest over the unsanitary and unconstitutional conditions in the jail. Beginning October 30, 2019, between …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Most States Saw Criminal Justice Reforms in 2019, But Incarceration Rates Remain High by Victoria Law by Victoria Law, reprinted from Truthout On December 20, 2019, criminal justice advocates celebrated the news that President Trump signed the Fair Chance Act into law. Tucked into a massive defense spending bill, the …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
$250,000 Settlement in Assault Upon Luzerne County Detainee by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A former Pennsylvania pretrial detainee who sustained serious injuries from a guard’s use of excessive force received a $250,000 settlement. As guard Christopher Refner was making rounds at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility on …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
$550,000 Settlement in Nationwide Class-Action Lawsuit Over High-Fee Debit Cards by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 20, 2019, an Ohio federal court granted preliminary approval of a settlement in a class action lawsuit against Stored Value Cards, Inc., doing business as Numi Financial, and Republic Bank & Trust …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Settlements, Suicides
$300,000 Settlement in Lincoln County Missouri Jail Attempted Suicide Suit by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Mark A. Jaconski was arrested on June 17, 2015, for outstanding traffic warrants and taken to Mercy Hospital for a “fit for confinement” determination. Hospital officials made that determination and Jaconski was transported to …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Medical
Report Decries Ongoing Inadequate Medical Care for Pregnant Arizona Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke ACLU and Prison Law Office attorneys representing Arizona state prisoners toured the Perryville prison for three days in April 2019, interviewing 25 women who had recently given birth or suffered miscarriages in prison. The …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Veteran Dies After Beating by Guards at North Carolina Jail by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Guards at North Carolina’s Wayne County Detention Center (WCDC) abused and beat to death a mentally ill veteran who was arrested for breaking the window out his neighbor’s truck in May 2017, …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Private Prisons
Senator Warren Has Plan To Ban Private Prison Contracts by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Massachusetts Democratic Senator and current presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren introduced a plan last June that would essentially ban all government entities, at any level, from contracting with private prison companies. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, …
Fulton County Ordered to Clean Up Repulsive Jail Conditions for Mentally Ill Women by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A Georgia federal district court ordered the Fulton County Sheriff to give more out of cell time and to provide sanitary confinement conditions for women at the South Fulton …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Florida Prison Isolation Suit Survives Dismissal Stage by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A Florida federal district court denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the Florida Department of Corrections’ (FDOC) policies and practices related to isolation are unconstitutional. As PLN reported, the Southern Poverty Law …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Alabama Jail Guards Face Liability for Inaction to Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In an unpublished opinion, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to guards in a civil rights action alleging they were deliberately indifferent to a pretrial …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Organizing
Riots At South Carolina Prison Spark Wave of Lawsuits by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The April 15, 2018, riot at South Carolina’s Lee Correctional Institution (LCI) illustrates the consequences of prison understaffing. That riot was the worst in America’s prisons in 25 years. The toll was seven …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Medical, Brain Injury
$12.6 Million Jury Award for Man Denied Medical Care Before Jailed by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A California federal jury awarded $12,617,674 to a man who suffered brain damage after San Diego County sheriff’s deputies pulled him away from an examining paramedic and hauled him off to …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
“Free” E-Tablets Are Anything But by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon A lengthy article concerning e-tablets in state prisons was published in the April 2018 issue of PLN (p.44). One of the warnings set out in that article concerned the high fees accompanying apps for those devices. JPay stands out …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Federal Prisoner to Receive Opioid Addiction Medication While Incarcerated by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) came to an agreement September 11, 2019, with Leaman Crews to provide him buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) during his 36-month prison sentence. Represented by Lauren Bonds of …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Cook County Jail’s Three Book Possession Policy Constitutional by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter An Illinois federal district court granted summary judgment to Cook County in a civil rights action alleging a jail policy that limits its pretrial detainees to possession of three books violates the First Amendment. …
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